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05/31/2018, 04:14 PM | #1 |
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Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) - August 18 and 19, 2018
Everybody is invited to the Aquashella 2-Day Aquarium Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) Aquashella showcases the underwater world of saltwater and freshwater aquariums in Chicago, IL on August 18-19th. You'll be greeted by the best aquarium vendors from across the country! Aquashella offers a unique experience by transforming a typical showroom floor into an alternate underwater universe. You will be surrounded by incredible visual displays of live aquatic animals in unison with art. The official lineup of over 80 vendors, and 10 artists featuring paints, sculptures and designs. Date Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19 Time 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Both Days Location White Eagle Convention Center 6839 N. Milwaukee Ave. Niles, IL 60714 For More Info Please Click the Links Below. https://www.aquashella.com/ The Facebook Event Page is https://www.facebook.com/events/2445...tab=discussion Tell All Your Reefing Friends About It Don't Forget to Request the Day off Work if you Work Weekends.
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06/01/2018, 11:55 AM | #2 |
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If you have Never Been to a Frag Swap Before Check out this Video from a previous swap to get an idea of all the fun that you will have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanVWZhUuzw Vendors from around the country come to sell coral (much of which are the amazing brightly colored corals that you see online). It is also a great way to meet old friends and make new friends that are in the hobby. You will find the hottest Zoanthids, Acros, Acans, Chalices, Mushrooms, etc. all at great prices!
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06/01/2018, 11:55 AM | #3 |
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Here is the "Facebook Event Page" for the Event. https://www.facebook.com/events/2445...tab=discussion Click "Going" Under the Picture with all the Aquariums at the Top of the Page to Let Everyone Know You Plan on Attending You will also Receive Updates and Reminders about the Swap if you Click "Going" Invite all Your Reefing Friends Too so they Can Join In on This Awesome Event
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06/01/2018, 11:56 AM | #4 |
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EVERYONE Please Remember to Mark "Going" or "Interested" on the Aquashella 2-Day Aquarium Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) Facebook Event Page. It will help us get a good idea of how many people we should expect to come to the Event so we can plan accordingly. Also, Please "Share" the Event on Your Facebook Page or any Reefing Facebook Groups that you are in as it will Help Get the Word Out about this Awesome Event. Lastly, Please "Invite" any Reefing Friends that you have on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/events/2445...tab=discussion Click on the Facebook Link Above for More Info.
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06/01/2018, 11:56 AM | #5 |
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This Two Day Event is Going to Be Awesome !!!!
I Can't Wait
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06/01/2018, 11:57 AM | #6 |
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A Few Frag Swap Tips for Both Newbies and Veterans
1. Don't Forget Cash. Some Vendors will Take Credit Cards, but Others are Cash Only. 2. Bring a Small Portable Cooler to Store the Corals that you Bought In. 3. Doors Open at 10:00 AM and the Event Ends at 6:00 PM on Both Days. 4. Be Aware of How Much Time You Take Talking to a Vendor if what Your Discussing Doesn't Involve Buying Something. Vendors are Very Helpful and Knowledgeable and Most Will Try to Help You, but Please be Conscious of the Fact that Vendors are There to Sell and Not to Explain How to Rid Your Tank of Nuisance Algae (For Example).
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06/01/2018, 11:58 AM | #7 |
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I always bring a couple of these Small Coleman Coolers but any Cooler will do.
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06/02/2018, 02:04 AM | #8 |
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75 VENDORS, COMPANIES, and YouTube CELEBRITIES
Algae Barn AP Frags Aquarium Adventure Aquarium Artisans Aquarium Hobby Aquarium Overload Aquatech.co Aquatic Life Aquatic Realm International AZNnutty's Saltwater Connection (Frost) Benepets Beyond the Reef Blue Line Coral CaribSea Chicago Marine Aquarium Society (CMAS) CJ's Corals Class Aquatics Coral Reef Connection Cyrstal Reef Aquatics Dennerle Designed by Credable Coral Labs Dubey's Pet Center Dustin's Fish Tanks Dynasty Coral Eco Tech Marine Eye Candy Coral Eye Catching Coral Fish Gallery Flip Aquatics Fraghouse Corals Fritz Aquatics Golden Basket Coral Hobe Sound Frags I Jam Coral Iquarium JBJ Joshporksandwich Kolar Labs Kush Corals (Bobby Moon) Midwest Aquacultures My Reef Creations North American Coral Labs Ocean Avenue Ocean State Aquatics Ocean's Reef Paradise Aquatics Planet Aquariums Polyp Lab Printed Reefing Solutions Reef Deep Aquatics Reef Legends Reefbrite LED Reefshine Guys Reefweeds Rick's Corals Rock Hard Reef Rod's Food Saltwateraquariums.com Select Corals Seneye Seven Seas Sheltered Reef ShoTanks Supreme Reefs Tank it Easy (Insane Corals) The Fish Crew The Zoanthid Garden Unlimited Coral Color Ward's Aquatics WetPets Wojitek's Reef World Class Aquatics Xotic Aquaric World Zoanthids.com
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06/23/2018, 12:04 PM | #9 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 8 Weeks Away !!!!!!!!
Mark Your Calendars Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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06/30/2018, 08:39 PM | #10 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 7 Weeks Away !!!!!!!!
Mark Your Calendars Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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07/08/2018, 04:33 PM | #11 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 6 Weeks Away !!!!!!!!
Mark Your Calendars Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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07/14/2018, 08:43 AM | #12 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 5 Weeks Away !!!!!!!!
Mark Your Calendars Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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07/21/2018, 05:27 PM | #13 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 4 Weeks Away !!!!!!!!
Don't Forget to Take the Day Off if you Work Weekends Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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07/30/2018, 03:30 AM | #14 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 3 Weeks Away !!!!!!!!
Don't Forget to Take the Day Off if you Work Weekends Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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08/04/2018, 05:26 PM | #15 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 2 Weeks Away !!!!!!!!
Don't Forget to Take the Day Off if you Work Weekends Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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08/11/2018, 05:52 PM | #16 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 1 Week Away !!!!!!!!
Invite all of Your Reefing Friends Saturday, August 18 and Sunday, August 19
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08/14/2018, 05:14 AM | #17 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 4 Days Away !!!!!!!!
Invite all of Your Reefing Friends Saturday, August 18 Sunday, August 19
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08/15/2018, 04:00 PM | #18 |
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The Aquashella 2-Day Expo & Frag Swap (Chicago, Illinois) is just 3 Days Away !!!!!!!!
Invite all of Your Reefing Friends Saturday, August 18 Sunday, August 19
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08/16/2018, 05:42 AM | #19 |
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- 94 Vendors and Companies from All Over the Country
- 14 Speakers - 15 YouTube Celebrities - 13 Artists - 6 Professional Aquascapers - Huge Raffle - Beautiful Art Room - Contests - and Much Much More
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08/16/2018, 05:43 AM | #20 |
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For More Info Please Click the Links Below.
https://www.aquashella.com/ The Facebook Event Page is https://www.facebook.com/events/2445...tab=discussion
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08/16/2018, 05:44 AM | #21 |
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4 Fishes.com Algae Barn Alyssa's Seahorse Saavy AP Frags Aqua Tech (Bronze Sponsor) Aquarium Adventure Aquarium Artisans Aquarium Care Center Aquarium Overload Aquashella Radio Aquatic Life Aquatic Realm International Art Corner Ben Betta Aquatics Benepets Blue Line Coral Booyah's Clownfish Buy Pet Shrimp.com Caribsea Chicago Aquatic Plant Society Chicago Livebearer's Society Chicago Marine Aquarium Society (CMAS) CJ's Corals Coral Collections - Tball Coral Reef Connection Crystal Reef Aquatics Curling Tails Dat's Cichlids & Reptiles Derby City Corals Dubey's Pet Center Eco-Tech Marine Exotic Discus Eye Candy Coral Eye Catching Coral Feature Fish Crew Fraghouse Corals Fritz Aquatics Frost Corals Gold Coast Aquatics Golden Basket Greater Chicago Chichlid Society Hobe Sound Frags I'm a Reefer Iquarium JBJ Dennerle Jellyfish Warehouse Aquariums Joshporksandwich K & M Caves So Fishing Awesome Kolar Labs Kush Corals Midwest Aquaculture MOD Corals MRC North American Coral Labs Ocean Avenue Ocean State Aquatics Paradise Aquatics Planet Aquariums (Platinum Sponsor) Pleco Paradise Polyp Lab Pop Corals Printed Reefing Solutions Reef Breeders Reef Deep Aquatics Reef Geeks Reef Legends Reef Shine Guys Rick's Corals Rod's Food (Gold Sponsor) Saltwater Aquarium.com (Silver Sponsor) Select Coral Seneye Seven Seas Sho Tanks Shrimp Farm USA Sticks & Stonies Summit City Corals Super Cichlids Supreme Reefs Tank It Easy (Insane Corals) The Aquascapers Collective The Zoanthid Garden Tori Martin Art Triton Aquarium United Flowerhorn Association Unlimited Color Coral Ward's Aquatics Wet Pets Wojtek's Reef World Class Aquatics Xotic Aquatic World Zoanthids.com
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08/16/2018, 05:45 AM | #22 |
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Saturday Uri Garduno - Live Painting Session 10:30 AM Jacob Mansbach - How to Make Your Own Bounce Mushroom 11:30 AM Sutan Ari Dallas - The Past, Present, and Future of the Indonesian Coral Trade 12:30 PM Michelle Hoffman - Trotter High Definition Journey Through the Ocean 1:30 PM Joleena Jewell - Public/Private Collaboration for the Future of Fish Conservation 2:30 PM Maia Davidson - Lets Talk About Sex and Babies - Breeding in a Public Aquarium 3:30 PM Raphael Campos - Watch Raphael from RC Studios Paint in Real Time! 4:30 PM Sunday Paul Poeschl - How to Train Your Fish While Breeding Black Piranhas 10:30 AM Rachel Fogle - Painting Reef Animals 11:30 AM Matthew Stevenson - Extreme Aquarium Design 12:30 PM Mark Vera - Nutrition and Nutrient Control in the Captive Aquarium 1:30 PM Raj Shingadia - 13 Reasons Why 2:30 PM Scott Crowe - The Life of a Local Fish Store (LFS) Entrepreneur : The Past Present and Future 3:30 PM George Makrakis - 50 Stores in 5 Days, U.K. Edition - How to Edit a Film 4:30 PM YouTube CELEBRITIES AquaPros - Michael Doobie Aquarium Co-Op - Cory McElroy Challenge the Wild - James Moreland Coralfish12G - George Mavrakis Creative Pet Keeping - Kasia Blasik Dustin's Fish Tanks - Dustin Wumderlich Flip Aquatics - Robert Lupton Innappropriate Reefer - Mok-Yi Chow L.R. Bretz Aquatics - Lucas Bretz Marine Depot - Robert Farnsworth Melev's Reef - Marc Levenson Prime Time Aquatics - Jason Adams Radical Reefs - Kenneth Carey Tidal Gardens - Than Thein Twin Cities Guppies - Keng Lee ARTISTS Ashley McDonald Betty Leone Caitlin Lee (Reef Musings) Heip Hong Katarzyna Gruza Kris Kazlauskas (Koral Kreations) Michael Vargus Michelle Renee Albright (Bombchelle Creations) Rachel Fogle (Reef Weeds) Raphael Campos (RC Studios) Rick Corriera Tori Martin Uri Garduno (UReefOgraphy) AQUASCAPERS Art Commisso - Professional Aquascaper Cory Hopkins - Professional Aquascaper Hiep Hong - Professional Aquascaper John Pini - Professional Aquascaper Marvin Lo - Professional Aquascaper Shawn McBride - Professional Aquascaper RADIO Peter Cherrick Aquashella Radio
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08/21/2018, 05:27 AM | #23 |
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Had a Great Time at Aquashella !!!!
Big Thanks to Shawn and George for Hosting the Show and Everyone Else that Helped Out. Can't Wait for It Again Next Year
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