GSAS Aquarium Plant & Fish Auction; Sat. Nov. 11th (Queen Anne)

[Seattle_Aquarist]

Hi All,


Coming up on Saturday, November 11th is the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society (gsas.org) Aquarium Fish & Plant Auction. This is one of our two big auctions of the year with with this one just featuring aquarium fish .and plants. The B-I-G auction is in April and includes tanks, filters, lights, plants fish, hardscape, substrate, and other aquarium related equipment.

The Fish & Plant auction is on Saturday, November 11th in Gwinn Commons on the Seattle Pacific University Campus. There is ample FREE parking in the Dravus lot (off of W. Dravus Street). Doors open at 9:00 and the auction starts at 10:00. Previous years' auction had over 800 items and the auction has lasted for 5 hours however you can check out at any time. If you are in a hurry a donation will move items (just not your own) to the front of the bidding line so you don't have to be there all day.

Check out our club homepage at Greater Seattle Aquarium Society for more details. Hope to see you there!

Who: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society; gsas.org
What: GSAS PLANT & FISH AUCTION
Where: Seattle Pacific University; Winn Commons
When: Saturday. November 11th, 2024; Doors Open @ 9:00; Auction 10:00 -


This is our Plant & Fish auction, items are limited to plants and fish only. Only GSAS.org members can sell but anyone can buy! We accept cash as well as major credit and debit cards. The funds raised allow us to bring in national and international speakers like Hans-Georg Evers, Ad Konings, Cristal Kasselmann, and many other to the Northwest.

 

[sir_keith]

I'm planning to be there! Hoping to get some Anubias for my tribe Ectodini tanks, and I have it on good authority that there will even be some Tanganyikan fishes up for auction!

Speaking of which, I will be giving a talk on the evolution of the cichlid species flock in Lake Tanganyika at the GSAS meeting in January. Should be fun, because...

 

[sir_keith]

I had a great time at the GSAS auction on Saturday. I was up early for the half-hour drive to the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal, and was the first- and for a while only!- car in line.



Sunrise-



Underway-



Arrival. Progress on the Seattle waterfront is proceeding slowly, but it is so much nicer without the Viaduct. Finally.



Disembarking-



The auctioneers' table-



Looking over the hundreds of items for auction-



I was really impressed by how well the folks at GSAS organized this event. A small army of runners brought each item up to the auction block, at which time a description of the item was projected onto two large screens at the front of the room, along with a list of the next 6 items coming up for auction. Two auctioneers alternated presenting the items in rapid succession, with bidders placing their bids by holding up cards with pre-assigned bidder numbers. The winner was the last person standing as the auctioneer increased the bid amount, at which time the item was delivered to the bidder, and his/her bid was automatically added to his account electronically. If you were in a hurry, you could buy a 'Push' sticker for $2, and after you placed the sticker on the item of interest, it would proceed to the top of the queue. Nice! Obviously a whole lot of work (and experience) goes into organizing an event like this; pity Washington (D. C.) doesn't run as effectively.

I came home with some Anubias coffeefolia, Java Fern, and 7 young Lamprichthys tanganicanus, the Tanganyikan killifish, bred by Erik Olson, the GSAS President. I kept these fishes years ago, and am looking forward to having a colony once again. I also came home with a much better idea of how to drive from Coleman Dock to the GSAS meeting place on the SPU campus in West Queen Anne, which will be very useful when I go over to give a talk about Tanganyikan cichlids to the GSAS membership on January 10. All in all, a very fun day.

Lamprichthys tanganicanus, one of the largest killifish, and the only one in Lake Tanganyika. It occurs in enormous schools in open water in the lake. Extremely delicate, but very beautiful in captivity-

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[lloyd378]

Those are beautiful fish!

I love the pictures of your BMW , such a classic bmw shape sure gets accentuated when you see it with a back drop of the sound.

 

[sir_keith]

Those are beautiful fish!

I love the pictures of your BMW , such a classic bmw shape sure gets accentuated when you see it with a back drop of the sound.

Yeah, it's amazing how much attention that car gets. I had six different people come over and want to talk about the car while we were waiting for the ferry. The E30 design has really aged well.

 

[Betty]

Sir_keith, your talk in January sounds like it'll be an interesting one. I miss the gsas meetings and auctions -- haven't been to one in years.