The UTMAS tank of the month for August 2010 belongs to Levi Bradley (Lurkerz).

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Our next Meeting is this coming Thursday, August 19th and begins at 7:00 P.M. Sharp at the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy.

This months meeting agenda:

Tank of the Month presented by Nick Cardona

Coral of the Month
Terence Fugazzi will give a short presentation on the fungia coral. This unique coral is a mystery for many people and can really light up the sand bed. Terence will discuss the different varieties, the husbandry requirements, and other tips on keeping fungia corals.

Coral Fragging Demonstration
See how to glue animals to rocks!   Meet some of Utah’s elite coral propagators and ‘home growers’. Learn their tricks and ask them questions. We will have demonstrations on how to fragment, cut, glue and propagate corals.

UTMAS sponsors will also be there offering great deals on all sorts of amazing corals, inverts, and fish.

Raffle

Set your calendar, and show up early, there will be a special door prize raffle with each person getting a FREE TICKET and having an equal chance. The door prize will be drawn at 7pm sharp.

As many of us know, keeping a non-profit organization like the Living Planet Aquarium alive and well and out of the red is a tough business. It is hard enough to make it day to day but when an organization wants to continue to expand and provide for the community and for preservation efforts, well it often takes that much more. This is why every year The Living Planet Aquarium hosts a huge fundraising gala called Scales and Tails where corporations and individuals have a great night out enjoying great food and entertainment and also participate in a charity auction. This year the theme is 007 – as in James Bond and will be held at the La Caille restaurant in Sandy at 6pm on September 18, 2010.

The living planet aquarium has been a wonderful and gracious sponsor of UTMAS since our launch earlier this year. We are extremely grateful that they donate their space for our meetings once a month. We don’t yet have a lot of cash in the bank, but we thought of one way we could give back to them. UTMAS members collectively will be donating livestock for a complete home saltwater aquarium system that they will be auctioning off in the charity auction. We are soliciting donation pledges from members for corals, fish, inverts, cleanup crew, you name it. Once the winner of the auction has their tank set up and cycled, UTMAS leadership will collect all the pledges and deliver them to the auction winner.

Once again we wish to thank the Living Planet Aquarium for their support. Please get the word out and if you or anyone you know would like to attend this fundraising gala and support TLPA, the link is below.  Also below is a link to the forum thread where you can make your pledge of livestock to the charity auction.

Scales and Tails Charity Gala

Pledge Livestock to donate to TLPA for their auction on behalf of UTMAS