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The Next Meeting will be at:

Mako Shark II's (Marty)
1001 Newington Street
Collierville, TN 38017
901.922.0657
901.573-8713

Hosted by: Marty & Indra

Saturday, November 22
Officers Meeting at 5:30pm
Regular Members at 6pm

Hosted by: Marty (Mako) & Indra Klauss (who is occasionally and affectionately referred to as, “The $pousal Unit”)
Meeting Agenda:
- Review Action Items from last month
- Demonstration of plumbed water changes “on-the-fly” (We’re going to do a pressurized 20-gallon water change in about Four minutes (!)
- Main Topic of Discussion: Reef-Photography – Start to Finish

Special Guest Speaker: Richard Rendos

We will discuss & demonstrate step-by-step Photography:
- Tank Preparation
- Camera Brands, Shot set-up, Lighting
- Downloading
- Free ware (available software)
- Color balancing
- Web hosting
- And uploading of image files to ASP's

We will have a laptop / projector and a real-time web presentation by our own WTMRAC Daddy: Richard Rendos
There will be awesome Door Prizes, (Including Frags!) and maybe even a nifty little “Aqua-Mag” mounted Frag from Mako’s own 120.
Great Food & Soft drinks will be provided. Otherwise B.Y.O.B. (It is a Shark Party after all!)
(We’re thinking about serving some homemade, authentic Chicago-style Pizzaahhhh! and Chi-Town Dogs)
We will have "Wrasse" & "I glue Animals to Rocks" T-Shirts available for sale. And Chaeto will be available too!
Come join us for the Fun and to help promote WTMRAC.
Bring a friend or a frag to Trade! (if you don't like your friends!)

R.S.V.P. please

Previous Meetings:

October 2008

This meeting was Hosted by Tracy and Cindy in Brighton, TN. and was attended by 9 members.
After a nice meal of Chilli and Sante Fe Soup we got down to business.

Minutes

It was decided that since *Make Fish Smile* paid for sponsorship last year and was never given a banner or credit of such on the club website that they would have their banner and sponsorship active for this year in place of it.

Dave C (dzones) announced the club website was completed and would be posted and made live the day following the meeting.

President Dave H motioned:

1) The meeting time,date and location for the meeting following the existing one should be set and announced. (see location above)

2) A change in the Bylaws was necessary to coincide with the annual frag swap and our fiscal tax year as recognized by the Federal Government. The Nominees will be announced at the November Meeting and Voting will take place at the December meeting during our highest voter turnout (the Christmas Party). The new Officers terms will be from January 1 to December 31st.

-it was decided to leave the current officers in place for the extra 6 months instead of shortening their terms to 6 months. No nomination or elections will take place until Novermber/December of 2009.

Other Bylaw changes were suggested by Bill H (ducklabdad) to include an appointment of a trustees board of 3 members and each given an area of responsibilty such as a newly introduced "tanks in schools" program.

Membership dues for students should be stated as any student who carries a current student ID card whether it be university, high school etc., to be $10.00 instead of "under 18 years of age.

Clarification was made as to what we would include on the website for The St Jude Project. We were informed that the project is officially over for the club but our efforts and accomplishments on this would be given a space on the page "Club Accomplishments".

A Change of venue for the Christmas Party was brought up but since it is only a short time away it was decided it would be looked at for next year instead.

Revenue for the Frag Swap were announced and it was nice hearing that the even turned a profit this year. Attendance was way up over last year and it was estimated that there was 183 paid attendees. (does not include the vendors).

Dzones (Dave C) brought up that club sponsorship should include any outside source companies that may be interested. He currently owns a business and being an active member was more than happy to sponsor and donate door and raffle prizes from his PC Repair and Sales company.

The Club Library was started (Thanks to Dave H) and we currently have available for borrow:
Marine Aquariums - A Simple Guide
Ultimate Marine Aquariums By Michael Paletta
Book availabilty and information will be on the "Club Extras" Page

If you would like to Donate a book to the library please just bring it along to any meeting.

Door Prizes were graciously donated by Dave at Kermit's Reef (and there were so many we had to hold back some for the Christmas party! Way to go Dave. The following Prizes and who won them..

Cathy - 50w Heater
Tracy - Digital Thermometer
Bill - Hydor Inline Heater
Cindy - 25W Heater
Marcus - Hydor Flo Deflector
Dave - Reef Nutrition Oyster Eggs