Yet again another fantastic turn-out.  I swear if we ever start advertising these

meetings anywhere other then this site we're going to need a valet service.


I still don't know if it's the great presentations, the DIY talks, or the food.  

Whatever it is...it's working.

This months theme was Chinese food.  It wasn't quite ready when the meeting

started but in just 10 minutes ........

 

After dinner we were treated to a virtual tank tour from Marchinbandjs - it was nice to see a

tank photographed under natural room lighting for a change instead of those pesky MH

and T5 lights we're so used to.





As always the audience was captivated


It really was a nice presentation, and the level of detail -- simply amazing - I never knew

there so much to know about "the purple thing"  (between you and I...I think John

drowned Barney just to have something else in his tank  )

Next came the blueprint drawings for the DRC ATO.  This is going to be nice. 

It will be even nicer when we can talk the officers in to raffling these puppies off 



I'm hoping they will be willing to donate a custom unit to have a full end-user review

written up and published as promotional material to someone who contributes regularly

to the boards, has a knack for writing, is too cheap to upgrade from the "8 year old with

a bucket ATO" he uses now - - oh and has the ability to post really bad pictures of

our president




The final presentation of the night was courtesy of The Fish Bowl

www.thefishbowldover.com a great local fish store in Dover.  They were gracious

enough to send BJ up to talk to us about the history of the store, some details

about their set-ups, filtration, electric bills, etc.





The stories were priceless and the audience was absolutely captivated with his

insightfulness.


Seriously though, it was nice a great talk and BJ was gracious enough to share way more

information then his mother would have liked him to 

But I think we all feel just a little bit closer to the store now. I'm looking forward to my

next trip down to Dover to stop in (especially since they apparently price their Flame Angels

low enough that they can't even keep them in the store). 

The night wrapped up with another great raffle.  Some very nice frags went to some needy

homes, and a wide assortment of Seachem products for the little dosers in all of us as

the Golden Ticket item


I don't have the list as to who won what - but I know who didn't:






T'was a great meeting, looking forward to our next 2 events. 

May 1st at East Coast Aquatics

and May 8th at The Fish Bowl.

See ya'll there!!!