Special Presentation - Nov 14, 2009
October 28th, 2009 by mlevenson 0 Comments
As the Dallas / Fort Worth Coral Farmers Market concludes on Saturday, DFWMAS will have a special speaker presenting:
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.
