FFM 2016

[sassAwrasse]

am i reading this right that it starts at 11 am? For some reason i thought it was 9 am so i woke up early.

Yes 11am this year

 

[sassAwrasse]

Teasers

Exotic Fish and Coral

FUPA

 

[sassAwrasse]

Madtanks

 

[AquaMama13]

It's almost time!!

 

[143MPCo]

Waiting to get in... [emoji106]

 

[143MPCo]

A few frags.

 

[Collinslice]

I came home with 22 frags! Hopefully will put some kind of list together, and many many pics

 

[Euphylliafamily]

7-8 frags all zoathids pretty ticked I didn't win the clowns 50 tickets for the grade A's, glad one of the FUPA guys was pulling for me

 

[tdyrkacz]

Teasers

Exotic Fish and Coral

FUPA

Nice i bought that purple monti

 

[millertyler22]

Just got home with 8 new Zola/paly frags awsome time
I will be back

 

[Red88rick]

I got a sweet plate coral in sure I'll post a pic soon.

 

[tdyrkacz]

Got a cool hitchhiker. Nice Brittle Star on that Monti.

 

[seagull18]

143MPCo that bag you were toting felt like it weighed a ton. Now I know why.

 

[captc07]

It was great seeing everyone today. Really want to thank everyone that donated/manned the CTARS table. Jason and Amy you guys rock!

 

[SteelerMike]

What an awesome event! Thanks again to Jon and all the volunteers that make this possible. I picked up some sweet corals and met a ton of great people. Thanks to everyone in the club for the donations and the help at the table. I'm leaving at 5 am for Aruba to swim in God's aquarium So won't have time to post pics. Hopefully post pics of my Fox Flame when I get back

 

[Maritimer]

Really, really fun event!

How many corals did I come home with? Probably not a good idea to try to count them. Mini-maxi carpets. Rock flowers. Zoas. Acans. A red blasto. A teeny little Jack-'o-Lantern lepto. A Duncan. A few millepora, Montipora and birdsnest corals to take my first baby steps into the world of SPS. Memories. Faces to go with names like "Sassawrasse" and "Triggereef". Meeting up with folks from SWCARK and CTARS. Sharing the love of tropical marine life. Learning about corals I'd never seen before. Wondering whether those were painted-up lobsters, or whether blood shrimp really _do_ get that big.

This day would have been worth the trip and price of admission if I didn't buy a single thing for the tank - but with a tank that's got spaces to be filled in, I was a kid in the candy shop - with birthday money burnin' a hole in my pocket. Thanks to Jon (who I didn't meet) and the others who helped to pull this together, to all the vendors, from hobbyists clearing space for their fish to swim to nationally known "coral celebrities", and to all the reefers (there are a lot of reefers out there!! The parking lots around the school just aren't big enough!!) who contributed to its success!

Didn't even hardly _look_ at the raffle stuff, and hoping that next year, I'll have the confidence to help out with the club tables. 'Cause I _do_ plan to be there!

~Bruce

 

[AquaMama13]

I just want to give a huge thank you to Jon, all the volunteers, the school and everyone who donated time and/ or frags to our club tank. We sold every piece of coral we had and the club made some money to have some awesome events! I love this hobby and there are some awesome people in it! Can't wait to see everyone at the March meeting!

 

[sassAwrasse]

Thank you Jon for all the hard work put into this. We had a blast as usual. Can't wait until next year.

 

[Mike in CT]

I brought my older brother with me, whose saltwater tank in the early 80's was my inspiration for getting into the hobby. He has not had a tank for the last 10 years. Needless to say the FFM blew his mind.
He is thinking about setting a freshwater tank but I am trying to sway him back over to the dark (salty) side.

 

[Brewman1987]

Thank you for everyone who set this up, this was my second time here and had a great time. Was fun talking with vendors and other reefers and the coral deals that were out there.