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That is a Bolivian Red Ram.

Yes the February auction is February 24th. Calgarians can attend, I will forward the 72 page screening form for you to hand out to interested Calgarians wishing to attend.

Raymond

The scrubbies are your bio media. They act like ceramic rings, bio balls without the cost of them.

Like Jason, I just use the pot scrubbies from the dollar store.

I'm on the north side of the city

I've got a bunch of rock that I'm not using. Some of it is lace rock and the rest is black rocks.

Adding to Ric's notes, I did lose my adult breeding pair but good thing I had gotten lots of fry from them before that. They spawned quite easily in a 15 gallon tank filtered by a Hamburg Matten filter. I had one group hatch out in the same tank and the adults left the fry alone so this is a good one to have if you want to breed rainbows and have limited tank space.

I did give a young trio to geleen so he has those now as well.

Bump

Bring some food as well the proceeds of this evenings raffle will go towards charity so bring in those rare plants or fish.

Raymond

The December meeting will be on Tuesday December 4th.

Topic is:

All Catfish Convention

As this is our Christmas meeting there will be refreshments and food to be had. Please don't be shy about sharing some of your 'family' recipes if you are attending.

The place will be at the Allendale Hall at 6330-105A St

Time to start will be at 7:30

As well donations of plants and fish are always welcome for our raffle.

Raymond

Did you get that driftwood from Mishaal at the ERAS fall show?

You should post some pictures of that Nanmer.

Kevin, looking good so far as well.

You don't have to be a member to attend the convention.

Yes it will be earlier because of the CAOAC show in May. So there will be 3 auctions in 2013, spring, CAOAC and fall.

Meeting is on November 6th. (US Presidential Election Day)

Place: Allendale Community Hall

6330 105A Street

Time: 7:30

Topic: ACA Convention in Indianopolis

Raymond

I can probably scan it and put it on our facebook site when I get home from work tonight.

www.facebook.com/AquariumClubofEdmonton

Of course we do, they pay inflated Calgary prices though and why wouldn't we let them volunteer, all we have to do is speak slowly and use simple sentences.

Well some members of ACE are aware of this as well as possibly a few other people.

Edmonton will be hosting the 2013 CAOAC convention.

This will be May 18 and 19th with a strong possibility something happening the evening of the 17th.

Saturday May 18th, speakers, fish show and banquet
Sunday May 19th, auction

Where:
Edmonton Hotel and Convention Centre
4520-76 Ave
Room Rates:
$119 + Taxes/night standard room
$139 + Taxes/night executive room
All rooms include: hot and cold breakfast buffet, free wifi, free parking, free local calls
When you are booking, please mention that you are with the Aquarium Club of Edmonton to get the room rate.

Speakers:

Regrettably Juan Miguel Artigas was unable to get the time off to attend.

Anton Lamboj
Ian Fuller

Peter DeSouza

I will keep this updated.

As well if you wish to sponsor a show class or know of someone or company that might be interested, let me know. The classes are posted on our website at www.edmontonfish.com

Tickets for the banquet will be $50/person, please email Michael Pham so that we can let the hotel know how many people will be attending the banquet.

There is also a show registration form on our website for you to download and send to Ken Ealey.

Raymond

Yes anyone can buy. If you have limited time, you can also bump items so that they will be within the next couple of items up for auction.

You must be a member of an Aquarium Club to sell (yes, we even allow CAS members to sell).

Yes that is right Crystal. I would double check with Michael, we try to keep our maximum lots at around 500 before donations. Any more and it runs too long. He will probably let you seeing as you are from out of town but we try not to have people sign up and sell the day of the auction.

I have a jpeg of the membership form at.

www.facebook.com/AquariumClubofEdmonton

I am working on the auction form but you can use anything, just be sure to have your contact information, membership number and your lots listed.

We don't know what donations there will be till the day of the auction. Again be sure to number the donations as well with

999-table

Hope this helps some more Crystal.

Raymond

You will be given a membership number. So you would number the items this way.

###-YY

### is your membership number

YY would be a number from 01-20 which would determine which table it goes on. Tables are numbered from 1-10

So ###-11 would be table 1 and ###-20 would be table 10

Raymond

Try the microrasboras, celestial pearl danios, endlers. I've kept all of these with shrimp before and the shrimp have multiplied. Just be sure to have lots of hiding places for the shrimplets so that you do get more that survive than become food.

It is a great way to meet other fishheads and also to ask questions, as well as supporting the aquarium club and other members.

Well good luck in your new adventures. I think I was one of your meetings at 1:00 AM in the morning at the Kingsway parking lot 2nd level by the bay way back then.

Welcome back to the hobby. I took a drivers test up in Melfort when I was 18 way back when we used to live in Quill Lake, SK

Date: September 4th

Place: Allendale Community Hall

6330-105A St

Time: 7:30pm

Speaker: Mike Sullivan

Topic: State of Alberta's smaller rivers and concerns with exotic species introductions.

Raffle after speaker as usual.

Membership fees due for the upcoming year.

Meet your new executives.