What frags qualify?You can always swing by a local shop (preferably a club sponsor) and pick up 3 qualifying frags for your entry corals.
What frags qualify?You can always swing by a local shop (preferably a club sponsor) and pick up 3 qualifying frags for your entry corals.
While nobody will know if you buy frags, this isn’t what we want. We are trying to encourage captive propagation, so let’s not encourage people to do this.You can always swing by a local shop (preferably a club sponsor) and pick up 3 qualifying frags for your entry corals.
We want to exclude people who don't have enough corals yet to propogate themselves?While nobody will know if you buy frags, this isn’t what we want. We are trying to encourage captive propagation, so let’s not encourage people to do this.
Don't worry about it. I'll donate my entry frags for you, I won't participate.What frags qualify?
That is one way to look at it, but not how I see it. This is a free event that is a reward for all supporting members. We want to focus on corals that people are successfully growing and fragging themselves.We want to exclude people who don't have enough corals yet to propogate themselves?
This would be my first swap with BAR so the first time I've seen this approach.
yes, we are planning a raffle and an auction at the swapIs there a raffle at the swap?
There’s nothing wrong with giving the requisite frags for entry to another member, and then also having some for yourself to enter. I’ve done this several times. You should definitely participate.Don't worry about it. I'll donate my entry frags for you, I won't participate.
I'm donating 6 frags to other members already.There’s nothing wrong with giving the requisite frags for entry to another member, and then also having some for yourself to enter. I’ve done this several times. You should definitely participate.
And there are others of us happy to help out members who want to participate but don’t have the corals to enter. No member should feel like they can’t participate in the swap, especially new members.
We will be posting additional rules about what corals qualify, but besides updating the bonus/ultra coral list it should be the same as last swap.
Because it's a fun and exciting event to participate in and no member should be excluded because they don't have corals they want to part with. I remember my very first swap, I had maybe 5 frags and all corals that I really liked. If it wasn't for a local sponsor selling swap frag packs for a steep discount, I wouldn't have gone.I’m bringing probably 40 frags. It’s not about how many corals anybody brings, or wether someone has 3 corals to share or not. In my opinion BAR is in large part about sharing captively propagated corals. IF someone is going To buy 3 corals why not just buy 3 corals they actually want?
Dbtc recipients are up to the donors. Many chains ask for people to have success with certain types of corals, but many don’t. I often am willing to give people frags (and a chance) if they are willing to make a tank journal when there aren’t other people asking for the frags in a chain.I believe DBTC rules require established tanks with proven success with the specific kind of corals that are being fragged, so it's not a good time for new people to get DBTC frags.
I wasn't aware people bring free corals outside the swap frags. That's generous.
I won't encourage people to buy corals for swap entry. I have offered to donate corals I've grown but I won't be swapping this time.
I lost everything in my 100g (heater malfunctioned) so I was thinking to buy 3 frags. If frags from your tank is a requisite (which I don’t see it in the rules), I’ll then either buy from someone or use the ones I recently bought in the CFM.
This frag event was key for me last year when I started with my tank and I really don’t want to miss it.
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While nobody will know if you buy frags, this isn’t what we want. We are trying to encourage captive propagation, so let’s not encourage people to do this.
Members swap. A COMMUNITY EVENT where at least 3 supporting members are now dependent on other members donating frags to them so they can participate.Esp at the member’s swap.
Members swap. A COMMUNITY EVENT where at least 3 supporting members are now dependent on other members donating frags to them so they can participate.
I think the priorities of this event have gotten mixed up somewhere and need to be reevaluated.