Idaho Marine Aquarium Society

Thanks for your interest in the Idaho Marine Aquarium Society! We exist to promote and grow the marine aquarium hobby in the Treasure Valley. It is organized as a loose fraternal association of the people that help each other with the hobby. Activities include monthly educational meetings, newsletters and tank tours. We are also proud to announce our affiliation with MASNA! For more information on MASNA or to find out more about the yearly conference MACNA XIX please follow the perspective links

February meeting presentation: Reef Parameters & Testkits

January meeting presentation: Aquarium Photography

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Past Meeting Presentations (PDF Documents)

Richard & Cindy Behrene's Reef
January '09 Featured Tank of the Month

June Meeting

Date: Friday, June 5, 2009

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)

Topic: Forest Gahn - Coral Reefs Over Time
Coral Reefs Over Time. Please join us as BYUI professor and club member Forest Gahn shares with us the tales of coral reefs over time. Forest is an Invertebrate Paleontologist who specializes in reef systems of years past.

July Meeting (James Fatherree)

Date: Friday, July 10, 2009

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)

Topic: TBD
James Fatherree has been an aquarium hobbyist since childhood, has been keeping marine aquariums for over 15 years, and has spent many days diving in Florida, Hawaii, the Bahamas, Japan and Indonesia. He also managed a large retail aquarium store, owned and operated an aquarium design, installation, and maintenance business for several years, and spent a summer working as a diver/collector/slave for an aquarium livestock wholesaler in Florida. James has also published well over 100 articles and 1,000 photographs in various aquarium magazines in the U.S. and Europe, and has written and illustrated several books on the topics of reef organisms and marine aquariums, the latest of which is Giant Clams in the Sea and the Aquarium. If you'd like to know more about the author, visit his homepage at http://www.fatherree.com/james/.

IMAS Sand Exchange:

The "Sand Exchange" is an awesome way to increase the bio diversity of your Reef and/or Marine aquarium. The way is works is, each participant brings an 8 oz cup of live sand to the IMAS meeting. At the meeting, all the sand will be gently mixed together. Once mixed, the sand is divided back up and you take home a cup of sand that has a little of each in it. This is an awesome way to increase the bio diversity in you sand bed. Currently just plan on bringing sugar sized sand like is used in shallow and deep sand beds. If there is enough interest, we can start a coarse sand exchange. If you are interested in participating in the sand exchange, just bring a cup to the November meeting.
Membership fees are an annual donation of $24 ($2 per month) to help promote the growth of the club, distribute newsletters, and provide benefits such as local aquarium store discounts, and bringing in expert speakers. The club will not officially endorse nor promote any local aquarium store, but each member may feel free to express their opinions on this or any related matter.

IMAS has gone through some surprising growth in the past few years, and we are excited to meet the needs of all of those folks interested in our club. Like the club, the hobby as a whole has been changing very rapidly. Whether we're talking about pending legislation or trends in marine husbandry, we all need to keep abreast of these changes so that we may become better informed and a more successful hobbyist.
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