Club meeting: 7pm to 9pm

Topic: Randy Reed of Reef Nutrition will be speaking to us about food selection and its importance. Reef Nutrition has been a big supporter of our club for several years now, and learning how to use their food correctly is of great value to avoid creating issues within our closed ecosystems. We encourage your attendance and benefit from his presentation.

Map to location: Google Maps

We meet at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine, Tx on the second Wednesday of each month. We meet in the Common Room; enter the building and take the elevator to the third floor. Guests are welcome to attend to learn more about DFWMAS. The meeting features a specific topic, which often is provided by a speaker using PowerPoint. Meetings conclude after all the door prizes have been given out.

A recap about Next Wave will be shared.

The meeting will conclude with the door prizes being awarded.

Remember at each meeting, you have the opportunity to pick up your new/renewed DFWMAS membership card as well as check in/out any publications from our library. See Marc for membership and Jeff for publications.

We will be meeting at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine from 7pm to 9pm. Light refreshments may be available; a vending machine for sodas as well. Google Maps

We meet at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine, Tx on the second Wednesday of each month. We meet in the Common Room; enter the building and take the elevator to the third floor. Guests are welcome to attend to learn more about DFWMAS. The meeting features a specific topic, which often is provided by a speaker using PowerPoint. Meetings conclude after all the door prizes have been given out.

DaveJ is going to discuss & demonstrate how to use a two-part dosing system.
Marc is going to demonstrate how to set up a calcium reactor.

Next Wave updates will be shared, since it takes place later this month (Feb 27).

The meeting will conclude with the door prizes being awarded.

Remember at each meeting, you have the opportunity to pick up your new/renewed DFWMAS membership card as well as check in/out any publications from our library. See Marc for membership and Jeff for publications.

We will be meeting at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine from 7pm to 9pm. Light refreshments may be available; a vending machine for sodas as well. Google Maps

We meet at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine, Tx on the second Wednesday of each month. We meet in the Common Room; enter the building and take the elevator to the third floor. Guests are welcome to attend to learn more about DFWMAS. The meeting features a specific topic, which often is provided by a speaker using PowerPoint. Meetings conclude after all the door prizes have been given out.

Club meeting: 7pm to 9pm

Topic: Round Table Discussion Our round table discussion is always fun because the audience gets to pick the topics and let our advanced hobbyists address them with their combined years of experience. The meeting moves from topic to topic interactively. Additionally, Next Wave coverage will be provided to encourage everyone to attend our February full-day conference.

Map to location: Google Maps

We meet at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine, Tx on the second Wednesday of each month. We meet in the Common Room; enter the building and take the elevator to the third floor. Guests are welcome to attend to learn more about DFWMAS. The meeting features a specific topic, which often is provided by a speaker using PowerPoint. Meetings conclude after all the door prizes have been given out.

Of the numerous brightly colored and personable families of reef fish that brought many of us into the hobby, perhaps none is more popular than that of angelfish. However, as our hobby has evolved to include a much higher percentage of reef aquariums over “fish-only”, angels are often excluded out of fears they are not “reef safe.” When angels are kept in reefs, it is often only a single specimen, out of fears that angels cannot be mixed together. Many of these blanket misconceptions are based on misinformation, hearsay, and outdated advice. In “Angelfish in Reef Aquaria,” we’ll discuss the cutting edge techniques you need to know to successfully keep angelfish together in your reef aquarium for years, from proper QT and adaptation to attaining nightly natural displays of spawning pairs or harems and everything in between. “Angelfish in Reef Aquariums” is of interest to all angelfish lovers from the casual observer to the angelfish nut!

We are meeting at the Irving Bible Church from 4pm to 7pm on Saturday, Dec 5th.
Irving Bible Church
2435 Kinwest Pkwy # 100
Irving, TX 75063
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John’s bio:
John Coppolino’s innate passion for fish was nurtured growing up on an island on a lake in Northern New Jersey with a fish loving father and a mother allergic to everything with fur and feathers!

A saltwater hobbyist since age 11, John began working at a large regional aquarium store as soon as he obtained working papers in high school, and in college went on to study reef fish in Bermuda and the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador where he lived (and met his wife!) for about two years after obtaining his B.S. in biology.

John now lives in Northern Virginia with his wonderfully supportive wife and two young children, and keeps over 1000 gallons of saltwater aquariums with over twenty angelfish spread throughout, with most in pairs or harems in reef tanks. These include a trio of Pygoplites diacanthus (Regal angelfish), a trio of Centropyge joculator (Joculator angelfish), and the mixed species pair of Centropyge resplendens / Centropyge fisheri that created the first tank bred hybrid angelfish.

John travels yearly with work to Hawaii and Guam, where most free time is spent underwater! John writes articles and has spoken at conferences and reef clubs on the topic of angelfish, and has contributed to the newly published book “Angelfishes of the World.”

We hope you will attend this excellent presentation, free to members of DFWMAS. Guests: $10

Schedule:
12pm-1pm - set-up
1pm-3pm - swap
3pm-4pm - clean up

Location:
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
1220 W Belt Line Rd
Richardson, TX 75080-5801
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This event is for members and guests trade (or sell) corals. People bring bagged corals in coolers. Others set up small aquariums to display their livestock. Some ideas that have worked well:

1) Bring a cooler with you to take your corals home. You want the water temperature to stay stable, especially now that the weather has cooled off.
2) Bring pictures of the parent colony. This can be photographs in a plastic sleeve, on a laptop, in a picture frame with rotating images, or even on your fancy cellphone.
3) Bring towels to clean up your area completely. When done, it should look like you were never there, better than when you arrived.
4) Mark bags clearly. Print up a price list. Mark prices on the aquarium. The easier it is, the more smoothly it will go.
5) If you need electricity, be prepared. (Let us know, first of all. ) Bring a long extension cord, tape to tape it to the floor, power strip, etc.
6) Share a table if you don’t plan to bring a lot of items.
7) Used equipment can be sold as well.
8 ) Bring lots of cash.

$10 each for non-members wishing to sell livestock or used gear.

RESERVE A TABLE NOW!

This announcement may be updated at any time, so please check back.

Greg Hiller of the Boston Reefers will be speaking to our members about water chemistry. One of the requests that comes up from time to time by our members is the need for deeper topics. While we have many newer hobbyists in the club, we also have a lot of members that have been in this hobby for years and years. This special meeting is to satisfy that need, and we invite our members to not miss this event.

If you are new to the hobby, don’t be scared off - however, you better plan on taking notes since part of it may go right over your head. That’s okay, the same thing happened to me in 2002. What you hear may not make sense now, but later you’ll be saying - ooooh, I remember that, and it makes total sense now!

Location:
Addison Conference Center
“Sephora” room
15650 Addison Rd.
Addison, TX 75001
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Time: 4pm to 7pm

Talk title:  Reefkeeping Chemistry - What You Need to Know - from Novice to Annoying Know-It-All

You must be a paid member of DFWMAS to attend. Seating is limited.

About Greg Hiller:
Greg Hiller has been active in the reefkeeping hobby since 1996, starting out in the early days using Compuserve’s Fishnet forum as a troubleshooting resource. The lessons learned online from experienced aquarists resulted in such rapid coral growth in his tanks that he needed to learn and develop techniques of coral propagation/fragmentation. Greg has raised several species of marine fish and propagated dozens of species of soft and hard corals, and anemonies/corallimorphs. Greg is a founding member of the Boston Reefer’s Society (BRS), served as president for two years, and was a member of the board of directors for several years. As a frequent monthly meeting speaker, Greg has helped educate and contribute to the success of many Boston area hobbyists.

Greg holds a Ph.D. in chemical/biochemical engineering from University of California at Berkeley which he believes has contributed to his success in the reefkeeping hobby. Understanding the basics of chemistry, combined with biology and engineering have helped with numerous fishy-type projects from breeding and raising seahorses to building calcium reactors. Greg has authored a number of articles for online hobbyist publications, most dealing with coral propagation techniques, and chemistry aspects of the hobby. An avid scuba diver since 1998, he’s made several trips to locals in the Caribbean, but prefers diving the reefs of the south pacific due to the wider variety of coral, fish and invertebrate species. When not tending to his 400 gallon SPS coral dominated reef tank, Greg works for a major biopharmaceutical company in the bioreactor process development group.

Club meeting: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. - be on time!

Where: Grapevine Convention Center Google Map
(817) 410-3459
1209 South Main Street
Grapevine, Texas 76051
Refreshments are available at the GCC.

Speakers: Brian Plankis and Eric Borneman.

Schedule
1:00pm - Introduction by DFWMAS
1:15 - 2:00: Brian Plankis - “How can the Reef Stewardship Foundation and Hobbyists Work Together to Protect Coral Reefs and Contribute to Sustainability?”
2:00 - 2:45: Eric Borneman - “Breeding Corals- what has been accomplished so far, and how the ornamental trade can contribute to and be affected by future coral breeding efforts.”
2:45 - 3:30: Fundraising Raffle and Questions
3:30 - 4:00: RSF Annual Meeting: Paid RSF Members Only

Raffle Prizes will be listed soon.

About Brian Plankis: Brian is the President of the Reef Stewardship Foundation and holds a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Houston, a MS degree in Educational Technology and a BS in Natural Resources and Environmental Science from Purdue University. Brian was the original founder of Project DIBS and one of the founding members of the Reef Stewardship Foundation. His research interests includes integrating emerging technology into science education, ocean literacy and environmental literacy, sustainability initiatives, and online community development.

Brian entered the aquarium hobby with freshwater tanks and spent seven years keeping freshwater fish while breeding various species of live bearers and angelfish. He set up his first saltwater tank, a 29-gallon, in 1999 and currently keeps a 100-gallon breeding system. He also has spent over 200 hours volunteering for the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois and the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network in Galveston, Texas.

His aquarium interests include fish breeding, invertebrate identification and reproduction, coral propagation and reproduction. Many important issues facing the hobby today interest him, including: educating new hobbyists, the hobby’s effects on natural reefs, the humane treatment of animals, and research on live rock hitchhikers and invertebrates.

When he’s not involved with any of the above activities, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Christine, their daughter, Serena, and playing a variety of sports.

About Eric Borneman: I am a coral reef ecologist from the University of Houston. My primary research areas are coral diseases, sexual reproduction of corals, restoration of Caribbean acroporids and ornamental trade issues. My research involves determining the role of apoptosis in coral diseases, notably in white band disease and other white syndromes. I am a project leader and on the scientific advisory group of SECORE, an international group of aquarists and researchers working on the sexual reproduction of corals and focusing on multiple aspects of threatened species conservation. I am also the science advisor of The Reef Stewardship Foundation, a group whose mission is to foster a diverse stewardship community that protects coral reefs through collaborative action, research, education and aquaculture initiatives. The Reef Stewardship Foundation is a non-profit group utilizing collaborative research, ocean literacy programs, classroom education and aquaculture as conservation tools.

For eighteen years, I have been extensively involved in marine ornamentals and am considered an internationally renowned expert in the field of coral husbandry. I received the “Aquarist of the Year” award for contributions to the field of coral husbandry in 2002, and have written two books on the subject, including the acclaimed book, Aquarium Corals. I have contributed many articles, reports, papers and book chapters to both the scientific and the international aquarium communities spanning twelve years, and I have lectured worldwide on the subject of coral husbandry. I began diving coral reefs at the age of twelve and have been fortunate enough to see coral reefs before their decline in the 1980’s, but unfortunate enough to have witnessed their remarkable and tragic decline in what seems like the blink of an eye.

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Club meeting: 7pm to 9pm

Topic: Setting up a Fish Room for an In-Wall Display Tank - With good preparation and planning, the room behind your reef tank can be a huge asset. Learn what to do before you start, as well as what can be done now to improve an established ‘man cave.’ Lighting, temperature, ventilation and the foundation are all important considerations, plus much more. This talk will be good for the DIYer as well as those that prefer to hire a contractor.

Speaker Bio: Marc Levenson has been in the hobby for over 12 years, but most know him by his username ‘melev’ of melevsreef.com - a site that was set up to help others be successful in the hobby. Taking what he has learned from others as well as from personal experience, he’s documented a variety of topics ranging from acrylic work to making your own fish food and quite a bit in between. He has served on the Board of Directors for MASNA, was editor for Reefkeeping Magazine, has articles in printed magazines, co-authored an e-book, and has been recording a podcast (Reefcast) since 2006. He cares for a 280g reef tank that recently turned five years old.

When he’s not traveling to speak to other clubs across the nation, he’s here helping with DFWMAS. Over the years, he has served as Moderator, Newsletter Editor, President and later Ex-Officio, and currently is the Membership Coordinator for the club.

Map to location: Google Maps

We meet at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine, Tx on the second Wednesday of each month. We meet in the Common Room; enter the building and take the elevator to the third floor. Guests are welcome to attend to learn more about DFWMAS. The meeting features a specific topic, which often is provided by a speaker using PowerPoint. Meetings conclude after all the door prizes have been given out.

Club meeting: 7pm to 9pm

Topic: Dan Engmark, owner of Deep Sea Aquatics, will be our guest speaker at our September meeting. Dan will give a presentation on building aquariums and will be discussing all the materials used in the processes. This will be an in-depth insight into art of aquarium building. Here is a chance for you to get your tank questions answered by an expert in the field during the Q&A session following Dan’s presentation. This should be a very informative meeting so plan on attending.

Map to location: Google Maps

We meet at Stacy Furniture in Grapevine, Tx on the second Wednesday of each month. We meet in the Common Room; enter the building and take the elevator to the third floor. Guests are welcome to attend to learn more about DFWMAS. The meeting features a specific topic, which often is provided by a speaker using PowerPoint. Meetings conclude after all the door prizes have been given out.