The Gateway Aquarium Tour
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Topic: The Gateway Aquarium Tour
Posted By: jbera
Subject: The Gateway Aquarium Tour
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 4:09pm
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Perhaps this has already been done, but I would be interested in a "behind the scenes" tour of the Aquarium at the gateway. Is there anyone that could arrange some kind of behind the sceens tour as well as question and answer session with whomever is over all the tanks? ------------- 14g Micro-reef & 29g Cichlid Tank |
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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 5:08pm
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Maybe..... But, can you remind me in a few weeks? I have a ton of stuff coming up. Unless someone else can hook him up? Would you consider buying a year pass when we are there? They reli on volunteers and donations.. |
Posted By: jbera
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 5:10pm
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Yeah, I would consider a year pass, I wonder if this could be done for the group..? ------------- 14g Micro-reef & 29g Cichlid Tank |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 7:17pm
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A group or THE group?
Like a dozen or so.....or a hundred or so? Anyone else interested? |
Posted By: Adam Haycock
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 7:48pm
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I would be.... ------------- 
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Posted By: Gahlenfr
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 8:31pm
| I would also be interested. |
Posted By: Dion Richins
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 8:42pm
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Posted By: H200
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 8:48pm
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I'm in ------------- 210 gallon glass aquarium 90 gal Refuge. 900Gal Pond |
Posted By: jbera
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 9:27pm
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Yeah, THE group, WMAS members. ------------- 14g Micro-reef & 29g Cichlid Tank |
Posted By: Rhine Lenhart
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 9:37pm
 count me in ------------- 55 Gal Reef. 30 Gal Fuge. 957-9197 2007 presidency |
Posted By: Rocky
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 9:40pm
Me too, me too! ------------- Rocky Phillips Hill AFB, Utah Currently Tankless :( |
Posted By: Angel
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 10:00pm
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Yea, Yea, Yea.... I want to go ------------- Connie Tooele |
Posted By: aaaj
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 10:19pm
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I'd love to go as well! ------------- Amber 29 gallon reef pictures of some of my frags at frags.org |
Posted By: Merkley
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 10:45pm
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ditto!
------------- Adam Merkley Salt Lake City, UT |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 7:53am
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Ok, so I can approach them as this group of people who want to support
the LPA and we will all buy year passes? |
Posted By: MissMarilyn
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 8:28am
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I would be interested... what does a year pass run? :) M |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 8:54am
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Here is something I just cut and pasted from a pres meeting minutes... Jake- possible addition of a beginners forum or nav bar link to glossary terms and how-to articles. Adam- email the club to get reef tour participants. Mark- contact TLP in regards to getting a members behind the scenes night. Bruce/Jon- August meeting on water motion. Coral Cutting- no outside frags, more auction stuff. November- elections. December- with the Christmas meeting, we will also have Heil presenting that night as he gives out all the TOTM awards. We like the idea of going with plaques again. So I would suggest checking with Mark to see how it is coming along. Last year people were talking about us having more club family activities. Lots of interest but few suggestions. If you want things like this, I'd encourage everyone to keep posting them here in this forum. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
jbera wrote:Posted By: Bob Kripfgans
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 12:04pm
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I'm in!!! ------------- WMAS is da place! Save the Banggai's! Tooele,Ut. |
Posted By: Ghetto Man
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 3:44pm
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Mark - I may be able to help in lining things up. I should have a good
enough connection to get us "backstage." |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 8:12pm
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After that pres. mtg. I spoke with the Chief Aquarist of TLPA's Gail Benjamin Experience at the Gateway. He said that behind the scenes tours are no longer being allowed for groups. It became too much of a hassle for them. About that same time period, the General Manager told me that they do not have enough room to allow meetings for a group as large as ours. I've been behind the displays several times and believe me, it's nothing special. Many of our tanks are more technical and more intricate than those tanks. Really. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 8:49am
| I think the shark tank is cool from above... |
Posted By: jbera
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 9:29am
Oh, man, rain on our parade....perhaps it is their simplicity that makes them complex!!....or not. ------------- 14g Micro-reef & 29g Cichlid Tank |
Posted By: xokay
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 9:31am
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I would've been interested but sounds like it's not a possibility anymore. My wife and I already have annual passes, our daughter loves all things fish. She's too scared to touch the rays though : ) ------------- W Jordan 55g 3-5" DSB: Fiji Pink, Reef grade, oolitic, crushed coral 80# LR/LBTR 4x65W pc /LunarTracker w/ window light 30g Sump/2xRefug RD vho CPR skimmer Mag 3 return undersand SCWD w/ Mag 7 |
Posted By: jbera
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 11:51pm
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I know the staff doesn't like it, but I found that if you just throw your kid in there with the rays, they get used to it real quick.... Just kidding My daughter still won't touch them either, my boys on the other hand can't keep their fingers off them. ------------- 14g Micro-reef & 29g Cichlid Tank |
Posted By: ReefBones
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 12:45pm
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how would you go about becomming a volunteer over there? .. I would be VERY intrested in that ...
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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 12:50pm
| You can gooogle search their website. There is a contact link... |