Greg Hiller
BRS Moderator
Benefits of BRS membership (what your membership dollars help fund):
Monthly Outside Speakers
The club pays travel and other costs associated with bringing in world class experts in miniature reefkeeping (equipment, systems, lighting, chemistry), larval fish and invertebrate rearing, academic coral research, and coral reef diving to speak at our monthly meetings.
Club Library
The club has invested more than a thousand dollars to make available at monthly meetings for member use, reference books, magazines, and videos on reefkeeping, coral propagation, coral identification, tank design and systems engineering, miniature reef water chemistry, larval fish and invertebrate rearing.
Water testing
For a small donatation ($5 runs the whole battery of tests) to the club at monthly meetings you can have your water tested for Salinity (calibrated refractometer), Alkalinity (titration with acid to 4.2 pH with a calibrated pH probe), Calcium and Magnesium (modified HACH kit – calibrated using artificial saltwater std.), low range (down to 0.02 ppm) Phosphate (HANNA test meter). Volume of sample requires is 250 ml (don't skimp please). Also, the club gives out free samples of a lab prepared refractometer standard at meetings. Come with your own sample container.
Light meter
A high quality lightmeter that can be borrowed and used for testing your home lighting system. Allows you to better decide whether your bulbs have lost intensity, to compare the lighting at various depths and locations in your tank, and also to compare your lighting to other members tanks.
Club forum
Hosting, maintenance, and operation of a club discussion forum that allows for detailed discussion of reefkeeping topics with local experts, and sales and trading of excess/used equipment and tank-raised livestock. The forum also facilitates a host of club activities such as club governance, local get togethers/parties, tank tours, sponsored discount group buys on equipment and livestock, pooled orders to save on shipping, member polls for local fish stores rating, photograph contests, and tons of other way cool stuff.
Monthly Outside Speakers
The club pays travel and other costs associated with bringing in world class experts in miniature reefkeeping (equipment, systems, lighting, chemistry), larval fish and invertebrate rearing, academic coral research, and coral reef diving to speak at our monthly meetings.
Club Library
The club has invested more than a thousand dollars to make available at monthly meetings for member use, reference books, magazines, and videos on reefkeeping, coral propagation, coral identification, tank design and systems engineering, miniature reef water chemistry, larval fish and invertebrate rearing.
Water testing
For a small donatation ($5 runs the whole battery of tests) to the club at monthly meetings you can have your water tested for Salinity (calibrated refractometer), Alkalinity (titration with acid to 4.2 pH with a calibrated pH probe), Calcium and Magnesium (modified HACH kit – calibrated using artificial saltwater std.), low range (down to 0.02 ppm) Phosphate (HANNA test meter). Volume of sample requires is 250 ml (don't skimp please). Also, the club gives out free samples of a lab prepared refractometer standard at meetings. Come with your own sample container.
Light meter
A high quality lightmeter that can be borrowed and used for testing your home lighting system. Allows you to better decide whether your bulbs have lost intensity, to compare the lighting at various depths and locations in your tank, and also to compare your lighting to other members tanks.
Club forum
Hosting, maintenance, and operation of a club discussion forum that allows for detailed discussion of reefkeeping topics with local experts, and sales and trading of excess/used equipment and tank-raised livestock. The forum also facilitates a host of club activities such as club governance, local get togethers/parties, tank tours, sponsored discount group buys on equipment and livestock, pooled orders to save on shipping, member polls for local fish stores rating, photograph contests, and tons of other way cool stuff.
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