Capital City Coral Corral (C4)

08/29/2016

The totals are tallied and with a last minute addition we collected $1k for the ARC Tim Huynh Memorial Scholarship Fund. We've just contacted our 2016 recipient, Nicholas Diaz to let him know that we doubled his award this year. Thanks to our fantastic sponsors, exhibitors, and you for making this happen!

08/28/2016

Whew, what a day! I hope everyone had a great time, learned some new stuff, ate some good food, and picked up some new frags!

We really wanted to thank our sponsors again. Without your support C4 wouldn't have been possible. So please thank Jake and all the people of River City Aquatics as well as Gary and all the people of Austin Aqua-dome!

We need to thank all of our vendors for bringing some outstanding frags!

We also need to thank Steve Tyree, Rachel Wright, and Chris Page for presenting!

And finally, a thanks to all of you for coming! It was worth all the work to see so many happy people and know that y'all had a good time! We can't wait to see y'all next year!

08/27/2016

Today's the big day! Doors open at 10:30. See everyone there!

08/27/2016

08/27/2016

Getting set up.

08/26/2016

Well folks, hope you're ready because C4 is tomorrow! RSVP is now closed, but you can still attend for free, just show up. You can get more raffle tickets by liking our page, or you can buy some swag and get more tickets that way.

The event is at the Painted Horse Pavilion (1750 S. FM 1626
Buda, TX 78610) and starts tomorrow morning at 10:30AM.

Steve Tyree is presenting at noon, Rachel Wright at 2PM, and Chris Page at 4PM. The full itinerary is in the picture below.

We'll put up some teaser pictures from the setup tonight, so watch for those later.

More details about C4 are on our website: http://www.capitalcitycoralcorral.com/

Thanks again River City Aquatics and Austin Aqua-dome for sponsoring this event! We're looking forward to seeing y'all tomorrow!

08/24/2016

And while we're at it, how could we not thank the Austin Aqua-Dome, also in their 4th year supporting C4 as a Platinum Sponsor! Gary and his motley crew have guided most of us through our introduction to the hobby! Dealing in both fresh and saltwater livestock, the Dome also provides a full assortment of dry goods, equipment, and live rock in the most interesting fish store in the state! This year the Dome has donated our grand prize, a 48" hybrid Metal Halide and T5 light fixture including Lunar LED's, so be sure to RSVP and like our page here to get extra door prize tickets!

Deliver a controlled combination of Metal Halide and Fluorescent Light with one light fixture! Timer controls HID Lamps, T5 HO Lamps and Lunar LED's independently LED Housings pivot 40 degrees in all directions, allowing the Lunar light to be directed over specific areas of the aquarium Includes adj...

08/24/2016

Many thanks to Jake and the gang at River City Aquatics. This is their 4th year supporting C4 as a Platinum Sponsor! With their First Friday Sale and Birthday Party Sale each year, River City is perpetually on our must visit list. Dealing in both fresh and saltwater livestock, RCA has everything you need to satisfy your aquarium needs. RCA has donated Pico and a Nano tank packages for our giveaway this year, so be sure to RSVP and like our page here to get extra door prize tickets!

Build a welcoming environment for yourself with the most advanced AIO aquarium in its class. Keeping in line with the features of their award winning successor, the Fusion Nano 10 & 20 has generous display space for aqua-scaping and a redesigned filter wall for current and future Innovative Marine p...

08/24/2016

2 quick updates. 1st - WOW! A ton of you RSVP'd yesterday. Thank you! We're easily going to have over 300 people now. That's awesome and thanks to all of you for helping make this fun!

2nd - Dr. Matz reached out and asked if any of you would help fund their upcoming experiment. It sounds really fascinating and could help us better understand the impacts of the changing climate has on coral. You can do that here: https://experiment.com/projects/can-we-analyze-dna-from-fossil-corals

Will corals be able to evolve in response to climate change? One way to find out is to compare genomes of fossil corals to present-day corals to see how much evolution has happened in response to past climate changes. The main challenge is to extract fossil coral DNA and to demonstrate that we...

08/23/2016

C4 is this Saturday, the 27th starting at 10:30AM! Make sure you RSVP to get free raffle tickets if you haven't already - http://www.capitalcitycoralcorral.com/node/321

You can also like our page to get more free raffle tickets!

Attendance is free!

A HUGE thanks to Austin Aqua-dome and River City Aquatics for sponsoring the event! I know all of you already visit them frequently, but when you do be sure to say "Thanks for sponsoring C4!" They appreciate it. Then buy some stuff because they appreciate that even more.

This one is gonna be big! We've got over 225 RSVP's already, 17 confirmed vendors, 3 food trucks, and 3 amazing speakers!

Again, our speakers are Chris Page from the MOTE Tropical Research Laboratory, Rachel Wright who works at the Matz Lab in the University of Texas (Hook 'em!), and of course Steve Tyree who I'm sure many of you have heard about.

Our currently confirmed vendors:
Austin Aqua-Dome
River City Aquatics
Reef Farmers
Farmer Ty
Frag Co-Op (DaM)
Fraghouse Corals
Frontline Pro Aquatics
Just Reef
Steve Sindt
Unlimited Color Corals
World Class Aquatics
Zen Reef
Dzung Pham
Austin Photo Booth Guy
Bethey Creations
Fish Gallery
Baked By Anna
iJam Partners

08/23/2016

Many thanks to the gang at Reed Mariculture/Reef Nutrition for their 4th year of supporting C4! Reed Mariculture is one of the world's largest producers of marine microalgae concentrates.Their feeds are used by over 500 hatcheries, universities, and marine ornamental operations in over 70 countries. We've got multiple prize packs containing their *Feast products as well as the TDO-Chroma BOOST, so be sure to RSVP and like our page here to get extra door prize tickets!