Lower mainland-Vancouver island-BC interior frag swap

[gregzz4]

Great day and really nice to finally meet some out-of-towners
Especially my old bud Brad. What a small world
Too bad I don't have any pics of us in our teens, although I do still have my college ID pic - mid back length hair and all

Thanks for hosting Rich and all the vendors for their donations

[kien]

Originally Posted by scherzo

now I know who you are! I don't think you had a name tag on (or maybe I missed it.. Pretty tough to see when we're all staring at frags).

whoops! sorry, I may have had my camera strap covering my name tag.

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

And Kien buying more bio pellets!!?? I thought everyone in Calgary were giving you theirs for free...

You can never have too many biopellets!! .. wait, or can you? Please guys, let me know K?!

[Amadod2]

Hey Rich what colour bulbs do you use on your frag tank?

[Wheelman76]

Thanks again Rich and "bblinks wife" for hosting this awesome frag swap , had a great time meeting new people , and the familiar faces as well. Thanks to Anthony also for the great job on the grill.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

This frag swap was sooooo much fun that I'm sure we'll have to organize one for next year. (either at Rich's or I can host if Rich & the Boss want to take a break). I know they put in a ton of work into organizing this event and it really showed by how smoothly everything went and how many sponsors donated door prizes.

And AquaAddict, I know what you mean about going with envy at the Boss's 300dd reef. I love the 3' front to back depth. Fabulous aquascaping and the corals are so vibrant, colourful and huge. Also the fish are awesome, colourful and FAT!!!!

I really liked the fact that almost everyone stayed for a long visit with fellow reefers rather than buy and dash as has happened in the past. I remember one where it was a feeding frenzy for the first half hour then 75% of the people were gone. This time we probably had 30-40 people come and at least a couple dozen stayed for over 3 hours.

Real bonus to see so many from the Island and spending time with Kein and his clan.

Anthony

[tang daddy]

This was an awesome event with a huge turn out, Baus Rich and Baus Linda many thanks for throwing up your house for over 40 people bombarding it.

Definately nice to meet and chat with everyone, catch up on old times and talk reef while scarfing down the food. Big Anthony thanks for taking the time consuming roll of cooking almost the whole event, also everyone else for bringing food and bevies....

And a final thanks to all the Sponsors for throwing prizes in and making this event even better.

[Bblinks]

Thanks guys for coming to the swap, it was a great turn out! You guys rock.

Anthony, you did a great job manning the BBQ, food was flowing faster than coral bags were exchanging hands.

Sponsors
JL aquatics
Madjellycorals
Reefsupplycanada
Seacare products
Much love for donating to our event.

I'll post pictures up tomorrow.

[input80]

Thank you very much for your hospitality. Although we were late, we got some really great stuff. It was really great putting faces to fellow canreefers & meet some that we have become acquainted with. Too bad that we didn't get to meet others also.This was out 1st frag swap ever & we really enjoyed our short visit . Hey Mrs Bblinks, your 300 is awesome, Mr Bblinks does great maintenance work there .

[scherzo]

It was a great event! Thanks again Rich and fam for letting us hang out at your place! Thanks to Chris for helping setup and Anthony for working the grill!
I took some pics, usually I take pictures if people but I couldn't help but take pictures if the display tank and frag tank!

Thanks to Reef Supply Canada! I won their GC! I guess I'm going to have to buy a new skimmer!
Thanks to all of the other sponsors of the event as well. It was definitely worth getting their name out there! Lots if reefers at this event.

[tang daddy]

I just wanted to add that if MJC winners want to claim their prize we have a group buy order arriving on Thursday this week. We already have reached free shipping so if you want to claim your prize pm me or thmh Tony and we can help get your organized. If you don't have time to get on this group buy you can always join the next one which will be in a month or 2. Thanks again!