November Swap Meet - Kelowna and Area
 

First a thank you to Phillybean for showing up to the swap. We would like to try another swap/buy/sell and get together for November 22nd. Phillybean has graciously offered his home to us and we hope to see alot of you there. It would start at 2 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. here so we can get you the address. For those of you who are football fans, we kept Grey Cup Sunday free (go Stamps!) :biggrin:

I have circled the date on my calendar.

I too would like to make it this time. And I agree...GO STAMPS!!

We all better show up this time or else!! I think it will work out better not leading up to a holiday long weekend.

:D

How did those frags make out Naz?

if i can make it out i will have a bunch of stuff to trade.

They are just excellent! The green polyps are nice under the halides. Funny thing, the two astrea snails you included kept knocking over the zoas I got from you, which also have opened up nicely this evening :mrgreen:

It would be nice to have a nice sized group come out. I don't have much stuff to offer in trade, so I'll buy stuff.

Free snacks to all Eskimo fans :mrgreen:

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Im in let please PM with details

would anyone be interested in live mini brittle stars or mysid shrimp?

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Hey,
Sounds great, may I come too ? I don't have alot of frags either but I can buy, buy, buy.
Could you p.m. for the address..p.s must I like football. Zzzzzzz! HeHe
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Will these stars grow to the normal size of brittle stars??

What color are they??

:biggrin:

my biggest mini brittle is 1'' across and a year or 2 old, i always take them out then they get over 1" so i cant really say how big they will get down the road. they are white and make awesome cleaners.

I am definitely looking for something to clean my substrate but I always thought in my tank I would starve a star pretty quickly. I have only 30lbs of sand. Is that enough for a star to feed on?

Course you are all welcome to come! Philly would you be so kind as to pm the location?
I have 1 tiny brittle star I have only seen once or twice, he was in a piece of rock, not in the sand.

Donno how you are gonna catch Mysis shrimp, but sure bring them along. (could always use some live Phyto as well hint hint) :wink:

starry, you should see the number of mysids i have in one of my overflows, and plus i'm thinking of using a method of catching them that is so sneaky i might just patent it :mrgreen:

My address is 775 Francis Ave. I'm in the basement suite which has a private entrance on the right hand side of the house (opposite from car port). I'll have a sign or something showing where the door is.

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I'd definitely be interested however I won't have anything to trade/sell. Sounds like it's going to be a seller's market as their doesn't seem to be many people bringing stuff to sell....

If I can make it I'll bring several things. Unfortunately I won't know if I can make it until closer to the day :redface:. Can\Should we post pictures of what we want to sell?

Kevin,
Might be an idea. I'll have to snap some new pix as well.

I have a hammer frag, some green zoas, xiena, 2 kinds of green polyps and a few ricordia if I can frag and mount them before the end of the month. Also picked up some red macro algea lastnight if anyone would like some.

I'll post pix either later tonight or tomorrow.

looks like i can actually make this one. unfortunately i also would be looking to buy not sell. anyone gonna be bringing any sps frags?

Hmmm, cant seem to find my camera anywhere...

Good new is I can add one more item to my list.

Red Banded snails.

I got some nice frags to trade/sell now ;)

I have a hammer frag, some green zoas, xiena, 2 kinds of green polyps and a few ricordia if I can frag and mount them before the end of the month. Also picked up some red macro algea lastnight if anyone would like some.


What color and kind (Florida or Yuma) are the ricordeas??

Sorry about that the questionn is for Starry

Does anyone have any updates on what they will be brining to the Nov Swap Meet??

Pictures would be great also.

:biggrin:

will update what i have next week when i get home from work. tues or wed.

Now that Hwy 97 is open again I should be able to make this swap. Does anyone have a sea hare they want to part with? AJs in Vernon has one but it is ~3" long. Not sure that I have enough algae to keep a hare that large.

Alternately if I pick up the sea hare this week and he has done his thing by the time the swap comes along is there anyone that I can pass him along to?

I should also have a frag of pulsing xenia and a couple of zoa frags to bring along.

Just as an update, I'll have the following to sell/trade.

5 - Purple Acro Frags (Most very tiny, 2 fair sized frags)
2 - Birdsnest Frags (Tiny, however 4 frags per plug)
1 - Green Encrusting Monti (on a rock about 4")
1 - Brown, branching encrusting Monti (on a rock about 6")
1 - Light Green Button Polyp (3 heads)
1 - Dark Green Button Polyp (10 heads)
1 - Unknown SPS Frag (4-5")
1 - Watermelon Mushroom Rock - (6+ mushrooms of various size)
1 - Moon Coral

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Hey im interested in coming to the meet to purchase a few things.
Dave.

Well looks like the frag swap will be a week to late.

I had some issues with my lighting and hydrometer...lost just about all of my SPS, basically over night.

Still have a few things but no Acro Frags from me :(

Doh!

I'm going to be bringing:

Red Montipora Capricornis (1/2" to 1" frags, mounted)

Brown Bird's Nest (May color up, each mounting has 2 pieces about 3/4")

and 2 more frags of this, which I don't know what it is, but all those fuzzy polyps are bright green under actinics :)

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Really sorry to hear this. Enlighten us as to what happened. I can't seem to put together a scenario where lighting and hydrometer work together to cause a crash.

Well...

I needed new bulbs as mine were quite old and weren't strong enough to support my SPS corals. It took me longer than I thought it would to replace the bulbs, so they weren't getting the light that they needed.

On top of that, I was using a Coralife Hyrdometer, which was giving me faulty readings. My SG was reading 1.026 but turned out to be 1.031.

I blame a combo of the two for my RTN issues. All my other levels are decent (Nitrate under 5ppm, Phos 0.25, Calcium 420, dKH 12)

Sad to hear it. Have you checked you mag levels. When I first started with SPS I got return on my first bunch of pieces and couldn't identify the culprit until I finally checked that and it was way too low. I've been using Tailored Aquatics Mag since then and don't have any complaints. Of course I have completely different problems now...lol.

I've actually never checked mag. I've never found a test kit for it locally here and keep forgetting whenever I order anything from the coast. Where do you get your test kits?

Looks like some type of Porites. Nice looking piece.

The meet is at your place right? I think I will be in town on the 22nd, and if so I will come. I will bring my test kit, and test your water for you if you'd like. :)

Sweet, sounds great Myka. Good to see your back in town :)

Thanks! I'm only back until the 30th, then back to the oil patch. :)