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I would just like to give a big thank you to all the organisers and Sponsors for the championship today- without you, there would not be such a great event. I would also like to thank all the judges and the people who entered. Congratulations to all the Ribbon Winners!

The turnout was fantastic- it was great meeting you all. Now I can finally put faces to all the SKF handles.

See you next year!

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I'll second that! Nice to meet those that I did meet and look forward to chatting more at the club! :) 

Plus thanks for the bargains :) went a tad over budget but worth! 

 

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22 hours ago, Bill88 said:

I'll second that! Nice to meet those that I did meet and look forward to chatting more at the club! :) 

Plus thanks for the bargains :) went a tad over budget but worth! 

 

Was Great to see you there Bill!! Hope you didn't get into too much strife!! 

23 hours ago, KeenShrimp said:

I would just like to give a big thank you to all the organisers and Sponsors for the championship today- without you, there would not be such a great event. I would also like to thank all the judges and the people who entered. Congratulations to all the Ribbon Winners!

The turnout was fantastic- it was great meeting you all. Now I can finally put faces to all the SKF handles.

See you next year!

Was wonderful meeting you @KeenShrimp!

Will be watching your updates and journals with interest! Sounds like great developments with your tanks!

Hopefully a date for 2017 will be locked in within the next fortnight, so we have plenty of advanced notice for travel plans etc. 

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When is the Championships going to be held in Sydney !??!!!

Where are the pics?

C'mon, surely somebody took photos. 

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Kizshrimp is still working through the 200 odd pictures he took. 

Below are some images to ease your mind... Lol

image.jpgAmazing Riffles on show!image.jpgBloody Maryimage.jpgBeautiful Blueboltimage.jpgBoss Shrimpy Pops arrived on time for the event.image.jpgimage.jpgTrade tables were busy all day...?image.jpgimage.jpg30 Tanks of entries this year! Aiming to double that for 2017!!image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpg

A bit of silliness, smiles and laughter throughout the day.image.jpg

Serious Judging announcementsimage.jpg

Raffle giveaways

Official Results for the Day

Natives
1st place. Ben mos. Riffles
2nd place. Paul O'Leary. WA4 chameleons
3rd place. Paul O'Leary. WA4 chameleons 

Cherries
1st place. Glenn Ng. Bloody mary
2nd place. Leo Tsui. Blue dream
3rd place. Glenn Ng. Blue dream

Crystals
1st place. Barry Lee. Pure red line
2nd place. Adam blackburn. Crystal black shrimp.
3rd place. Jamie Cameron. Crystal red shrimp.

Taiwan bees.
1st place. Jamie Cameron. Shadow panda
2nd place. Shannon Ryan. Blue bolt.
3rd place. Adam Blackburn. Extreme ruby.

Tigers. 
1st place. Bob marsh. Tangerine.
2nd place. Shannon ryan. Oramge eyed blue tigers.

All other varieties. 
1st place. Shannon Ryan. Black pinto.
2nd place. Barry Lee. Red taitibee.
3rd place. Jamie Cameron. Tibee/mosura.

Reserve best of show. 
Bob Marsh. 
TANGERINE TIGERS

Best of show.
Glenn Ng
BLOODY MARY CHERRIES 

Best "solo" shrimp
Shannon Ryan.
Bluebolt lady.

 

SKF was incredibly well represented on the day, with many from interstate. 

@KeenShrimp @fishmosy @Squiggle @Gbang @kizshrimp @Bill88 @newbreed (Lol) @lodo, can't mention everyone, but thanks for all attending where you could. 

As for when will it be in Sydney? Who knows??

We are fortunate in Victoria to have the Aquarium Society building to use for such events. 

We are looking to set next year's event date within the next two weeks, to allow plenty of time for people to work on entries and breeding programs, maybe arrange travel arrangements and take advantage of cheaper flights too!

Something that I am really pleased about is some very important stats.

Last year out of 23 Tanks we had one shrimp loss. This tank was filled using entrants ro and own filter. 

This year with 30 tanks we had no losses. Sadly one loss in transit on the way down but that was out of our hands. 

This year we had only two locally benched in entries, majority were entries posted in from within Victoria and interstate. 

Next year we will have much more notice and better timeframes for entries etc. Plus longer tank setup timeframes too.

So please all give some consideration to entering in 2017. 

Surely if my lines can win awards, our members should take out most categories. ?

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It was good fun. I'd like to stay till the end next time!


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And credit to @ineke for the third placing for Crystals. The were CRS directly bought from her line. And they placed third against PRL and PBL. Love your work Ineke. ?

Apologies if peeps didn't want their images displayed. Happy to remove if asked, just pm me!! 

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It was an awesome, if long and tiring weekend. Great to meet you @KeenShrimp.  @jayc, I've started posting the photos on another thread now mate. Hope you enjoy them! 

Looks like a couple more of you showed up and perhaps we didn't meet, @neo-2FX, @Bill88, hope to meet you soon. Please, keep your eye on the SCV calendar and come along sometime, we'd love to see you. 

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7 hours ago, kizshrimp said:

I've started posting the photos on another thread

Yep, I saw them. Great photos !

Thanks.

 

14 hours ago, newbreed said:

Below are some images to ease your mind

Thanks for those photos too Jamie.

I recognise Glenn and Jay in those photos. Who are the others?

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Great to meet you keenshrimp and again a massive thanks for making the drive down!

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Hmm, this could be one of our next competitions ... " Guess who? "

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One of these is kizza, the other isnt kizza lol



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Lmao you nutters

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5 minutes ago, Gbang said:

One of these is kizza, the other isnt kizza

Ahh hah!

Nice to meet you Kiz.

 

So who is this then with the sunnies?

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That there be shannon.

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Is mosy in one of those earlier pics?

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Thats shannon ryan from shrimp my tank. Top guy man top guy. And why am i always in the silly photos lol

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25 minutes ago, Gbang said:

One of these is kizza, the other isnt kizza lol

OMG you still remembered your SKF login :chicken_poke: lol

Looks like I'll need to deck out 2017 SKF participants with SKF tees next year.

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24 minutes ago, revolutionhope said:

 

That there be shannon.

 

 

21 minutes ago, Gbang said:

 

Thats shannon ryan from shrimp my tank.

 

Thanks. He's got one of the old school SKF shirts, so I thought it might have been someone else.

So that's who owns that Blue Bolt mumma. 

 

24 minutes ago, revolutionhope said:

Is mosy in one of those earlier pics?

Mosy seems to be in a few photos too. He is in one with Squiggle give us the piece sign. <edit> - I mean Squiggle is giving the peace sign. Mosy is standing next to Squiggle.

I wonder if their ears are burning.

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