Zack

RSVPS for LMAR close TONIGHT at 10PM! If you haven't done so, please RSVP! We will be giving anyone who does so an extra free door prize ticket. If you do not RSVP you are still able to come by showing a screenshot of this post, however you

will only get one door prize ticket.

RSVP Form:

https://goo.gl/forms/p7h32j3LLzvSsAVf2

Schedule of Events:

Sunday November 6th, 2016

10:00 AM Aquarium Opening

12:30 PM Charter Member Early Admission

1:00-5:00 PM LMAR Frag Swap

5:00-6:30 PM Cleanup

We will be handing out free coolers to the first 10 Charter Members to check in after 10AM. Additional goodie bags will be handed out on a first come first served basis inside of the swap room once the event begins.

Charter Member Raffle Schedule:

Winners MUST be present at time of drawing. Charter Member ID card is required for purchase of raffle tickets..

2:00 PM Tunze Osmolator Nano

3:00 PM AI Prime HD, sponsored by ARK Aquatics

4:00 PM Maxspect Gyre XF-230, sponsored by Unlimited Color Corals

5:00 PM Neptune Apex, sponsored by Neptune

Door prizes:

BRS 2 Part Dosing system

Red Sea Prize pack

Fr-SE Reactor

Reef Nutrition prize packs

Zen Reef Frag Racks

Phamily People eater prize pack

Good morning ARC! We had a vendor cancel late this week and have an open table at our swap! If anyone's interested in the details please shoot me a text @ 210-931-6239

ttt!

TTT! Please RSVP if you're interested in attending!

Here's how you'll know you won a golden frag!

LMAR this year will feature a brand-new way that we will be approaching door prizes based on feedback from those who attended the last two events. Rather than drawings every 30 minutes that pull everyone away from the vendor tanks, we will be doing door prizes AT the vendor tanks!

Here's how it'll work!

First, we will start the day with the first 10 charter members who check in at 10AM. We will be giving these first 10 a free MAAST cooler! Some of the coolers will have goodies in them and two of those will have a gift card that can be used at ANY sponsor booth at LMAR!

Then when the doors open, the hunt begins! Distributed randomly among the vendors will be several golden frags. These frags will look like any other frag in the tank until they are purchased, at which point a golden mark on the underside of the frag plug will let you know that you've won! Prizes will include gift cards and frag packs to the respective vendor! The golden frags may all be sold in the first hour or throughout the event so you're not going to want to be late!

We will also be doing a handful of small door prize care packages scheduled around our raffle schedule!

Please RSVP here if you are able to make the swap! We can't wait to see everyone there!

https://goo.gl/forms/p7h32j3LLzvSsAVf2

Ttt

The LMAR swaps love you man!

Sunday November 6th, 2016

San Antonio Aquarium
6320 Bandera Road, San Antonio, TX 78213

We have partnered up with the San Antonio Aquarium again to provide one of the most unique frag swap events in the country!

Those who RSVP by November 5th at 10:00pm will enjoy FREE admission for themselves and their guests to enjoy the aquarium for the day, including its amazing selection of animals and interactive experiences.

We have been given access to a private area of the aquarium and will be hosting several vendors from around the country for an awesome evening of buying, selling, and trading corals!

If you're interested in coming, please fill out our RSVP form:

https://goo.gl/forms/p7h32j3LLzvSsAVf2

Event Sponsors:

This event is brought to you in part by our friends at:

The San Antonio Aquarium, where guests are encouraged to, "Sea to Believe as we connect children and families to the planet, ranging from our rain forests and deserts to the exotic species of ocean."


http://www.sanantonioaquarium.net/

Bulk Reef Supply- "Bulk Reef Supply sells supplies and equipment for saltwater and reef aquariums, including food, testingsupplies, filters, pumps and additives."





www.bulkreefsupply.com

Reef Hobbyist Magazine- "Reef Hobbyist Magazine is a reef-focused magazine that teaches hobbyists of all levels how to succeed at reef-keeping. Our free magazines can be found in over 1,000 local saltwater fish stores across the United States or downloaded on our website."



www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Schedule of Events:

Sunday November 6th, 2016

10:00 AM Aquarium Opening
12:30 PM Charter Member Early Admission
1:00-5:00 PM LMAR Frag Swap
5:00-6:30 PM Cleanup

We will be handing out free coolers to the first 10 Charter Members to check in after 10AM. Additional goodie bags will be handed out on a first come first served basis inside of the swap room once the event begins.

Charter Member Raffle Schedule:

Winners MUST be present at time of drawing. Charter Member ID card is required for purchase of raffle tickets..

2:00 PM Tunze Osmolator Nano
3:00 PM AI Prime HD, sponsored by ARK Aquatics
4:00 PM Maxspect Gyre, sponsored by Unlimited Color Corals
5:00 PM Neptune Apex Gold, sponsored by Neptune

Door prizes will be announced as we receive them! We also have some special prizes lined up that will be given away throughout the event! As soon as we iron out the details we will be announcing them here!


Vendors:

Abeline:
Ark Aquatics

Austin:
Daniel & Megan
Phamily
River City Aquatics
FarmerTy

Corpus:
Minh

Houston:
Unlimited Color Corals

Santa Anna:
Sherita Hogan

San Antonio:
Brandon Skidmore
Coral Cove
Clayton Cox
Pod Your Reef
Shane Smith
World Class Aquatics & Exotics
Zen Reef

Locaton: Coral Cove, 13032 Nacogdoches Rd #206, San Antonio, TX 78217
Date: September 25th
2:00PM DIY Hands on Algae Scrubbers

Alright everyone, it's almost time for the MAAST September meeting!! We will start the meeting on Sunday the 25th of September at 2PM! Hannah will be leading a class demostrating DIY Algae Scrubbers and everyone who RSVP's (one per household) will be able to make their own and take it home!

Please let us know if you plan to attend so we can insure we have a proper amount of kits! If you do not RSVP, kits will be first come first serve!

Shoot Sherri a PM on Maast and she can look into getting you a new card made. Username is Sherri lol

There ya go! Hopefully the luck of the draw is in your favor this time!!

For the arc premium membership, I know you have to pay a fee, but Mike would be able to get you more information on that.

For the mast charter membership, it's a $25 fee for the year and it makes you eligible for a raffles at the swaps as well as our Monthly meeting giveaways (must be present to win). We will mail you a card or if your charter close to the event or the day of we will have it waiting for you at admissions or print one for you there.

Also just a heads up on how we do prizes, anyone in attendance can win door prizes at the swaps, but only charter members can win raffles. This year is probably our biggest raffle lineup ever thanks to our event sponsors!

Last year's swaps we gave away MP10s, Vectra M1s, Apex Juniors and many other items. We also do big giveaways at our meetings from time to time for charters also. Last month it was an MP10WES QD, and in June we gave away a go pro and March a Rapid LED Onyx. Definitely tons of other benefits outside of drawings for the Maast charter members like free meetings and awesome hands on meetings so if you're interested in signing up, please PM me!

Can't reveal the full raffle schedule just yet, but let's say the raffle table will be one of your PRIME-ary stops at the event.

The website for up to date info will be:

maast.org/LMAR

But we won't be putting anything on there until next Monday and the RSVP site should be up that week as well (different URL). Just waiting to hear back from one of the event sponsors! I will PM everyone as well as post the RSVP link here when I finalize the details

Thanks Ty! The door prizes we are still working on but we pretty much have finalized the raffle items! Those should be announced when the RSVP's go live!

Good evening ARC! I hope you all had a fantastic Labor Day!

I wanted to formally announce the MAAST frag swap, the Lone Star Marine Aquarist's Rally (LMAR) to you all and extend a big San Antonio welcome to all of you guys and gals!

Our frag swap will take place on Sunday November 6th from 1PM-5PM at the San Antonio Aquarium with doors opening for early admission at 10AM! MAAST Charter members and ARC Premium members will get into the swap area at 12:30PM for a private shopping experience and door prizes and raffles will begin starting at 2PM! Please make sure you have your Charter/ Premium card ready at that time to speed up admissions!

If you are interested in attending, please let me know below! I will be posting the RSVP form on Monday September 12th and will private message it to anyone who has expressed interest!

We are also currently not accepting vendor applications until we hear back from our MAAST sponsors as well as those who were vendors at the last event. If we have any openings, I will be cross posting them here as well as on our site! If we do run out of tables, and you would like to be notified in the event of a cancellation, please private message me and I will get you on our email list as well as discuss the vendor pricing information!

Sunday November 6th 1PM-5PM

We're salty! Picked up some live rock from an LFS and also added my Fritz quick start bacteria ?

Aqueon 10 gallon internal filter and a tetra 50w heater!

Haha my wife would kill me! It's her favorite rock from her old displays lol..

The equipment came in today and I changed up the scape to fit it.

Haha the one rock I had in mind was too big!!

Here are some shots of the tank and a potential scape

Thanks Dan!

Thanks Ty and Kim! I placed an order on Amazon today for a heater and an in tank filter so we'll see how that goes! Also found my old live rock rubble stash!

Dang that would have been sick if you had the lucky ticket after the day you had! Next go around I'll Be sure to get everything posted on ARC simultaneously with MAAST. Couldn't remember my old Log in information so had to make a new account.

Background

After upgrading last year to my ADA 60-F, I learned a lot about what I really enjoyed about the aquariums. As my first "shallow reef" I fell in love with the "top down" style tanks and really enjoyed the challenge of working with such a small space. I have decided to take it one step further and enlist MAAST sponsor Zen Reef in helping me try a tank I've always wanted to build, a pico sized tank. Below are some good memories of past tanks as a refresher!

Equipment

Zen Reef 1 Gallon Custom: 7''x6''x5''

Aqua Illuminations AI PRIME

Livestock

TBD, mostly Zoanthids and Shrooms

Plans

Unfortunately the one gallon SPS pico I planned last year did not work as well as I would have liked. I rushed the build and ultimately had to call it quits after I had an equipment failure within the first week. This go around, we will be taking it much slower as well as having a much more calculated approach. Sunday at LMAR I picked up an AI Prime from Joey and Coral Cove and lined up a few purchases that I will be picking up in the future with Raven at World Class, Zen Reef, Clayton, and Coral Cove.

One of my buddies offered me a small piece of live rock from his sump so later this week I will be picking this up and also I'll be finding some equipment such as a heater and filter for the aquarium.

I'm not sure how I'll be handling filtration but I do have my eye on an internal filter that I'll be filling with rubble as well as filter floss which will be changed weekly. If this does not work out, I will have a HOB filter and will need to make a light hanger for the prime. Before I get the tank wet, I'm going to buff out all the scratches that it has accumulated from two moves and being stored so this next few weeks will mostly serve as a 'dry run'/ fw run.