SWFMAS Fall Frag Auction

[jdhuyvetter]

The Southwest Florida Marine Aquarium Society (SWFMAS) is pleased to announce our first annual Fall Frag Auction. This event will occur on October 11, 2008 in Fort Myers.

Exact location and start time are being finalized this week. I’ll post up later in the week. Auction start time will most likely be 1:00 p.m.

We anticipate having well over 300 corals/inverts for sale, plus a few more that will be raffled.

We have posted several links to our website.

For general information and auction splits:

http://www.swfmas.com/node/594

To preregister corals or to view preregistered corals, please visit the link below:

http://www.swfmas.com/node/595

To view pics of corals or to post pics of corals:

http://www.swfmas.com/v/fall_frag/

Cost is free to SWFMAS members and $5 for non-members

[jdhuyvetter]

OK, location and time are confirmed.

Location:

Bishop Verot High School
5598 Sunrise Drive
Fort Myers

Doors open for sellers and volunteers at 11:00 am
Doors open for general admission at noon.
Auction will begin at 1:00 pm

[jdhuyvetter]

Tomorrow (September 10) is the last day to preregister corals and take advantage of the 80/20 split. The day after tomorrow, the split will change to 70/30.

As of now, we have just over 200 corals preregistered for this event.

[jdhuyvetter]

As of right now, we have over 250 preregistered corals for the auction.

Sellers, beginning on Tuesday, the auction split changes to 60/40. So if you haven’t preregistered or posted pics, get busy and take advantage of the split.
Jeff

[jdhuyvetter]

We have had several people express interest in setting up tables at our frag auction. We have discussed this and would like to try a “split” venue. A vendor may set up a table at our event for a fee of $50 per table plus frag donations for the auction. There is no size restriction on the tables. For each 50 lot, we would like you to donate 1 coral for the auction. (0-50 corals = 1 donation, 51-100 corals = 2 donations, etc.). Donated corals must be considered rare or LE (in other words, no brown mushrooms, xenia, GSP, etc.). Donated frags must be fully healed (no fresh cut frags). The proceeds from the donated coral will be 100% to SWFMAS.

For our purposes, a vendor is considered anyone who sells retail (store or internet), anyone who has a FL Aquaculture certificate or a resale or wholesale certificate. A vendor could also be considered anyone that has a large set-up and is capable of producing large amounts of frags (like me!)

If you plan on setting up a table, please be there at 11:00 a.m. the day of the event and post a short list of some of the items you will be bringing at the following link:

www.swfmas.com/node/618

[jdhuyvetter]

Four days. Anybody from TC-FRAG coming over?

[metweezer]

Not I. Too far to travel.