Ohio Reef Frag Swap June 19, 2010

[lazylivin]

[lazylivin]

All of our Sponsors have committed to joining us at this year’s event.

 

 

[lazylivin]

Fragswapper is online! Go register for the event and list items for sale/trade/wtb. Have Fun!

If you are new to fragswaps and the fragswapper web site here is some good information.

http://www.ohioreef.com/index.php?topic=5931.0
http://www.ohioreef.com/index.php?topic=6078.0

[lazylivin]

For those of you that made it to last year’s swap and stuck around for the raffle, you probably went home with a fairly nice item or two. Well this year is going to be the one that you don't want to miss. The Frag swap committee has reached out to 40+ companies and many are showing their support by providing some fantastic items. Here are a few of our gold tier raffle sponsor's that will be supporting this year’s Frag swap.

         
   
   
     

[HUNGER]

nice

[chromiumlux]

This will be a great swap. I need to get some goodies posted up on swapper. Hey lazy, wheres all the premo frags?

[CoralBeauties]

I started to frag a few of my corals tonight hoping to have encrusted corals by the swap.  A few were unintentional.  I broke off  a major branch off one of my largest milli  .  As a teaser I will be posting frags of blue milli, peach daquari milli, purple nana acro, green fuzzy slimmer acro, le bali tricolor, german blue polyp acro, le lime minic, and Idaho grape cap so far.  I will wait closer to the swap to post on frag swapper,  I am concerned with swappers reserving pieces and changing their minds or plans changing and not showing up.
jeff

[Reefd Up]

Or Jeff, you can post them and just let me reserve them...I won't be backing out.   

[stickboy_107]

same here. I will be watching, too.

[HUNGER]

i would check it out on ther but it wont let me get on the site at all

[lazylivin]

It shaping up to be a great event, we have 5 additional confirmed vendor's that plan on attending this year's swap.

 
 

[lazylivin]

I started to frag a few of my corals tonight hoping to have encrusted corals by the swap.  A few were unintentional.  I broke off  a major branch off one of my largest milli  .  As a teaser I will be posting frags of blue milli, peach daquari milli, purple nana acro, green fuzzy slimmer acro, le bali tricolor, german blue polyp acro, le lime minic, and Idaho grape cap so far.  I will wait closer to the swap to post on frag swapper,  I am concerned with swappers reserving pieces and changing their minds or plans changing and not showing up.
jeff

Sounds like a great line up Jeff, looking forward to seeing the peach daquari milli.

This will be a great swap. I need to get some goodies posted up on swapper. Hey lazy, wheres all the premo frags?

Unfortunately due to the tank upgrade, fighting bryosis algae and dinoflagellates I wont have but a few things this year Andy.

i would check it out on ther but it wont let me get on the site at all

What issue are you having Dave?

[HUNGER]

i sign in and then it doesnt do anything at all i hit refresh and it says done but its still blank

[HUNGER]

never mind now its worken  now how do i see what people are bringing

[HUNGER]

nevermind i figerd it out

[jd]

I have a few proposed ideas to give back to volunteers this year...

A free T-shirt, and at cost shirts if they want more.

Free pizza and drinks (within reason, 2 slices and 2 drinks maybe)

Spouses and kids of members get in free also (Credit to Scott for this one)



Also, I assume we're doing the pay $10 membership fee now and get in free like last year? That was a good way to bring in new members.  

[HUNGER]

ya that sounds good

[lazylivin]

Couple of quick updates. Reeflo sent a really nice highend pump for the raffle



We have received complete RO/DI unit's, 48" Plug and Play T5's, Media Reactor's and much much more.

Frag Swap Committee just signed Dirk Dry Goods on. He doesn't have an online presence so don’t have a link to share but here is a picture of his setup from last year and his banner

 

If you plan on attending the event and haven't already registered on Fragswapper please do. It will help us get a good indication of how many people we can expect.
While you are there check out some of the nice corals that have been posted for sale and reserve yours before it is to late. If you have some corals to frag or some old equipment lying around in the garage now is the time to dust it off and post it up for sale.

[lazylivin]

Just added FISH AMORE to the venue. They are a relatively new reef store with an internet presence based out of Akron. They specialize in collector's corals and always have the hottest Z&P's. Check them out by clicking the banner below.

[sticks_wife]

That's awesome! I just checked out their site, and they have some really nice pieces that I would love to have.

[HUNGER]

they do have some sweet looken coral

[lazylivin]

The Frag Swap Committee have been working the phones, sending letters and emails to make this years raffle the benchmark for all future swaps. Check out this teaser list of a few items collected over the past couple days.

The complete Seachem AquaVitro product line!

Not 1 but 2 TUNZE 6045's!

The full Ocean's Blend product line!

Gift Cards from Jack's Aquarium and Reefs2Go

       

[lazylivin]

How the Raffle works
At the swap there will be a staging area with several tables setup. The raffle items will be displayed on the tables along with a collection cup next to each item. Place your raffle tickets in the collection cups for the items you wish to win. The raffle tickets can be purchased at the swaps entrance where you pay admittance fee. When the raffle has started someone will mix up the tickets in the collection cup and blindly select one. If it is yours you win that item. The more tickets purchased the better your chances of winning and there is no limit to the number of items you can win. However you must be present to win.

New this year – Free Raffle Tickets
In addition to purchasing raffle tickets you can obtain free tickets for posting items for sale on Fragswapper. For every three items you post on Fragswapper you will receive one free raffle ticket up to a maximum of 3 free tickets. Swap vendors  are excluded from receiving free raffle tickets.
Your free raffle tickets will be waiting for you when you arrive. Just tell the cashier your frag swapper ID and they will in turn ask you for your fragswapper email address which is private to the public but we have access to as Fragswapper Administrator

[jd]

You are my hero Brian, that looks awesome!

[lazylivin]

You are my hero Brian, that looks awesome!

Thanks Josh, as YZReef says it is all about the colors