** Virginia Chapter - October 2 Meeting! **

First topic message reminder :

The next meeting of the Central Virginia Chapter will be on

Sunday, October 2 at 2:00 PM

Place:
The home of member
TankGirl.

Here she is!

This will be our
FALL Kick-Off Meeting!

Burgers! * Hot Dogs! * Side Dishes!
Enjoy a burger from the grill and relax around the
*** OUTDOOR CHIMNEY *** on the deck, where a cozy fire will be lit just in case we have cool weather.

*** SWAP! ***
Got something you don't need anymore?
Got too many fry?
Then bring it to the Swap!
[Details on page 4 of this thread.]

Meet up with other area hobbyists and renew acquaintance with old friends.
Talk fish all afternoon! It's a great time. Start planning now and SAVE THE DAY!

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HOW TO GET THERE:

For details and directions to TankGirl's house,
please pm TankGirl or Ben.

Note: the address will NOT be posted here; please pm TankGirl or Ben to get it.
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Hope you can make it!
Central Virginia Chapter

DON'T MISS IT!

Azalea Aquariums had some recently but the price tag was high, about $10 each, like striking says. They need a fairly big aquarium, too, and they can be aggressive. A cheaper way to do it is get diamond tetras. They look a bit like mini-Congos, and they get along pretty well with other fish. *lol*

Altho' where can you get diamond tetras lately? Last time I saw them was at Perfect Pets on Broad Street and they just closed up! For good. :(

I have a bunch of diamonds in growing out right now

Sadly I lost the parents but was able to raise over 24 fry. Hopefully they will reach breeding age fairly soon and then I will have tons!

Anybody that will be at the meeting interested in some platies. I have some juvies I am wanting to move out. A mix of blue mickey mouse, orange mickey mouse and some orange yellow mixed platies.


I haven't been to Azalea in awhile which would be why I havent seen them lol. It is about time Perfect Pets closed in my opinion. Their fish department was pretty nasty and they had died fish.

I'd like to temper the discussion a bit with the reality that though I do have a 150-gal aquarium that I could float a few bags in, this is a frontosa tank and I don't wish to stress them with very many bags of fish floating above their heads. They're skittish and sensitive juveniles. My other tanks have thick floating plants or are otherwise not appropriate to float bags in.

I have a few 5-gal buckets that I can use for this, and if anyone else has ideas about how to keep livestock comfortable until everyone goes home I'm open to ideas. I had no idea everyone was so flush with fish!

D'Claro wrote:

They need a fairly big aquarium, too, and they can be aggressive. A cheaper way to do it is get diamond tetras. They look a bit like mini-Congos, and they get along pretty well with other fish.

I need congo's to go in my 75g with my 6"+ ebjd haha so I hope they are a little aggressive or they will be lunch.

I saw some a while back at fish safari for like 4.00 ish I wish I would have got some , so if anyone goes by there and notice they have some for cheap think of me haha.

If everyone just uses new water when they bag them and discontinue feeding a day or two prior a few 5 gallon buckets should do. I get a lid for a 5 gallon bucket poke a hole in it with a screwdriver and put the hard airline tubing thru it. Connect a minnow pump to it and cal it a day. Just have to watch the temp if its super cold out.

Flipper you going to car pool with me up there ? same goes for striking and dan ?

You driving jd?

at the current time and plan yes i am

I might carpool, my wife might be in VA at that point so she may want to come. Which means the baby will come, assuming its okay to bring the baby? If so I can start getting the baby loving fish from the very start :D

Hahaha starting them early i love it , i guess we will play it by ear then just let me know by oct 2nd : )

Not sure I need to do this but just want to make sure that all Tidewater folk know that we would love to have them attend.

JB

parkmond131 wrote:

Not sure I need to do this but just want to make sure that all Tidewater folk know that we would love to have them attend.
JB

Hey, JB, I just saw where I said something like this on page 1 of this thread so that's two invitations for them. If they don't show up after all this I'll be surprised! *lol*

Of course they are coming. They aren't going to miss a chance to see me now are they?

On a real note though I am hoping they show up as well. I had a good time at the meeting down there even if some people didn't show up.

I'm really hoping I can make it! Hopefully the Navy doesn't give me duty on the second...

HAHAHHA SOME PPL DIDNT SNOW UP ???????? I think you mean to say a lot of ppl were lame and no one showed up. I did have 3 extra pizzas haha. And sorry to say it but I like to crash parties so it would be better to not be invited.

Also why are me and ben the only cool ppl that have there forum names the same as there real names ?

I wasn't trying to be cool. I was just to lazy to come up with a username.

Mine is pretty close to my real name jd, missing one letter actually lol tricky tricky

Clearly the next level of coolness is a pseudo name

OMG 3 RESPONSES WITHIN 3 MINUTES NERDDSSSSSSSSS sorry you lost cool points hahaha

Pfftt, mine username is close enough. :P

I did have 3 extra pizzas haha.

All you had to do was inform Chris of this. He would of fixed the problem immediately.

Any updates to this or same old same old ?

A lot of planning is going on behind the scenes.

Don't forget! -> Everyone please find something you can donate to the swap! Like I said in the other post, it can be big or small, cheap or not, as long as it is something you can spare and would willingly give to an "aquarium pal" if he needed it.

Also, who wants to bring a side dish or a snack?
JB is going to bring baked beans.

Are you still driving jd? I have to look in my closet to see what extras I have. I'm sure I have something. Lol

parkmond131 wrote:

Hey all,

If anyone has an Mbuna tank I have a few Rusty and OB's I can bring. No Ben I said I have OB's not BO

JD what kind of fish do have? I'm setting up a Peacock, Hap tank.

HAG1 all!!!

Bring a male rusty for me! I think I have four females for sure.

Flippercon wrote:

Are you still driving jd?

As of right now yes I am driving you and Dan up there.

I got some soda left over from the meeting at my house I will bring and probably some sort of food ... or whatever is left over from the road trip up there I should say haha