** 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!

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.

James0816 wrote:

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.

Really??? Hmmm I do love my snails! I will try to take a pic next time she's out. :)

Great donations, guys - and gals!
The thread has been updated. If you find out on the day that you can't bring these fish for some reason, no problem. It happens.

What's great about bringing live fish to the meet is that Mark has a dedicated tank set up to float them in. We really appreciate everything he does to make these meetings a success!

Sorry if these don't work...

she's a lil cringed up in the pic. The gold dollar scared her :(

Sorry if I hijacked the thread y'all....

No way! The pix are great and folks will like to see them in case they are interested in any of these snails.
Thanks, Kin. : )

snoskiur wrote:

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

If anyone thinks they have something I may want to trade for the Eye-Biter, please let me know before hand...

Thanks!
Todd

D'Claro wrote:

No way! The pix are great and folks will like to see them in case they are interested in any of these snails.
Thanks, Kin. : )

Thanks! I think the pics came out pretty well considering its a camera phone :)

On another note... does anyone have any White or Inkfin Calvus they could bring to trade for my albino Dimidiochromis compressiceps or red zebras? The only ones I can ever find are so small they get eaten in my tank...

Here's what he should look like as an adult:




Thanks!
Todd

Kin if you want to bring the platy fry Ill bid on them lol. My community tank has so much going on a few more platys couldnt hurt.

Wish I could help you out on the eye biter Snoskiur but my african tank doesnt allow it atm.

Okey dokey!

snoskiur wrote:

On another note... does anyone have any White or Inkfin Calvus they could bring to trade for my albino Dimidiochromis compressiceps or red zebras? The only ones I can ever find are so small they get eaten in my tank...

Here's what he should look like as an adult:




Thanks!
Todd

Can't help ya out with that one, but that's a good looking fish.

Is anyone interesting in bidding on/buying some of my larger angel fish fry. If so please let me know. I have a bunch ready to go as well as a batch of nearly quarter size fry. I ask because I would prefer for them not to have to make a 4+ hour round trip + meeting time if they don't have to. Thanks!

I'm ok on angelfish now... but I may contact you in the future for some!

Also, people....if you can bring 10s and 5s if available, for the auction...it would help me out a lot! Thanks guys!

Just throwing it out there again... Does anyone have any White and/or Inkfin Calvus they'd part with or trade?

Thanks!
Todd

Wish I could help you out on the calvus Todd.

I think I will be bringing a 20L if anybody isinterested in it.

HAVE A BLAST TODAY!!! TAKE SOME PICS AND VIDEO IF YOU CAN!!!

PARTY TIME!



Wish I could be with yall!

Today's the Day!

Bring small bills , if you have any.

5's, 10's, and 1's will keep the cash flowing at the auction.

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Thanks for the good wishes, KMX!

Thanks deborah. I have some small bills.... :)

1 pic but you can't see many people

Had a good time at the meeting and picked up a few items along with 2 new fish. Thank you to everybody who came and everybody who brought stuff to help participate.

Thanks for another great meeting! Well worth the drive and my new male Kenyi is doing well and immediately found my female haha. Looking forward to the next meeting already.

Good to be at the first meeting of ASCV!

hehe

It was great to see everyone again and I look forward to our next meeting. We need to nail down a date in July.

The first Sunday in July is the weekend of the 4th, so I'm wondering if we might want to start using the second Sunday of every other month to avoid some of the holidays that might impact attendance?

I had a great time today and am impressed with how everyone gets along so well and comes to agreement remarkably easily - that's no small thing when you get a group of strangers together!

A great big thumb's up to all who attended, and also to those who could not but plan to attend in July - let's all work on recruiting more members!

TankGirl wrote:

It was great to see everyone again and I look forward to our next meeting. We need to nail down a date in July.

The first Sunday in July is the weekend of the 4th, so I'm wondering if we might want to start using the second Sunday of every other month to avoid some of the holidays that might impact attendance?

I had a great time today and am impressed with how everyone gets along so well and comes to agreement remarkably easily - that's no small thing when you get a group of strangers together!

A great big thumb's up to all who attended, and also to those who could not but plan to attend in July - let's all work on recruiting more members!

Great to hear!!!

Let me know if you all need any help. Don't 4get those CL adds help a bunch!