2019 Auctions , Shows , Swap Meets and DInner Talks

[lesfromlakeshore]

Jan 26th ............Grand Valley Aquarium Club Swap Meet

gvaquariumclub.org/swap-meets/

Feb 2nd ............Michigan Cichlid Association Auction

michigancichlid.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=9788.0

Feb 16th ...........Motor City Aquarium Society Auction

www.motorcityaquariumsociety.com/auction.html

Feb 23rd ...........Durham Region Aquarium Society Annual Speaker DInner with Spencer Jack

www.dras.ca/annual-dinner-2019/

March 23rd .......Hamilton and District Aquarium Society Show and Auction ..... Details to follow.

March 23rd........Grand Valley Aquarium Club Spring Auction

March 23rd.........Greater Detroit Aquarium Society

greaterdetroitaquariumsociety.org/auction-info/

March 30-31st....Michigan Killifish Association , 2019 Motor City Review . Quality Inn , Troy Michigan

March 31st .......Barrie Regional Aquarium Society of Simcoe Auction .........Details to follow.

April 7th .............Durham Region Aquarium Society Aquariana ...........Details to follow

April 13th ..........Sarnia Aquarium Society Auction ............ Details to follow.

April 27th ..........Windsor Aquarium Society Swap Meet ...........Details to follow.

May 5th............London Aquarium Society Show and Auction ..........Details to follow

May 17-19th.......CAOAC Convention , Burlington , Ont. www.caoac.ca/convention.html

June 1st ............Windsor Aquarium Society annual Bus Trip to Toronto area fish stores.... Seats still available

June 15th ..........Peel Regional Aquarium Club DInner and Talk featuring Josh Cunningham

August 3rd..........Michigan Cichlid Association Summer Swap


More to come

[lesfromlakeshore]

First up is the Grand Valley Aquarium Club Swap Meet held this Saturday January 26th .

[lesfromlakeshore]

Christina , Gabe , Les Jr and myself made the trip over to Grand Rapids Michigan to attend the Grand Rapid Aquarium Society Swap Meet .

We left Les Jr’s around 6.45 am and headed stateside .Thanks Les Jr for driving

[lesfromlakeshore]

Getting there was a breeze , no issues with snow even though Grand Rapids gets tons of snow a year blowing off of Lake Michigan. We arrived with enough time to grab a quick snack and than headed to the Swap.

Having never attending a Swap before our expectations were very high. As we paid our $3 admission and headed in we were met with at first looked like a pretty much empty gym .

[lesfromlakeshore]

In all reality there was around 25 to 30 sellers in a huge gym so it looked underwhelming. As all fish events there was a lot of African Cichlids and once you looked around there was lots of other fish , fish foods , used equipment and plants .

We made some contacts and talked to a couple of people about coming to Windsor to talk at our club meeting so stay tuned for that announcement in the near future.

There were two Youtubers there . One in particular caught Chistina’s attention.




That’s Christina with L R Bretz . Great guy and an outstanding hobbyist with over 300 aquariums in is house . Check out his YouTube channel , just search LR Bretz Aquatics on YouTube .

[lesfromlakeshore]

Added

London Aquarium Society Show and Auction on May 5th

Grand Valley Aquarium Club Spring Auction on March 23rd

[lesfromlakeshore]

Next Auction is this Saturday February 2nd when the Michigan Cichlid Association hosts their annual winter auction .

Details are here

michigancichlid.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=9788.0

Anyone planning on going .

[guppyguy]

Looks like you guys had a great time. Did you learn the in and out of how they run there swap meet ?

[lesfromlakeshore]

Added Michigan Killifish Association 2019 Motor City Review

[lesfromlakeshore]

Next Auction is on February 16th when the Motor City Aquarium Society hosts thier annual spring Auction . This is an all species Auction with a huge variety of fish , plants etc .

Who’s planning on going ? I know I’m going weather permitting .

[gabor129]

I probably will be going, there is a couple of fish I’m looking for.

[freshwater]

I also want to go, but watching the weather for Saturday

[Xander]

Looks like I'll be tagging along~

[lesfromlakeshore]

Weather looks fine for Saturday. Looks like we are going to an auction .

[lesfromlakeshore]

Crazy auction to say the least . By far the most people I have ever seen at an auction and the prices reflected that . Here are a few examples , a mated pair of angels went for $125 , a bag of 4 Multi shell dwellers went for $60 and another for $75 . Guppies we’re through the roof . Still had a great time and I think there were at least 8 to 10 WAS members there .