GSAS B-I-G Annual General Auction

The Greater Seattle Aquarium Society (your local aquarium club since 1971) is having its B-I-G annual General Auction!!

There will be new and used equipment (plants/fish/substrate/lights/filters/tanks/ stands/etc) mostly freshwater but marine folk can score great deals too - we never know what will show up! Most of the plants and fish available will be locally grown: corys, killies, cichlids, shrimp, koi, common and rare aquatic plants (No plants off the "do not sell" list).

Raffle: GSAS will be raffling a complete 75 gallon set-up, tank, stand, canopy, light, filter, and extras at the auction!

You must be a member to sell; everyone can buy: cash, credit cards, or personal checks for GSAS members

Our auction will be held at the same larger location we used last year. It will be at the West Seattle Christian Church Gymnasium, 4400 42nd Avenue Southwest, Seattle, WA. The church is conveniently located at the intersection of SW. Genesee St. and 42nd Ave. SW just 6 blocks from the West Seattle Bridge.

No admission charge, accessible, family friendly (but no furry/feathered pets please), lots of free parking

Saturday April 13th starts at 10:00 until ??; Registration and Check-in starts at 9:00; early check out available

The money raised at this auction helps GSAS bring world class speakers to our community for our free lecture series presented at our regular meetings on the second Tuesday of the month. In the last year we have offered presentations by Ad Konings, Karen Randall, Oliver Lucanus, Lawrence Kent, Chuck Rambo, Tom Barr, Gary Lange, Dick Au, Ted Judy, and Christel Kasselmann just to name a few. Next September GSAS is pleased to sponsor a presentation by international speaker Ian Fuller who will be our lead off speaker for the 2013-14 season!

We are generously sponsored by many of the local fish stores and numerous aquarium supply manufacturers.

See our web page at GSAS.org for more information.

Can't wait to go!! I'll be wearing my WaFishbox Nametag with pride! lol =P

See you all there!

OO Me and a couple friends may be going too! :]

Hi All,

No regular meeting this Tuesday; our B-I-G General Auction is next Saturday (the 13th). I hope to see you there!

-Roy

Hey roy!

I am not part of the gsas quite yet can I still come to the auction and buy?

you dont need to be a member to buy... Just register as a buyer and your good.

I really cant wait for this auction! It'll be my first one! So Excited! haha

Hi All,

Daniel is absolutely correct; anyone can buy but you must be a member to sell! And we take credit cards, cash, and if you are a GSAS member you can write a check.

Last year the auction lasted 5-1/2 hours and over 700 items were sold. This year we are trying to beat that record....please come help us out!

Is there a list of the time of what's what's going to on auction?

Hi InfamousRedlineZ,

A lot of our members pre-register the items that they are selling online to avoid having to do it the morning of the auction when everything is very hectic. If you are a GSAS member here is the location where you can see what has been preregistered:

http://www.gsas.org/MembersOnly/unbid.php

As to what will be auctioned when, it is totally random. However, if there is a particular item on one of the tables that a buyer would like to have auctioned quickly paying a $1 will have it 'bumped' to the front of the line.

Any want to tell me any african cichlids on there?

I'd love to go even though I now have no fish for sale or money to buy anything. Lol...

Hi All,

There will be a raffle at the GSAS General Auction on Saturday:


75 Gallon Setup with wood stand, matching canopy, dual Fluval 406 filters, and light

Lol I only got enough to buy some fish. Don't even got enough to get a membership right now haha I hope I win that 75 gallon

I hope I win too

Honestly I just want the filter and light haha

You guys better be sporting your WaFishbox name tags if you got them! Poke worked hard on those

InfamousRedlineZ wrote:Honestly I just want the filter and light haha

Ok you can have what you want and I'll take everything else haha LOL

LamentalJester, d'awwwww...*blush* thanks Well, I s'pose it's a bit too late for people to request nametags, only one additional person asked me for a nametag, and I just finished it lastnight. I still have a couple more people to chase down because i wasn't able to get them their name tags during the Swap. So yes... keep your eyes peeled!

IM READY!! lol K back to sleep now! hope to see some of you guys there today! haha

Hi All,

Today is the big day! Tanks, lights, equipment, fish, and plants will all be there at the West Seattle Christian Church gym.....don't miss out! Registration starts at 9:00 and the auction begins at 10:00.

I hope to see you there!
-Roy

Come on Chad!! Get rollin'! See you there!

Had a blast during the auction!! I made my goal d spending more than 50 dollars but less than 100 dollars! Hahahaha BillHN, Lamental Jester, fishloverron, Aquarium Co-Op, Kaosu, Betty, Aron, Roy and everyone else that I saw at the event, it was really nice seeing you all again! Thanks for making it such a fun event! :-)

fishloverRon wrote:Come on Chad!! Get rollin'! See you there!

Got some really nice plants today! I was so impressed. Plants plants plants that I dont see in stores. So glad I went.


Big bag of MTS


Bags of purple and red plants with names I can not pronounce, ha!

AH I knew you looked familiar, theChad, so it was YOU that won the bag of MTS! ARRR!!!! Hahahahaha congrats!

Oh and congrats to earthfish for winning the 75 gallon raffle! You lucky duck!

the auction was fun sold allot..bought some and walked away with money,

stayed to help clean up and chat a bit!

thank you GSAS for yet another amazing event!!

Hi Everyone,

I want to express my gratitude to all of our members, guests, volunteers, committee chairpersons, and board members that all helped to make this our most successful GSAS General Auction ever! I heard comments from many of our members and guests as to how well run, organized, and fun our auction was today and that is the result of each and every individual that put forth an effort to help pull off this event. If I were to name one person then I would have to name 30 folks that all contributed to the great time we all had today. Now it is time to acclimate our newly found treasures into their new surroundings and get some well deserved rest.

Thank you all for your efforts and for helping to support our club!

-Roy

It was great fun, it was my first auction EVER. Like, not JUST a fish auction, but in general as well! I had so much fun, it was quite the experience! Can't wait for the next one!

PokeSephiroth wrote:AH I knew you looked familiar, theChad, so it was YOU that won the bag of MTS! ARRR!!!! Hahahahaha congrats!

Oh and congrats to earthfish for winning the 75 gallon raffle! You lucky duck!

I'm so excited they called my number and my mom started screaming I thought she was just clapping with her voice for the winner except... the winner was me! I really can't wait to fill it up with water and put fish in it! Yes! More fish!

Also nice to see you fishloverron and finally meet lamentaljester! Yes I will post pics when the tank is all scaped and cycled with fish I may even do the journal! Also if you have a pair of bristlenose plecos I will gladly buy them!

PokeSephiroth wrote:AH I knew you looked familiar, theChad, so it was YOU that won the bag of MTS! ARRR!!!! Hahahahaha congrats!

Oh and congrats to earthfish for winning the 75 gallon raffle! You lucky duck!

@ PokeSephiroth, was my 1st auction EVER. I was mainly there for red plants. When an item came up I raised my hand till I won. I would feel kind of bad if you where trying to get the snails too. There was a ton of them I totally would have shared!! I still would (if I can find them in the substraight, lol).

@Earthfish- THATS SO AWESOME YOU WON THE 75G TANK!!!!!!!!!

Thanks theChad!

Here it is 10:00 and I just got done with acclimating fish and plants and set up my new Mag 350. What a day. It was nice to see everyone even though I mostly kept to myself except for a few of you. A great big CONGO RATS for Earthfish on winning the 75 setup. Thats a big deal for any 11 year old, heck, thats a big deal for anyone at any age.

theChad, hahaha no worries. I have a good batch of mts snails in two of my tanks, I could probably harvest some of them, when I need them for my other tanks

Salzabar wrote: Here it is 10:00 and I just got done with acclimating fish and plants and set up my new Mag 350. What a day. It was nice to see everyone even though I mostly kept to myself except for a few of you. A great big CONGO RATS for Earthfish on winning the 75 setup. Thats a big deal for any 11 year old, heck, thats a big deal for anyone at any age.

Omg Bridget!!!! I can't believe you won the raffle!!!!!!
Me poke and lamenatal were all like....... O.O

BillHN, I was more like =_= . . . LOL
Kidding aside, any plans on what you're going to stock that tank with, earthfish? GUPPIES??! hahahaha

BillHN wrote:Omg Bridget!!!! I can't believe you won the raffle!!!!!!
Me poke and lamenatal were all like....... O.O

I can't believe I won either! I AM SO SO EXCITED!

PokeSephiroth wrote:BillHN, I was more like =_= . . . LOL
Kidding aside, any plans on what you're going to stock that tank with, earthfish? GUPPIES??! hahahaha

Well it is gonna be for my red devil breeding pair. I myself am going to be stocking my 55 gallon . the pair have needed a tank for a while now so this is the best thing ever. I need help deciding what to put in the 55 though, I am thinking maybe... planted african or community tank

Oooh that would look pretty! as for the 55 gallon tank, I went the community tank approach, and filled my tank with lots of different tetras and rasboras. I love watching the rasboras stay in the middle of the water column, while the neons and rummynose tetras would school towards the bottom of the tank. Hehehe

Maybe I try that! I kinda like mean things though!

Oooh... hmmm, Tiger Barbs then! those things are ruthless fin nippers, and should only be kept in a large school of other Tiger Barbs... Or maybe do Odessa Barbs! <3 Odessa Barbs! So colorful

i'll think about that!

Congrats!