Those who traveled out of town over the summer missed out on some great meetings.

July saw a packed house at Jerehmy's and I was bummed I missed it but thanks to newly appointed club secretary Chelle, those of us that couldn't attend  at least get to see what we missed:

Jerehmy, owner of XXXX, opened his garage, home (and super friendly cat menagerie), to approximately 20 club members and guests for the July meeting held on July 13th at 7PM. Everyone marveled at Jerehmy's beautiful tanks, professional set-up and wonderful frag super-store in the garage.

Discussions around tank set-up, lighting, fragging, fish and beer lasted until rather late in the evening. Thanks to Jerehmy for the hospitality, and Jerehmy's neighbors for their lax enforcement of the Vista City Sound Ordinance.

And Friday the 13th was anything but unlucky for some of our club members. The club continued to raise money through raffle ticket sales and our big raffle winner was Mr. Lucky himself, Kamil. A complete list of prizes and winners is listed below.


July Raffle Donations and Winners:

SL6510 Platinum Series Pump - Kamil
SL6530 Platinum Series Pump - Julius (singing as usual)
Tetra Cyclopeze Granule food - Kamil
Zooplankton - Kamil
Phyto Plan - Jasper
Revive Coral Cleaner - Stan, the light master
Revive Coral Cleaner - Kamil
Large Mag Float - Steven
SeaChem Reef Calcium - Kamil
Purple Up - Kamil
Purple Up - Steven
AquaStik Gray Epoxy - Julius
AquaStik Gray Epoxy - Jon (new member)
Thermometer - Kamil
Orange Yuma - Stan
Green Monti - Tim (long time no see)
Green Zoos - Jon
Micro Algae - Kamil
Green Yuma - Stan
Green Pavona - Julius
Orange Monti - Julius
Red Shroom - Stan
Red Shroom - Tim
Green Zoos - Chelle

Our August meeting returned to Jerehmy's house for a nice relaxing time to just hang out, talk tank, and meet more reefers.  The raffle shelf dried up (see July winners list) but anyone that wanted some Free Fish Food took home what seems to be a popular food for our Aquatic critters thanks to Red Sea :D  Also, with Reef-A-Palooza looming everyone was excited and those that helped work our booth got free NCRMAS T-shirts :D (Thanks again to the raffle).

Now, in September, we got to invade Steve's house in Carlsbad, gaze at his AMAZING 180g mixed reef inside and watch Corralline algae magically disappear off the back wall of his tank in the garage(Go here for more info http://www.therme-at.com/ ).  Then, for those that stayed in the garage, you got to watch the club prez smash his fingers trying to put this AMAZING device back into its container. 

Topics discussed at this meeting were the new Marine Aquarium Expo (MAX 2008) coming April 5th and 6th which should become the greatest Aquarists Trade show on the West Coast.  NCRMAS will have a booth and will need volunteers to man (or woman) it :D 

We also tried to convince Rudy to get his new 500g SUPER TANK ready so we could invade his house in October....but he wants to take his time (who does this? :D).

Don't forget that Jerehmy of Direct Marine Imports is the person to contact for Special Livestock Orders. 

Finally we discussed the BIG SDReefs BBQ (more info at http://www.sdreefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29296 ).

The raffle was on for this month thanks to Zoo Med, Red Sea, Carib Sea (Jasper loves the Purple UP :D), and Direct Marine Imports 

October is just around the corner and we are currently talking to Ushio to get them to come speak and we have already booked the Caulerpa people to discuss the macro algae and others.  See you all in a month :D