The Bob Moore Frag Swap show off thread!

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Yesterday I attended the Bob Moore Frag Swap in Renton Washington, and I had an absolute blast so I figured I'd start a show off thread and see if anyone else attended from Reef2Reef! It was an awesome turn out, I was told it was better than most of the other swaps the vendors had attended from across the nation....

We had Scott Fellman from Unique Corals as the guest speaker, I finally was able to meet him and although our brief time chatting was short I could tell he is a great guy and really loves what he does!

Here are some pic's that I did not take but obtained permission from Brian Oliver, aka "airphotog" to share with you. If you were there please feel free to chime in and show off your pic's and everything that you brought home. I personally brought home 33 frags, pic's to come!

I'll start with one of our great sponsors here on Reef2Reef, Brandon from Zoanthids.com Live Salt Water Zoanthids and Palythoa Coral For Sale. He brought the heat!
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To put a face behind the website he's the one on the right.
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People getting ready for Scott Fellman's speech!
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Scott preaching it!
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You can't see but in the back there were a lot of people standing during the presentation.

Now on to the good shots, the coral being sold by Puget Sound Aquarium Society members and local vendors!

In this pic you can see not only myself "second table back, bent over writing something with the brown hat on". Then on the left in the brown shirt is Todd "TJL, a fellow R2R mod", and Duane on the right in the white T shirt "he's Trido on the forums".

This is Lorrie "IPisces", she Todd and Duane were all nice enough to let me put some frags in their tanks to sell.
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Trido in the foreground trying to make a sale, and myself and IPisces in the background bragging about who bought what lol
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Coldwater Marine Aquatic's was there!
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This is Javier in the red shirt and his son "akreefer here on R2R" he had some sweet stuff but I was too slow so all he had left when I went by was stuff that I already had...
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I'm not sure who this was but they had both eye candy and a bowl of candy, lol so I left them some of my hard earned cash!
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A few of the local shops now.

Oceans by Design, they brought some heat and showed off some of their sweet custom acrylic work too! They even had the Reef Pests Solutions All Out on hand, Matt Reed is the owner of both OBD and RPS All Out!
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Another local shop Barrier Reef Aquariums had some heat in their display!
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YUM!
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A brand new LFS on the scene here in western Washington, Crystal Reef Aquariums, they had some nice stuff as well!
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And the last LFS is A Red Sea Aquarium, he had some great looking zoa's and Chalice's that I fully drooled on!
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These two local reefers had the hot stuff going on and to be honest I'm suprized that the photographer was able to get in and get some pic's because their corner was absolute chaos lol.

Nata on the forums on the right.
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Fragman2, he had some great looking tank raised fish as well as a great frag selection.
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And last but not least, the raffles and free coral give a ways!
 
PSAS BOD getting ready to do the announcing!
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These tanks were full of free corals!
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PSAS members got to each choose at least 2 free corals!
 
Man that looks so like so much fun. I wish there where more swaps where I'm at :(
 
Great write up Chris. I couldn't take any pictures because I was busy selling. This event had grown into something amazing from the garage where it started six years ago.
 
Definitely a great event, great to see it growing! Thanks for posting this Chris! Can't wait for next year!
 
Definitely a great event, great to see it growing! Thanks for posting this Chris! Can't wait for next year!

What did you end up getting Javier? I wish I could have more time to chat with you but I was on the other end of the building and busy busy busy!
 
Fantastic event! I picked up some really nice corals, got a chance to connect with some friends and met some new ones. Most of the vendors had little to nothing left at the end of the day so I would say it had to be a very successful event for them. I actually left with cash in my pocket which is rare. I know a lot of people were planning to hit the local stores in the area as well so a good day for them as well. It's good to see our local community growing.
 
I entered with $200 and left with $15. I can't believe I didn't burn it all!! The vendor's stock blew me away. It was some great stuff.

It was an amazing event, all the people who helped out did a great job. Also, the frag raffle seemed to be a HUGE success, I know I left happy with some acans and a small frogspawn.

Our wonderful guest speaker did a great job, too. Save an aiptasia and kill a berghia, today. That was awesome:bigsmile:

John
 
What did you end up getting Javier? I wish I could have more time to chat with you but I was on the other end of the building and busy busy busy!

I picked up a couple of nice zoas. I was busy the rest of the day only came back home with 7 unsold frags, Three full levels of frags gone!
 
Thanks Chris. Cool thread!
 
Nice write up chris. It was a great event. I did a lot of great trades bought a few nice pieces and sold a few frags. So i actually left with more money then i came in with lol
 
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myself and my wife were both there, my brother inlaw and sister inlaw were also there . We became members PSAS it was fun listened to Scott and had a chat with him great guy he even knew our names because we've talked to him on the phone before. you can see the back of our heads we have the stroler siting beside us
 
hehe nice i sat two people down from you
 

IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 32 45.7%
  • Not yet, but I have one that I want to buy in mind!

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • No.

    Votes: 26 37.1%
  • Other (please explain).

    Votes: 3 4.3%

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