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NCPARS/TFP Winter Frag Swap 2010 Wrap-up
Feb 3rd
For those of you who weren’t able to attend this year’s TFP/NCPARS Winter Frag Event, you missed a great time! Over a 6 hour period on that frigid Saturday (Jan. 30), our retail store was what can only be described as a reef geek’s dream. What spends most of the year as our pond fish and plant display room, became a sea of people, tables, and tanks. The event had over 400 attendees in the swap area, thousands of coral frags of all kinds, great deals from our manufacturers, and a whole lot of smiles. A big thanks and congratulations to everyone at NCPARS and the TFP staff who was involved organizing and working the event, even though it got a little crazy for a while, things went smoothly and we all had a great time. More >
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Jan 20th
Hello everyone! We are only ten days away from the second annual TFP/NCPARS Winter Frag Event, being held here at our retail store in Lancaster, PA . On Saturday January 30th our store will be invaded by coral reef enthusiast from all over the northeast, we are looking forward to having a great time, and a great turn out. Last years event was a blast, everyone had a great time, we think this year will be even better. The event is open to anyone who wants to attend, there will be an admission charge to enter the frag swap market area, and have access to the special speaker presentations, and Raffles. Visit Fragswapper.com to pre-register and get more information. Pre-registration is not required. Whether your just starting out in the reef hobby or you’ve been collecting for years, you may find something awesome to take home to your tank. There should be in excess of 1,000 frags available between the swap and TFP’s own stock! More >
(+1 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...January Teaser – The Upcoming 2010 Winter Frag Swap Event
Dec 9th
That’s right! The NCPARS/That Fish Place Winter Frag Event will be back again in just a few short weeks! On Saturday January 30th from 11 pm-5 pm, we’ll be hosting NCPARS (North Central PA Aquarium Reef Society) members and coral fraggers and collectors from near and far for the biggest fragging event of the season. Industry experts and vendors will be here to help you with reefing and fragging needs, there will be fragging demos, and LOTS of frags, fish, inverts and other goods. Save the date for this fun and frag-filled event!
Last year’s event was a big success and hundreds of beautiful coral frags found new homes. For more details and to register visit fragswapper.com. and watch for more updates at ThatFishPlace.com closer to the big day! Admission will be 5.00 for members and 10.oo for non-members, and there will be bargins galore.
See you then!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Update: NCPARS/That Fish Place Retail Store Frag Swap Event January 31
Jan 14th
Hi, Dave here, It has been a while since I have posted a blog entry, I have busy working on some renovations and remodeling of our fish room here in our store. The bulk of the work is now complete, and wow what a change we have made, the fish room seems HUGE now. Anyone who has not visited the store in the last couple months is in for a surprise when they visit the fish room. Walls are missing, systems have moved, systems have expanded, and we are not done yet!
One of the objectives of the remodel was to create a bigger, better open space in what was our “pond room” for hosting events and having a flexible area for whatever we want to use it for. The first event to take advantage of this new space will be the TFP/NCPARS winter frag swap extravaganza on January 31st, 2009.
I wanted to add some more details about the event, which we had announced a while back, and had a previous blog entry for.
The Frag Swap is being run by NCPARS (the North Central Pennsylvania Reef aquarium Society) and all proceeds from the event will go to benefit the club. Information about the club can be found on their website http://www.ncpars.org/. Entrance to the event is $5 for members and $10 for non members. Attendees and sellers can pre-register on http://www.fragswapper.com/
The event has morphed into much more than just a frag swap, and will be of interest to any marine aquarium hobbyist, from beginner to expert. Through TFP’s assosiation with industry leading manufacturer’s and experts, we have put together a show that will include some great seminars, as well as on-hand manufacturers representatives to answer questions about their products.
Seminars for the event include:
Anthony Calfo: Anthony is a well known reef aquarium expert, Authored “The Book of Coral Propagation” and is the publisher of “C the Journal“. Anthony has spent years traveling the world and working in many phases of the industry, his seminar for this event is “Interesting facilities of the world” a showcase of places he has visited through the years in all areas of the hobby.
Steven Pro: Steven has worked in the industry for many years in many capacaties, including retail, wholesale, maintenance, and now manufacturing. Steven’s presentation “You Touched it, Now What? Poisonous, Venomous, and Contagious things in your aquarium” puts together many things that he has seen and learned about dangerous things in your reef aquarium, and how to deal with them.
Randy Reed: Founder of Reed Mariculture, a manufacturer of specialty reef foods, that includes Phytoplankton and Zooplankton diets. Randy will do a presentation about the “Fundamentals of Feeding Your Reef”
Dave Troop and Mike Elliot: Dave and Mike are the founders of a new company in the hobby, Aquatic Life. Dave and Mike have been integral members of a number of industry leading companies through the years, and have now joined forces to start a new company, that strives to bring truly innovative lighting and products to the hobby. As a former TFP employee, Dave is returning home, to provide a presentation about ” Understanding light Output”
Ike Eigenbrode: Ike is a long time hobbyist, and is now the vice president of sales and marketing of Current USA, an industry leader in aquarium lighting and chiller manufacturing. Ike is going to do a presentation on ”Aquariums and Energy Efficiency”
Along with these Seminars, manufacturer Representatives from Brightwell Aquatics, Kent Marine, Seachem, EcoTech Marine, Ice Cap, Coralife, Red Sea, and others will be present throughout the show to answer questions and showcase some of their products.
Last but not least THE DEALS! TFP will give every paid attendee a 20% off one item coupon, good for use after the sale (restrictions apply). In cooperation with our manufacturers, both attending and non attending, we will have a selection of over 300 additional products on sale the day of the event ranging from 10% – 25% off our already low prices. These sale items will only be available to frag swap attendees.
Also benefiting NCPARS, the show will end with a raffle of some really great items that have been donated by our manufacturers. A sample of some of the items in the raffle include:
Complete Solana and Cardiff aquarium setups from Current USA, these are beautiful high end nano aquarium, valued at over $700 dollars each! These aquariums will be set up as displays during the show, so you can see them in all their beauty!
EcoTech Marine Vortec WMP 20 wave pump
Sunlight Supply 400watt Blue Wave Metal Halide ballast
Red Sea C-Skim 1200 Protein Skimmer
Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor
And Many more items………
Come Join us January 31st from 11-5 for our first frag swap, there is alot of buzz about the show, and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Schedule of Events:
| 11:00 | Event Begins |
| 11:30 | demo 1: fragging corals |
| 12:00 | demo 2: tank drilling |
| 12:30 | demo 3: setting up a calcium reactor |
| 1:00 | Anthony Calfo “Interesting facilities of the world” |
| 2:00 | Steven Pro “You touched it, now what? “ |
| 3:00 | Aquatic life (Dave Troop/Mike Elliot) “Understanding Light Output” |
| 3:30 | Current USA (Ike Eigenbrode) “Aquariums and Energy Efficiency |
| 4:00 | Reed Mariculture (Randy Reed) “Fundamentals of Feeding Your Reef |
| 4:30 | Raffle |
| 5:00 | event ends |
Hope to see you there,
Dave
(-1 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...That Fish Place and NCPARS Frag Swap Event January 31st
Dec 31st
Just wanted to announce That Fish Place’s first Frag Swap and event this January 31st at the That Fish Place/That Pet Place Retail Store
At this point, we’ve never tried such a hobbyist-centered event, and though many of us have been to swaps, we’ve never attempted one of our own.
The folks from NCPARS though (North Central Pennsylvania Reef Aquarium Society), crank them out all the time, so they’re helping us.
What intially was billed as just a frag swap, has since morphed into an extravaganza, as lots of vendors and top aquarium hobbyists have jumped on board to display products and give away stuff.
Entry fee is $10 for non-NCPARS members, and $5 for members. Entry fee also snags you a 20% off coupon for the store, as well as up to 25% off certain vendor products, including Marineland, Current-USA, Red Sea, Tetra, Instant Ocean, Aquatic Life, Brightwell Aquatics and others.
Experts like Anthony Calfo and Steven Pro will be on hand to give seminars and demonstrate products.
If you’re in the Lancaster, PA area, be sure to stop in.
If you need directions, check out here.
Check our further details here.
If you have any other questions, be sure to post them and we’ll get back to you.
It’ll also give you a chance to see our soon-to-be-expanded reef area in the fish room (Blog coming soon…)
Hope to see you there.
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