Greater Iowa Reef Society Fall Fest

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Greater Iowa Reef Society Fall Fest
Saturday November 9th
11am - 5pm

National Cattle Congress Fairgrounds
Pepsi Pavilion
257 Ansborough Ave.
Waterloo, IA 50701

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[TD]Confirmed Vendors

Aznnutty's Saltwater connection
Beef's Reef
Booyah's Clowns
Captain's Corals
Cherry Corals
Coral Compulsion
Coral Haven
Eye Candy Coral
Kickazz corals
Nebraska Aquatic supply
New Wave Aquaria
Oceans Paradise
Reef Deep Aquatics
Turbo's Aquatics
Zoanthids.com

More to come!​

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[TD]Guest Speakers

LiveAquaria.com director Kevin Kohen
will be doing a presentation on expert
only fish keeping.


Tony Vargas, author of "The Coral
Reef Aquarium" will be presenting
Everything about Wrasse.

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Admission

Current GIRS club members: FREE
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Non-members : $10
Under 18: Free with paying adult

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Join GIRS today!!​

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As always there will be a HUGE RAFFLE to end the days events.
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[blackx-runner]

GIRS fall fest is only a month away. Mark your calendars so you don't miss this awesome event.

 

[Joe Knows Reefs]

How many attendees do you expect?

 

[blackx-runner]

Historically we have been around 250-300 attendees with our fall fest being the more popular one. I would say with the location and resources we are putting into this event we will be well over 300 attendees.

The Fall Fest Raffle is starting to shape up nicely.

Here are a few juicy items up

$1000 gift certificate to Live Aquaria/Drs Foster & Smith
14 Gallon Bio cube and stand
AI Hydra
Pair of Wyoming White Clownfish
RP90 Tom filter with built in UV Sterilizer
3 ft 4 bulb T5 light fixture
4 ATI T5 bulbs, your choice & color shipped to you door
This is just a few of the awesome things we will be raffling off that day!!!!!

 

[blackx-runner]

Its getting close now. Only two weeks away and what better way to spend a November afternoon than go to an awesome Frag Fest!!

Event Schedule
11:00 Show floor open
12:00 - 1:30 Tony Vargas - Reef Safe Wrasses
2:00 - 2:30 Kevin Kohen - Uncommon marine aquarium fishes, their care and husbandry
4:00 Raffle starts
5:00 Show floor closes

Food and drinks will be available at the on- site concession stand

Raffle Items
These are just a few of the notable raffle items we have lined up for this event. Special thanks to all the donors who made this great raffle possible!!
Marco Rocks - two 40lb boxes of rock
Reef Geek - 4 ATI T5 bulbs of choice
Coral Magazine - Three 1yr subscriptions
Rod's Food - Five food multipacks
Fragtastic Reef - Four $50 gift certificates
Turbo's aquatics - $200 gift certificate
Coralvue - 3ft T5 light fixture
Oceans wonders - Fragging supplies
Alternative Reef - Ceramic goodies
Tom's aquatics -RP90 filter with UV
Central Pet (Kent)-14g biocube and stand
Sustainable Aquatics - Wyoming White pair
AI/GIRS - Aqua illuminations hydra
Drs Foster Smith/GIRS - $1000 gift certificate to live aquaria