TwoTankAmin
Fish Connoisseur
DAAS + Danbury Area Aquarium Society. For those not Americans, that ids in Connecticut. The odd thing is the club meetings are held New York. I had a good night at th meeting on Friday Sep. 26. But first a shameless plug for the club.
.......... the Danbury Area Aquarium Society (DAAS) is a non-profit organization serving the Hudson Valley Area, Westchester, Fairfield and Litchfield Counties of New York and Connecticut. DAAS is a member of the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies (NEC), a member of the Federation of American Aquarium Societies (FAAS), and C.A.R.E.S. preservation program. General meetings are held the 4th Friday of the month (except July & December) at Laura Sprain Memorial Cornerstone Park, 1 Fair Street in Carmel, NY. General meetings normally begin with a brief business meeting followed by a guest speaker, refreshments, door and raffle prizes and a mini-auction of live fish, plants and other hobby related items.
I managed to bring 2 bags holding 13 assassin snails, a bag of 10 Neo Caridin davidi, blue dream variant and an anubias I need to use a 10 inch wide fish bag to hold it. But the best parts are with what I managed to come home.
Firstly, th breeder from whom I was supposed t get 6 Hoplisoma at the June meeting put me off because he was unsude that they were perfectly healthy and wanted to wait and watch. He did not show at the Aug. meeting, He was there tonight and he said he had a bag of 8 of them. I said I wuld take them all and be happy with 12 andstead of 10 total. I had won a club auction for 4 of them from him earlier in the year. They were close to an inch and the price was $50 for all 8 which is $6.25/fish.
There were more bags of fish and plants tonight than I have ever seen ay a meeting for the past 5 years. A lot of huges plants. The were a few bags of fish I really wanted buy had no way to keep them now. A trio of Montezuma swordtails I would have love to have but no place to put them and they do require some care. I used to keep Montys. I bid on some keri tetras to add to my goupd in the inwall 75. But, I stopped bidding at $20 for the 6 of them which is a steal. I did not have to have them.
There were some huge java ferns and Bolbitis heudelotii. I have one of the latter but, when I was able to buy a Java Fern with over 30 leaves and the taller ones made the plant abut 15 inches tall I wanted it. I have bought plants from this seller before, he grows amazing stuff and some of it is quite large. He also bought 5 of my last few super white L236 (now part of the H. seideli complex). So, I paid the amazing sum of $10 for it. But, the thing I really wanted were the two pairs of Celestichthys margatitatus aka Celestial Pearl 'Danio' for the price of $10/pair. I have kept this species before.
I won them for the nice price of $10/pair. The meeting ran very late tonight due to all the items in the auction. I got home at about 11:45. The corys and CPDs went into the 29 gal Q tank which has a bunc of blue shrimp and assassin snails in it and a ton of plants. the entoire surface is amost covered bu the frogbit I got at the last meeting. I prut some of it into 5 different tanks and it has done the best in the 29 gal. Q. I parked the fern in the inwall 75 for the night. I am not sure where will be its permanent home.
What I sold, after the club took their cut, paid for the the fern and CPDs I got and another $3.60 in cash. I took the $3.
.......... the Danbury Area Aquarium Society (DAAS) is a non-profit organization serving the Hudson Valley Area, Westchester, Fairfield and Litchfield Counties of New York and Connecticut. DAAS is a member of the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies (NEC), a member of the Federation of American Aquarium Societies (FAAS), and C.A.R.E.S. preservation program. General meetings are held the 4th Friday of the month (except July & December) at Laura Sprain Memorial Cornerstone Park, 1 Fair Street in Carmel, NY. General meetings normally begin with a brief business meeting followed by a guest speaker, refreshments, door and raffle prizes and a mini-auction of live fish, plants and other hobby related items.
I managed to bring 2 bags holding 13 assassin snails, a bag of 10 Neo Caridin davidi, blue dream variant and an anubias I need to use a 10 inch wide fish bag to hold it. But the best parts are with what I managed to come home.
Firstly, th breeder from whom I was supposed t get 6 Hoplisoma at the June meeting put me off because he was unsude that they were perfectly healthy and wanted to wait and watch. He did not show at the Aug. meeting, He was there tonight and he said he had a bag of 8 of them. I said I wuld take them all and be happy with 12 andstead of 10 total. I had won a club auction for 4 of them from him earlier in the year. They were close to an inch and the price was $50 for all 8 which is $6.25/fish.
There were more bags of fish and plants tonight than I have ever seen ay a meeting for the past 5 years. A lot of huges plants. The were a few bags of fish I really wanted buy had no way to keep them now. A trio of Montezuma swordtails I would have love to have but no place to put them and they do require some care. I used to keep Montys. I bid on some keri tetras to add to my goupd in the inwall 75. But, I stopped bidding at $20 for the 6 of them which is a steal. I did not have to have them.
There were some huge java ferns and Bolbitis heudelotii. I have one of the latter but, when I was able to buy a Java Fern with over 30 leaves and the taller ones made the plant abut 15 inches tall I wanted it. I have bought plants from this seller before, he grows amazing stuff and some of it is quite large. He also bought 5 of my last few super white L236 (now part of the H. seideli complex). So, I paid the amazing sum of $10 for it.
But, the thing I really wanted were the two pairs of Celestichthys margatitatus aka Celestial Pearl 'Danio' for the price of $10/pair. I have kept this species before.I won them for the nice price of $10/pair. The meeting ran very late tonight due to all the items in the auction. I got home at about 11:45. The corys and CPDs went into the 29 gal Q tank which has a bunc of blue shrimp and assassin snails in it and a ton of plants. the entoire surface is amost covered bu the frogbit I got at the last meeting. I prut some of it into 5 different tanks and it has done the best in the 29 gal. Q. I parked the fern in the inwall 75 for the night. I am not sure where will be its permanent home.
What I sold, after the club took their cut, paid for the the fern and CPDs I got and another $3.60 in cash. I took the $3.
