That Fish Blog – Aquarium Advice and Information
Hi, Dave here, It has been a while since I have posted a blog entry, I have busy working on some renovations and remodeling of our fish room here in our store. The bulk of the work is now complete, and wow what a change we have made, the fish room seems HUGE now. Anyone who has not visited the store in the last couple months is in for a surprise when they visit the fish room. Walls are missing, systems have moved, systems have expanded, and we are not done yet!
One of the objectives of the remodel was to create a bigger, better open space in what was our “pond room” for hosting events and having a flexible area for whatever we want to use it for. The first event to take advantage of this new space will be the TFP/NCPARS winter frag swap extravaganza on January 31st, 2009.
I wanted to add some more details about the event, which we had announced a while back, and had a previous blog entry for.
The Frag Swap is being run by NCPARS (the North Central Pennsylvania Reef aquarium Society) and all proceeds from the event will go to benefit the club. Information about the club can be found on their website http://www.ncpars.org/. Entrance to the event is $5 for members and $10 for non members. Attendees and sellers can pre-register on http://www.fragswapper.com/
The event has morphed into much more than just a frag swap, and will be of interest to any marine aquarium hobbyist, from beginner to expert. Through TFP’s assosiation with industry leading manufacturer’s and experts, we have put together a show that will include some great seminars, as well as on-hand manufacturers representatives to answer questions about their products.
Seminars for the event include:
Anthony Calfo: Anthony is a well known reef aquarium expert, Authored “The Book of Coral Propagation” and is the publisher of “C the Journal“. Anthony has spent years traveling the world and working in many phases of the industry, his seminar for this event is “Interesting facilities of the world” a showcase of places he has visited through the years in all areas of the hobby.
Steven Pro: Steven has worked in the industry for many years in many capacaties, including retail, wholesale, maintenance, and now manufacturing. Steven’s presentation “You Touched it, Now What? Poisonous, Venomous, and Contagious things in your aquarium” puts together many things that he has seen and learned about dangerous things in your reef aquarium, and how to deal with them.
Randy Reed: Founder of Reed Mariculture, a manufacturer of specialty reef foods, that includes Phytoplankton and Zooplankton diets. Randy will do a presentation about the “Fundamentals of Feeding Your Reef”
Dave Troop and Mike Elliot: Dave and Mike are the founders of a new company in the hobby, Aquatic Life. Dave and Mike have been integral members of a number of industry leading companies through the years, and have now joined forces to start a new company, that strives to bring truly innovative lighting and products to the hobby. As a former TFP employee, Dave is returning home, to provide a presentation about ” Understanding light Output”
Ike Eigenbrode: Ike is a long time hobbyist, and is now the vice president of sales and marketing of Current USA, an industry leader in aquarium lighting and chiller manufacturing. Ike is going to do a presentation on “Aquariums and Energy Efficiency”
Along with these Seminars, manufacturer Representatives from Brightwell Aquatics, Kent Marine, Seachem, EcoTech Marine, Ice Cap, Coralife, Red Sea, and others will be present throughout the show to answer questions and showcase some of their products.
Last but not least THE DEALS! TFP will give every paid attendee a 20% off one item coupon, good for use after the sale (restrictions apply). In cooperation with our manufacturers, both attending and non attending, we will have a selection of over 300 additional products on sale the day of the event ranging from 10% – 25% off our already low prices. These sale items will only be available to frag swap attendees.
Also benefiting NCPARS, the show will end with a raffle of some really great items that have been donated by our manufacturers. A sample of some of the items in the raffle include:
Complete Solana and Cardiff aquarium setups from Current USA, these are beautiful high end nano aquarium, valued at over $700 dollars each! These aquariums will be set up as displays during the show, so you can see them in all their beauty!
EcoTech Marine Vortec WMP 20 wave pump
Sunlight Supply 400watt Blue Wave Metal Halide ballast
Red Sea C-Skim 1200 Protein Skimmer
Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor
And Many more items………
Come Join us January 31st from 11-5 for our first frag swap, there is alot of buzz about the show, and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Schedule of Events:
| 11:00 | Event Begins |
| 11:30 | demo 1: fragging corals |
| 12:00 | demo 2: tank drilling |
| 12:30 | demo 3: setting up a calcium reactor |
| 1:00 | Anthony Calfo “Interesting facilities of the world” |
| 2:00 | Steven Pro “You touched it, now what? “ |
| 3:00 | Aquatic life (Dave Troop/Mike Elliot) “Understanding Light Output” |
| 3:30 | Current USA (Ike Eigenbrode) “Aquariums and Energy Efficiency |
| 4:00 | Reed Mariculture (Randy Reed) “Fundamentals of Feeding Your Reef |
| 4:30 | Raffle |
| 5:00 | event ends |
Hope to see you there,
Dave
