10th Anniversary - Midland Charity
Auction
Lodge Park Social Club
Wirehill Drive, Lodge Park, Redditch, Worcestershire.
The postcode is B98 7LH. Add this to
your mapping software or Sat Nav. Multimap
is useful.
Last Page Update - 1st June
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Last page update
& requests for auction letters 12.00 noon Saturday
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Sunday 3rd June 2007
First Auction around 10.30 - 11 am.
Doors open 9am.
This is the quick link to this
page: http://tinyurl.com/2ejgnu
Page updated regularly. Please refresh each visit.
Please bring plenty of £1 & 50p coins if possible to help us with change.
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 Photo courtesy of the Air Ambulance Trust |
Nominated charities
this year are:-
The Oncology (Cancer) Department, Alexandra Hospital, Redditch. The Air Ambulance Fund. http://www.airambulance.co.uk/ The donation will be split 50/50 to these charities. |
We have advertised the auction
far & wide & hopefully will attract new faces to the do.
£3 starting
bid.... 50p incriments to £10 then £1 incriments.
We have increased the starting bid
after chats with breeders & buyers at various auctions etc.
To save the last minute rush
to label bags up you can download entry forms here. Please contact
me for your auction letter.
These are for:-
Map online at - http://tinyurl.com/2nbjwl
This can be zoomed out for a larger area.
For previous attendees it's
easy. Come out of the drive of the old venue, turn right to the traffic lights,
turn left, first left & the new venue is
a couple of hundred yards on the right at the top of the hill. Really easy to
find.
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Views inside the club
Last year their was a big panic over DEFRA's new guidelines
in selling fish in open auction. We rose to the challenge & adopted new
ideas into the auction.
The auction viewing stand is now accepted & stops fish rolling off tables
with resulting shock to fish. Many people have made positive comments on it's
implimentation.
We cannot think of any other ways currently implimented to make fish put in
auction less stressed but we are always open to new ideas.
This auction (in compliance with our understanding
of the rules) has to be for members of the auction club only & we charge
membership of £2·50 (for two auctions membership).
This entitles you to free entry at our December auction.
Membership is available to renew or join at the door. All this money goes into
the charity pot.
Our rules are basic common sense in bagging
fish up. One third water (maximum) & two thirds air. Bags should be of sufficient
thickness not to leak.
Bags can be double bagged with the second bag put into the outer bag knot first
or single bagged with the bottom seam taped up with clear packing tape to round
off corners.
This prevents fish getting trapped in bag corners.
Thick bags are available off the mail order site www.ta-aquaculture.co.uk
if you have trouble finding them
We can supply spare bags for deflated
bags or make your own hot water bottles for boxes on the return journey home.
Just wrap a hot water bag in a newspaper & put in your box.
A simple, cheap way of keeping your fish warm. Everyone should do this for the
benefit of the fish you carry home.
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Special Offers on the trade stand. Valid for those attending on the day only. Peat Fibre Approx 2
kg bags £2·50 (Normally £3·50) - 5 for £10 |
- Join the British Killifish or British Livebearer Associations on the day -
At the last auction in December we had 3 new species of Anabantoids & one new species of livebearer.
Not just Killies & livebearers.........
 Thorichthys sp. Mixteco Gold |
 Heckle Face Severum F1 |
Send me a photo of your lots & I will put them online.
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Brand new Rivulus. Alan collected this on his trip to Colombia / Peru last September. Dr.Huber has advised we call it for now Rivulus sp. aff. ornatus-speciosus You can see the vivid red colouration. Only ONE pair will be in the auction. Alan will give a quick chat when it is being auctioned. |
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Donations from an Importer These items include:- Guppy - Wild
collected in Africa. These are quite unusual with a lot of red on the
body. Some females have a green/yellow sheen which is quite unusual. |
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Wild Bettas - Home Bred. 'Wild Bettas, Home-bred' |
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What is pre booked for
this auction. |
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Killies Aust.Bellotii Cobalt
blue A.S. |
Other forms Galaxy Rasbora F1 Donated fish - Apistogramma cacatuoides
Sunset Live Foods White Worm
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Livebearers Guppies - Endlers (Poecilia wingii) Gambusia affinis holbrooki |
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Wanted.
This list is put up by those attending the auction. You might want to bring them to the auction for sale. |
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| Aplocheilus lineatus
(striped male) Northobranchius palmqvisti Fundulosoma thierri Pseudepiplatys annulatus Fp gardneri P82 Fp amieti |
N.fuscotaeniatus
(Kitonga north TAN 97/9) N.eggersi (blue) (Eastern Tanzania TZ 97/4) N.eggersi (red) (Rufiji River camp TAN 95/7) N.rachovii Beira 98 N.rachovii Black MOZ 99/3 |
Gold Ramerizi Blue Grass Guppy Red Variegated Guppy |
As always we will provide boxes on the stage
for donated fish or eggs to be auctioned. All the money from these boxes goes
straight into the charity kitty.
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These are the rules
on presenting fish to auction. We are going to be rigid in implimenting
them. Entries not meeting these criteria will have to be rejected. No
exceptions. Please read CAREFULLY the following:-
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#1. No entries will be accepted to auction which are in a distressed state. By this we mean fish looking sickly, showing signs of disease or rolling in the bag etc. Also applies to lots on display or in holding boxes. #2. No entries will be accepted where a fish has died in the bag in transit. This applies to fish bagged seperately & tied together as a pair/trio. Also applies to lots on display or in holding boxes. These bags will be returned to the owner for immediate re-bagging. A single surviving fish will not be auctioned ! #3. Bags should be of sufficient strength to remain inflated. No deflated bags will be auctioned. These will require re-bagging by the owner. If your bag loses air it will be returned to you for attention & not sold. It's in your interests to do the job right. #4. Where possible bags should be double bagged with the first bag inverted so the neck goes into the outer bag first. This 'rounds off' the corners & strengthens the bag. Single bags are OK if they are of sufficient thickness. Single bags should have the corners taped up. Tape will be available at the show. Fish are stressed out when bagged & naturally try to hide in corners. Bags slightly under inflated sit on these corners & they collapse, trapping the fish where they can suffocate & die. This is a simple step to avoid this area of stress. These rules are basic common sense in presenting fish to auction. |
As usual the Odds & Ends table will be available for odd fish, live foods, plants etc.
We thank everybody for helping us out over this & past years. This is your record...
Donations so far:
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2000 - June
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£49·00
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2001 - June
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£81·00
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2002 - June
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£85·00
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2003 - June
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£185·60
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2004 - June
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£686·20 (
due to massive overseas input )
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2004
- Dec.
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£176·50
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2005 - June
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£331·25
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2006 - June
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£449·96
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2006
- Dec.
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£260·10
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Total donations - £2304·61
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