Update on Montgomery Reef Club Frag Swap - August 20th

[Eddie Baby]

OK, I wanted to update everyone on our upcoming frag swap, especially with vendor count and new raffle prize info.

The date is August 20th from 12PM to 4PM, and the place is the Fairfield Marriott Inn & Suites, which is one mile off of I-85 at Exit 11 (Mitlyene). We’ll have signs up, but you can see the hotel from I-85 and it is really easy to find.

Admission is free, of course, and as of now we have 8 confirmed vendors (some new faces in the mix, which will be great for everyone) and a few more possibly attending. While the site is the same as last year, we will also have the meeting room across the hall, so we will be able to spread out and will have plenty of space.
The raffle is shaping up nicely, as we have some great prizes:

• a Vortec MP40WES ;
• a retrofit LED fixture;
• a Hamilton MH pendant;
• a Bulk Reef Supply bio-pellet reactor and bio-pellets;
• 4 sets of 4 packages of different varieties of Rod’s Food;
• Salifert Alkalinity and Calcium test kits;
• A 200G box of Reef Crystals salt;
• Gift cards from sponsors, table vendors and local vendors;
• Livestock being donated by some of the vendors; and
• more to be announced.

Raffle tickets are $1 each or 15 for $10.

If you aren’t familiar with a frag swap, it’s a great opportunity to beef up your display, try a new species or variety of coral, or even help to populate a new tank. Folks of all levels of expertise will be there to talk with and share the hobby and their experiences. If you can make it, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. You’ll go home with some cool corals and maybe even a great prize from the raffle.

If anyone has any questions, please don't hesitate to ask here or send me a PM. Hope to see you there!

[Eddie Baby]

I've got an update to the raffle - we've added a new 250W Sunlight Supply ballast to the Hamilton Bali Sun pendant. You buy the bulb of your choice and you are ready to go!

Also - we just added a vendor who is coming down from Nashville. Going to be lots of cool stuff here, folks!

[Eddie Baby]

Happy to announce that we have now had some PANAMANIAN ZOAS donated for the raffle! These are seriously cool, folks, and normally very pricy. Thanks to R2R's mike_dani for the donation - he will also be on site as one of our vendors with a lot of nice frags and colonies for sale.

Hope to see everyone there!

[Eddie Baby]

It has been suggested that I list the vendors who will be at the swap this Saturday. So, here they are:
H@rry
Home Grown Aquatics (mike_dani)
gflat65
Ramses66 and RUGDOG
Atlantis Aquariums
Kevin Holden (from Phenix City)
Scott Andrews (from Nashville)
Aquarium Fantasies
Ken Burnham
and last, I will be sharing a table with another local club member

There will be just about everything at this swap, from LE SPS to exotic zoas, clams to ricordea, and even equipment. Hope you can make it!

[H@rry]

M@ry Ruth and I enjoyed seeing you folks again and meeting some new faces. A special thanx to Will, Julie, Susan, and whoever else I'm forgetting for all the hard work involved in putting on this show. Much better than the last one. Also thanx to everyone who bought frags from us; good luck with them.

[gflat65]

You made my swap, H@rry. I didn't get to buy as much as usual (actually only spent $140 this time since sales were hurt by the tank issues- may be an all time low on purchases), but I got some awesome frags and some nice trades and still had a couple dollars left over.

[H@rry]

Glad it worked out for you Gary. I didn't think your tank issues were quite as bad as you thought they were and glad to hear that most of them came through OK. Hope your new frags continue to do well for you. See your in Memphis.