Regional Club Frag Swap - Guidelines & Rare Consideration

[Unarce]

Hi Everyone,

As promised, here are the guidelines for the Regional Club Frag Swap on November 4th. Some of you will notice that the structure is identical to how BAR conducted theirs back in February. For those that are seasoned frag swap veterans, this will be second nature.

To be entitled to participate in the swap, you must bring at least 3 frags along with your prepayment for lunch. If you’re unable to contribute frags, you may ‘Buy In’ to the swap by donating $15 (which will also be pooled into the proceeds for charity). Again, this is open to everyone that is and isn’t a club member.

Please bring your corals:

1) Pre-fragged
Preferably, pre-fragged with enough time to encrust/attach onto something. If the frags you are bringing are fresh cut, please frag the coral the night before to give the frag time to stop sliming and sloughing, and to improve survivability before packing it to bring to the swap.

2) In a plastic container or double bagged
I highly recommend the Rubbermaid TakeAlongs containers, which never leak. The containers by Glad aren’t nearly as leak proof. Double bagged LFS bags are fine as well, but please NO ziploc bags.

3) Labeled
Please do your best to label each frag with a Sharpie. Please include the frag’s common name and/or scientific name, brief tank placement description (i.e. low, 250W), and your RC handle.

I also suggest you bring some kind of ice chest/cooler for the corals that you pick during the swap. Blue LED flashlights are also handy for quick decision making.

Pick Order
Each participant will be given a nametag and Letter, which will be the group with whom you’ll pick with.
Corals will be grouped according to type.
Groups will rotate through the picking area with each person picking 1 coral.
Bonus tickets will pick first in each round.
The order of groups picking will go up, then down. For example, if there are 3 groups the order would be:
Bonus, A, B, C…
Bonus, …C, B, A
Bonus, A, B, C…

Bonus round/bonus tickets
Bonus tickets are obtained by bringing 'rare' corals, or by bringing multiple other corals. For each Bonus ticket, you get one pick in a Bonus round which is in place of your normal picking group in that round. If you have multiple bonus tickets, you can only use one in each bonus round. Once you are out of bonus tickets, you will revert to your regular picking group for the next round. If a bonus round has too many people in it, it will be split into two just to make the picking area less frantic.

One bonus ticket is given for each of the following:
2 'rare' frags
12 'normal' frags

I’m really looking forward to seeing you all on the 4th!

Best regards,

Karl

 

[xia]

Karl, will you be determining the "rare" stuff? Can't wait to see what people will be bringing?

 

[Justin74]

would it be possible to get a list of genus/specie that would be considered "rare". I understand that it may be a generic list and ultimately will be determined by you or your help.

-Justin

 

[Unarce]

I forgot about the 'rare' part. Guess I'll have to do that again for this one

If you have any in question, please post a pic and list the species here: Basically, anything from the Limited Edition list will be a shoe in. Stuff that isn't, like the Oregon Tort, Real Deal Echinata, GARF Bonsai, A. maxima, etc. are obvious rares as well.

Bring on the eye candy

 

[Justin74]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8292919#post8292919 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Unarce

Bring on the eye candy

Still waiting

-Justin

 

[Justin74]

Out of curiousity are these considered rare?

Ora tort

green w/red polyp digi, and lavendar w/ green polyp digi

Orange Crush

-Justin

 

[Sparkss]

Justin,

He listed the oregon tort as being rare ( we lost ours to AEFWs ) but I don't know about the digis, if they are then that is great, since we have huge colonies of both

 

[Justin74]

Hey Tom, ya I wasnt sure if the ORA tort was less rare than the Oregon tort, or if there all pretty much rare.

-Justin

 

[Sparkss]

d0h !!, my bad, I misread your post. I thought you were referring to the oregon tort, not the ORA one, sorry 'bout that . I will just hush up and let Karl chime in

 

[Unarce]

by Justin74
Out of curiousity are these considered rare?

Ora tort

I'm a little mixed with this one. There's a lot of the California/ORA tort out there, but I think that has more to do with the fact that it was one of the earlier collected pieces. It's still a fairly slow grower, so yes for rare.


green w/red polyp digi, and lavendar w/ green polyp digi

I'd have to say no for the Green/Red digi. Definitely yes for the ROAB Lavender/Green digi.

Orange Crush

I'm told that the Orange Crush is pretty abundant. That, plus the fact it's an Acan would mean it's too common.

Any radical color morph of Acans, like some of the ones from Japan would be considered rare. Especially, the A. maxima and A. bowerbankii, but I don't think we'll be seeing any of those in the swap.

Thanks, Justin!

 

[Justin74]

Thanks Karl
From what I understand it would have to be a fairly old A.maxima, as there illegal to collect where they grow. And the one being sold on atlantis's sight is/was a mis I.D'd one.

Oh well, another year of bench warmer

-Justin

 

[Sparkss]

s'ok Justin, we are in the same boat...

 

[Justin74]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8356124#post8356124 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sparkss
s'ok Justin, we are in the same boat...

I got em' but there frags themselves!
Next year I expect to be rubbin elbows with you over at the rare table though Tom Our Alex's unknown is sure to go LE by then :lol:


-Justin

 

[dots]

I wish mine were not still so small I think I would have a lot for this category......oh well maybe next time.....

 

[Pico1]

LMK what would be considered rare, I only have a few high end corals that are actually ready for fragging:
-tyree phonape birdsnest- about .5"
-tub's green with purple polyp birdsnest- a bit bigger than .5"
-blue milli- just over 1"
-garf purple bonsai- about .5"
-exotic reefs horrida- just under 1"
-cali tort- 1"

*Sizes are the size of the frag I would be bringing, not the colony's size.

 

[Unarce]

That is quite a collection, Jordan. These 4 are definitely in

-tyree phonape birdsnest- about .5"

-tub's green with purple polyp birdsnest- a bit bigger than .5"

-garf purple bonsai- about .5"

-cali tort- 1"

 

[Pico1]

Cool. I have a ton of other things for next years swap but right now there frags themselves . I'm hoping in a few years my tank will be similar to Tim's tank, just on a smaller scale.

 

[little_d]

How about LE Green Poyp Toadstool I got from Matt at reefready and Neon Green Clove from Atlantis?

Anthony

 

[Unarce]

I'll say yes on both, Anthony. I think a minimum of 3 cloves for the Atlantis piece would be a fair entry.

 

[Izsabelle]

Karl, are true blue zoos still rare or bright yellow zoos?