FFM a.k.a. Christmas for Reefers

It's that time of year again, the E.O. Smith High School's annual Frag Farmer's Market. Oh, how everyone loves this event. Who can blame them? It's every reefkeeper's dream come true...room upon room of tanks filled with a smorgasbord of an unbelievable array of every kind of coral you can imagine. Vendors and hobbyist come from all over New England now to be a part of this event.

This year Fitch charged a whopping dollar to anyone who attended this event. Whew! For any reefkeeper, this is a 100% more than any other year but perhaps the cheapest event (and the fucking best) you will encounter in this hobby. Why the dollar this year? To track how many people attended. And how many people attended you ask? 820+ people gathered together to talk reef and buy coral and products at the E.O. Smith High School for one of the most awaited events on every reef keepers mind every year!

CTARS had their own tank this year and the members as well as a few stores donated all the coral and products sold for the day. CTARS pulled in a total of $1094 in sales, new/renewal memberships, pre-sale of CMAC tickets and March meeting pre-sales most of this being in coral sales! I manned this tank while Chris and Emily manned our tank for the day. Brian and Alana tagged along for the day as well. A few CTARS members came along to help for the day, one who helped me the entire day despite just coming off his shift from work and being dead tired.

Pictures speak a thousand words so, without further ado...

The E.O. Smith Coral Project Website for the 2014 FFM can be found HERE

Until next time, keep fragging :)

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Pictures taken by Brian Garceau