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ddr_phish

Feb 19 2009, 11:12 PM

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Texas Marine Aquarists Conference will be at the New San Marcos Convention Center directly next to the Tanger and Prime Outlet Malls on Saturday the 21st of March. We are proud to announce that Anthony Calfo will be the Key Note speaker. We have 3 other speakers TBA. The cost of the Conference will be $25. We have the following Vendors with more in the works. There will also be a Fragging Demo by Anthony which you will not want to miss.

Vendors

DT's
Red Sea
Randy Reed
Tunze
Precision Marine
Deep Sea Aquatics
Omega One
Seachem
Hikari

Coral Vendors

Zoafrags
Fish2morow
Frank's Tanks
Wetthumb Frags (possible)
B&B Aquatics
Others are in the works.

If you would like to RSVP and pre-pay your admission, please send remittance to treasurer@maast.org. We would like to get a head count of who will be attending. Please mark your payment as TMAC.

Just letting people know

nanoty

Feb 19 2009, 11:16 PM

Are you going Josh?

ddr_phish

Feb 19 2009, 11:50 PM

Hell YES

glennr1978

Feb 19 2009, 11:55 PM

tempting..

ddr_phish

Mar 1 2009, 01:32 PM

DO IT.

New updates - Courtesy of MARSH

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Anthony Calfo - TBA, Christine Williams (Anthony's Fiance') -Raising Seahorses, Eric Borneman - Sustaining the Reef, Marc Levinson - Reef Photography and our own Peter Kordelski (Ping) - Refugiums and Sand beds. This is turning into an Event not to miss...Please get your tickets soon as they are $25 now and $30 at the door. Purchase tickets at treasurer@maast.org and mark them TMAC.

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Well guys, the event is coming up soon and be sure to pre-register and save $5. We also, would like to annnounce that the Fragging Demonstration will be done by Anthony and Eric...a Laurel and Hardy presentation not to be missed.

We also will be having a rather large raffle with items such as:

Dual 250w Maristar
DAS Neo-nano tank w/stand and sump
Vertech skimmer by bubble king
Tunze products...skimmer/wavebox
Icecap products
Corals
Large amt of dry goods
T5 set-up
and much more, so you don't wqnt to miss ourt on this event.

Hope to see you there. If possible, we would like to get a head count of all the MARSH Members that will be attending.

cpreefguy

Mar 6 2009, 11:49 PM

Hey Guys!
I just found this thread, I am the Vice President of MAAST, the organization that is hosting TMAC.
You definitely don't want to miss this conference. Here is a thread where you can get some more info:
http://maast.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49358

Hope to see you guys there!

cpreefguy

Mar 12 2009, 08:42 PM

BUMP it up, who else is coming?

If you guys are in the Texas area, you shouldn't miss it!

I am really looking forward to talking with Anthony Calfo and his new ventures with Icecap. I just ordered one of the new Anthony Calfo Series 20,000k 250w halide bulbs, so Im interested to see what they're all about.

cpreefguy

Mar 17 2009, 09:45 PM

Hey Guys, check out this raffle list for TMAC! More will be added, so stay tuned! Also, early registration pricing ends on the 18th:

http://maast.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49803

ddr_phish

Mar 17 2009, 09:55 PM

Thats awesome man, I'm definitely gonna be there and spend way too much money. There are some seriously cool items up for grabs on the raffle and the vendors list is amazing. I can't wait to see what corals are fragged and offered up for the raffle

-Josh

cpreefguy

Mar 17 2009, 10:23 PM

I can't wait, it is going to be a great conference!
We already have over $4,000 worth of raffle items, and that doesn't include the donations that some of the vendors will be bringing; Tunze, icecap, and a few others

ddr_phish

Mar 17 2009, 11:43 PM

I was just looking at the raffle list and was wondering, if I bought $100 worth of the mixed tickets how many is that? It doesn't have quantities.

cpreefguy

Mar 17 2009, 11:52 PM

Good question, Im waiting for an answer to that one myself

The member with that breakdown should be posting it in the original thread soon.

ddr_phish

Mar 18 2009, 12:11 AM

Ah ok, well hopefully my wife will give me a larger allowance to bring with me since I missed the Coral Farmer's Market back in November. This seems to be quite the event to not miss!

JimBeam

Mar 18 2009, 12:20 AM

some of us from Dallas are going. Unfortunately I am not though. I did see "Eric Borneman - Sustaining the Reef" at nextwave here in Dallas. And of course we see Marc (Melev) all the time here. Should be fun.

SK8URDEAD

Mar 18 2009, 01:01 AM

QUOTE (JimBeam @ Mar 18 2009, 12:20 AM)

not cool this sucks... i live in San Antonio and san marcus is only like 30mins-1hour away from me and i have to go to work. i can still have someone take my shift but damn.

cpreefguy

Mar 18 2009, 10:46 AM

^^^ Have someone take your shift! It's not often that you have this type of event this close to home!

cpreefguy

Mar 18 2009, 10:55 AM

QUOTE (ddr_phish @ Mar 18 2009, 12:11 AM)

Ah ok, well hopefully my wife will give me a larger allowance to bring with me since I missed the Coral Farmer's Market back in November. This seems to be quite the event to not miss!

Im hoping for an allowance as well

Todd from www.cherrycorals.com is supposed to be bringing some amazing stuff.

Also, don't forget to save $5 and register today! That could be a winning rafle ticket, or five!

ddr_phish

Mar 18 2009, 06:06 PM

Is this the correct address for the new convention center?
1001 West McCarty Lane, San Marcos, TX, 78666

If anyone wants to carpool I can take another 1-2 people with me in my explorer (driving it in-case I win any of the big raffle items

). I'll be bringing an ice chest also for frags. I plan on arriving there at 8am Saturday (and staying till it ends at 6pm), the trip from downtown Houston takes 3 hours, so I'm leaving here early. All I ask is for 10$ gas money. PM me if ya wanna tag along.

cpreefguy

Mar 18 2009, 07:32 PM

QUOTE (ddr_phish @ Mar 18 2009, 06:06 PM)

Is this the correct address for the new convention center?
1001 West McCarty Lane, San Marcos, TX, 78666

That is correct sir!

cpreefguy

Mar 18 2009, 10:43 PM

QUOTE (ddr_phish @ Mar 17 2009, 11:43 PM)

I was just looking at the raffle list and was wondering, if I bought $100 worth of the mixed tickets how many is that? It doesn't have quantities.

Here is a better breakdown of the bulk ticket purchases:

BULK TICKET PURCHASE
$50 TICKET VALUE For only $40! (you get five $5 and twenty-five $1 tickets)
$75 TICKET VALUE For only $60! (you get nine $5 and thirty $1 tickets)
$100 TICKET VALUE For only $75! (you get eleven $5 and forty-five $1 tickets)

ddr_phish

Mar 21 2009, 11:23 PM

Anyone else go besides me? I won some cool things and got some great corals from the vendors there. Definitely was worth it.

cpreefguy

Mar 21 2009, 11:37 PM

Thanks for coming! I had a blast. I spent waaay too much today, but I couldn't resist the deals.
It was our first event like this, it was definitely a learning experience. I'm interested to hear any and all feedback, good and bad alike. PM me if you're so inclined.

ddr_phish

Mar 22 2009, 01:51 AM

Well I definitely would of liked to see more vendors, especially for livestock, there were only 7 there. A lot of the time I spent on my phone because there wasn't much to do even though there were people speaking. I just think it was a bit small, especially since it was from 8am to 6pm (raffle didn't end till 7). All in all though I had a great time, enjoyed the fragging demo and sustaining the reef speech, and spent way too much money at zoanuts and cherrycorals. Thanks for the RO unit, its kind of funny how thats the one item I really needed and I won it, too cool.

-Josh

cpreefguy

Mar 22 2009, 02:02 PM

Cool, thanks for the feedback!
I really wanted that RO unit too, Im glad you won it!

Sean

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