** Virginia Chapter - May 22 Meeting! **

The next meeting of the Virginia Chapter will be on

Sunday, May 22 at 2:00 PM

Place:
Cichlid Solutions
6405 Dickens Place, Suite D
Richmond Va.
23230

Come out and meet your fellow hobbyists in Virginia!
Hear what your fellow hobbyists are doing in the hobby today!

*NEW* at this meeting - A short presentation by a club member.
Come out and hear the owner of Cichlid Solutions,
Mark Snead, give a talk on Aquarium Maintenance!
As Cichlid Lover, Mark is also a USAfishbox sponsor!

Take a tour of Mark's shop. socialize with your friends - old and new! - eat some snacks, and then get ready for our popular ...

Mini-Auction!
Many of our members have gently-used or NEW items to donate!
Check it out:

DRY GOODS!

• Marineland Eclipse 6 system set-up,
  5 Gallon reptile tank,
  6.5 foot siphon with large diameter uptake tube,
  Real river rocks,
  pleco breeding boxes/caves,
  homemade caves for cichlids or any fish,
  T-shirts!

... and more!

From Central Aquatics ... *new*

• 25" aquarium scraper kits
  Cord organizer kits

... and more!

From CaribSea ...

• South Seas Base Rock
  African Cichlid Mix substrate - 5.0mm-10.0mm grain size
  African Cichlid Mix substrate - Sahara Sand fine grain
  Coco-Soft Reptile Bedding

...and more!

Purple-Up! - 4 oz. bottles!
Blue Iguana Cal-Stron 10u powder - 6 oz. JARS!
2,000 (seems like it) cans of fish food from TETRA!

LIVE FISH!
3" to 5" mbuna
2" Albino Malawi eye-biter! Dimidiochromis compressiceps *new*
red zebra cichlids - Pseudotropheus or Metriaclima estherae - juveniles and fry!
Possibly some sunset platy fry - Xiphophorus maculatus - Pretty!
...

LIVE SNAILS!
Yes, Snails! Very useful in the aquarium and make interesting pets, too.
- Pomacea bridgesii (effusa) - baby GOLD Mystery snails! *new*
- Melanoides tuberculata - Malaysian trumpet snails (MTS) - the famous substrate-turning snail, keeps the sand or gravel aerated!
...

PLANTS!

• Salvinia minima - free-floating water fern!
  Taxiphyllum barbieri AKA Java moss, a useful favorite! Great for fry.

Live fish and plants!
Donations of fish and plants will be listed here as the list is finalized!
Keep checking back for new items.

Vendor donations!
More items from API, SeaChem, CaribSea, and TETRA have arrived!
Check the list for updates.

75/25 split!
Proceeds from the auction will be split a fair 75/25, with 75% of the sale going to the seller!

Donations Welcome!
Donations of aquarium related items are welcome!
Post your donated item on this thread
or pm parkmond 131 or me.

Don't miss it! It's a great time!
You'll meet some new folks, share your ideas, learn something new, and maybe leave with a great bargain!

Hope you can make it!
Virginia Chapter

DON'T MISS IT!

Amazing!

Sounds like another good time! The wife an I will try to make this one as well.

For anyone who did not get to go the last few times it is a great place to meet some new friends in person. Not to mention you get to see all the tanks at Cichlid Solutions!

I'm going to introduce two new members here so that you can arrange to sit next to them to pick their brains!
RyanH specializes in Victoria cichlids. Ya got a question about them? He'll most likely have the answer. WARNING: He was raised in KY by an Irish Grandma so mix those two accents and you end up challenged!

DeadRed raises Flowerhorns.. for those of you unfamiliar with them, they were first introduced into the aquarium world......well.. I'll mess it up but I assure you DR won't!

I can't wait to meet RyanH I'm a Victorian guru myself! They are my staple cichlid! I had at one time over 20 different species of Victorians! I'm down to 15...
JB

Is that Makobe in your avatar, JB? Orange dorsal?

As always I cannot wait. Will be great to meet some new people from Virginia as well.

I can take it or leave it......LOL. JK, It's has been a real fun time. I hope to see some new people in May.

These are very close to the Makobe Is... (I have those too!) I got my Makobe Is. colony from Sandy at ACA and her fish won several awards, they are something else! However this one is actually one of the ones from Mwanza Gulf... I have Rutis, Igombe's, Python Is and Anchor Is. Pundamilia Nyererei is one of the most colorful Cichlids out there.
As for the one in my avatar it really is Red in real life, the flash gives it some orange sheen but in person there isn't much orange!

What Victorians do you keep?

Yay! Anyone want any baby gold mystery snails? :) I can put some in the auction...

I think it would be a good idea to put them in the auction. Bill will buy anything.

Hey.. I resemble that remark!

resemble or resent?

Sorry Deb we are doing it again.

Good news!
Yesterday, only a week after my request was sent, CaribSea sent me a large donation of products for our auction.
There are five boxes, and two more on the way! (<- UPS guy.)

102 pounds total weight!
(So, I'll forgive you - Ben - if you help me carry some heavy boxes!) :lol:

jb1edlover wrote:

These are very close to the Makobe Is... (I have those too!) I got my Makobe Is. colony from Sandy at ACA and her fish won several awards, they are something else! However this one is actually one of the ones from Mwanza Gulf... I have Rutis, Igombe's, Python Is and Anchor Is. Pundamilia Nyererei is one of the most colorful Cichlids out there.
As for the one in my avatar it really is Red in real life, the flash gives it some orange sheen but in person there isn't much orange!

What Victorians do you keep?

Ooooh, got any Anchor Island fry?!

Right now I'm breeding Lithochromis xanthopteryx, and I've got a small group of A. latifasciata, which I'm seriously considering rehoming to make room for a PN group. I really don't care much for the latifasciatas' personality - they're like little jackals.

I've got big dreams, but a small house. We hope to be moving in the next couple of years, though.

BTW, do your Mwanzas have the blue ventral side?

D'Claro wrote:

Good news!
Yesterday, only a week after my request was sent, CaribSea sent me a large donation of products for our auction.
There are five boxes, and two more on the way! (<- UPS guy.)

102 pounds total weight!
(So, I'll forgive you - Ben - if you help me carry some heavy boxes!) :lol:

Great news D !! Congratz!

D'Claro wrote:

Good news!
Yesterday, only a week after my request was sent, CaribSea sent me a large donation of products for our auction.
There are five boxes, and two more on the way! (<- UPS guy.)

102 pounds total weight!
(So, I'll forgive you - Ben - if you help me carry some heavy boxes!) :lol:

Most definitely Deb.

We should get you to contact the other venders. Way to go Deb!

Thanks!
The thread has been updated!
We now have some beautiful aquarium fish to offer.
And ...
CaribSea sent us Base Rock and Sahara Sand substrate, and there's more on the way! Will keep updating as donations arrive.

I will plan on bringing some common salvinia (floating plant) but I just realized that 5/8 is Mother's Day. I'll have to see what I can work out, since I'm a mother and my family will have something planned for me and for my own mother who lives locally.

Ugh ..... no way i can make it on Mothers Day ..lol the wife would kill me for sure

Didnt realize it was Mother's Day either. May not be a very good date.

Yeah mothers day probably isn't the best date to have a fish function! Not that I mind of course but the wife might see it a little differently! She'd say, "I don't care if you go to the fish meeting", but she'll mean (If you go to the fish meeting don't come back!)
JB

Head's up to all: The meeting date is going to be changed to later in the month, so be on the lookout for a revision to this thread or a new one announcing the new date.

Sorry for the confusion!! I don't think any of us realized the holiday when we agreed on the 1st Sunday of every other month.

The 8th would actually be the second sunday!!