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[dazzabozza]

The topic for the November meeting will be "An Introduction to Marine Aquariums".

The talk will be performed by representives from MASWA (Marine Aquarium Society of WA).




This will be a perfect opportunity to get a feel for what is required to build and maintain a salt water tank.

Feel free to list your questions here prior to the night.

Daz

See homepage for date & venue info - http://www.perthcich....au/index.phtml

Presentation from the talk (5MB Powerpoint download):  maswa.ppt   5.09MB   58 downloads

[Cawdor]

Necessary equipment, differences in maintenance to freshwater, basic setup cost, good starter fish/corals, difficulty of breeding marine species...just to start off with

[Paddy]

Excited, will def have to be there Who have you got from Maswa?

[dazzabozza]

Excited, will def have to be there Who have you got from Maswa?

So far it's Shona Whaite & Chris Stevens. There may be more.

[gibbs]

Has a date been decided yet dazza? I work some crazy hours so hope i can make this one.

I really want to setup my first marine tank, so any info on how to do so, for dummies would be awesome

How to cycle a marine tank, when to add first fish, how many fish, how to introduce fish and corals and care for corals. Expense and maintainance.

[Cicolid]

Tues Nov 3rd

[Bluey]

I would love to attend meetings but I work week nights so cant, this one would be really helpfull as I have recently taken the "salt water plunge".
Any info that can be past on via this medium would be appreciated as always.

Cheers, Ray.

[Fish Antics]

Midland have donated a couple of Marine Books for this months raffle.

Baensch Marine Atlas 2 & 3.

a great prize~!

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[Angelo]

how come there are never any pics or videos from the monthly meetings? that would be a really cool for members who miss it.

[Cawdor]

There have been pics from auctions if I remember correctly. Video is usually only from special events, we do have a video from the Heiko talk and the talk Docfish gave. Both are still unedited and Sazabi has them.

[Cawdor]

Thanks for an informative talk, I would have liked to see some pics of Chris' setup
The Powerpoint file of the presentation will be available for download tonight.

[Blackcats]

Thanks to the speakers for a good intro into the requirements for keeping marine aquariums.

It would certainly be a cure for multi tank syndrome as there wouldn't be the time or dollars to maintain lots of saltwater tanks !

Very interesting talk.

Cheers

Harry

[Kieran]

If anyone's doing some Marine research I recommend MASAWiki aka RTAW Reefpedia

It's interesting what someone who's never had a freshie tank thinks we know, but it was nice to see Shona and Chris at a PCS meeting. Chris' setup did sound pretty pricey though, with the underground pipework and the RO/DI units etc.

[Cawdor]

I have added the Powerpoint presentation to the first post.