I am pleased to announce the first annual Memphis Area Reef Society (MARS) frag swap, to take place on Saturday November 9th, 2013. It will be held 5685 Quince Road, Memphis, TN, in an empty store space next to the great LFS store, Memfish. This is the annual Memphis frag swap that in the past had been conducted by the West TN Marine Reef and Aquarium Club. Unfortunately, WTMRAC has shut its doors and is no longer operating. MARS has taken over for the Memphis area for reef activities, meetings and information flow. We maintain a page on Reef Central and Facebook now. We have over 100 members that have joined so far. Although this frag swap venue will not be as large as Memphis frag swaps in the past, strictly due to the funding issuing of being a startup club, we have acquired a nice empty store front location in a strip mall, next to one of Memphis’ best LFS, Memfish. We hope that we will still get just as big of a turnout, several hundred people; we are just in a smaller venue this year, without a speaker as in years past. Everything else will remain the same. Vendors from all over the SouthEast, raffle items and door prizes, and food will be available. Due to the lack of funds in a first year club, we had previously announced that vendors would need to bring their own table, but fortunately we just had a donation of 10 tables and 25 chairs from a member. So we are offering those tables to the first 10 paid ( or committed) vendors. You will get one table and 2 chairs for $25. This will help us offset the cost of the event insurance. After those 10 tables are gone, we will being asking those next vendors (after the first 10) to bring their own table. Reply quickly and get one of our 10 tables! We hope that you will join us on Saturday Nov 9th, for what promises to be a great frag swap, and should help you as a vendor make a nice profit and have a good time. Please reply to me as soon as you can so we can start arrangements for spacing, as well as your chance to get a supplied table. You can contact me at the following information with any questions or suggestions, or to pay for a table. What: MARS Frag Swap Memphis When: November 9, 2013 Where: 5685 Quince Road, Memphis, TN Time: 10am-3pm Setup: Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, whichever is best for you, both are available Please contact me at onereef@yahoo.com to buy a $25 table or with any questions. Thanks.
