Regional frag swap in Dixon on Sat. Oct. 6

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budgetyourself

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Hi - It is time to start getting ready for the regional frag swap to be held in Dixon on Saturday Oct. 6. We will be starting promptly at 12:30.

You must be a member of a reef club to be able to participate. You should be able to join a local club the day of the swap.

There will be a Rare category, you will have to bring 2 rare frags to earn one pick. This way, rare corals make it into the general swap. As the time gets closer, rare corals will be determined.

We will be picking in groups, when you arrive you will draw a name tag with a picking group on it. We will be picking Rare, A, B, C, etc. then start back down - C, B, A, Rare.

We will be having a BBQ for the cost of $6.00

If you do not have frags to bring, you can buy in for $15.00 which will go towards the purchase of frags to add to the tables.

We will also be having a raffle of corals.

This only works if we have alot of generous poeple who are willing to frag their corals to share with others. Start fragging now, so your corals get a chance to heal.
 
You scared me.....i was sitting on my couch and had to look behind me because i thought that you were going to jump out at me like in a horror movie!!!
 
Chris yeah you better, and also you want to sign up to the Bar club too because their is another BAR only frag swap in Feb ... these two events will stock your tank full of stuff :D
 
It should be noted that BAR isn't about just getting free corals to stock your tanks up. In fact joining simply to go to the frag swaps is a pretty lousy reason period.
 
I'll go,But I'm only going for the Social aspect! Although I must admit I only joined NC Reefers for the frag swaps!
 
Mike, I think your taking Tom a bit out of context. If there was anyone in our group to have the best husbandry regimen, and helping newer members by giving corals, and advice to newcomers, its Tom. Not to mention, I was at the last BAR only frag swap and it was a fact that with all the BAR donated corals we ALL came home with quite a bit. I do belive it is definitely a benignity, and also belive if it wasn't for the swaps and side swaps, many BAR members wouldn't be BAR members. I think that's the reason most of us first sign up. I hope i can speak for all the Northcoast Reefers that are BAR members, we are NOT members to get FREE coral. We are members because further north there is not nearly the amount of fish stores, nor the amount of people that are into reefs as much as we are. We definitely don't want to give any impression that are intentions are just to get a handout, and I think I can say that with numerous dealings with many BAR members that they would also would agree.
 
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I realize Tom is a good guy, in fact I apologize if it came off as sounding like I was coming down on him, or anyone else in particular.

It just makes me a bit uneasy when people start pointing out "you should join because there is a frag swap, and you'll fill your tank up fast" rather than "you should join... (all the reasons you mentioned)"

I'm not putting down Tom, Yourself, or any other NCR(?) member in this fashion, just wanted to give a gentle reminder which I think even locals in my neck of the woods, occasionally need to be reminded what BAR is about.
 
Jeff, Thankd bud you are always a class act.

Mike, I wont say anything here about my intention, most of my posts are light hearted at most so next time if you have anything to tell me please just do it privately with a PM. My buddies here at North coast know what I am all about, and soon you will know too. No harm done and appology accepted.
 
Whew!!! Good to know that people love BAR not just for "free" corals :)

But seriously, Tom(among others) has been in BAR for a while now, so he knows what the club is about.

Every club has its own particular emphasis. BAR focuses on captive propagation and educating members to be good caretakers of their marine charges. And we do appreciate when members value community mindedness over self interest. Corals come first, community comes second, and the rest takes care of itself :)

We do have members that were attracted to BAR initially(or only) for the swaps. We'll try to discourage people from stocking up tanks too quickly - nothing good ever happens fast in reefing! :)

We are really happy when new members take the club mission to heart and become active supporters of club activities aside from just the swaps.

It's an ongoing effort for our BOD to foster the care and propagation of corals within the club. Sad to say that some of the corals we send out through our programs don't make it back. I suppose that it is a price to pay in order to be able to celebrate every coral that does return as a future generation.

Corals first, community second, respect for both. Propagation for its own sake and not for chop-shopping, for turning a quick buck, for instantaneously stocking a tank. for trading to build the biggest baddest coolest collection, or whatever.

We value the life of each animal down to the last polyp, and we take responsibility for giving each one its best chance of thriving, flourishing, and becoming solidly established within the club community.

If you like that brand of Kool-Aid, you are welcome to stop by our website and check things out some more :)

Norman
President - BAR
 
Thanks Norm, I agree with all you said and can assure you we also have the same mission. All the corals i got from you are doing well, and are about twice the size of when i got them from you. My favorite is the red prostrata and the alien eye chalice
 
Cool, cool :)

And it *is* ok if different clubs are into different things too. We just like to brainwash members at our meetings :)

I don't remember if I gave you the history on those two corals. They're among my favorites too.

The red prostrata came from a June 2005 BAR swap. Someone had grown it out and fragged some for the swap. MangroveCoral got a frag as one of his first picks. He ended up giving it to me that October when he had to take down his tank.

It was one of my first SPS. I grew it out into a colony, and I've fragged it from time to time. It's nice that it's been captive grown for a few years by now.

The Alien Eye I bought from one of our sponsors, New Alameda Aquatics. Even though we push the whole propagation thing, we want to support our sponsors, not take away from their business :)

I like to drop off extra corals I've grown to New Alameda. Sometimes it's for trades, but most of the time it's pretty informal... some time down the line, I'll get special consideration if something super cherry shows up. That's how I was able to get a piece of that Alien Eye :)
 
Hey Norm, I had that red prostrata in my tank for everal weeks b4 Jeff put it to his tank and you know what ... I like it in my tank much better :lol: its a beautiful red/pink which is hard to find. When ever you are selling frags of those again, please let me know..... I dont have room to add too many more corals to my tank, but I think can make room for that one :D :D

As far as club mission for North coast ... we dont have one :D :D but so far its all about sharing, trading, partying, and making great friends. I think down the road when we are bigger and have more established tanks, we will adopt simmilar mission that BAR currently is using. We think the welfare of the corals is very important and by promoting good husbantry pratices, and techniques and by trading/giving/spreading different spiecies around will help the survival of the animals. I think some of the more advance members are already starting to do this, so naturaly it will be the next step.

I have to admit that my first attemp at the DBTC has failed, I wasn't able to keep the tonga yellow pollups frag that you gave me alive. It has RTNed by getting too much light, it was encrusting very nicely in my main tank, but when I moved it to my frag tank, it didnt make it.
 
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