Emerald525 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Shout out to Rudy at Golden Basket Reef for hosting this event! Also to Mattv for helping organize this! I also would like to thank all of the volunteers who helped out! Special thanks to Badxgillen, Sirena, Gil@Fin, Kknight, MrBret, Spectra, Brian67, Milesmiles, Flashyfins, Jorge, Rbeyer, Lexinverts, Fishoutawater for volunteering the time at the food and frag booth. Thanks for all of the generous donations! Also shout out to VW reefs for donating 2 50 dollar gift certificates for our TFT raffle! Vance is super down to earth and honest guy! Special thanks to Cuttlefishandcorals for the high end frags and generous donations. Jeff you are always an amazing supporter of TFT Reefnjunkie for the high end SPS Arsonmfg for quite a few high end pieces as well BadxGillen who always goes above and beyond Spectra who has always been such a generous supporter of TFT. Scott you are one in a million. Thanks for hauling tables down too. Thanks again to the following members who donated: MrBret Powderblue Lexinverts arsonmfg Rolekii Stylaster Gumby Badxgillen Flashyfins nanoreefer Paratore Spectra Gil&Fin Milesmiles Salty Also thanks to Smann for donating a table and cloths for the event! I'm sure I have forgotten someone! We did very well and made at least 1000 dollars for TFT today! MrBret will have the finally tally! My apologies to anyone I forgot on the list! Thanks everyone for buying generously! Here are some pictures but Badxgillen will have more and better ones! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 No pics But was a great time and was glad to hear what the tanks for teachers did! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted July 24, 2016 Author Share Posted July 24, 2016 That's Brad actually making an appearance at a club function!!!???? That's Badxgillen himself admiring the coolest tank MrBret and Softy! Next was Stumptown corals!! Mattv and Pantherguy!! Mattv did a lot of behind the scenes to make this happen and was a huge help with giving tips to make the club tank look nice! Next was Jason Fox Corals As expected he brought some really nice high end pieces! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted July 24, 2016 Author Share Posted July 24, 2016 Next was VW Reefs! Vance was super nice and honest! He had some nice stuff at great prices! Thanks again for the donation of gift certificates!! And again thanks Rudy for hosting and letting us use your water. I know you put a lot of work into this to make it happen!! Thanks for hosting. I didn't actually get a picture of the coral godfather but Bert did! Next was Premium Aquarium! Great group of guys!!! Garrett is not in the picture but I know Bert got one Next was Stylaster and all his sweet corals he got from Tonga. Oh your clams were so nice I was tempted! And holding up the rear was PNWMAS!! Holly aka GIL &Fin hamming it up! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Oh and that's my bald head with Jason Fox oh wait I have more hair than Jason does........ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted July 24, 2016 Author Share Posted July 24, 2016 Oregon Reef Expo was a success !!Thanks again so much Sirena the First Lady !! She manned the food booth most of the day and did parking lot derail!! Could not have done this without you!![/url Also special thanks to Kknight for manning the food table most of the day! Thanks again everyone for the generous donations. I am really proud to be part of this club. We filled that 30 gallon tank and had many left over that Badxgillen will be the keeper of! Thanks again Badxgillen for taking charge of the frags!That means we have more frags to make even more money for TFT so keep posted we will be auctioning some higher end frag packs! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Why does it look like I'm pretend shooting at the ground?? Oh yeah, I had a great time. Thanks to the godfather for initiating this 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Why does it look like I'm pretend shooting at the ground?? Oh yeah, I had a great time. Thanks to the godfather for initiating this I think you were just trying to get rid of the cheatoe dust 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesmiles902 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 This was a killer event. Thank you Rudy, and thank you everyone for making this happen. Now let's see some corals. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 (edited) This was a killer event. Thank you Rudy, and thank you everyone for making this happen. Now let's see some corals. Well I did bring a few things home with me....... Thanks again to VW Reefs! Great stuff Grabbed this torch and an undata from our own local Stumptown Corals...... Could not pass up this acro and also a zoa from GBR! Thanks again for putting this on! Edited July 24, 2016 by spectra 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherguy30 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Corals are looking good Scott!!! Huge thank you to everyone who came out and supported this awesome event today!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paratore Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Snagged some Killer Zoas Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badxgillen Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 What a great day, such a success. Believe it or not I just finished putting corals away. We left a little late and caught a little bit of traffic on the way back. And once home it was time to acclimate corals, eat dinner, put corals away and now I am getting my kids to bed. A big applause for all the people involved in the glorious event today, it was spot on. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbeyer80 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Had a great time and scored some nice goodies, I hope this can become a yearly function Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbeyer80 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Well I guess being called "first annual" I guess I should have read into that a bit more before my previous post... Duh. Again what a awesome event! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsonmfg Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Sounds like you guys had a great time, I'm glad to have helped with the corals, TFT is a great program. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquanius Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Dang, my lights are out but I will post some pics when I turn them back on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higher Thinking Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 This was really fun for sure. It was nice to just sit around and chat without much of an agenda...except spend money. Great to see so many familiar faces and also meet some new ones. Also, special shout out to Rudy for remembering my name even though we have only meet like once or twice before (and it was a long time ago)! Sharp memory! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g2theram Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 I did t get to stay long since I had to get back to work but it was long enough to put a dent in my wallet. Thanks to everyone who helped put on this event it was awesome. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesmiles902 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Also, the Tanks for Teachers tank was "da bomb." There was a lot of hard work put into that tank and I want to thank everyone that put it together. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kknight Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 This event was a great success. thank you Rudy for hosting the first Oregon Reef Expo Hopefully this will be a new tradition for Portland Thanks to all that donated to TFT. It is such a fun and rewarding program for the kids. When I go check on the tank in Saint Helens the kids are always so excited and have lots of questions that I have not even thought to ask LOl Always fun to chat with reef geeks ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertareef Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Glad to hear it was a success and thanks to all who obviously put so much hard work into pulling it together. I bailed on my tank plumbing so I could make it out for the last hour or so and was happy to meet lots of familiar forum names (Emerald, FlashyFins, MrBret, Softy, et. al.). Saw lots of things I would have loved to bring home but, alas, wouldn't work too well without a tank! Hopefully some of you folk who scored such nice pieces will be wanting to frag them by the time I'm actually up and running (fingers crossed). In the meantime, I guess I better get on that plumbing! Here's hoping there is a repeat next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youcallmenny Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Absolutely incredible event. My daughter and I didn't stay too long because she is 5, but we were blown away with the selection. Absolutely cherry picked collections for completely reasonable prices. I picked up half a dozen really incredible pieces, a few of which I didn't even know existed. Thank you to everyone that put their time, money and effort forth to make this happen. This was the first reef event I've ever been to and you guys have ensured it won't be the last! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattv Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Thank you everyone that came and all those wonderful people that helped out! I think we are definitely on to something here!! Can't wait to see Bert's pics and how many Holly photobombed! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBret Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Thank you everyone that came and all those wonderful people that helped out! I think we are definitely on to something here!! Can't wait to see Bert's pics and how many Holly photobombed! I too am waiting to see Bert's pictures. Always adds to the fun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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