Virgina Tidewater Chapter meeting on Jan 28th 2012

First topic message reminder :

I am going to host a meeting at my house for all tidewater members will probably cook out let me know if you can make it and what time will work,
UPDATE: so the time is going to be 2 at my house I will be giving my address out through pm so if you want to come pm me. Here is the list of who is coming and what they are bringin
Flippercon spinich dip hrps and krips fry
Strikigthematch
Zeashness angelfish and chiclid fry
Ben
Jd
Russ convict fry
D'claro
Painin4u black Molly fry
Koolaid68

Please pm me if you want join us and I also need people to bring some snack foods if you can let me know what you will bring thanks
Again I will only be sending my address through pm so message me if you want to come

what are those fish in the 2nd and last pic?

Russ722 wrote:

what are those fish in the 2nd and last pic?

2nd to last Rocio octofasciata (Jack Dempsey) If its JDs fish Its probally a BGJD (blue gene Jack Dempsey)

Last pic Is "Ong Bak" a Thai silk Flowerhorn or platinum Flowerhorn..... He is looking good JD

cool fish whats the one in his hand?

Looks like a Pundamilia nyererei "crimson tide" to me.

thanks , theres so many cichlids i dont know whats what lol

2nd to last fish is my red texas , he has stripes when sleeping but when he wakes up he is solid , i think it has some kind of jd in it lol

Did you make the red texas or buy it? They have a big thread over at the ACA about them now.
JB

My brother bought it i just threw it in a tank and are raising it for him , which probably means it will be my fish forever lol

Then shortly after this purchase , petsmart started to carry them.

jb1edlover wrote:

Did you make the red texas or buy it? They have a big thread over at the ACA about them now.
JB

I agree what the thread posted because of the line breeding of recessive genes then to cross that.....
Thats way too much work to do it right. I would attempt Breeding Umbees first

There are too many beautiful fish that occur naturally to mess with that "junk" anyway. I saw some Red Texas at PetSmart here in Newport News and I asked the fish people if they were "dyed" or how they got to be red. The guys said, "Oh I think they come that way." I told him I was from Texas and I had snorkeled many many times and seen them in the wild and there wasn't any red ones! He said, "well then I'm not sure, but they came that way out of the bag when we got them."
That is what is so disturbing about them. They are pretty..... I'll give them that but the average fish keeper doens't understand how bad hybrids are and that is a big problem because that's how they get out of control....
JB

I don't mind hybrids at all , true there are fish out there that are way more beautiful but most of them are impossible to get or are far to expensive so the flower horns that i have purchased " thai silks" are a responsible price and I like them very much. As for them getting out of control I personally will never breed hybrids or ones I know for sure are hybrids just because it doesn't interest me all that much.

hey jd whats that color fish in your cast signiture?

uhhh i can't remember what i used the left one is the Astatoreochromis alluaudi , and there is a ruth island in there i believe

yea thats cool lookin fish on the right very nice coloring

i am out of town now, but gonna try and make it in. would love to be there.

Awsome

Let's make this a good showing!

True that

Ive gotten rid of a bunch of things as of now , still have 2 20g longs and some honduran red points , and some victorians.

Check out the update please

I will only bring fish if someone wants them so speak up one week left.

FLIPPERCON, i will eat some with ya. i have things set up and i know i will be in town for the meeting.

Which ones do you want and how many?

Hi all! I just wanted to send my regrets - I WAS planning on coming, but it turns out my husband planned a surprise birthday party for me that day and he finally had to spill the beans so I'd show up, lol! I don't usually celebrate my birthday so it did not occur to me to stay home, but this time I'll have to.

I'm definitely sorry to be missing it, since our last meeting we had in Richmond was such a success, due in no small part to the Tidewater members who made the trip. (We've got our next meeting slated for 2/26 at Cichlid Solutions - [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

I hope to catch the next Tidewater meeting, so I'll be watching the forum for it.