** Virginia Chapter - May 22 Meeting! **

First topic message reminder :

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!

I'm hoping I'll be able to make it! It was so much fun last time.

Looking forward to seeing you there Jesse.

The May 22 meeting is only a couple of weeks away!

Who's getting excited?

I know I am!

Im pretty excited. Hope for a great turnout I have been advertising by word of mouth pretty well.

I'm definitely looking forward to it! We ought to have great items for the auction, and hopefully the turnout will be good.

Hey all, I'm counting the days!!! I came up with an excellent idea for the auction, we have two auctions, one small one where Ben can bid and a large one where we put him in the corner in time out!!! LMAO

J/K Ben I'm ready fer ya

I've asked for the day off so it will be nice having it off and sharing some time with humans :) I love my critters, but you can only play frisbee for so long before it gets tiring for me...but the aussie loves it. I haven't really done much gardening either. I always get a frisbee nudged in my back!

I hope ZeAshness can make it, too!

She and I will be there!

That is great news!

The Virginia Chapter has a solid core of loyal members!

Adding more with each meeting!

D'Claro wrote:

That is great news!

The Virginia Chapter has a solid core of loyal members!

Adding more with each meeting!

Deborah, will there be ice cream!!?? Hehehe j/k

We need a couple of those huge tubs!

I'm going to try and and be there.

Cichlid Lover wrote:

I'm going to try and and be there.

We will all stand outside and start some kind of riot if not

Hey all,

Sorry I've been AWOL lately, have been bustin my booty getting ready for my son's college graduation this Saturday. Just got finished building a deck on the house yesterday and CLEANING for family coming from out of town. Went through and categorized all the auction stuff today, "good to go". Deb I will give you a call in a day or two to finalize everything. T minus 9 days and counting...

JB

I need my jb fix! Hehehe

Me again,

Hey Mark, instead of you giving a "talk" about aquarium maintenance at your place I would be more than willing to have everyone come to my place and you could do a "hands on" demonstration.

P.S. man I have Bristle Nose coming out my ears, put the male back in the tank and a week later, here we go again. Hit the mother load this time there is a load. I even tried the sheet over the tank thing but it didn't work, next time I'm going to try little tiny ear plugs also. LMAO

Talk to ya soon.

JB

steves_kiki wrote:

I need my jb fix! Hehehe

I feel your pain, I need my Kin fix

I still have your cinnamon crumb cakes, and I've been a very, very good boy, I haven't snuck one of them, but not sure how much longer I can hold out

See ya soon sunshine!!!!!!!!!!!

JB

Omg! You can have them! I'll trade you those for bristlenose babies! Hahaha j/k. Can't wait to see everyone!

JB wrote:

Deb I will give you a call in a day or two to finalize everything. T minus 9 days and counting...

Looking forward to it, JB!

And I hope everything goes well with the graduation party! Hope you have a great family get together.

Hey, Kin. :) Did you see where I added your baby gold mystery snails to the auction list? You weren't joking about those, were you? *lol*

Yep! I have some that are about pea sized that can go! I might even be able to get a lil baggie of floating duckweed type plant to put in the auction too! I don't know the name of it, but it looks rough like a cats tongue but its soft.

steves_kiki wrote:

Omg! You can have them! I'll trade you those for bristlenose babies! Hahaha j/k. Can't wait to see everyone!

LOL!!! I'll eat one if you eat one

I'll do it even if you don't, I'm sure those things have a shelf life of like 75 years... YUM

Hey All! I hope to make it on the 22nd, too! I have a bunch of fry/juvie Red Zebras I can bring for the auction. I have Convict fry, too, but they won't be big enough. Also... I have an Albino Malawi Eye-Biter that is about two inches long that I'd love to trade for a nice peacock or hap that has great color... If you're interested, let me know! They're interesting fish, but I don't think he'll be welcome in my tank when he gets bigger...

Todd

I can also have 2 or 3 sunset platy fry about 1/2 inch if anyone is intersted. And giant pond snails. The mother(snailie) is an inch long! These are already 1/2 inch! I know people don't love snails like I do, but they are so cool to watch! Also possibly have a water sprite plant or 2 in addition to the floating duckweed type plant....

steves_kiki wrote:

And giant pond snails. The mother(snailie) is an inch long! These are already 1/2 inch!

You have...got...to...post a picture of this. WoW! Never have seen a pond snail that size before.