What we are about.
The RMCA was made to bring cichlid and aquarium hobbyists together, in a family friendly environment, for fellowship. By joining, and coming to meetings, auctions, gatherings, and parties, us cichlid nerds have a place where we can feel normal with each other, and be around other people with one common interest. FISH! Gain Knowledge, Buy, Trade, Sell, we aim to have our members feel welcomed, weather you are a beginner, or an expert. We Welcome all ages, including kids who are trying to get into the hobby, for they are the future after all! We hope to see you at the next meeting!
May 2017 Mini-Auction Fish List
Dave’s Rare Aquarium Fish May Mini Auction Lineup!
Madagascar Special Edition! In honer of our speaker coming in!
Do not miss this meeting tonight!
Each species will be one bag of Juveniles.
Ptychochromis grandidieri “East Coast Gold”
Ptychochromis oligacanthus
Ptychochromis sp. “Tarantsy”
Paretroplus menarambo “Pinstripe Damba”
Paretroplus kieneri “Calico Damba”
Pachypanchax playfairii (Madagascar Golden Killi)
See you at the meeting!
LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Bowl Show Setup starts at 6:30pm
Meeting Starts at 7pm
May Meeting 5/12 @7:00 PM – Jim Cumming – Cichlids of Madagascar
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All the way from Canada, we are proud to have Jim Cumming joining us for a presentation of the Cichlids of Madagascar!
Our Meetings are open to everyone that would like to come! If you would like to be a member, you can join at the meeting, so please Share!
Biography
Jim Cumming hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and is a lifelong fish hobbyist, having been involved for over 50 years. Other than a fifteen year sojourn into the world of killifish (his online moniker is ‘notho2000’) he has kept and presently keeps mostly Central and South American cichlids, but he currently devotes about one third of his 40 aquarium fish room to Madagascan cichlids and the Etroplus genus from India. He has given presentations on Madagascan cichlids and their plight to the Winnipeg and Saskatoon Aquarium Societies, the New England Cichlid Association, the Bermuda Aquarium Society, the Dead Fish Order, the Ohio Cichlid Association, the Greater Chicago Cichlid Association, the Durham Regional Aquarium Society and the Great Salt Lake Aquarium Society. Jim has also had extensive collecting experience in Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Brazil and the southern U.S.
He maintains a very active YouTube channel with around 470 videos at last count, highlighting the fish he keeps or has kept, and emphasizing maintenance and breeding. Jim is also a moderator for several Facebook forums, contributes regularly to other on-line forums as well (CRC, ACA, MFK, and the Winnipeg Fish Forum) and has had articles published in Amazonas and Cichlid News magazines. He is also a Species Specialist and a speaker for the CARES program. He looks forward to enthusiastically spreading the word on this magnificent group of fishes
“The Cichlids of Madagascar – A Land in Crisis”
Talk Outline
- Where Madagascar is located.
- How large it is, comparatively speaking.
- How it got to where it is.
- Its importance in global distribution of all cichlids.
- State of the land– ‘the good , the bad, and the ugly’.
- Described genera of the endemic cichlids
- Species that I have experience with.
- A more detailed look at some species
- The people behind the cichlids
- Saving a species from extinction and conservation.
- The future of the endemic fishes, and fauna in general.
The Club will be bringing in, by request, a Catfish Growth Contest Fish!
As Always we will try to bring in fish from Davesfish.com for the Mini Auction!
LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Bowl Show setup starts at 6:30pm
Meeting Officially Starts at 7pm.
Bowl Show Categories for May are as follows:
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 – CATFISH, NOT SUCKER-MOUTHED (not Synodontis)
(To view upcoming Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://rmcichlid.org/bowl-shows/)
April 2017 Mini-Auction Fish List
Here is the lineup for the Mini-Auction from Dave’s Rare Aquarium Fish! Some Awesome stuff coming from Dave this month! Dave is a huge supporter of our club, and hes not even from around here. He just likes us that much! So please show him some support! If any of our members would ever like to order fish from Dave, and would like to save on shipping, just Contact Dave at www.davesfish.com, and tell him you want your order sent with the RMCA meeting’s Auction Fish! Your shipping cost will only be $20 for same day air cargo! Just pay the treasurer when you pick up your fish at the meeting.
Each species is one auction bag item.
- 5 Telmattochromis brichardi
- 5 Julidochromis marlieri Magara
- 5 Aulonocara “Stuartgranti Maleri” Maleri Island
- 5 Metriaclima sp. “Zebra Gold” Kawanga
- 5 Thoracochromi sp. “Lake Albert”
- 5 Ptychochromis grandideri
- 5 Microsynodontis sp. “Bumblebee”
See you at the meeting!
LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Bowl Show Setup starts at 6:30pm
Meeting Starts at 7pm
April Meeting 4/21 @7:00 PM – Bob Allen’s – Tanganyika top 10
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APRIL MEETING!!! FRIDAY THE 21st! (Special date, to not intrude on Good Friday and Easter Weekend)
Bob Allen will be coming in to town to speak to us again this year! He is one of the highlight speakers we love to have! Specializing in Tanganyika Cichlids!
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.
GROWTH CONTEST TANGANYIKA FISH WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS MONTH provided by Bob Allen himelf! As well as a Catfish Growth Contest in May!
As Always we will try to bring in fish from Davefish.com for the Mini Auction!
LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Bowl Show setup starts at 6:30pm
Meeting Officially Starts at 7pm.
Bowl Show Categories for April are as follows:
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 Mouth Catfish
(To view upcoming Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://rmcichlid.org/bowl-shows/)
http://rmcichlid.org/bowl-shows/)
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