Why/When: In preparation for our next Members’ Swap, we are having a fragging/dipping workshop Saturday June 7th, 1pm-3pm
@Srt4eric will be in charge with @Arvin R standing by to help you with any purchases (it's a great time to get reasonable frags with your BAR discount!)
Where: @Arvin R will be hosting this in Castro Valley. The address will be sent out to those that rsvp closer to the date.
Who: Supporting members are welcome, can bring a guest (space permitting). No children allowed since we will have some potentially dangerous equipment active.
What: We will be discussing and getting hands-on practice with techniques for fragging coral, mounting coral to plugs/rock, using frag containers/swap labels, dipping new frags for pests, and whatever else you guys would like. We will have band saws, bone cutters, scalpels, glue, plugs, rubble, etc to use. If you want to bring your own tools or donate some consumables, great (and let us know). Everyone should bring your own safety glasses, and gloves if you’ll use them.
We would like attendees to bring some coral colonies that you would like to have fragged up. It will help to have a variety of types of coral to practice on. What you do with the resulting frags of colonies you bring is completely up to you; options include: taking them home again, donating some or all to the store/swap, giving or selling to attendees there, etc. Whatever makes sense for you, just have something in mind by the day of. The main thing we need is coral to practice on. Even dead coral skeletons would be helpful for practice (highly recommend anyone with dead scolymia or brain corals to slice them up to see if there were any boring clams).
Volunteers: we are also looking for additional volunteers who would like to help teach fragging techniques, please reply in thread below and I'll add you to the list.
@Srt4eric will be in charge with @Arvin R standing by to help you with any purchases (it's a great time to get reasonable frags with your BAR discount!)
Where: @Arvin R will be hosting this in Castro Valley. The address will be sent out to those that rsvp closer to the date.
Who: Supporting members are welcome, can bring a guest (space permitting). No children allowed since we will have some potentially dangerous equipment active.
What: We will be discussing and getting hands-on practice with techniques for fragging coral, mounting coral to plugs/rock, using frag containers/swap labels, dipping new frags for pests, and whatever else you guys would like. We will have band saws, bone cutters, scalpels, glue, plugs, rubble, etc to use. If you want to bring your own tools or donate some consumables, great (and let us know). Everyone should bring your own safety glasses, and gloves if you’ll use them.
We would like attendees to bring some coral colonies that you would like to have fragged up. It will help to have a variety of types of coral to practice on. What you do with the resulting frags of colonies you bring is completely up to you; options include: taking them home again, donating some or all to the store/swap, giving or selling to attendees there, etc. Whatever makes sense for you, just have something in mind by the day of. The main thing we need is coral to practice on. Even dead coral skeletons would be helpful for practice (highly recommend anyone with dead scolymia or brain corals to slice them up to see if there were any boring clams).
Volunteers: we are also looking for additional volunteers who would like to help teach fragging techniques, please reply in thread below and I'll add you to the list.
