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TL;DR: Saturday November 18th, 10AM, Upper Gwinn Commons, Seattle Pacific University.
Park in the Dravus Lot.
Plants, Fish and other Live Things
Card or Cash
It's time for the GSAS Aquatic Plant and Animal Auction. All the best cuttings and spawns from GSAS members, plus another generous order of plants from Florida Aquatic Nurseries. This is one of our two main yearly fundraisers for the club, and pays for bringing in big speakers and our monthly rent.
We are once again at Upper Gwinn Hall at Seattle Pacific University, same campus as our monthly meetings and Holiday Party. Click on Google directions above, or on the map to see details of the area. Please park in the Dravus lot to the Southeast. A very small amount of accessible Parking and load/unload space is available at the North side of the building as well. Outside food is not allowed inside the room...but directly downstairs is the SPU cafeteria and an Einstein Bros Bagels. Bring a water bottle!
Bidding starts at 10 AM, preview and setup at 9. We go until everything's gone (likely around 2 PM). Please read the auction guidelines for more information. If you are a member, please pre-register your items.
Remember, live items only! Please leave tanks, logs, CO2 equipment and fertilizer for April. Check Airstone and our Facebook page for updates and photos of the plant order and what members are bringing!
Non-members are always welcome to bid -- spread the news, print and hang the amazing poster from Amit! Volunteer to be a runner or recorder for a stretch.
Masks are encouraged but not required. If you have any symptoms of sickness, please be respectful of others and stay home. Similarly, be respectful of others' mask-wearing or distancing choices at our meetings.
Saturday, October 12th, 1:00 PM (noon Social/Setup)
Rob Lupton: “The latest in shrimp and inverts in our hobby, plus care and feeding”
SPU, Otto Miller Hall Room 109
Rob Lupton started his journey into the shrimp hobby in 2010, and took it to the next level by founding Flip Aquatics LLC. Rob has grown his hobby from having ten aquariums throughout his house into having over 600 aquariums and ponds in a 4,000 sq ft breeding facility. Currently, Flip Aquatics is one of the largest shrimp focused businesses in the United States. In addition to a YouTube following of over 40,000 people, Rob has been a featured speaker at The Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies, the Raleigh Aquarium Society, and at Aquashella Aquarium Festival on multiple occasions. As the hobby grows, Robert plans to continue to grow and expand with it.
After the main presentation, stay for the Monthly Auction (sellers, pre-register your stuff here).fish and equipment people have accumulated over the summer...
Hope everyone's having a great summer. The Greater Seattle Aquarium Society Fall Schedule is out, and we have an incredible line-up for the next four months...and for the first time, dates, times and locations are all set!
A belated thank you to everyone who came out in force to our record-breaking general auction this year, especially to all our volunteers who worked tirelessly the whole day. And a special thanks to the sponsor stores and national companies.
Our big auctions still remain the primary source of income from the club, and their success means we can pay our rent and Internet video storage bills, bring in top quality speakers, and have nice prizes in our contests throughout the year. Thanks again!
Saturday, May 11th, 1:00 PM (noon Social/Setup)
Dick Au: “Keeping Trophy Discus”
SPU, Otto Miller Hall Room 109
Also: Informal potluck Friday May 10th 5:30~9 PM in North Seattle
Dick Au is a very experienced, hands-on, aquarium hobbyist. Having spent decades in the hobby, he is a master breeder and has bred more than several hundred varieties of aquarium fish. He is a life member of the San Francisco Aquarium Society, an author, show judge and lecturer. His lectures are always entertaining and invariably generate “Aha!” moments as he shares the results of his detective work revealing secrets in keeping and breeding your favorite aquarium gems. He has given lectures at many aquarium societies and conventions across the globe, including the American Cichlid Association, Aquarama in Singapore, and most recently, Sacramento Aquarium Society's “Findig”.
Dick's fascination with Discus began as a child living close to several ornamental fish farms in Hong Kong, China. Every day, after school, he would spend hours at a nearby farm watching a pair of brown discus nursing fry under a huge Amazon sword plan. He was so mesmerized that he had never been without Discus, all through college, raising a family and a career in the computer software industry. During the past 60 years, he witnessed and participated in the evolution of the discus hobby from when discus was only available in brown color all the way to today when they are available in all the colors of the rainbow. Dick has written frequently for various publications. He authored two books on discus – The back-to-nature Guide to Discus, and Trophy Discus – the art of selecting, grooming, and showing Discus.
Following the meeting, our Monthly Auction (sellers, pre-register your stuff here).
Members, join us the evening before the talk for a backyard potluck gathering in North Seattle. This is an opportunity to just hang out with our speaker and other GSAS members informally! RSVP to Mark at margenex@comcast.net for directions and what to bring.
