This is going to be NorCal's premier salt water event. I'm glad to be part of this and it's about time that an event of this magnitude happens for the Bay Area. The event is being held in the Hall next to Aquarium Showroom, a reef shop that is shaping up to be NorCal's largest aquarium wholesale to the public centers, it's seriously going to be a reefers paradise... there is a pirate ship with sharks swimming in it... enough said, LOL.

Anyways this event has been planned last minute, but with the support from the local Bay Area clubs and vendors this event is shaping up to be very fun. Best of all this first event is going to be free to the public. So feel free to bring your friends and family. Here's some more details,

BAYMAC
Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference
11am to 5pm - Sunday November 23rd
2143 South 10th Street, San Jose, 95112
www.TheBAYMAC.com (site will be up by this weekend)

Join us 11 am to 5pm Sunday November 23rd 2008 in San Jose, CA
for the first annual BAYMAC - Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference
serving the Central and Northern California reef communities.

This first event will be FREE for everyone to attend and to participate.
You don't need to be a member of a reef club to attend. All skill levels and all ages are encouraged to attend.

Frag sales supporting regional Reef clubs -
BAR - Bay Area Reefers and NCNRS - Northern California Nano Reef Society
will have aquariums with coral frags & supplies for sale.
All proceeds of these sales go to supporting the respective club.

Private Frag sales -
Other non club affiliated sellers welcome as well
Please contact sales@thebaymac.com for more details
or visit www.thebaymac.com/nonclubfragsales08

Guest Speakers -
Jake Adams (Flow Dynamics and flow devices explained), Rich Ross (Coral collections in Tonga) and Randy Reed (Feeding your reef)
For bio’s and more details please visit www.thebaymac.com/speakers08

Reef Gear Flea Market -
Got extra reef gear lying around, come sell it for CASH!!
Come sell your used reef aquarium related gear
Space is limited so please show up right before 11am to ensure you receive a spot.
For more details please visit www.thebaymac.com/usedgearswap08 or contact sales@thebaymac.com

Manufacturers on hand to answer your questions

Raffle -
Donations from companies like Reef Nutrition, CPR,
United Pet Group (Marine Land, Tetra, etc), TAAM (Rio, SEIO, etc), and more.
All proceeds will be split between BAR & NCNRS equally

Directions & Info –

11am-5pm Sunday November 23rd
2143 South 10th Street, San Jose, 95112
Close to the 87/280/101/85 and the San Jose Fair Grounds

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The sites should be going up tonight so the links should start working then. Like I said this event is being planned fairly last minute.

Sweet!!! I can't wait to check it out. I also got some hardware to dispose and some LR to sell...LOL...jk

Site is not up yet, but here is an update on the events schedule and time speakers will give their presentations. There seems to be some nice prizes being donated from vendors too, an AC jr. controller, Vortech pump from Ecotech and a bunch of stuff from Caribsea. Raffle tickets are a $1 each and will help support some of the local Bay Area reef clubs.

Schedule:

set-up begins at 9am (maybe 8am)
Doors open 11am
1:00pm Randy Reed - Feeding Your Reef
2:10pm Jake Adams - Flow and Flow Devices Explained
3:20pm Rich Ross - Coral and Fish Collections in Tonga
4:00pm Raffle ticket sales end
4:20pm Raffle Winners posted - all will be announced at once on projector or printed on a poster
4:45pm Unclaimed Raffle items will be redrawn at this time.
5:00pm doors close

Well they got the banner up now, LOL... http://www.TheBAYMAC.com/

Here is an update on the raffle prizes, each ticket will cost a buck;

Neptune Systems will be exhibiting at BAYMAC and they have donated an ACjr Controller (http://www.neptunesys.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=40)to the raffle Here's you chance to not only win a controller while supporting your club, but you can also ask Curt himself any technical questions you may have ever had. www.neptunesys.com

Reef Nutrition will be exhibiting and have donated a bunch of Reed Nutrition sample packs as well as single bottles to the raffle. Randy Reed and Gresham Hendee will be on hand to answer any of your questions. www.Reef-Nutrition.com

Private Donations - 6x IC Gel, 1x Kill-A-Watt, & 100x Coral Cradle frag plugs

Boston Aquafarms - 2x Deluxe Fragging Kits, 3x Reef Epoxy, Scalpel, Bone Shears and Tweezer www.BostonAquaFarms.com/

Reef Nutrition - (book) Giant Clams in the Sea and Aquarium by James Fatherree and (book) The Plankton Culture Manual by Frank Hoff & T. Snell

EcoTech has donated a Vortech pump to the raffle Thanks Ecotech!!!

Caribsea has donated a bunch of product, and I mean a bunch. They put in ARM Coarse (Ca Reactor media), ARM XCS (Larger Ca Reactor media), Mineral Mud, Purple Up, Reef Cal, Buff +. Aquatic Biotic Boost and Phos Buster.

Aqua Euro USA has donated a Protein Skimmer - needle wheel with Bubble plate (590gph) rated for a 135g tank. Thanks Aqua Euro USA

Warner Marine has donated a protein skimmer (model unknown at this point) to the raffle. Thank you Warner Marine

SuperBAC has donated some beneficial bacteria to the raffle. Thanks you SuperBAC.

Tene_core has donated a cube desktop tank to the raffle. Thanks Tene_core

Seachem has donated a bunch of products to the raffle. Hopefully it will be here by the event Thank you for the last second donation Seachem.

ESV has donated 4x 64 ounce B-ionic bottle sets to the raffle. Thanks for the donation ESV and thank you for sending it so quickly

Special Announcement

The first 50 people through the door will receive 2 captive bred Trochus snails curesty of Reef Hobbyist Magazine, www.MOFIB.organd BAYMAC. Special thanks to Jim (Bookfish) for making this happen

Wow, what a great event.

Prizes for the raffle


Representing the Nano peeps out there with my 14 gallon system with 360º turning display


The crew


The crowd


Great event especially since the whole thing was planned in a month. Wow 181 views on this topic and only 5 replies made to this thread... guess Bay Area people use different forums, lol... Oh well, i'll post again if another good event crops up again... later.