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Sanctioned Event !
Thanks to everyone who helped to make the first Dallas Fort Worth Coral Farmers Market event a great success ! We acheived a total attendance figure of 160. There was a total of 6 coral farming vendors displaying their corals within 5 systems. An amazing amount of propagated corals was offerred for sale by our vendors. See the images below of the actual corals that were offerred for sale. This was one of the most logistically difficult Coral Farmers Market that we have operated. Our support equipment was driven in two vans over a two day trip from Southern California to Dallas Texas. The Coral Farmers Market setup 4 rental tanks and our coral transport system was utilized to transport over 300 fragments to the event. The Coral Farmers Market transported the fragments for two vendors along with all the raffle and auction corals. These logistical operations all worked flawlessly. We have been getting some great feedback from the attendees and vendors. From a financial point of view most of the vendors did very good. The attendees were very active and kept the vendors busy. The Dallas Fort Worth Coral Farmers Market received excellent support from the Dallas Fort Worth Marine Aquarium Society. The new local hobbyist organization the Dallas Marine Aquarium Society also participated. We definitely plan to hold a second annual Dallas Fort Worth Coral Farmers Market during the winter or fall of 2009. Three of our vendors from this year have already stated that they will return for the 2009 DA-CFM event. We will update this web site with the new information sometime during early 2009. We are adding images of the 2008 event below !
DA-CFM and CFM Staff
2008
Dallas Fort Worth Coral Farmers Market Images !
(All images copyright of the Coral Farmers Market)
Reeffarmers displayed over 140 fragments that were transported from Southern
California within the Coral Farmers Market Coral Transport System.
Vendor Display System was installed by Coral Farmers Market.
Click on image for closeup coral view (use browser back arrow to return).
Randy Reed from Reef Nutrition, a DA-CFM event Golden Sponsor,
displayed his companies full product line.
Zoanuts from Oklahoma setup a zero edge display that was very impressive.
Click on image for closeup coral view (use browser back arrow to return).
Tina and Dan of Wet Thumb Frags made the long trip from Southern California.
They ended up selling every single captive grown fragment they had on display.
Wishing 2B Outside and Jose Casas had some very rare and exotic corals
on display. They actually drove non-stop from Southern California and the
rumor is that they only got 1 speeding ticket in the state of Arizona.
Vendor Display System was installed by Coral Farmers Market.
Click on image for closeup coral view (use browser back arrow to return).
The local Hobbyist organization DFWMAS (Dallas Fort Worth Marine Aquarium Society)
put together an amazing display that was based on a farmers market theme.
Wet Thumb Frags had a very diverse display of stony coral fragments that were
transported within the Coral Farmers Market Coral Transport System.
Vendor Display System was installed by Coral Farmers Market.
Click on image for closeup coral view (use browser back arrow to return).
Reefkoi made the long trip from Colorado and had some very rare and exotic
captive grown fragments on display.
PFO Lighting was on hand to display and demonstrate one of their LED lighting systems.
We would like to thank the following companies or individuals who have donated either products or services to the 2008 Dallas Fort Worth Coral Farmers Market event. These companies and individuals help to make this event a success !
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