I have been a member from time to time, they have good speakers. Most of the members are cichlid people. They don't have meetings in July and August but start back up in September.
I was wondering if we might go and trade plants or whatever. I could probaly host a similar meeting at my house.
For what it's worth I have been in this hobby for almost 20 year and currently run a high tech tank with heating cables, chiller, T5 lights, co2 and rest.
Anyone else, feel free to come meet me and say hi, love meeting board members! I'll be behind a computer or running around trying to help out in some way... in my usual green Hawaiian shirt.
Also have some Hygro polysperma that I wouldn't submit to an auction, but if anyone wants, let me know and I'll bring some.
I believe it is 50-50, but I will check and get backmto you on that.
Also, I will have a limited number of 8 inch bags and rubber bands available to plantedtank members at no cost if needed. I know most people here know to double bag, but emergencies crop up.
Would anyone have a guesstimate on how many people will be here, and if there's usually a decent amount of equipment or plants. I'm interested in going myself, just trying to see if it's worth it for me to drive 121 miles each way
There are usually several hundred. We packed out the old place. I have seen the 50-50 raffle get as high as $900. We usually need the whole day to get through all the lots. I can't say how much equipment there is, but there will be some, and there will definitely be plants! Over 2/3 of what I am bringing is plants. 120 miles is a haul for some for a day event. If it isn't worth it I will give you an extra rubber band free!
That's almost how far it was to the TFSRI auction, we totally thought it was worth it, and this one is supposed to be so much bigger! If you can find someone to carpool with, that makes it even more enjoyable. Plus I'll be bringing a few plants myself
I'm pretty sure it is 50/50 0live... seems to be the norm around here.
I will be wearing a blue polo with "Tux" the Linux penguin on it. Or, If cold I will be wearing a Time Lord hoodie.
My daughter (bright hair, "perfectly" and "imperfect" tattooed on her arms will be making a promo piece for the PVAS (and for her resume) so please let her ask a few questions if she needs you! Thanks!
It went very well. Auction started at 11:30 and I left near the end, around 4. Sold all my stuff, bought 6 small green leopard angels, 2 albino show guppies, and some Sakura shrimp. My daughter won a 5 gallon Marineland Eclipse hex aquarium.
The quality of the fish was excellent. There were a lot of extremely nice show guppies, a lot of nice angels, tons of African cichlids (very popular out here), and a lot of gorgeous plants.I will post some pics after I recover. It was nice meeting some of you!
Yeah good times! Being such a big auction (140 bidder cards), we didn't make out like bandits as we have done in the past... instead we sold lots! But we did buy some dwarf blue panda guppies, wife is very excited about those.
Had a great time. Good turnout. Lots of cool stuff. Great fish.
I scored 4 healthy young bosemani rainbows, 1 male and 3 females for 18 bucks, also got one of Stans Anubias and a bag full of cherry shrimp and won a one year membership in the PVAS. :bounce:
There is some talk amongst a couple PVAS members of a scheduling a fish/plant swap later this year... I will definitely try to include TPT in on that if it happens.
"the May meeting date has been changed to Monday, May 19. This change is for the May meeting only! Normally we have a fish store visit in May, but this year the board thought it would be nice to do something more special. It will take more time than we had to plan it, though, so we will have a trip further afield in October.
From here on in, the monthly meetings will begin unofficially at 6:30 pm. The half-hour before announcements can be check-in time for contest photos, auction items and bowl fish, and previously, there just never was enough time in the schedule for scuttlebutt! Hopefully this will help solve that problem, and I hope to see you at 6:30!"
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