Pittsburgh Marine Aquarium Society

03/07/2018

PMASI is no longer active. Please see the new club in the area www.3rmas.com or join their FB page for any of your reef hobby club needs. They are offering a free of charge lifetime membership to any lifetime member of PMASI that wants to show up to one of their meetings between now and their June 2018 meeting and presents their PMASI lifetime membership card for exchange. It's been a wonderful time getting to know everyone and I encourage everyone to check out the 3 Rivers Marine Aquarium Society. This will be the last posting made my PMASI. Thank you.

12/01/2017

The Board of Directors elections and MEGA RAFFLE is this Saturday 5:00pm Elmers Aquarium.

11/11/2017

Every other year we take a behind the scenes tour of the Pittsburgh Aquarium. We are also planning to have a pizza party for us and the staff at the aquarium. Sunday the 19th is a free day at the zoo, so show up whenever. We are going to meet at the entrance to the aquarium at 5:00pm, however the gates are closed at 4:00pm so you must be inside the zoo prior to them closing the gates. This is great event for the entire family.

UPDATE - I was just informed that the zoo changed it's policy so we are no longer able to have a pizza party as well, however we will go out afterwards for anyone that would like to join us.

10/21/2017

Today is the day and I hope to see everyone there! If you still need directions or the address, call or text Jaime at 412-657-7586.

10/17/2017

As some of you know I am friends with Grant Kemmerer whom you see on T.V. on thing like The Today Show, Jimmy Fallon, Rachel Ray et cetera with the exotic wildlife. His private facility is located in 84, PA. There are Tigers, Leopards, Bears, Primates, Alligators, Tortoises, Wolves, birds of prey, basically all kinds of exotic animals that you see in movies and T.V. This past weekend while I was down there with a few people he offered to give the club a tour of his facility. Let me premise this by saying that this is not a zoo. This is not open to the public, it is a private home and facility. Most of the animals are in enclosures but this is not being a few hundred feet away this is up close and personal. If you ever wanted to know what a lions breath smells like this is your chance! So for our October meeting we will be meeting down there and having a guided tour of the facility on October 21st. There is no public restroom and no snack bar, so please stop on your way down. We will be very close to these animals, closer then you will ever have the ability to get again. Due to the nature of this trip this meeting is only for our teen and adult members. Please DO NOT BRING CHILDREN.

OCTOBER 21st 3:00pm. Kammerer, PA
For Directions call Jaime 412-657-7586

09/10/2017

We are proud to announce that we will have Dr. Sanjay Yoshi presenting at this months meeting. The meeting is Saturday Sept 16 5pm at the Comfort Inn Conference Center located at 699 Rodi rd Pittsburgh PA 15235

Sanjay Joshi in real life is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He has been a reef addict since 1992, and currently keeps several reefs aquariums at home including a 500G SPS dominated reef. He also co-manages the 500G aquarium at Penn State.

Dr. Joshi is actively involved in educating the hobby on various topics such as lighting, aquarium system design and general reef husbandry through his publications in reef magazines and lectures. He has published articles in magazines such as Advanced Aquarist, Reefs Magazine, Coral, Marine Fish and Reef Annual, Aquarium Frontiers, and Aquarium Fish.

In addition he has been an invited speaker at several marine aquarium society meetings in the US and Europe. He received the MASNA award in 2006, for his contributions to the marine aquarium hobby. - from MASNA

08/19/2017

Meeting Tonight!
8/19
5PM @ Elmers in Monroeville

We will be hosting a round table discussion this evening. Feel free to discuss anything hobby related, specific issues you're facing, or offer input on the club. See you there!

07/22/2017

The picnic is today at 5pm. We were prepared for the weather. So don't worry and we will see everyone later.

05/14/2017

We will be meeting at Elmer's Aquarium in Monroville Pa at 5pm on Saturday May 20th. We will be demonstrating drilling a glass tank and proper plumbing and basic tank set-up. Following the general meeting the Board of Directors will meet and is open to the general membership. I hope to see everyone next weekend.

04/03/2017

It is that time of year again. On April 22nd at 4:00 pm we will be doing our annual coral fragging workshop and raffle. If you have never been to one of these classes I would highly suggest showing up early as it will be standing room only. As you all know we usually meet the 3rd Saturday of the month, but due to conflicts with Easter this year we have pushed the meeting to the 22nd being the following Saturday. This event will be held at Elmer's Aquarium in Monroeville PA located at 4005 William Penn HWY 15146.

We will provide a wide selection of coral colonies and demonstrate the safe and proper way of dividing those into mini colonies. At the end of the presentation we will raffle off all of the coral that we cut up. We strive to have varieties of coral for beginners to advanced reef keepers so that there is something there for everyone. I am not talking about cutting up 3 or 4 colonies here folks I am talking closer to 20. In fact I believe we had about that last year with over 100 mini colonies leaving at the end of the workshop. You do not need to be a member to attend the class or to participate in the raffle, but if you find value in what we do we would greatly appreciate your support. Tickets for the raffle are just $1 with added tickets for $50 and $100 ticket packs. We are always looking for donations of coral to increase the variety and to help offset the cost to the club. If you have something to donate please do and we will give out free tickets for every item donated to this event and you may also request a chunk of the coral to take back home with you as well.

I always look forward to our largest meeting of the year and the ability to fill a tank for pennies on the dollar so please mark your calendar and take off work because this truly is an event not to be missed. You may find more information about this and other upcoming events on our website www.pmasi.com See everyone there.

Welcome to the Pittsburgh Marine Aquarium Society

03/14/2017

March's meeting will be held this Saturday at Elmer's. Meeting will start at 5 pm. Jaime Adams will be doing a presentation on reef tank pests. We look forward to see you all there!

02/12/2017

Tank Photography with John Kovacs
Saturday February 18th
5-7 pm
Elmer's Aquarium
4005 William Penn Highway
Monroeville, PA 15146

Do you ever wonder how re-sellers and vendors post those breath taking images of their coral and fish? Now is your chance to find out and learn how to take your own amazing photographs. John Kovacs will be doing an educational workshop on the various ways and techniques that are used in order to take and edit photographs of our favorite subject, our tanks. Please join us for this event.

I would also like to put out there that we still have fish food available, from our fish/reef food workshop, for a $10 donation per bag and it's available with advanced notice. Let us know asap.