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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!

March 2017 Mini-Auction Fish List

March 9, 2017 By Terry Havelka Leave a Comment

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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 Lepidiolamprologus elongatus
  • 5 Altolamprologus compressiceps Mbita Island
  • 1 pair adult Aulonocara korneliae Chizumulu
  • 5 Placidochromis sp. “Jalo” Jalo Reef
  • 5 Enterochromis sp. “Red Back Scraper”
  • 5 Labeotropheus fuelleborni Chalo
  • 1 Phyllonemus typus – Wild Caught

 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

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March Meeting 3/10 @7:00 PM – Intro to the Planted Aquarium

March 7, 2017 By Terry Havelka Leave a Comment

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March Meeting! Friday March 10th!

Bruce Ferguson will be doing a presentation on Planted Aquariums!

“I am a retired House Painter, who many years ago decided to add fish to the terrariums I was making, and I’m still not sure that wasn’t a mistake!”
-Bruce.

We will also be having our usual Mini-Auction, featuring fish from Dave’s Rare Aquarium Fish!

(Side Note: If you would like to order fish from him, and have them delivered to you at the Friday meeting, your shipping cost would only be $20 for same day air cargo! Just bring your 20 bucks to the meeting when picking up your fish. Please go to his site at  Dave’s Rare Aquarium Fish if you would like to place an order order. Orders must be in by Thursday morning)

There will also be Pot Luck, so Bring some goodies to eat!

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 March are as follows:

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

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

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

OPEN CATEGORY – FRY, Minimum of 5 at 1.5 inch (Must be presented in a Bowl Show tank/container, but can be bagged and put in the mini-auction after judging if you’d like to sell)

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

Filed Under: News, What the RMCA Brings us.

Spring Auction 2/18 @10:00 AM – at Colorado Academy

February 2, 2017 By Terry Havelka Leave a Comment

The RMCA Fall Auction is Saturday, February 18th at the Colorado Academy

Colorado Academy 3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235 United States + Google Map
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Note: The acution will be starting at 10:00 A. M.

Please arrive early to allow plenty of time to get registered for a bidder number. All bidders and sellers must be registered and must provide a name, address and email address to register.

To sell fish at the auction, or preview items, please register for an account at mygroupauctions.com
Sellers, we ask that you get there BEFORE 9:00 A.M. so that we have time to get your auction items checked-in and verified.  This also allows time for the buyers to preview the items up for sale.

Sellers please note the following rules:
* A maximum of 40 combined auction items (does not include quick-sale items) per seller are allowed.
* A maximum of 4 bags of a single species or color morph per seller are allowed.

If more than 4 bags of a single species or color morph are entered in the auction the excess items will be considered a donation to the RMCA.  Also note, that because there is no way to track the order in which the items were sold, the donated items will be selected based on selling price whereby the items with the HIGHEST selling price will be considered a 100% donation to the RMCA.

* Auction Splits will be strictly enforced
* There WILL NOT be a “Buy-It-Now” table at the auction

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January Meeting 1/13 @ 7:00 PM – Aquatic Kingdom Aquariums LFS Visit

January 11, 2017 By Terry Havelka Leave a Comment

 

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MEETING! SPECIAL LOCATION!
7pm Friday January 13th

This time, our meeting will be held at Aquatic Kingdom Aquariums!
Owner Jason Alahuzos has invited us to come hang out, and check out his shop that is now OPEN, after hours to have the shop to hour selves!

We will be having our Mini Auction, There will be Food/Pot Luck, so bring a dish, there will be food and drinks.

LOCATION
18757 E Hampten Pl #160
Aurora, CO 80013

Bowl Show setup starts at 6:30pm
Meeting Officially Starts at 7pm.

JANUARY BOWL SHOW CATEGORIES

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 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 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 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 CATAGORY – SYNODONTIS CATFISH

 

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

Filed Under: News, What the RMCA Brings us.

November 2016 Mini-Auction Fish List

November 11, 2016 By Terry Havelka Leave a Comment

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Dave puts a lot of effort into doing this for us, so please go support his shop, and check out his page at davesfish.com!

The November Mini-Auction Lineup from davesfish.com

Here is what Dave is sending us for our November Mini-Auction meeting tonight! There is some rare stuff here. Specifically the Paretroplus keineri, Etia nguti, and the Thoracochromis sp. Flavenetis, are all pretty rare.

  • 4 Neolamprologus buescheri Kachese
  • 5 Aulonocara stuartgranti Undu Point
  • 5 Thoracochromis sp. “Flavenentis”
  • 5 Paretroplus kieneri
  • 5 Cynotilapia aurifrons Nkhata Bay
  • 5 Etia nguti
  • 1 Hemiancistrus guahibborum L106

 

LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Meeting Starts at 7pm

Filed Under: What the RMCA Brings us.

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President’s Message

From the Board – February 2020

Happy New Year to all our fellow Cichlidiots!  I apologize for the length of this note, but we have some exciting things we want to share with everyone.   First, our meeting in February has been moved to Friday, February 21st.  Our normal meeting date happens to fall on Valentine’s Day (you’ve been warned!), and […]

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About RMCA

Mission: A non-profit organization devoted to the furtherance of knowledge regarding cichlids and encouraging the keeping of cichlids as aquarium subjects Based in Denver, Colorado, the RMCA serves as the only dedicated Cichlid Club in the state of Colorado. For over 30 years, the club has been a resource and meeting place for hobbyists interested in these unique fishes. In 1973, several members of the Colorado Aquarium Society came together to form a new club, one dedicated to focusing on … Read More

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Bowl Shows

Those in the "know" in the RMCA understand that showing fish is not only a lot of fun, but can also be very profitable. First, second and third place fish in each category earn auction dollars, redeemable as cash towards your purchases at the next … Read more

Membership

Membership to the RMCA is $20 per year, due January of every year. Membership applications any other time are not prorated. Meetings are the second Friday of each month unless otherwise posted. We meet 9 months out of the year, not in July, … Read More

Auctions

Spring Auction March 30th! Auctions are our primary fundraising events each year. Proceeds from auction sales are vital for the club to continue to grow, improve, and provide more benefits for our members. There are 2 auctions held, one in the … Read More

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