Auction Roundup
The PCS Auction on 7th Feb 17 was well attended with aprox 75 attendees (No I didn’t do a head count – this is purely my guesstimate)
Here are some stats for those who like them. A total of 147 lots went under the hammer from an original list of 151. Here is a break up of Lots by number and percentage of total.
Lots %
Snails 2 1.36
Books/Mags 2 1.36
Catfish 27 18.37
Cichlids 38 26.53
Non Cichlid Fish # 12 7.48
Total Fish* 50 34.01
Shrimp 17 11.56
Plants 41 27.89
Other** 8 5.44
Total 147 100
* Sub-total of all fish – not part of overall total.
# comprised of all Guppies and 1 pr of Rainbows.
** All items not categorised as above.
Really great to see the number of donations made to raise money for the Stuart Grant Fund, 32 in total making up almost 22% of the Lots. bigjohnnofish and chen were the next largest contributors of Lots comprising quality fish and plants which were eagerly bid on by those in attendance.
Name Lots %
Donations 32 21.77
bigjohnnofish 27 18.37
chen 27 18.37
sjconsen 10 6.80
stormfyre 10 6.80
bostave 9 6.12
Terry 9 6.12
Mr Green 8 5.44
bonnyboi 4 2.72
Mr White 4 2.72
horseman 3 2.04
Sue 2 1.36
Dicky7 1 0.68
poncho 1 0.68
Totals 147 100
The most expensive individual fish of the night were two lge male Peppermints 13cm which went for $70 and $80 respectively.
The most expensive lot was $300 for 10 x Tropheus brichardi "Canary cheek" 3-4cm i.e. $30 per fish which was not an unreasonable price – all the best to the purchaser and hopefully a lot more will come on the market next year?
Guppies - Apart from 2 bags of feeder guppies – the quality stock averaged over $8 a fish with the highest being $10 per fish for a bag of 4 x Poecilia reticulata "blue grass" 3-5cm MFFF
Shrimp were again popular and apart from ‘ninjas’ all got good prices with a bag of 5 ‘Neocaridina Dennerli sp. baby Sulawesi shrimp 2cm’ going for $80 or $16.00 per shrimp.
Cichlid Breakup of the 38 Lots of Cichlids
Cichlids Lots %
Tanganyikan 8 21.1
Malawi 22 57.9
Victoris 1 2.6
Central American 7 18.4
Total 38 100
Plants – there were 41 Lots which averaged almost $25 per Lot but the stars of the show were two Lots of Crinium Calamistratum which fetched $70 and $80 respectively though there were 14 lots that were snapped up for under $20 each.
I post this for the people that were not able to get there – if Admin is not happy with this type of post please delete.
Edited to align tables and include Cichlid and plant data.
Edited by Chris Bell, 09 February 2017 - 08:31 AM.