Just curious if anyone made it out to the NWCFM and if so how was it? I attended the one in the SF bay area last year and it was a great event. Couldn't make it to the NW one this year cuz I'm in the middle of moving but I'd like to hear how it was. So please share if you were there
Jeff
We made this year. There was 7 vendors, auctions every hour on the hour, raffles every hour half an hour after the auction and door prizes every half and hour.
I would say about 100 attendees thru out the day. Lots of rare sps from Steve Tyree and upscales.com. One ricordea only vendor. One anch zoa vendor. Colors of the corals are impressive eventhough some have travel a couple of days from California.
All the sps vendors use 400W - 12hr/day. Steve as listed in many books prefer Radium 20000k. Others prefer 12000k reeflux. Steve - no skimming with 20% water changes/month. Feeding coral with natural oyster clams that lay eggs in the tank. Others Dt phyto and oyster eggs.
Steve quantine all sps and dips them with Melafix (petsmart) - 1 cap/qt of saltwater. Dip for 4 minutes, give it a good shake so that all the hang-on pest falls off. Main problem for him isn't red bugs but flat worm. Other vendor dip them in Revive. No details.
Both our kids were the raffle and door prizes pickers.
We won a couple of rare montis. Flower petal ltd ed- thick plating cream color in the middle, green on the fringe, purple rim and intense purple polyp that pops. Blue tip monti ltd ed as well - lavender blue body and bluish polyp.
Oh, I asked if the coral farm would be held up here in Seattle area, and Steve said it was a long process to handle the state sales tax since they are selling corals at the market.
It was fun. We look forward to attending it again next year.
Fred
