*** R2R Secret Santa 2019 - Official Registration Thread ***

Will you be participating in Secret Santa 2019?

  • Yep! Count me in! (Be sure to register in the thread)

    Votes: 268 63.2%
  • Not this year

    Votes: 126 29.7%
  • I hope to, but I'm not located in the USA (You are welcome to join wherever you're from!!)

    Votes: 30 7.1%

  • Total voters
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MrWheelock

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I'm also in!
  1. What is your shirt size? LARGE
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? No snacks for me or I'll be wearing a Santa Suit next year
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Reef Keeping and starting to get into wood working
  5. What is your favorite color? GREEN
  6. What is your favorite fish? Orange Lyretail Anthias (Fiji)
  7. What is your favorite coral? Recently caught the itch for Sticks
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock* I prefer not to as I will be updating a lot of my system mid January and don't want to cause undue stress to anymore animals. **edit** I wouldn't mind some inverts. Crabs, snails, trochus are my favorite. No conch or dand sifters as im going to be going bare bottom possibly
 
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  1. What is your shirt size? S/M
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? Any
  3. What is your gender? M
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Many.
  5. What is your favorite color? Any
  6. What is your favorite fish? Angler maybe? Changes every day
  7. What is your favorite coral? My colorful one with no name
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock*. No! Except reef-safe and friendly inverts. I love weird inverts
 
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Hey everyone! I've responded to all of you who have PM'd me. Be sure you follow the instructions in there. If you don't register on Elfster, you won't be entered into the gift exchange. #SecretSanta2019
 

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Excited to join this year!

  1. What is your shirt size? Medium
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? Love sweets!
  3. What is your gender? Female
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? 3D printing, hiking, kayaking, horseback riding
  5. What is your favorite color? Blue
  6. What is your favorite fish? I find inverts a lot more interesting - love watching my shrimp eating
  7. What is your favorite coral? duncans
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock* Not at the moment as I'll hopefully be moving to a different state in a few weeks!
 

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  1. What is your shirt size? Medium
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? No allergies. Loves redbull.
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Model cars (American muscle) 3d printing, robotics and programming.
  5. What is your favorite color? Green
  6. What is your favorite fish? Black clowns.
  7. What is your favorite coral? So far my hammer coral.
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock* yes
 

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  • What is your shirt size? - XL
  • What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? - Keto so limited
  • What is your gender? - Male
  • What are your hobbies or other interests? - Reef keeping & BBQ
  • What is your favorite color? - Black or Green
  • What is your favorite fish? - Black Ice Clown Fish
  • What is your favorite coral? - SPS or Monti
  • Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? - Yes
 

Daniel@R2R

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Secret Santa Questionnaire:
  1. What is your shirt size? L
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? No allergies, love nuts and chocolate, all foods, wine etc.
  3. What is your gender? M
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Exercise, PS4, cooking
  5. What is your favorite color? Blue, gray
  6. What is your favorite fish? White tail, Kole tangs
  7. What is your favorite coral? Any beautiful torch coral, some crazy colorful acros although I’ve yet to buy any..
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? Yes! Would be cool to receive a little something. Love torches, zoas... anything striking and colorful, blues, purples greens, reds, whatever!
 

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The fun part of this is reading everyone’s responses HoHoHo

1. What is your shirt size? 2XL

2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Sweat & Salty Chex Mix, Almonds, Pistachios, Lindor White Chocolate truffles. This time of year - Peppermint M&Ms & Brach’s Peppermint Nougats.
Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? No

3. What is your gender? Female

4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Growing Orchids & succulents indoors, Hummingbirds & gardening in the summer & baking when I have time.

5. What is your favorite color? Purple

6. What is your favorite fish? Green Mandarin Dragonet.

7. What is your favorite coral? My Tube/Worm Anemone.

8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock* No thanks to risky & expensive to ship.
 

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I am so excited to participate in my first R2R Secret Santa! My completed information is below. Thanks!

Secret Santa Questionnaire:
  1. What is your shirt size? (Large)
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? I Love Pasta & Seafood--but not in front of the fish. :eek: (No Allergies)
  3. What is your gender? Female
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Of Course Reefing. I also enjoy Sewing, Traveling & Sports: Favorite College Teams (NC. State and UCLA---son is a football student-athlete there!)
  5. What is your favorite color? Purple
  6. What is your favorite fish? Everything Tangs!
  7. What is your favorite coral? Acans, Duncans & Euphyllias.
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock* Yes, for corals as I am building my reef system.
 

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  1. What is your shirt size? Medium
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? Candy or chips
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Drawing, plants, coral photography
  5. What is your favorite color? Blue or black
  6. What is your favorite fish? Clownfish
  7. What is your favorite coral? Zoanthids
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? No thank you!
 

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Secret Santa Questionnaire:
  1. What is your shirt size? Large
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? Pizza and wings! No allergies.
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Video games, photography, woodworking
  5. What is your favorite color? Blue
  6. What is your favorite fish? Regal Angel
  7. What is your favorite coral? Acros
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? Yes, no fish please. I wouldn't mind receiving frags (who would lol).
 

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This sounds like fun so I'm in

Secret Santa Questionnaire:

  1. What is your shirt size? 2XL
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? Popcorn, chocolate chip cookies, well I'm not real picky
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? I have a freshwater and reef tank. Fly fishing and metal detecting
  5. What is your favorite color? Green or orange
  6. What is your favorite fish? Gobies
  7. What is your favorite coral? Anything but a Kenya tree! Real interest these days are zoas and palys
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? zoas and palys *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock*
 

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Secret Santa Questionnaire:
  1. What is your shirt size? Medium.
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? I eat alllllll the things.
  3. What is your gender? Female.
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? I love cooking and baking and books.
  5. What is your favorite color? Purple, followed by orange.
  6. What is your favorite fish? Hmmmm... hard choice. Probably a bicolor blenny. Man they’re cute as heck
  7. What is your favorite coral? Goniopora
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock*. Hmm.... perhaps not. I can’t guarantee the big tank will be ready and the nano is fairly full.
 

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  1. What is your shirt size? Small
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? reeses
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Reefing and playing bass guitar
  5. What is your favorite color? Blue or Gray
  6. What is your favorite fish? Yellow Tang or Mocha Vinchi clowns
  7. What is your favorite coral? Hammers, Torch's (i hate frogspawn), and some zoas
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? Im gonna be at my parents house for three weeks so no, but i would love a gift card to somewhere like WWC or Unigue corals or something like that.
 

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Hi Reef2Reefers!! We're excited to invite you to participate in the R2R Secret Santa 2019 gift exchange! This a great way for our members to spread some holiday cheer and as a bonus get to know each other little better.

I mean lots of us have family and friends who just don't get this crazy hobby of ours, and let's face it, they're probably more likely to get you another pair of socks than that latest trinket for your reef hobby that you've been eyeing... ;) But this gift exchange will be different because it's FOR REEFERS BY REEFERS! This will be lots of fun for everyone!!

Here is how it will work:
  • Members can sign up between now and November 27th.
  • Secret Santas will be assigned on November 28th.
  • The total value of the gift must be at least $20.00. Please keep in mind that you may go above the minimum, but you may not receive the same in turn.
  • Buy or make gifts by 12/14/2019
  • Ship all gifts the week of 12/14/2018-12/21/2019
  • Delivery confirmation is mandatory and will need to be sent to @Santa Claus.
  • Due to issues with shipping internationally, we need to make our participants outside the USA aware that if we don't have any other participants from your region or country, you may be matched with someone of a different region/country. As long as you are ok with that, you are welcome to join in the fun! (Feel free to PM Santa with any questions.)
All R2R Secret Santa participants will receive a special SS banner under their username.

To sign up, you will need to:
  1. PM @Santa Claus with your contact information (name, email, and country you're located in so that we can PM you the link to sign up on Elfster and join the gift exchange).
  2. Join our R2R Secret Santa 2019 usergroup (CLICK HERE).
  3. Post in this thread with your answers to the questionnaire (see below) IN THIS THREAD (this is our official registration thread).
Secret Santa Questionnaire:
  1. What is your shirt size?XL
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind?CHOCOLATES NO ALLERGIES
  3. What is your gender?MALE
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests?CARS,REPTILES,WOODWORKING
  5. What is your favorite color?ANY NEON COLOUR
  6. What is your favorite fish?WOBBEGONG SHARK
  7. What is your favorite coral?MONTIPORA
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock*YES
If shipping coral we ask that you notify us with when you would like 2 ship so we can notify recipient and make sure they will be able to take in. If recipient can't be there we will ask them for 2 other days and work out with sender. (We don't mind playing the go between here to keep it more a secret.)

Also, notice that we have a special Secret Santa forum going on! Feel free to start other threads in here to talk about everything Secret Santa related, holiday related, or just anything you want to talk with all of us other SS peeps! Go wild! LOL
 

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Secret Santa Questionnaire:
  1. What is your shirt size? 3XL
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? Maltesers (if you can find them), and pretty much any other snacks
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Movies, travel, and reefing
  5. What is your favorite color? Blue
  6. What is your favorite fish? I LOVE TANGS!
  7. What is your favorite coral? I am an LPS fan, especially Euphillia
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? YES If yes, what would you be interested in? Corals, I am starting the coral stocking of a 200g system *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock*
 

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Secret Santa Questionnaire:
  1. What is your shirt size? XXL
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Any allergies or special considerations that need to be kept in mind? No food allergies. I am a vegetarian. I prefer nuts and starches to sweets.
  3. What is your gender? Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Music, words, art
  5. What is your favorite color? Grey, purple
  6. What is your favorite fish? Land Shark
  7. What is your favorite coral? Any one that lives
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? If yes, what would you be interested in? *disclaimer due to the busy holiday season we recommend not shipping livestock* NO LIVESTOCK, please
 
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  1. What is your shirt size? Large
  2. What are your favorite foods or snacks? Reese ,Snickers, Lays Sour Cream chip
  3. What is your gender?Male
  4. What are your hobbies or other interests? Reefing , Aviation, Electronics
  5. What is your favorite color? Orange
  6. What is your favorite fish?Clowns
  7. What is your favorite coral? Zoas
  8. Would you be interested in receiving livestock? Yes, interested in receiving Zoanthids or mushroom coral.
 

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