Frag show...

[fiddly_foo]

He all went up last night to waterford got a hotel and went to were I use to race and crew cheif street stock at waterford speedbowl last night woke up early 6ish and got to the casino at 7ish. Was one of the first there man is the casino different at 7am..lol well the show was great had lots of nice coral's every tank had the acan led lighting system I mean ever tank.. nice led setup bought a frag of chong bong's rastas 2 polyp each frags and a nice rainbow acan frag all under 100$ so I was happy..left before the raffel but they had tons and tons of prizes you could of def. won a few I think.. BOB from exotic was there nice to say hi.. and few ARK guys I hung out for a few. We'll tell what you thought of it see you all soon..Brian

[RTMA]

Hey Brian, It was nice talking to you again. The show was great, lots of brilliant corals on display. Hung out and grabbed Lunch with Bobby and Sara for a while. There were some great deals to be had. I got a Koralia Evo 750 for 35. I also picked up the Chong Bongs.

Some other stuff I got.

Raptors' Rainbows Pallys.
Regular Rainbow Pallys
Some sweet Deepwater Zoos
Candy Apple Reds
2 frags of Aussie Skittles Rainbow Acans
2 different types of Aussie Rainbow Acans
1 frag with 3 different types of Aussie Rainbow Acans,

The acans I plan on growing all together. To make a sweet rainbow colony.

It was great to watch the prices fall during the day. Unique Corals has a very sweet Red Fungia with yellow polka dots for $400 around 9 AM and by the time I left at 3:30, I could have taken it for 200. Some of the larger colonies could have been had at some very reasonable prices.

As Brian mentioned all the vendors were using the ACAN Lighting LEDS, which were really nice. The raffle prizes were insane, definitely A LOT of winners today. I was happy with my great deals on some rarer corals.

[fiddly_foo]

Did you get those from unique with the buy 3 get 1 free they had some nice ones we were looking at.. yea that would be cool to grow all the acans together just glue them close together on a piece of LR. later Brian

[RTMA]

Did you get those from unique with the buy 3 get 1 free they had some nice ones we were looking at.. yea that would be cool to grow all the acans together just glue them close together on a piece of LR. later Brian

Yep, these from below.


2 frags of Aussie Skittles Rainbow Acans
2 different types of Aussie Rainbow Acans


After I picked the 4, the guy shakes his head and said I just cherry picked the best ones he had there. Pretty funny, I'm sure he said that to all the buyers.

[robertzoa]

the show was great! sara and i had a wonderful time....
brian called me at 730 to see where i was at lol ....
and sara and i spent some time with joe.
it feels great that our group shows a nice bond already... since sara and i are new tot he group...
sara picked up a few Nice peices.... hopefully she will list and post pics of them...

[robertzoa]

list of few things i picked up... that has opened so far

all zoanthids/palys

- ked redds
- true rpe
- 2 plugs - chameleon
- AOGs
- devils armor
- green armagedden
- nuclear greens
- poison ivy
-andddd ill have a update on the few others

[fiddly_foo]

So how was the WSM comp. Bill Kazmier is who we were thinking off I was driving home and I just yelled out Bill kazmier and my mom is like what, why the hell are you yelling...lol I was like goto call bobby...LOL

[fiddly_foo]

Does sara have a tank what kind of tank..? info and bobby what tank do you have never even asked...

[robertzoa]

ohhh yeaaaa!!!! your rigght..
we didnt end up stay for the comp or staying that night sara is really sick.

i sold my custom 300 gallon tank and sara and i now have...

sara... 24 gallon

me.. 2 - bc14s..
one frag tank
one display...
maybe one day we will have pics up on here
do you want a list of our set ups with livestock?

[RTMA]

list of few things i picked up... that has opened so far

all zoanthids/palys

- ked redds
- true rpe
- 2 plugs - chameleon
- AOGs
- devils armor
- green armagedden
- nuclear greens
- poison ivy
-andddd ill have a update on the few others

What about those "explosions" lol. I forgot what the first word was but the guy looked pretty serious when he told us.

Poor Sara, she ate an evil pretzel! Knew that food court looked questionable!

[terahz]

Really? 10 posts and not a single photo? :)

Nice that you guys had fun. I would have come if it wasn't that far and I didn't hate commuting that much :)

[fiddly_foo]

we have the pic's in our heads ...lol

[robertzoa]

lol oooh the galaxy explosion ......
pics will be soon.... i like the ones in my head better..

[RTMA]

lol, yeah that was it.

Quotes of the Day...

asking the Puppy Center guy if he had any Cinnamon Polyps. There is a tank filled with a million different frags of reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues and this guy wants brown button polyps. Of course the best was the response...the guy behind the tank said. "No, we try NOT to bring those to shows".

someone else --> while pointing at an Acan frag, with slightly above the actual frag, a little flag that said "Aussie Acan Frags $50". If that wasn't bad enough, he asked to know what the mother colony looked like. Of course the response again got me rolling. "Just like that only a lot bigger"

Just thought I'd share the highlights of my day...

[scottbythesea]

If you went,you just saw gaping mouths with camera phones just dangling helplessly at the end of patrons arm.

Most people there could only do 2 things at once,Mentally counting the money in their wallets and keeping eyes focusing on fragments.

Good Times

[LillyQueen]

Here are the pieces I got at the show:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/Lilly_Queen/100_7581.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/Lilly_Queen/100_7580.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/Lilly_Queen/100_7582.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/Lilly_Queen/100_7578.jpg

[RTMA]

That Orange Crush Acan is sweet. I gotta break out my camera tomorrow.

[RTMA]

Really? 10 posts and not a single photo? :)

Nice that you guys had fun. I would have come if it wasn't that far and I didn't hate commuting that much :)

Raptors
http://i41.*******.com/bdm6fb.jpg

Acans
http://i44.*******.com/10zvezb.jpg

Deepwaters - sorry bad pic
http://i41.*******.com/et6rkw.jpg

More Acan
http://i39.*******.com/2s9ua1l.jpg

Blue Steel Colony - not from CMAC, but decent photo.
http://i41.*******.com/slr3oz.jpg

Rainbow Welso I got from Bob. Pics don't do it justice.
http://i44.*******.com/s6irgx.jpg
Actinic
http://i41.*******.com/5bl20.jpg

[LillyQueen]

pretty Welso!

[terahz]

Now that's more like it! Awesome corals! Can't wait for frags :D

[robertzoa]

thats it!!!!!!!
sara....
i need your perfect shots of my corals!!!
help!

[robertzoa]

joe,
nice pics. everything looks great

[fiddly_foo]

Nice... Joe those 2 first acan frags left to right those are the skittles right pretty easy to id those with there color..

[robertzoa]

joe those raptors are super nice

[RTMA]

Thanks for the compliments. I'll have to get some better pics when I get my macro lens. I'm still learning how to take pics with my DSLR. White balance, Aperture, Exposure, Shutter Speed...I have a lot to learn.

Brian - Yes those on the left are the skittles from UC.

This is the photo direct from UC, where I bought them at the show.

http://www.uniquecorals.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/s/k/skittles.jpg

I fed them for the first time last night. It was very cool to watch them eat 1/2 of PE Mysis. My only worry is that my Copperband might take a liking to them, but so far so good. He leaves my Candy Canes alone, hopefully he will leave these alone.

What do you guys feed your Acans? Has anyone fed them pellets? Mysis went ok, it just creates a frenzy in my tank.

The raptors are pretty nice, I think when I bought them only 1 polyp was open in the ReefKoi tank. In the same pic you can see the UC Strawberry Shortcake Acro starting to color up.

[sdheath]

Glad you guys came out for the show! We had a great time putting it on.