Gatortailale January 25 January 25 Hope everyone who came out to the meeting had a great time and went home with some nice frags. While you are snowed in the next few days feel free to share pictures of what you got.
maevepotter January 25 January 25 Great event overall. Thanks so much to everyone who organized. I did have a qualm about how the frag give out was handled. I was told that the remaining frags that were not handed out because people ran out of tickets would be sold by WAMAS. This decision was not voted on by the membership and I think is not in keeping with the spirit of generosity that members and vendors donated the frags. We were giving them to each other. Not to the club to sell. Would appreciate a response about this.
Absentmind8868 January 26 January 26 picked up a few sticks still coloring up, but I got this guy (some type of brain?)! Great time at my first meeting
gastone January 26 January 26 @maevepotter sorry about the confusion. I looked through some of my posts regarding the frag fest and mentioned how members would get tickets, and how we, the officers, would develop a plan to sell tickets as well. When we ran the event last year, we ended up passing out well over 200 frags, many of which the club paid for and didn't recoup any money for. As we ran a deficit of $4.5k last year we knew we were going to have to come up with a way to pivot and generate money. It's important that we operate in the green so we can continue to bring in awesome speakers like Richard Pyle, but also so we can get back to donating towards conservation efforts, such as Colin Ford and Coral Morphologic, to whom we donated $12k to two years back. This year the club purchased frags from TSA for the event, and some of our premium sponsors offset their yearly sponsorship responsibilities by providing frags. More than half of the frags that were available were provided as such. The expense to the club, either directly via purchasing outright, or indirectly via offsetting premium sponsor obligations, is in the neighborhood of 1k. Our hope was that all frags would be gone at the end of the day, but as we realized we might have an excess of frags the idea came about that someone could bring frags home to offer to those that weren't able to attend. @ReeferMan, out new treasurer, had an empty qt frag tank and was much closer than I am so he agreed to take them. Once they have settled and the weather is past, we are planning on listing the remaining frags.
ParrotFish January 26 January 26 Pictures are refusing to load despite two different ways trying to upload them. Everything has opened up, that opens up. https://photos.app.goo.gl/9i7WsSjZGdkWrg1cA Branching GSP https://photos.app.goo.gl/XjanijPkhgcus3fn6 Hollywood stunner I believe (who even had it's sweepers out last night) https://photos.app.goo.gl/PxCy5Cxw3ZoSbLJn7 Demogorgon https://photos.app.goo.gl/ksyZbjSxxYcFnHAu7 WWC blue steel zoas https://photos.app.goo.gl/kWhaimtuHFBC2Vv86 Gatorade zoas https://photos.app.goo.gl/tH7Hq3j294rMpx7a7 Yellow/green sinularia. Not sure if it is unhappy or not yet haha https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ewt5CvoXC4NuPiPF8 And the beautiful torch Reef Shack donated to the premium raffle. Thank you all who brought frags, who brought food, who volunteered and gave their time. It was an amazing event!! 1
Origami January 27 January 27 23 hours ago, ParrotFish said: Pictures are refusing to load despite two different ways trying to upload them. Everything has opened up, that opens up. https://photos.app.goo.gl/9i7WsSjZGdkWrg1cA Branching GSP https://photos.app.goo.gl/XjanijPkhgcus3fn6 Hollywood stunner I believe (who even had it's sweepers out last night) https://photos.app.goo.gl/PxCy5Cxw3ZoSbLJn7 Demogorgon https://photos.app.goo.gl/ksyZbjSxxYcFnHAu7 WWC blue steel zoas https://photos.app.goo.gl/kWhaimtuHFBC2Vv86 Gatorade zoas https://photos.app.goo.gl/tH7Hq3j294rMpx7a7 Yellow/green sinularia. Not sure if it is unhappy or not yet haha https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ewt5CvoXC4NuPiPF8 And the beautiful torch Reef Shack donated to the premium raffle. Thank you all who brought frags, who brought food, who volunteered and gave their time. It was an amazing event!! I'm looking into the uploading problem.
ParrotFish January 27 January 27 2 hours ago, Origami said: Hopefully fixed the jpg uploading problem. Yes! Thank you! I just assumed my image had been too big or something on my end.
gastone January 27 January 27 I suck at reef photography. I didn't grab anything from the donations (did I mention how awesome and generous our members, sponsors and vendors are!!!), but I did score a premium frag, a rainbow sherbet acro from the raffle. I did make some purchases and trades as well. Cyphastrea JF monti Leng Sy cap goniopora Acanthophyllia Torch Holy grail micromussa
ScooterTDI January 27 January 27 I picked up this gorgonian colony (maybe an Antillogorgia species?). My pale colored gulf pipefish has adopted it as it's new home which is pretty cool because it is presumably using it as camouflage. The darker gulf pipefish has no interest in it. I donated some peppermint shrimp that I've been raising as well, so hopefully they are devouring aiptasia for some club members now! 1
ReeferMan January 28 January 28 Here are the frags that were left over. $10 each if anyone is interested send me a PM. 2
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