MEETING! Sept. 9th!
Presenting Anthony Tu, of Frontosa Factory.
“Frontosa Advanced for hobyists – 3D”

+ Small intro on Vampire crabs.

Anthony Tu is a graduate of San Jose State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He has been involved with the tropical fish hobby more than 30 years. At twelve years of age, he started to breed beta fish, which he received as a gift from a neighbor’s pond in South East Asia. His passion for African Cichlids began in 1995 when he joined his local fish club, the Pacific Coast Cichlid Association (PCCA). He has also been a member of the American Cichlid Association since 2000. He has specialized in the keeping and breeding of Cyphotilapia.

He currently maintains more than 12 variants of Cyphotilapia. In April 2008, he was awarded as a Master Breeder from the PCCA, his local fish club. Anthony is an international speaker. He has given many talks at major fish clubs throughout the United States, Mexico and Asia, recently at Aquarama 2015 in Singapore . All his lectures use the latest technology such as: PowerPoint, 3D video clips, and high definition pictures, all taken by him.

Also, the Black Calvus growth contest fish are due back this month.

Lastly, if anyone has been successful in breeding the Hillstream Loaches please bring the fry to the meeting if you haven’t already had someone verify the spawn.

LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235

Bowl Show Setup at 6:30pm
Meeting starts at 7pm

BOWL SHOW CATEGORIES for June

LAKE MALAWI – GROUP 1—HAPLOCHROMINES—Alticorpus, Aristochromis, Buccochromis, Caprichromis, Champsochromis, Chilotilapia, Copadichromis, Cyrtocara, Dimidochromis, Exochochromis, Fossorochromis, Lethrinops, Lichnochromis, Mylochromis, Nimbochromis, Otopharynx, Placidichromis, Protomelas, Rhamphochromis, Scieanochromis, Serranochromis, Stigmatochromis, Taeniolethrinops, Tramitichromis, Trematocranus, Tyrannochromis.

LAKE TANGANYIKA – GROUP 3—FEATHERFINS, FRONTOSA, TROPHEUS, PETROS—Aulonocranus, Benthochromis, Cunningtonia, Cyathopharynx, Cyphotilapia, Opthalmotilapia, Petrochromis, Tropheus.

OTHER AFRICAN/ASIAN CICHLIDS – GROUP 1—VICTORIA BASIN CICHLIDS—Allochromis, Astatoreochromis, Astatotilapia, (A. aenocolor, A. latifasciata, A. nubila), Enterochromis, Haplochromis (not H. burtoni), Haplotilapia, Harpagochromis, Labrochromis, Lipochromis, Lithochromis, Mbipia, Neochromis, Oreochromis (O. esculentus, O. mossambicus, O. niloticus, O. variabilis), Paralabidochromis, Platytaeniodus, Prognathochromis, Psammochromis, Pseudocrenilabrus (not P. nicholsi), Ptyochromis, Pundamilia, Pyxichromis, Xystichromis, Yssichromis.

NEW WORLD CICHLIDS – GROUP 3—SOUTH AMERICAN DWARF CICHLIDS—Apistogramma, Apistogrammoides, Biotoecus, Cleithracara, Laetacara, Mikrogeophagus, Nannacara, Taeniacara, Tahuantinsuyoa.

OPEN CATEGORY – Adult Pairs

(To view upcoming  Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://www.rmcichlid.org/meetings/bowl-shows)

COME HANG OUT AND EAT WITH FELLOW FISH NERDS!
CHECK OUT A MEMBER’S FISH COLLECTION!

Sunday, August 21 @ 1 P.M.

Marc Purdham has graciously offered to host our summer picnic at his home.

MEMBER EVENT! You must be an official member to attend.
(If you would like to attend, and are not a member, you may become a member at the picnic. Just bring $15 for a year membership.)

Member’s may bring company, just make sure to RSVP and let Marc know how many people will be in your party.
If you plan on attending please RSVP to Marc Purdham at super2nr@comcast.net

Main Course is Provided by the Club, Sides and Deserts provided by members.

Thanks!

Bob Allen started keeping fish in 1948 at age ten. He was actually interested in tropical fish before that. He now lives in Salem Utah where he operates a tropical fish hatchery specializing in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika. The hatchery has 240 fish tanks. He has written articles for Tropical Fish Hobbyist and Cichlid News magazines. His day job for 40 years was operating two camera stores in the Provo, Utah area. His articles and lectures include professional quality slides and video. He has spawned some unusual fish such as Monodactylus sebae, Bathybates minor, Lampricthys tanganicanus and Enantiopus sp. “Kilesa”. He has spoken at aquarium clubs in Cleveland, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Tucson, Phoenix, San José, Minneapolis, Chicago, Sacramento and at the American Cichlid Association convention in Denver.

LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235

Bowl Show Setup at 6:30pm
Meeting starts at 7pm

BOWL SHOW CATEGORIES for June

LAKE MALAWI – GROUP 3—PEACOCKS AND OTHER MALAWI—Aulonocara, Cheilochromis, Corematodus, Ctenopharynx, Cyathochromis, Diplotaxodon, Docimodus, Genyochromis, Hemitaeniochromis, Hemitilapia, Naevochromis, Nyassachromis, Pallidochromis, Platygnathochromis, Taeniochromis.

LAKE TANGANYIKA – GROUP 1—CYPRICHROMIS, GOBIES, AND OTHER TANGANYIKA—Asprotilapia, Astatotilapia (A. burtoni, A, paludinosa, A. stappersi), Baileychromis, Bathybates, Boulengerochromis, Callochromis, Cardiopharynx, Ctenochromis, Cyprichromis, Ectodus, Enantiopus, Eretmodus, Gnathochromis, Grammatotria, Greenwoodochromis, Haplotaxodon, Hemibates, Interochromis, Lestradea, Limnochromis, Limnotilapia, Lobochilotes, Microdontochromis, Oreochromis (O. karomo, O. malagarasi, O. niloticus, O. tanganicae), Paracyprichromis, Perissodus, Plecodus, Pseudosimochromis, Reganochromis, Simochromis, Spathodus, Tangachromis, Tanganicodus, Telotrematocara, Trematocara, Trematochromis, Triglachromis, Tylochromis, Xenochromis, Xenotilapia.

OTHER AFRICAN/ASIAN CICHLIDS – GROUP 3—MADAGASCAR CICHLIDS, ASIAN CICHLIDS—Etroplus, Iranocichla, Oxylapia, Paratilapia, Paretroplus, Ptychochromis, Ptyochochromoides.

NEW WORLD CICHLIDS – GROUP 1—CENTRAL AMERICAN CICHLIDS—Amatitlania, Amphilophus (not A. festae), Archocentrus, Astatheros, Cichlasoma (not C. dimerus), Cryptoheros, exCichlasoma, Herichthys, Herotilapia, Hypsophrys, Nandopsis, Neetroplus, Parachromis, Paraneetroplus, Paratheraps, Petenia, Rocio, Theraps, Thorichthys, Tomocichla, Vieja.

OPEN CATEGORY – Botia (Loaches)

(To view upcoming  Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://www.rmcichlid.org/meetings/bowl-shows)

“The Ultimate Fishroom Hop”

 

Exploring hobbyist & commercial fishrooms from all over the world! Included are visits to the UK, Germany, Norway and various locations across America. Bring your notebooks and pens………guaranteed you will see gadgets, tricks and ideas that you will want to incorporate into your own fishroom. In addition, successful spawning information will be reviewed on the Sewellia lineolata; the “Reticulated Hillstream Loach”

 

Bio:
Eric Bodrock, 54, is the owner of All Oddball Aquatics, a tropical fish hatchery and independent online retailer located just south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Along with his fiancé, Regina Spotti, they currently maintain about 250 aquariums in their home based hatchery where they work with a wide range of fish species.
Eric has been active in the aquarium hobby since age 10 and has worked in the retail, wholesale distribution, installation, and hatchery aspects of the industry. In addition to his accomplishment of successfully spawning nearly 500 species of freshwater fish, including a little more than 110 different Killifish and 100 species of Catfish, he has published articles, judged dozens of fish shows, and has given presentations, many while traveling abroad to aquarium related events in Canada, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and all over the USA.
Eric is the treasurer of the Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society, which he has been a member of for 40 years! He considers himself to be a “Lifer” in the hobby and continues to promote the aquarium hobby in every possible way…you’ll often hear him say: “There’s always room for one more tank!”

And there is always room for YOU! Please join us!

As Always we will try to bring in fish from davesfish.com

There will be Pot Luck, so bring some goodies!

LOCATION
Friday May 13th
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Friday Feb. 12th
Bowl Show Setup at 6:30pm
Meeting starts at 7pm

 

BOWL SHOW CATEGORIES for May

LAKE MALAWI – GROUP 2—MBUNA—Abactochromis, Cynotilapia, Gephyrochromis, Iodotropheus, Labeotropheus, Labidochromis, Melanochromis, Metriaclima, Petrotilapia, Pseudotropheus, Tropheops.

LAKE TANGANYIKA – GROUP 3—FEATHERFINS, FRONTOSA, TROPHEUS, PETROS—Aulonocranus, Benthochromis, Cunningtonia, Cyathopharynx, Cyphotilapia, Opthalmotilapia, Petrochromis, Tropheus.

OTHER AFRICAN/ASIAN CICHLIDS – GROUP 2—OTHER AFRICAN CICHLIDS—Alcolapia, Anomalochromis, Astatotilapia, (A. desfontainii), Benitochromis, Chetia, Chilochromis, Chromidotilapia, Congochromis, Cyclopharynx, Danakilia, Divandu, Enigmatochromis, Etia, Gaurochromis, Gobiocichla, Haplochromis (H. burtoni), Hemichromis, Heterochromis, Konia, Limbochromis, Macropleurodus, Myaka, Nanochromis, Oreochromis (O. mossambicus), Orthochromis, Parananochromis, Pelmatochromis, Pelvicachromis, Pharygochromis, Pseudocrenilabrus (P. nicholsi), Pterochromis, Pungu, Saratherodon, Sargochromis, Schwetzochromis, Steatocranus, Stomatepia, Teleogramma, Thoracochromis, Tilapia.Thysochromis.

NEW WORLD CICHLIDS – GROUP 3—SOUTH AMERICAN DWARF CICHLIDS—Apistogramma, Apistogrammoides, Biotoecus, Cleithracara, Laetacara, Mikrogeophagus, Nannacara, Taeniacara, Tahuantinsuyoa.

OPEN CATEGORY – All Other Catfish that are Non-Suckermouthed and Not Synodontis. (Those two types are in their own open categories for different months)

(To view upcoming  Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://www.rmcichlid.org/meetings/bowl-shows)

Ingo Seidel, was born in 1967 in Delmenhorst in the Northern German federal state Niedersachsen. Since his earliest youth he was interested in everything that was scuttling, flying and swimming outside. At the age of ten years he received his first fish tank from his father, who had been an aquarist for years before.
At first his professional development took a totally different course. After leaving school he started professional training as a mathematical technical assistant at a big electronics company in Bremen and worked as software programmer in this company for years. In 2001 he made a profession out of his hobby and moved to the Berlin area for a new job. Since this time he works in Seefeld near Berlin as a scientific assistant at one of the biggest wholesalers of ornamental fishes in Germany.

Above all the fish fauna of the South American continent is one of Ingo´s major interests. Starting with keeping cichlids, killies and livebearers he soon found out that catfishes are his real passion. From 1992 to 2006 Ingo Seidel has been the leader of the catfish section of the German study group AK-BSSW (association for barbs, tetras, loaches and catfishes). Over the years he has been able to keep and breed more than 40 species of Corydoras, innumerable loricariid and some other catfish species. On several trips to South America he had the chance to observe many of these fishes in their natural habitats. He always tried to document his observations by photography, so that his photo archive meanwhile consists of many thousand slides. For more than 20 years he has written articles about the ecology, care and breeding of catfishes. In 2002 his first book was published. He wrote the Mergus Catfish Atlas Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in co-operation with his friend Hans-Georg EVERS. The first volume has also been published in English. These two volumes of the “Catfish Atlas” (in Germany, “Wels Atlas”) are the biggest monography about loricariid catfishes ever published. Meanwhile, a new beginners’ book about L plecos has been published in the Back To Nature Series in English and is available in seven different languages. Also the “Hypancistrus-Fibel” and his newest book “Ingos Harnischwelszucht” were written by him.

(NOTE, the Open Category this month is PLECOS! So Members, lets show off our Plecos to Ingo!)

As Always we will be having a Pot Luck (please bring a dish/desert to share),  Door Prizes and Mini Auction, with fish brought in from davesfish.com!

LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Friday Apr. 29th
Bowl Show Setup at 6:30pm
Meeting starts at 7pm

BOWL SHOW CATEGORIES for April

LAKE MALAWI – GROUP 1—HAPLOCHROMINES—Alticorpus, Aristochromis, Buccochromis, Caprichromis, Champsochromis, Chilotilapia, Copadichromis, Cyrtocara, Dimidochromis, Exochochromis, Fossorochromis, Lethrinops, Lichnochromis, Mylochromis, Nimbochromis, Otopharynx, Placidichromis, Protomelas, Rhamphochromis, Scieanochromis, Serranochromis, Stigmatochromis, Taeniolethrinops, Tramitichromis, Trematocranus, Tyrannochromis.

LAKE TANGANYIKA – GROUP 2—JULIDOCHROMIS, LAMPROLOGINES, SHELL-DWELLERS—Altolamprologus, Chalinochromis, Julidochromis, Lamprologus, Lepidiolamprologus, Neolamprologus, Telmatochromis, Variabilichromis.

OTHER AFRICAN/ASIAN CICHLIDS – GROUP 1—VICTORIA BASIN CICHLIDS—Allochromis, Astatoreochromis, Astatotilapia, (A. aenocolor, A. latifasciata, A. nubila), Enterochromis, Haplochromis (not H. burtoni), Haplotilapia, Harpagochromis, Labrochromis, Lipochromis, Lithochromis, Mbipia, Neochromis, Oreochromis (O. esculentus, O. mossambicus, O. niloticus, O. variabilis), Paralabidochromis, Platytaeniodus, Prognathochromis, Psammochromis, Pseudocrenilabrus (not P. nicholsi), Ptyochromis, Pundamilia, Pyxichromis, Xystichromis, Yssichromis.

NEW WORLD CICHLIDS – GROUP 2—SOUTH AMERICAN CICHLIDS—Acarichthys, Acaronia, Aequidens, Amphilophus      (A. festae), Andinoacara, Astronotus, Australoheros, Biotodoma, Bujurquina, Chaetobranchopsis, Chaetobranchus, Caquetaia, Cichla, Cichlasoma (C. dimerus), Crenicara, Crenicichla, Dicrossus, Geophagus, Guianacara, Gymnogeophagus, Heroina, Heros, Hoplarchus, Hypselecara, Krobia, Mazarunia, Mesonauta, Pterophyllum, Retroculus, Satanoperca,   Symphysodon, Teleocichla, Uaru.

OPEN CATEGORY
PLECOS AND OTHER SUCKER-MOUTHED CATFISH

(To view upcoming  Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://www.rmcichlid.org/meetings/bowl-shows)