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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

October meeting presentation: Reef Pests

September meeting presentation: Hands-On acrylics workshop

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Past Meeting Presentations (PDF Documents)

PlumberDude's Beautiful SPS Reef
Featured Tank of the 3rd Quarter '09

February Meeting

  Date: Friday, February 5, 2010
  Time: 7:00 pm
  Location: Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)
  Topics: Coral Propagation
 

IMAS members will be demonstrating different methods for fragging your Soft, SPS and LPS corals. There will be demonstrations and a chance for hands on practice. Sonia (sleatham) has volunteered to provide corals ;-). Some of the corals fragged with be in the April meeting Frag Fest...

 

March Meeting

  Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
  Time: 7:00 pm
  Location: Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)
  Topics: Inexpensive lighting for your coral farm
 

Geothermal Aquaculture Research Foundation director Leroy Headlee will be giving a presentation on inexpensive lighting for your coral farm. LeRoy was one of the original coral farmers in America. He has traveled all over North America and south east asia visiting reefs, coral and clam farms. IMAS is very excited to have our local expert speak at the club.

April Meeting (FRAG Fest!!!)

  Date: Friday, April 2, 2010
  Time: 7:00 pm
  Location: Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)
  Topics: Frag Fest 2010
 

IMAS will be holding one of its Frag Fest trading meetings. There will be a frag raffle and frag trading galore!!! REveryone is welcome. There will be a small fee for the club for any corals sold during the meeting. More details to come...

 

June Meeting (Adam Blundell)

  Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
  Time: 7:00 pm
  Location: Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)
  Topics: Coral fluorescence: what it is & how it works
 

IMAS once again welcomes Adam Blundell. Adam will be sharing his work on coral fluorescence...

 

August Meeting (Scott Michael)

  Date: Friday, August 6, 2010
  Time: 7:00 pm
  Location: Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)
  Topic: Marine and Reef Fish!!!
 

IMAS welcomes Scott Michael.

Scott is into animals (especially those that live in marine environs, grizzly bears and dogs) and has been blessed to be able to make a living sharing that love with others. He has written 11 books on sharks, rays, coral reef fishes and marine invertebrates and have had thousands of photos published worldwide in books, magazines and on the internet. Scott is currently writing for a number of aquarium publications and is co-editor of the magazine REEF LIFE. Scott is also co-producer of www.coralrealm.com...

 

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.

IMAS Membership

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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