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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 8, 2014 20:20:26 GMT -5
I had a great time and met many awesome people. It was extremely busy and was like a black Friday coral sale. There were 10 classrooms each with at least 5 vendors one drove from Ohio. Prices varied pretty dramatically between retailers and hobbiest though more retailers had booths. The raffle prizes were fantastic my only complaint is I didn't win anything. Lots of representation from other clubs some with there own tanks. The drive from old town is 7 hrs one way!!! Definitely more than one days work. They had a lot of great vendors and I bought some reef suds soap its made right in Boston the guy was awesome and a very enthusiastic reefer. Jason Fox was present with a frag tank that's value probably surpassed the cost of an entry level car.
Fins Aquariums had some great corals at great prices but when the owner left his wife in charge she had a $10 sale....and that was amazing
R&R aquatics had a great selection and great prices they did some great package deals.
Pacific aquaculture was great with awesome selection and prices.
Finally what I'm bringing back to Maine......
ATL Appleberry Montipora (Google this gem been looking for one for 2 years)
Now my ZOA binge
Pink hippos
Rainbow ridges
Chong bongs
Ko nightmares
Kings ransom
Pretty pennies
Capt America play
Chuckies bride play
Rastas
And an Acan
I Know this post is useless without pictures!!! So please go to Son & Sand reef on Facebook....I'll be uploading pics there soon.
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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 8, 2014 20:39:45 GMT -5
I also got two unnamed polyps if they are not identified you'll soon see them as
Speckled Scoobs
And
Nolan's candy (pastels)
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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 8, 2014 20:51:29 GMT -5
Right I got twighlights too.
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 8, 2014 21:03:54 GMT -5
That's an impressive zoanthids list! Wow!!
Just reading your opening statement makes me majorly regret not even thinking about going to this event!
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Post by jess on Mar 8, 2014 21:17:38 GMT -5
Can't wait for the new goodies!! Thanks for pics and delivering!! Want to make the next one
Sent from my HTC ONE
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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 9, 2014 22:19:14 GMT -5
Well I'm finally home, dipped and acclimated all the Zoas many are opening up and looking great, I'm suprised to see a lot of smaller polyps on the frags too. My new pride and joy Appleberry has it's polyps out and came with a baby serpent starfish...I hope it grows 1/2 as fast as my other Montis I'm not disappointed. Hoping to get some sleep soon!
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 9, 2014 22:29:58 GMT -5
Put me down for a frag of the pink hippo palys and the KO nightmare. The Rastas had 7 polyps!!! The pretty penny's look more like mean green zoanthids but time will tell. I've heard the orange halo can fade so maybe it will come back. Everything is looking great and thanks again!!
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Post by oceangirl2009 on Mar 10, 2014 10:34:47 GMT -5
Scoob, did you set up a table? If so, I'm curious to how you did as I may be interested in setting one up next year if I can stock pile some frags.
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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 10, 2014 11:12:37 GMT -5
I didn't but there were easily over 1000 reefers there. I'd be interested in doing a group tank next year so we could also take turns seeing what else was there. Everyone had an acrylic frag tank. It was interesting there were a lot of things we have I expected to see and many things they had most were mid ranged $10 per polyp. I did not see any lunar eclipse, Mary James, utter chaos, blue agaves. The selection of sps was almost exclusively acros and montis no birds nest. I think as a group we'd do well also would want to carpool as the drive was long and I used about 30 gallons of gas round trip.
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 10, 2014 11:21:03 GMT -5
I'd like to get on the list for all the zoa's you got! Lol
I wish I would of paid more attention to when you was down there! Sounds like you made a couple stops right around my area! Sometimes I don't use my brain.
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Post by jess on Mar 10, 2014 12:53:16 GMT -5
Chuckys bride and red acan with a bunch of babies, and ching bongs. Bad pics, had a rock move thanks to the darn hermit and knocked off a couple plugs Sent from my HTC ONE |
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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 10, 2014 23:00:56 GMT -5
The two unnamed zoas I brought back are:
Flaming lotus
And
Orange Mauls
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 11, 2014 4:57:51 GMT -5
I liked "speckled scoobs" and "nolan's candy" better I think?
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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 11, 2014 23:40:43 GMT -5
Here's some eye candy that I brought back with me....and a few things I've been growing out for my next tank. Yellow Brick Roads  Utter Chaos  Twighlights  Red Hornets  Rainbow Ridges  Purple People Eater  Pink Hippos  Orange Oxides  Orange Mauls  Lunar Eclipse  KO Nighmare (hoping these guys open up soon)  Kings Ransom  Gold Mauls  Flaming Lotus  Cultivated Reefs Big Red...or Crazy Lady  Chong Bong's  Armor of God  My absolute favorite Blue Agave's  I hope you've enjoyed this presentation of eye candy in the form of Zoa |
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Post by jasonandsarah on Mar 12, 2014 6:01:59 GMT -5
Anything for sale yet?
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