ACA 2008 (lots of fish pictures and more...)

[ikevi]

I just wanted to show some of the auction... I forgot my camera, so these aren't taken by me. They were posted by Eric at our AAAA forum. NOTE it is very hard to realize just how many fish there were... The ceiling was what 30 ft tall? so really that is likely ~3000 bags of fish.


So quoting Eric:

Well I got there at 8am this morning so of course we were just preparing tables etc.:

And the room where the fish were going to be was just starting to get some dry goods in it:

But it was packed with fish pretty fast:

And the auction was going well:

This is what the fish room looked like at 4:15pm, right before I left: almost empty!

Back to me, Kevin. As of 5pm when I went home there were still a little over 100 bags of fish. The 10s were going for 6 bucks and the 20s for 12, filters were oversold since they were selling them at two places.... I don't know when things fully wrapped up. When I got home I sort of fell on my bed and woke up 4 hours later.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

wee need one of these closer to the tri state

 

[Mr.V]

wee need one of these closer to the tri state

What he said

 

[AquaPets]

I decided to make a new thread since this one is mostly just fish.
For setup see: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156767

So here are some fish photos and some people shots. I personally got to busy after 1:30 since I and a few other people set up oh ~25 more tanks. I also was in charge of making sure all the donated fish got into tanks and weren't going to die. (I say I did a good job considering the circumstances.) All fish were doing well when I left. I dread bagging for tomorrow.

Needless to say I am dead tired again. But before I sleep here are photos:

First most fish from the top row... I took these early before things got crazy so I missed a bunch. I learned a bunch about Discus from Discus Hans. Though sadly I had to miss his talk since I was dealing with the 30 boxes of fish...

I am not going to comment much.





A very controversial fish... Beautiful fish but well needless to say every person stops at that tank for some reason or another.

Now this is what I was doing... Most people likely heard me yelling over the top of everyone to get things done. Needless to say people get chatting here. (Oh and I have to say this is a lot more work then I expected... )

Anyways what happened was 30 boxes were picked up by me and John. From there I and a bunch of AAAA put them into the tanks we had... Sadly about 15 had broken so we didn't have enough tanks. We stuffed the fish into 10s till we had some more tanks brought in. (A family that I wont name since I don't really want to say last names, but mad props to them.) Anyways 2 55s, and many many more tens/twenties/fifteens were filled by me and Becky. We ended up moving about half the fish to new tanks. Refilling some tanks with new water and more fun.... Anyways here are some more pictures of some of the temp tanks setup.

Hybrid????????? In which area? can't blamed the fish have such nice deep orange red colors.

 

[mkman]

whats up with the controversial fish? Can you tell me more? Is there a pic of Neoprodigy anywhere?

 

[ikevi]

Like I said I was just stating that it was a controversal fish... And that about 1/3 were saying it was a hybrid. IF you had bothered to read the whole thread you would see that I stated that it was NOT DQ, hence it was judged to be a xanthic morphs of appendiculatus, and likely line breed from there.

I never said the fish was bad, I just was reporting what I saw and heard. I really don't wish for hybrid arguments to be in this thread. So I personally just want to drop it.

 

[Red Devil]

you did a fantastic job bringing this event to us and we appreciate it very much..

 

[tezr]

you did a fantastic job bringing this event to us and we appreciate it very much..

Great coverage of the event plus all the work you put into it, your club is very lucky to have you as a member!!!!!
Job well done!!!!

 

[fishfarm]

Hybrid????????? In which area? can't blamed the fish have such nice deep orange red colors.

Extremely nice pair of fish, was one of the main topic discussed in the showroom and it was NOT disqualified as a hybrid and was judged as a H. severum color morph. Being small for a severum and a little squatty bodied they did not place, so the main ACA judge did not see it as a hybrid. On another note, a Florida fish farmer who was there offered him $500 for the pair and he turned it down, I think I would have sold them! Ken

 

[BigMOCats]

I knew there was reason I didn't take many pics of the fish...........they never would have turned out this good. Thanks ikevi!