Next Wave 2011 Dallas

[soymilk]

DFWMAS is proud to announce our Annual Conference is just around the corner and along with our four fabulous speakers we will be joined by Steve Tyree and the CFM. We hope to see you all there!

Fort Worth Botanical Gardens
3220 Botanic Garden Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76107

February 26th, 2010
8am - 6pm
Times are subject to change.

Speakers:

J. Charles Delbeek
Senior Aquatic Biologist - California Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium, click here for bio http://www.jcdaquariumdesign.com/Pages/about_us.html

James Fatherree
Author - Giant Clams in the Sea and the Aquarium, click here for bio http://www.fatherree.com/james/

Gerald Heslinga
Founder/Owner of Indo-Pacific Sea Farms, click here for bio http://www.ipsf.com/about.html

Matt Pedersen
Credited with starting MOFIB (Marine Ornamental Fish & Invertebrate Breeder's Association)

Vendors include:

Wet Thumb Frags
SoCal Tropical Fish
Rukis
World Wide Corals
Reef Nutrition
Reeffarmers
Boston Aquafarms
Yourreef
Reefkoi
Gonzo's
Cherry Corals
Steel City Corals
And a few more still to come.

[soymilk]

whos going? What are you trying to buy? If we have enough interest in a certain vendor, I could contact them for them to bring certain corals to the show. That or "preorder" corals.

Reefkoi I know is bringing clams, gonna message Cherry corals about some fauna marin and NPS for thai. So let me know what you want and how much you wanna spend. Perhaps I can try to leverage some buying power if we got enough $$$. A lot of vendors coming out, so your chance to get some gear as well.

I hope to see a bunch of you foos there. Gotta rep hfb in dallas.

[freespool]

I do not have a salt tank at this time, but am researching for a build. Would this be a good place to go and gain knowledge, or is it just a "frag swap" type event?

[soymilk]

it'll be a good experience to check out whats out there. Perhaps you might spot some corals that you normally wouldn't see. A few marsh and hfb guys are going, so we can help explain things as we go along.

Not to mention all the vendors will have knowledgable staff, so you can ask questions. It is more focused on people buying than teaching. But i think it'll be a pretty fun experience. marsh does not run a yearly event like that, so you'd have to wait til next year to catch another one. Might as well catch this "next wave"... (i made a pun. haha) There's still a month from here to then... plenty of time to get you caught up to speed.

But if i were you, i'd would start up a sw tank already, even if its just a 20g. Let it cycle so you can start collecting corals.

[madugo]

Damn..i think more than likely
I will miss this one..gonna have to go to the airport to pick up my boss friday afternoon...this just sucks..i wanna go..

[ssrprelude]

I'll be going. Looking for gear and rare sps corals. Definitly getting a MP40.

[myjohnson]

In way of food: Reef Nutrition complete line and any vendor carrying fauna marin (I will buy their complete line for gorg and dendros).

In way of corals (but I don't think any of the vendors would have all this expect LA and they are not on the list:

1) purple polyped sea fan (Astrogorgia sp)
2) spider sponge (Trikentrion flabelliforme)
3) colored sea fan (Echinogorgia sp.)
4) (trade name unknown) Swiftia Exserta
5) (trade name unknown) Guaiagorgia, and
6) (trade name unknown) Menella.

I would prefer the bottom three over the top three if any of the vendors would have this.

p.s. and the complete elos mini w/o the light but again, I think it's unlikely a vendor would show up with this stuff.

[Darbex]

Looking for Acans, Lg Sun Coral for the monster, and probably some zoas and softies for the monster as well.

[Darbex]

Who is in our carpool?

[soymilk]

thats up to you, i still need to order tickets.

[myjohnson]

@ Brien...well well it appears the monster is already going to be a reef tank.

[ssrprelude]

I want some Acan and a big colony of Aussie Duncans.

[myjohnson]

So you basically want everything in my tank.

[myjohnson]

Ok, the o'ball n'chain is letting me go.

Trung, buy me a ticket.

Brien, I'm be drunk the whole time.

All, bail me out of jail if I get locked up. I'll pay y'all back.

[soymilk]

Imma post pics of you acting a foo on Facebook so your girl can see it.


Imma make a list of what we want. Do y'all want full colonies or like come small frags. Ps. LA group buy still on.