2012 Saturday Excursions!!!
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Topic: 2012 Saturday Excursions!!!
Posted By: arthuriv
Subject: 2012 Saturday Excursions!!!
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 2:48pm
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Danh and myself are in charge of planning Saturday events this year. So we are looking for some ideas. They can be fish related or non fish related. Like Danh wants to go to Vegas! I know in the past we have had behind the scene tours at the Living Planet Aquarium, trips to Sea Base, tour of Brine Shrimp Direct, and trips to get Utah sand and rock for our tanks. So please post your ideas and we can start planning!!! Thank you! ------------- Quality Marines Aquaculturing & Captive Breeding program! Presented by Ashley & Chelsea from Reef On Thursday 6 Oct 2016 |
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 3:22pm
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Those all sound fantastic! I may head up the Vegas trip for you. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Jeremyw
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 3:25pm
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I think you posted a couple of good ones. LPA tour (that is already happening) Sea Base Brine Shrimp Direct Utah Sand/Rock I think with all for of these done in the remaining 8 month of this year would be awesome! You might not get a ton of people on some of the days but hey I think even 10 or so would be great! I would do Sea Base, and The rock hunt in the warmer months though ;) ------------- Next meeting: |
Posted By: jdinchak
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 4:43pm
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Not sure it is feasible but it would be cool to see some of the behind the scenes stuff from our LFS, how they buy their stuff, acclimating, how they maintain their show tanks, schedules and so forth. Another kind of out there, not sure how feasible but kind of like how they do those one day barn raising, it would be cool to see a large tank move or build in a day (help out, or limit number watching). Gives you some first hand knowledge and a chance to give back. |
Posted By: GaryF
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 2:10pm
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Lets go scuba diving at Sea Base. Afterwards, I could show you the two 3 meter atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes (ACT) that we have parked on the south end of sea base. For more info check out: http://www.physics.utah.edu/starbase/ ------------- Gary Finnegan |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 3:08pm
Paul- your thoughts? I'm so in for this! Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
GaryF wrote:Posted By: arthuriv
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 11:09pm
I love the idea let do it!!! What do we need to do to set this up? ------------- Quality Marines Aquaculturing & Captive Breeding program! Presented by Ashley & Chelsea from Reef On Thursday 6 Oct 2016 |
Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 11:19pm
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What is sea base it sounds cool ? and where is it ?
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Posted By: arthuriv
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 3:15am
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Sea base in Tooele county out near Grantsville. Here is a link to their website: http://www.seabase.net/" rel="nofollow - http://www.seabase.net/ ------------- Quality Marines Aquaculturing & Captive Breeding program! Presented by Ashley & Chelsea from Reef On Thursday 6 Oct 2016 |
Posted By: GaryF
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 9:48am
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It would be good to have Paul (phys?) there too. Keep in mind the telescopes there are not type that one can actually look through, so sun light hours are okay. It looks like most of my Saturdays in May and June are open. Give me some dates and I can coordinate the telescope part and talk to Paul (I do see him at the U often).
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 2:37pm
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These are fantastic. I spoke with the owner of Seabase and they are excited for this as well. Arthur/Danh- I say take any of these ideas you have and run with them. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 2:46pm
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By the way, the behind the scenes rooms of The Aquarium are awesome. Not sure if Brad/Nick would be willing to let people back there... but if so... that's a cool Saturday event. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: DanhNgo
Date Posted: April 30 2012 at 9:06pm
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Everything sounds great, but Vegas would be much better and we can visit ATM there.
Fun bus to Vegas!! ------------- 200 Gal Reef 25 Gal Nano Reef |
Posted By: arthuriv
Date Posted: May 29 2012 at 12:35pm
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Sorry, with new baby I didn't keep up on this! Lets get this going again!
------------- Quality Marines Aquaculturing & Captive Breeding program! Presented by Ashley & Chelsea from Reef On Thursday 6 Oct 2016 |
Posted By: griffith
Date Posted: May 30 2012 at 7:44am
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Here's an idea - collecting live Brine Shrimp out of the Great Salt Lake Once or twice a summer I take my kids to Antelope Island and we take buckets and nets with us and spend an hour collecting live Brine Shrip. It's easy and the kids have a blast We then take the buckets home - rinse the Brine and put them in zip-lock bags, and then place them in the freezer and we have free frozen food for a year. It does cost to go out to the island -- $9 per car. Just a thought Linn  ------------- Pay it forward... |
Posted By: JohnnyHeavens
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 9:35am
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Not to resurect a stale thread but do these Sat. events still happen? ------------- @Home 300g System 150g-Cube Reef+60g Frag+WaterChange 150g Tall FOWLR RIP @Work RSM 130D w/LEDs txt anytime @ eightO1-seven5five-eighteen99 Scuba! PADI Pro DM/AI/TecDeep NSS/CDS-Full Cave Diver |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 9:51am
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Yes they do! We have a ton of events planned or being planned! ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: mermaidcamille
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 2:33pm
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*Correction: Reef Tour is May 4th this year! Mark your calendar!  ------------- 135g...D.E.A.D Welcome bright and shiny 120! |