What did everyone get at Fall Fest yesterday?

Me to KP. I got some orange and red chalices and also got a sweet rose colored nem with a green center from Terri (Songe). My lights were already down to the actinitics by the the time I got home so lights weren't a factor when it came to acclimating. I dipped all my frags before putting them in.

 

INSPIRATION!!!!!

Events like this always gets my wheels turning

 

Not sure if id be able to go and not buy anything lol. Thatd be hard...I got about a dozen frags. Mostly zoas of unusual colors and got some hammer and some birdnest...it was 8 oclock by the time I got home so I floated the bags for a while and put them in under my actinics. I made a small stand out of eggcrate that I put all the frags on for the night on the sandbed. Reaquascaped and added rock today and placed frags in the tank today.

 

Bigkel...can u send me a pic of how the tank looks now? Wife wants to see. 515-661-3537 if you dont havr my num still.

 

Mike, I'll try but my phone doesn't show show it's true colors.

 

K... I have same problem with my phone. I set the white balance to cloudy on the settings and that helps with mine.

 

Yeah KP give me about a month and my tank should be ready for ya to check out. You'd be dissapointed right now.

 

me and the wife picked up some
1. red gonipora with blue centers
2. superman mushrooms (beef)
3. red digitata
4. 8 zoas of rastas from (coral haven) for 15$ my deal of the fest
5. orange chaos zoas (beef)
6. purple zoas with yellow centers and skirts (beef)
7. blue echinata (jenette becker)
8. watermellon millipora (captians corals)
9. me and the wife each got a invert pac from ACC and a box of reef crystals (thanks craig)

kyle we did or drip and dip on everything then i inspected frag plugs as we removed everything from them and placed it in our tank.

 

Picked up some Zoa,s, Acans, and a Sun Coral colony. Actually could have spent more but had to hold back some due to no lights.


All Items were temp acclimated, all corals were Bayer dipped, rinsed in tank water and dropped into place.

 

I tend to somehow end up with lots of green and oranges in my tank, so I got some pink zoas /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/biggrin.gif and a blue & yellow alveopora. A nice colony of zoas that have orange, red, white and blue in them. And of course had to buy a couple of the neon "pointing" sticks /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/smile.gif

Floated the bags for 20-30 minutes. Then put everything on a frag rack in the sump and let it be for the night. Then dipped everything in the morning with reef dip and put them on the in-tank frag rack. Still no placements yet!

This was my first frag fest and I had a good time, and met some nice people! Can't wait for the next one!

 

I traded for a frag of duncans and zoas (I was selling at the show). Appreciate the opportunity and hope people are happy with the frags they bought from my ghetto set up ... ha.

I acclimated these by floating the bags for 15 min or so, then pouring about 1/2 more water in, and after another 20 min or so, switch about half the water for tank water and after another 15-20 min they went in the tank.

I mount these little frags to a small piece of LR first or there's too much chance of just losing them in the tank. Unfortunately those rocks are just sitting on the bottom as I have to get rid of more corals to even place them.

I need to start a thread to see if anybody wants any frilly mushrooms, flourescent green mushroom leathers, ...

 

I picked up a couple of items I've been wanting, a gold torch (thanks Coral Haven), some pink candy canes (thanks Jeanette), and purple gorgonian (don't know). I also picked up some red purple eaters. Sponge GAVE my son a frag of Devil's Armor palys, so of course he now wants a tank of his own for his frag of palys. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/rolleyes.gif I got a "pointing stick" too, but should have gotten a few more. They're so handy; I've already used it for uprighting snails and adjusting frags. My son and I had a great time, and it was nice meeting some and catching up with the few people I know. I'm looking forward to future events.

 

I picked up a couple of items I've been wanting, a gold torch (thanks Coral Haven), some pink candy canes (thanks Jeanette), and purple gorgonian (don't know). I also picked up some red purple eaters. Sponge GAVE my son a frag of Devil's Armor palys (how nice of her!), so of course he now wants a tank of his own for his frag of palys. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/rolleyes.gif I got a "pointing stick" too, but should have gotten a few more. They're so handy; I've already used it for uprighting snails and adjusting frags. My son and I had a great time, and it was nice meeting some and catching up with the few people I know. I'm looking forward to future events.

 

Oh yeah, I temp acclimated them and then dipped in a Coral Rx solution. Rinsed in tank water and put them on a rack on the bottom of the tank. They'll be placed after an aquascape rearrange to make more room.