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

December 2007 News Letter

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Past Meeting Presentations (PDF Documents)

Joey and Audrey Collins' Reef
March '08 Featured Tank of the Month

November Meeting

	*Date:* Friday, November 7, 2008
	*Time*: 7:00 pm
	*Location:* Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)
	Topic: Lighting for Your Aquarium Part 2!!! Our most awesome President, Mr. Kim Gross, will be discussing lighting for your aquarium. Kim does a great job with this presentation and this year there will be many different examples. Here are a few: 6X54W HO T5 with alot of different bulbs DIY 70W MH for a nano tank (Super cheap and cool at the same time) OuterOrbit 24" 2X65W PC 150W MH

Annual Christmas Party and Raffle(December Meeting)

	*Date:* Friday, December 5, 2008
	*Time*: 7:00 pm
	*Location:* Fuddruckers, 1666 S Entertainment Ave, Boise(Next to Edward 24 Cinemas)
	Topic: Christmas part & Chinese Raffle!!! Come out and have some holiday fun with the fat jolly man himself and the lovely and gracious Mrs. Claus. There will be lots of prizes and coral to be raffled off so bring the kids and family come and enjoy the fun...

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.

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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