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There will be a summer meeting SUNDAY, July 11 @ 1:30
Location will be:
Charles Wesley United Methodist Church's all purpose room
6817 Dean, Dr
McLean, VA 22101

Current plans include;

* Demo on how to frag several types of corals by Scott711
* RBTA cloning demo
* auction of your aquarium related equipment
* sale of your aquarium related equipment
* vendors with home grown frags
* Food, Fun and Howard

-- More events to be added.

WAMAS will also have door prizes and the usual awesome raffle ticket items

Volunteers are requested, please contact flowerseller to offer your help.

Guest speaker
- Eric Michael Sanchez from GlassBox Design
Talk: *Modern Aquarium Lighting : LEDs & More."


Bio:

Eric Michael Sanchez is a devoted marine aquarist, writer and Financial Analyst based out of Chicago. Eric has been keeping reef aquariums for over 10 years and is the founder of the popular marine website GLASSBOX-DESIGN. His varied experiences related to marine aquaria, design and business provide a unique perspective on aquarium set-up, equipment and the corresponding industry.

When not writing for Glassbox or aquarium magazines, Eric can most often be found: nearby a Bloomberg terminal, working on his aquarium, playing with his dog, taking photographs or any combination thereof.

About Glass Box Design - GBD has quickly become a must read among marine aquarist and industry insiders. The fresh faced reef blog is the creation of Eric Michael Sanchez, a Chicago based aquarium writer with an eye for aquascaping, aquarium design, and related equipment.

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Coral & frag equipment donations for Frag-fest:
- Blue Ribbon Koi & Marine - SPS colonies
- Reef eScape - SPS, LPS, & Soft coral colonies
- FishnReef.com - Gift Certificates

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Talk title and Bio added. See you at the meeting.

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Avast Marine Works representative will be at the meeting to answer all your questions about their products, including the new Swabbie!

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One of our very owm members with be doing a presentaion on DIYing a 12 light 60degree LED set up.
It will then be raffled off at the end of the afternoon.

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1 week!

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Thanks to all of the individuals who donated not only their time, but corals (and LEDs!) to the FFE. Also, a huge thanks goes out to our sponsors who always take care of the membership with fantastic prizes such as Avast Marine Works with a media reactor, Dr. Mac with some Aussie Corals, Fins and Feathers with a huge 35+ head Duncan, www.FishNReef.com with fragging tools and supplies, Reef eScape with a bunch of corals and supplies, and Mr. Coral for gift certificates for each member who walked in the door! Also thanks to our sponsors who continue to support us (we had some miscommunications that resulted in not being able to get things to the meeting today) including Blue Ribbon Koi and Marine and Marine Scene.

Please be sure to say thanks to all of our sponsors when you're in their store next and let them know how the frags you received are doing!

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-Thanks to Chip and Sonya for their time & efforts organizing and hosting the meeting.
-Thanks to all the officers and volunteers for their efforts to make event awesome.
-Thanks to Speaker Eric for giving up weekend to come talk to us about LED's. Great talk.
-Thanks to all the vendors who took time to come set a display booth up to show off products
-Thanks to Pacific East for sending a rep, donating some awesome corals, showing us how to cut them up, and donating them to the club. Over 30 members were very happy with the frags they got from the donations.
-Thanks Reefescape for their coral donations.
-Thanks FishnReef.com for their fragging equipment and certificate donations.
-Thanks Fins and Feathers for their coral donations.
-Thanks mrcoral.com for their certificate donations.
-Thanks to all the members who donated corals, fish, salt water, or other items for fragging or the raffle!
-Thanks to all the vendors for their sponsorship & items for the raffle.

-Thanks to all the people who came out. Great to see a large crowd.

See you at the next meeting. Details soon on date & location.