Forgot two very important points.....

Entry will be free for SWFMAS members and $5 for non-members.

We will accept, cash, check or PayPal for purchases.

I think I will be bringing some corals down there! I've been meaning to check you guys out anyway!!! Nice to see you have a frag event going! it seems like your club is growing a ton this year!

well done!

~Juice

OK, location and time are confirmed.

Location:

Bishop Verot High School (same place as before)
5598 Sunrise Drive
Fort Myers

Doors open for sellers and volunteers at 11:00 am
Doors open for general admission at noon.
Auction will begin at 1:00 pm

Jeff, I will gladly volunteer.

u know i will help!!!

Just a shout out from Reef Gardener in Miami, I will be seeing you all again soon!

Here's some recent pics of our prop systems, we've been growing like crazy. ;]

We have limited space to grow in so we try to use every square inch in our prop tanks. All these tanks are in one room and we have no display tank. All of our tanks have no center braces and only the 6x2.5 tank has euro-bracing.

1: 2.5x6'x15" deep Left side 400w 14k Reeflux MH, right side 175w 14k Iwasaki MH (burns more like a 12 or 10k) with Lumenbrite reflectors. We have one return outlet towards the left center of the tank and two large powerheads on each end so all areas of the tank get lots of circular flow. Our photo-period is 12 hrs and we feed the tanks about 3 times per day.

2: 2x3'x14" deep. This started out as more of a holding tank that I now use to grow out a lot of softy frags. We will be upgrading the lights to MH soon as it just has 4 T5's at the moment.

3. 3x5x15" deep. Part of this tank has a built in sump like the first tank. Lighting 1: 250w 14k Phoenix HQI, really needs to be changed. Out of the three tanks, this one holds the most of our "display" stuff. However we will be switching this tank over to prop only within the next month or so.

This event is approaching fast!
We need to get a list of volunteers up & running, and I'd like for the core team to meet sometime later this week if everyone could put 1 hour aside ?

ok

Who will be the speakers?

I would be glad to help on the day of the show.

A quick run down of volunteers needed. If I missed anything, please jump in.

Concessions, 1 or 2 (we will have drinks and snacks, no cooking!!)
Raffles, 1 person (we will only have a couple of raffle items)
Laptops with operators, we need at least two, one for the auction and one for checkout
Powerpoint projector with operator
Doorman to check membership and collect entry fees from non-members
Membership table, we may get a few new members at this event, so we need someone to help with membership applications
Auction check in and handling, I think we want at least 3 or 4 people for this

No speakers at this event. We have a speaker at our monthly meeting in September. Next speaker will be either December or January. November will be a joint meeting with ACROS and TBRC in Venice. More info on later events will be posted under monthly meetings as the information is available and dates are confirmed.

Bump...Tomorrow is the big Day!

SWFMAS Decals will also be For sale at the event tomorrow ( $4 for small decals and $5 for large decals).

WOW!

That is all I can say ... Thank you all!
We had a great time, even while it lasted longer while expected ... It really was a great time!

Thank You all for coming, and Thank You all for supporting the club!

Marco Prechel
President

To Marco, Christina, Jeff, Scott and everybody else who helped out with the auction,

Thanks for a great event! Most of you may not know me now as I am pretty new to the club. But I intend to become much more active and look forward to getting to know everybody. Everybody I met yesterday was friendly and helpful. And despite the event running kind of long, everybody was still in good spirits right up till the end (I left with just a few items to be auctioned off). And I recognize that after the event was over, there was still work to be done cleaning up the facility and such. Next time I hope you guys will know me better and invite me in (drag me kicking and screaming) to help out. Now that I can put faces with a few of the names here at the website, I'll be a little more active and look forward to the next meeting. Thanks again.

Ron Lindensmith
PS. Marco, let me know when you get my membership card printed and I'll make arrangements to pick it up. I'd love to see your aquarium(s).

great job everyone and i got some beautiful coral too.
also sorry i had to bail, it was my dads last day in town so i had to leave a little early.

Thanks everyone for the hard work! I had a great time. The corals I won are looking great.
PS- I still want a piece of that Idaho Grape! If you have some, let me know what you want for a trade.
Bill

I'll be taking one or two to Nokomis.