A REPORT ON THE RYEDALE AQUARIST SOCIETY AUTUMN MINI-OPEN SHOW
AND AUCTION, KIRKBYMOORSIDE MEMORIAL HALL, 04/10/09
Presentation photographs by John Hetherington, Workington A.S.
Text and other photographs by David Marshall
Fishkeepers from across Northern England and Scotland joined
the Ryedale members for their second open event of the year.
|
John Douthwaite and Bede Kerrigan
catch up on 'all things aquatic' with Scottish fishkeeper
Kenny Young.
|
Putting together a min-show is not an easy task, as you need
to formulate a small mixture of interesting classes and can
never truly gauge how many entries you should expect to have
as a 'happy with this' marker. So, on the day, we were really
pleased to see 40 exhibits spread over the 7 classes. The first
class for lady showers at a Y.A.A.S. event for many-a-year proved
a big success.
|
 |
Trevor busy with judging duties.
|
This beautiful Severum caused much
interest.
|
As our photograph above shows Y.A.A.S. 'A' Class Judge, Mr.
Trevor Douglas, was kept very busy. Fish species exhibited,
ranged from a large Severum to small Galaxy Rasbora and from
commonly seen Guppies to the rarely viewed Apistogramma 'species'
Inca.
 |
 |
David Marshall presents mini-show
prizes to Amy Charters
|
And to Amy's Granddad John Douthwaite.
|
It was lovely to see all chairs taken in the auction area and
people present catching up with 'old friends'. Our Auctioneer,
Mr. Steve Jones, and his team did a wonderful job and sailed
through the 14 'lots' without any problem. A wide variety of
fish species, from large Pangassius catfish to young Convict
cichlids, and aquatic accessories came under the hammer. Most
bizarre 'for sale' on the day, was a breeding pair of Albino
African Frogs (which produced a multitude of tadpoles for their
'new owner' (not me) within a few days of purchase).
|
A busy auction room.
|
|
|
Our auctioneering team did an excellent
job.
|
A big THANK YOU goes to the Ryedale members, our friends from
STAMPS, our friends from Scarborough & District A.S., and
from Hull & District A.S. and for those other friends, who
all worked together so well on the day on Ryedale's behalf,
to all those who travelled to be with us (your support was truly
appreciated) and the people
who brought along wonderful fish for the mini-show and auction
'lots'.
That so many people left the venue smiling was testament to
the lovely, but hectic, day we had.
|