My fish Club's Annual January 2025 Auction

[TwoTankAmin]

I will be working at this event and I will also have a number of items in the auction. This is a pretty well run auction and there are plenty of fish, plants, equipment and related items that get offered and sold.

Click the link below for a map of where this event is located.

10 Fair St · 10 Fair St, Carmel Hamlet, NY 10512

Building

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https://www.facebook.com/DanburyAreaAquariumSociety?ref=hl

 

[fishorama]

I know you'll be selling some fancy bn plecos! Also, plants & equipment? I hope it's well attended. Big club auctions can be lots of fun!

I used to love the "mega auctions" in MA. My general auction idea is to go early for best selection; stay late for bargains...but beware buying unknown fish, lol. I'd never kept killies or knew much about them, but I bought a pretty pair. I also bought 10 cherry shrimp that same auction (same seller I think). Then, big mistake, quarantined them together. They all seemed fine & I soon went off on vacation, another mistake) EEK! I came home to an almost dead female killie (& lost her soon after) & almost half the shrimp were MI. I had lots of plants & hiding places & a pet sitter. I learned a lot that time, lol. The shrimp went on to breed like crazy, I sold or traded many. The killie male live for many months but met his match with, of all things, cherry barbs! Who knew? I certainly didn't. A case of buyer beware!

Auctions are also a nice way to meet & talk to other hobbyists. I'm not too shy anymore; ok,.. not at all shy now (lol), but you can always strike a conversation. Do you know these fish/plants? How do you keep them? We all love to talk about our tanks & fish

I didn't (& still don't) have a smart phone that could have better informed me...but I may have done the same thing anyway...at that time...Lesson learned in a hard way.

But all in all, if you can go to TwoTank's, or any club auction, it'll be an interesting & fun experience. Try it, you'll like it!

 

[TwoTankAmin]

BUMP-

Only 9 days until this event.

I am no longer a morning person. I never make appointments earlier than late morning any more. But I need to be there pretty early. So, I need to have everything I am bringing bagged, packed and ready to go soon after I get up.

Shamelss plug for me below if any of you might be in the area.

I will be putting the following into the auction if you are curious:
Anubias, Crypts, a long leaf Hygropolysperma and maybe a few Java ferns.
Super Red Bristlnose youngsters 1.5 inch range- If I can catch them in the 75, the breeding trio.
Potential- albino Bristlnose - not sure if the kids are big enough to sell, I have the parents in different tanks- may try to catch them.
I may bring a bag of RB line super white 236- 3-5 fish which I might make a donation to my club.
I will bring Assassin Sails and the Blue Dream color morph of Neocaridina davidi

There are hard goods, including tanks, auctioned. I have some used AquaClears and an Eheim Pro II 2026 all with new media which I plan to bring as well. All work fine. I have a NIB Eheim 2028 I got and then a change in plans meant I never used. So, I should offer that too, right?
I have a bunch of Malaysian driftwood from small to even one huge size. I will bring some of it.
I have used heaters, air pumps, powerheads and water pumps which all work. Some are actually new and never used but out of the box.

I cannot speak to what else might be there but I have been at this auction a few times and there were a lot of nice fish and plants and an assortment of related items. I have a wall clock with fish instead of numbers on from last year's auction.

 

[connorlindeman]

Are there many rare plants sold here?
I may make the hour drive if there are rare plants.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I wish I could say yes re rare plants. But there is no way to know what sellers will bring. I know if it were just my club auction some of the rare plants do show up at the meetings. But my problem is I have way too many plamnt in my tanks so I rarely pay a lot of ettention to what plants are offered since I never buy any more.

I need to touch base with the Club officers and can ask if there us any early listing of items. I need to see if I can print out a sellers card for my listings. I saw nothing on the club's site, biu I am not on social media so I cannot see anything that might be there.