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FAAS Publication Awards Form FAAS Publication Awards Form Author Zenin Skomorowski Society (NO Abbreviations) Kitchener-Waterloo Aquarium Society Age Category 6. Best Exchange Column Choose . (Junior Only) Date of Publication May 2013 Title of Publication (NO Abbreviations) Fins and Tales Title of Article May Exchange Editor Articles published in Fins & Tales may be printed in a non-profit publication provided credit is given to both the author and KWAS. Copies of the reprint must be sent to both the exchange editor and the author. Any other use is prohibited without the written consent of KWAS. Enter your official Reprint Policy reprint policy for your publication. Where should we send award certificates? Address per your Reprint Policy above: [email protected] [email protected] Address Information Award certificates should all go to the same address. Contact Email Address [email protected] Editor or person who submits the entry OK to type in your Signature signature & initials. Zenin Skomorowski ZS By submitting this entry, I attest that the publication pages have not been materially altered from my society’s originally published document. Form Directions 4) Name file as follows e.g. Greater Colorado Corydoras Association 1) Fill out the form above. Category 13 2) Convert or “print” to PDF Entry #2 3) Combine form with the PDF version of the article being submitted. 013-002-gcca.pdf For Junior Entries, e.g Junior Level 1: J1-013-002.pdf May 2013 May Exchange Editor Danio. Titis small ( 3/4 inch or 2 cm ) fish is ideal Zenin Skomorowski KW.AS [email protected] for ?eavily planted tanks. They have white dots on their steel blue bodies, hence the Celestial reference The newsletters featured in this column and others are to stars. Their fins are orange with the males available to you. Please let me know by email, or at the showing more colour than the females. Chase monthly meeting, which ones you would like to read. Klinesteker wrote about them in the November 2011 issue of SWAM from the Southwestern Michigan Aquarium Society. We have not If rou a~e l~oking for a breeding challenge, try Tnchopsis vittatus. You will find them in your local exchanged newsletters with them so we are fortunate that this article was reprinted in the fish sho~ or a~ auctions labelled as the Croaking Gourarru. Titis dwarf gourami is similar to the March 2013 issue of The Buckette from the Bucks Siamese Fighting Fish in how it builds a bubble County Aquarium Society. nest an? in the mating rituals. Feeding and raising the fry 1s the challenge. See more notes in the The March issue of Modem AQuarium from the March issue of The Filter from the Tampa Bay Greater City Aquarium Society- New York is Aquarium Society. The author is unknown, but ~other good example of why this publication and Mike Jacobs added his line art representation of its authors are frequently given FAAS author this anabantid. awards. There are 5 excellent articles that I wish to highlight. First is "Gymnogeophagus balzanii A Fun Fish to Keep and Breed" by Steve Berman. Titis mouth brooding cichlid from South America is beautiful and very advanced in care of their offspring. Next is Warren Feuer with his tribute to fish he lost due to the 14 day power outage caused by the aftermath of hurricane Sandy. "Good-Bye, Old Friends ... " gives us some insight into these long lived and loved fish. Next, Jules Birnbaum gives us a bit of a history lesson in "Collecting Vintage Aquarium Air Pumps". These wonderful devices are why the aquarium hobby really expanded in the first half of the 20th century. There are some photos and tips on how to obtain and maintain these air pumps. Next, ''The Most Ornate African Microctenopoma ansorgii - The Croaking Gourami from Ornate Ctenopoma" by Alexander Priest. Titis www.tropicalfishkeeping.com orange and black fish is an anabantid from Africa. They require lots of hiding places in the aquarium because they are "ambush predators" that wait for Fro~ the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society, comes theu newsletter Northwest AQ,uaria with a very ~eir food, dart out and return home. Finally, there is a story and photos from Stephen Sica about interesting ~.I.Y. ar?cle. If you want to make your own L.E.D. ht housing or want to retrofit an "Goliath Groupers of the Gulf". Titis is a diving existing one, try the L.E.D. arrays from Aquarium trip to a sunken shrimp boat off the Gulf Coast of Hobbyist Supply, also known as AH Supply. Titis South Florida. There are photos of some of the company has been providing power compact kits marine creatures encountered, despite the murky for planted tanks and marine environments for water conditions. many years. Now you can get L.E.D. modules ready to place in your own canopy housing. Roy Are Y?U looking for ~ ~asy to keep plant for your Slettevold describes the units, their operating costs aquanum ? Try Ludwigia arcuata, also known as and PAR results. In the same issue, Paul Wallace ~arrow Leaf. Ludwigi~, Needle Leaf Ludwigia or wrote "Understanding the Club's PAR Meter". The Piedmont Pnmrose Willow. Titis North American Seattle club is fortunate to have a PAR ( nativ~ pl~t doe~ well with aquarium temperatures Photosynthetic Active Radiation ) meter to measure and lighting. It is a green stem plant with red light. Members can borrow it to check out their l~aves. Find o"?t more about this plant in article by aquariums at home. Paul discusses how the meter Lisa Boorman m the March issue of Semper Pisces works and how to interpret the results. from the Chatham-Kent Aquarium Society. One of my favourite cyprinids is the Celestial Pearl Derek P.S. Tustin continues his prolific writing ways in the March issue of Tank Talk from the 8 The Kitchener Waterloo Aquarium Society meets the first Tuesday of every month at the Adult Recreation Centre 185 King Street South Waterloo, ON at 7:30 pm, door open at 7:00 pm parking available. Guests are welcome, memberships available 9.
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