Is it possible for those brining frags to sell to post what they will be bringing?

:biggrin:

i am bringing the small hammer in the pic below
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-18170919.jpg

this acro (old pic) but you get the idea

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...0-30171607.jpg

i also have a duncan frag (3heads)

a mandarin goby

and a bunch of dry goods

I was going to bring some softies - purple xenia, colts, purple and green mushrooms, cabbage leather....but I couldn't get a wrasse in time and don't want to pass flatworms off to anyone !:cry:

Also have a gorgeous torch...but...admittedly, I'm scared to frag it !!

pics are in my signature. frags will include: frogspawn (green with pink tips). green milli. pink milli (lite blue polyps).tan with blue tip staghorn. lavender acro. acropoa nana. acrpora valida. green pocci. blue/green thick branch birdsnest. blue pocci. st thomas mushroom. both green and blueish palys. various other shrooms if i can get to them. SPS FRAGS WILL NOT BE MOUNTED. see yas there!

d*nm it! guess there be a few colonies of sps as well. some didnt cut as I had hoped.

Edit... pink milli is actualy pink acro prostrata.

swap tomorrow
 

Hi guys
The frag swap is still on for tomorrow, i have zoas, green diggi, green frogspawn, a fuzzy purple mushroom and some SPS acro frags avail.
hope to see you all there
heres my address again.
44 Caramillo Rd
(Glenmore)at noon.
860-7754
should be good.
brent

will anybody be traveling from kamloops to this swap? I am coming to kamloops tomorrow from williams lake but cant go as far as kelowna. If anyone from kamloops is going could we figure out a way for you to pick up a couple of things and then I can grab them from you tomorrow afternoon or evening. Thank you :razz:

I'll be bringing a cleaner shrimp.

I bought him about a year ago along with 5 others, thinking it would be a good idea to have a bunch in the tank. Bad idea as 1 pair will kill off all the others when they molt, which they did to 3 within a few weeks. This one escaped into my overflow where he has lived since, but now I have him in my sump ready to bag up.

Anyone interested in Kenya Tree? I have a bunch of small specimens & a couple larger. If so I'll drop by.

sounds like theres going to be a bunch of corals available, should be good!. see you tomorrow.

Anyone from Vernon that I could bum a ride off?

I could buy the Tim Hortons :)

Hey Shawn, if you don't mind a ride in a dirty old Toyota with the steering column on the 'right' side, you can hop in with me. Wasn't sure whether I was going to make the trip since no response from anyone regarding my Kenya Tree frags, but might as well have a peek anyhow. Actually just remembered I have a couple of frags that were given to me as Chalice coral, but by the looks of the mother colony now, I'd almost say it's a Montipora. I was thinking of leaving around 11:30 & being fashionably late. I've been to Brent's place before, so shouldn't get lost.

Sounds good, thanks Mike. What would you like from Tim hortons?

I have a weekness for their French Vanillas 1/4 coffee.

I'll be at your place at 11:15

Thinking it would only be fair to bring everyone something from Tim's:biggrin:

Don't need anything from Timmies, thanks anyway. I'm a bit behind schedule this morning, so better make it 11:30. Or I could pick you up at a Tim's of your choice.

Ok, thanks, the one by polson park please, ill just read a paper so take your time.

Cool. just need to get the frags together & I'll try to make it snappy.

It was nice meeting everyone today! and thanks to Brent for hosting.

maybe everyone can post pics of their new corals in their tanks?

Nick

Wow great turn out thanks to all for showing up what a success looked like there was some good buys for everyone i hope. good to see and meet everyone.
Def do one again. Brent

Thanks so much Brent...awesome of you to open your house up to everyone !
Spent way too much...but got some great corals...thanks Starry and Ashr !!

Once everyone settles in and opens fully I'll get some pics up....turns out the Frogspawn was a little too close to my torch so just had to move it and now it's ticked all over again.
Broke an arm off my little green SPS trying to get it glued :sad:

Was by far the best turn out to date! Was great meeting all of you. Hope you all enjoy your new purchases.

Brent, thanks so much for hosting the swap today! It was really good to put some faces to Canreef handles. Thanks also for showing me all the details on your HRV.

Yes indeed. I'd like to add my voice of gratitude to you Brent (and your wife too btw, a bouquet of flowers might be appropriate!) for opening your home to us for such a productive event! I always enjoy a look at your fine display tanks as well, small & large. They're so colourful & there's a lot going on in each of them. Hard to pull away.

WOW!!! It was amazing to meet all of you. Ya'll are a great bunch of people. Shout out to Brent and his wife for hosting, beautiful home gorgeous tanks...u da man. Trevor and Andrew thanks for getting this going and making it possible. Mark(mseepman) thank you greatly for all that you shared with me...IOU and want to see progress of the peninsula tank as they develop. Andrew(ashr) you really hooked me up with some great deals and info..you're awesome dude. Nick, great to see you again...duncans look awesome. Mike31154...you are a kind man...thanks for all that you shared with me...
If i missed anyone...i'm sorry...it's hard to type with my hand in the tank...over spent and kids might have to miss meals or develop a taste for mysis. Until we meet again.

Thanks guys lets definitely do this again!

Thanks to Brent and his wife for hosting. Thanks also for showing us all beautiful tanks. It was nice meeting everyone today.

Karla & Paul

think we need to see pics of everyones new goodies in thier new homes in the coming days.

I've been trying to put pics up since last night....nothing happens. It tells me it's uploading....then....nadda.:cry:

I think it finally worked !!!
Had to shrink all my files....and still took three tries

I have no clue how to insert text under each photo...sooo...

Green and Pink Frogspawn, Green Millipora, Purple Acro from Trevor
GSP, Hammer from Andrew
Zoanthids and Candy Cane purchased previously from Brent


ggggrrrr...no pics, just links??? I give up

Heres a couple I picked up , nice color. thanks Trevor.
http://s1182.photobucket.com/albums/x453/bkelly7/swap/

Just wanted to say Thanks to everyone who showed up and a big thank you to Brent and Joanne for letting us in their home. Hope you all enjoy your new frags and please free to ask if you have any questions on the frags you got from me. They should grow nice and fast!!!

Cant wait till next time!

a few pics of what i got (quality not great)... i am sure that i will move them a few more times before i am happy with their placement.. but here is what i got at the moment.

the big ones:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-26123301.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-26123404.jpg

top down shots:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-26192916.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-26192800.jpg

and the lil fellas:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-26143416.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-26143427.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...3-26143449.jpg

An info update for those who may have bagged a piece of the greenish, plating coral that I brought to the swap. I distinctly remember receiving a small frag of this about 2-3 years ago at the Kamloops frag swap & I was advised that it is a chalice. Many folks who have seen it feel it might be a montipora & a positive id has been bugging me for some time, so I did some online research today.

Looked through a long list of Montipora & Echinophyllia photos and can certainly see the possibility of confusion over the real McCoy. The original frag has grown to a good size in my system, the plates are quite delicate (thin) & haven't changed colour from a dominant green, although recently one plate near the glass has developed patches of a creamy tan colour. I recently switched to LED lighting, but the tan sections began to develop prior to the change, so doubt that has much to do with it.

In any case, I'm inclined to take the word of the hobbyist I received the frag from & call it an Echinophyllia aspera. While I did find photos of Montipora that were very similar looking, none had the distinct green hue that my colony displays. It doesn't help the situation in that I've seen Montipora foliosa listed with an English name of Chalice Coral & Echinophyllia aspera called a Symphony Coral on the same web site. A link which leads me to believe it may be E. aspera follows. Photo here looks like a dead ringer of what I have in my tank, but it's not a real close up.

http://www.tfhmagazine.com/details/m...lia-aspera.htm

Details on E. aspera on another site, makes me wonder again, since my specimen doesn't look much like the photos there & certainly doesn't have any of the larger 'eyes'. M. florida, foliosa or delicatula look like better matches structure wise on this site, but the colours are not nearly the same.

http://sdmas.com/corals/136.php

http://sdmas.com/corals/255.php

http://sdmas.com/corals/451.php

http://sdmas.com/corals/465.php

After all that, I guess the jury's still out due to confusion between scientific & English, or common names on the web. It's been a fast grower, easy to maintain in my system, so should do well for anyone that scored a frag. Credit to the poll thread on a coral/fish database for steering me towards researching the links above.