TwoTankAmin
Fish Connoisseur
Last night was my monthly fish club meeting. Originally they had planned to have a round-table with different members being asked to soeak.answer Qs on different gish. I had been asked to talk on plecos. And then the club realized they had already booked a speaker and the round table was postponed.
The speaker was an expert on the Licorice Gourami (Parosphromenus deissneri). There ae a couple of gtoupd of fish keepers who keep and breed the various species. Our speaker was the Amrivan rep. of sich and organization. I really wished this presentation had been made years back when I had Altums as what it take to keep the Parosphromenus. Most need very soft acid water that is tea stained and uses lots of leaf litter. I had all the supplies needed to keep them properly. But now I am backing out of tanks and in the past had considered trying these fish but never got around to it.
There was another feature to the meeting in terms of the regular auctions held at the end of the meeting. This month 100% of the sale price went to the seller. The club did not take it's normal cut. So there were over 50 lots of fish, plants equipment and even a few small tank kits. I bought my usual blue shrimp, assassin snails, driftwood and a Maylasian wood log with 4 small anubias attached. We have a member which is a master breeders and his fish always command a decent price.
I have wanted to add a few cry to my in-wall 75 gal planted community. It has 5 black schultzei, about the same number of long fin paleatus and a lone huge albino aeneus the last of a group I have had for some time. Bill, a master breeder had brought 3 bags of corys: green lasers, triliniatus and Hoplisoma oiapoquense. I came home with 5 young oiapoquense. This is a new species for me. I bid on the trilinatus but stopped at $32 but then jumped to $40 to make sure I won what I did. The other member wanted all 3 species and did win two. He followed my example and jumped to $40 for the lasers and I let him have them.
I mostly quarantine new fish. But I have no problems skipping it for Bill's fish. I have some of the Inpaichthys kerri (purple emperor tetra) he bred. They are lovely fish as well. In addition our club shgirts were ready for pick-up. The club doesn't do a T-shirt, ours are a polo shirt with a collar and pocket with the clup logo on it. These are nice shirts. Clubs should support each other so if one of us attends another club auction we try to wear the shirt to show our support for them, In turn other clubs come to our annual auctions. Plus we are also advertising our club as well. Th shirts cot $21 each and I was happy to pay that.
In the past few months we have had a number of kids- under 15 attending our meeting with one of their adult relatives. Last nigh we has a toal of close to 10 such youngsters. # of them beloned to the speaker and two of them have their on tanks and fish. My club has been making an effort to bring new young folks into the hobby and we are looking for the teach in a school who would like to have a
classroom tank. The club is willing to give such group everything they need to do this and at no charge.
Since what I brought for the auction netted me $73 and I spent $40 + $21 =$61 I basically trade extra shrimp and snails and things I no longer needed, I came out $12 ahead. I think I got the beetr end of that deal. I will admit I should probably have bid and won one of the other two corys groups. I wanted the green lasers and giot stubborn and would not go over $40. I should have done so because I could have afforded to do so/ Better luck next meeting I guess.
There was one more nice thing about the meeting. The club bought about 8 pizzas with an assortment of topping. AT the end of the meeting I managed to grab a whole pie to bring home. It was a mix of plain, sausage and pepperoni. I do not do the pepperoni so those two slices went into the trash, but the rest are mine although I told my brother to help himself.
I will continue to urge those member here who are not yet in a fish club, but have one within a reasonable distance, to join. You wont regret it. Our master breeder, Bill, drives 90 minutes each way to the meetings. I am lucky my drive is only 25 each way. The best part is the gas stations in the town where our meeting are held are cheap compared to where I live. I paid under $3/gal. in NY to fill up last night. Although I am only in the one club, there are at least another 3 or 4 I could join which are all a 60 minute or shorter drive each way.
The speaker was an expert on the Licorice Gourami (Parosphromenus deissneri). There ae a couple of gtoupd of fish keepers who keep and breed the various species. Our speaker was the Amrivan rep. of sich and organization. I really wished this presentation had been made years back when I had Altums as what it take to keep the Parosphromenus. Most need very soft acid water that is tea stained and uses lots of leaf litter. I had all the supplies needed to keep them properly. But now I am backing out of tanks and in the past had considered trying these fish but never got around to it.
There was another feature to the meeting in terms of the regular auctions held at the end of the meeting. This month 100% of the sale price went to the seller. The club did not take it's normal cut. So there were over 50 lots of fish, plants equipment and even a few small tank kits. I bought my usual blue shrimp, assassin snails, driftwood and a Maylasian wood log with 4 small anubias attached. We have a member which is a master breeders and his fish always command a decent price.
I have wanted to add a few cry to my in-wall 75 gal planted community. It has 5 black schultzei, about the same number of long fin paleatus and a lone huge albino aeneus the last of a group I have had for some time. Bill, a master breeder had brought 3 bags of corys: green lasers, triliniatus and Hoplisoma oiapoquense. I came home with 5 young oiapoquense. This is a new species for me. I bid on the trilinatus but stopped at $32 but then jumped to $40 to make sure I won what I did. The other member wanted all 3 species and did win two. He followed my example and jumped to $40 for the lasers and I let him have them.
I mostly quarantine new fish. But I have no problems skipping it for Bill's fish. I have some of the Inpaichthys kerri (purple emperor tetra) he bred. They are lovely fish as well. In addition our club shgirts were ready for pick-up. The club doesn't do a T-shirt, ours are a polo shirt with a collar and pocket with the clup logo on it. These are nice shirts. Clubs should support each other so if one of us attends another club auction we try to wear the shirt to show our support for them, In turn other clubs come to our annual auctions. Plus we are also advertising our club as well. Th shirts cot $21 each and I was happy to pay that.
In the past few months we have had a number of kids- under 15 attending our meeting with one of their adult relatives. Last nigh we has a toal of close to 10 such youngsters. # of them beloned to the speaker and two of them have their on tanks and fish. My club has been making an effort to bring new young folks into the hobby and we are looking for the teach in a school who would like to have a
classroom tank. The club is willing to give such group everything they need to do this and at no charge.
Since what I brought for the auction netted me $73 and I spent $40 + $21 =$61 I basically trade extra shrimp and snails and things I no longer needed, I came out $12 ahead. I think I got the beetr end of that deal. I will admit I should probably have bid and won one of the other two corys groups. I wanted the green lasers and giot stubborn and would not go over $40. I should have done so because I could have afforded to do so/ Better luck next meeting I guess.
There was one more nice thing about the meeting. The club bought about 8 pizzas with an assortment of topping. AT the end of the meeting I managed to grab a whole pie to bring home. It was a mix of plain, sausage and pepperoni. I do not do the pepperoni so those two slices went into the trash, but the rest are mine although I told my brother to help himself.
I will continue to urge those member here who are not yet in a fish club, but have one within a reasonable distance, to join. You wont regret it. Our master breeder, Bill, drives 90 minutes each way to the meetings. I am lucky my drive is only 25 each way. The best part is the gas stations in the town where our meeting are held are cheap compared to where I live. I paid under $3/gal. in NY to fill up last night. Although I am only in the one club, there are at least another 3 or 4 I could join which are all a 60 minute or shorter drive each way.
