Tank Topics January/February 2013

The Greater Akron Aquarium Society Tank Topics January/February 2013

Inside this issue:

President’s Message 3 Bud White

Editor’s Message 3 Dave Williamson

BAP/HAP 4 Wayne Toven

Bowl Show 5 Don Youngkin

Exchange Review 6 Wayne Toven GAAS

Black Halfbeaks 7 Christmas Joe Reich Party 2012 Coming Events 10 You shoulda Meeting Notice 10 been there!

2013 GAAS Board of Directors President ...... Bud White ...... (330) 848-3856/bud@gaas-fish.net Vice President ...... Jeff Plazak ...... (330) 854-5257/[email protected] Treasurer ...... Rich Serva ...... (330) 650-4613/[email protected] Secretary...... Dave Girard ...... (330) -/@gaas-fish.net Important Dates Editor ...... Dave Williamson ...... [email protected] for 2013 Special Activities ...... Don Youngkin ...... [email protected] BAP/HAP ...... Wayne Toven ...... (330) 256-7836/[email protected] March 3 Membership ...... Bill Schake ...... [email protected] Spring auction Raffle ...... Phil & Tiffany Hypes ...... (330) 327-6316/[email protected] Historian ...... Russ Kirkendall ...... [email protected] July 13 & 14 FAAS Rep...... Ken McGill ...... (419) 677-3405/[email protected] Ultra Aqua 2013 Refreshments ...... Bill & Linda Koleszar ...... (330) 626-5660 Publicity ...... Bob Miller ...... (330) 928-6028/[email protected]

November 3 Program ...... Dan McMonigle ...... (440) 476-4663/[email protected] Fall auction Check out our website: www.gaas-fish.net P a g e 2 Tank Topics THE GREATER AKRON AQUARIUM SOCIETY

WHO ARE WE? We are a local group of aquatic enthusiasts. Formed in 1952, the Greater Akron Aquarium Society is a non -profit, non-commercial organization. Our membership ranges from the beginning hobbyist to the advanced aquarist with many years of experience. The goals of our club are to promote the care, study, breeding and exhibition of aquarium related aquatic life and to promote interest in the aquarium hobby. MEETINGS: Our meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at 8:00 p.m. at the Mogadore Community/Senior Center, 3857 Mogadore Road, Mogadore, Ohio. It is located East of Route 532 across from McDonald’s in the former post office building. Visitors are always welcome, it costs absolutely nothing to attend a meeting and look us over. MEMBERSHIP: The cost is only $7.50 for adults, $10 for a couple or a family (includes children under 10 years of age) and $5.00 for a junior membership (10 to 17 years) Membership provides an opportunity to socialize with other that share your interests, a subscription to our bi -monthly magazine, library usage and more. AGEND A: Our meeting agenda is simple and informal. The meeting will begin at 8:00 p.m. with a short business meeting. Immediately following is the program for the evening which usually lasts about 45 minutes. Our programs consist of a speaker, slide program, movie or perhaps a panel discussion always on a particular subject related to the hobby or various species of fish. Following the program is a short refreshment break. After which the winners of the Bowl Show are announced, the Breeder’s Award Program fish are auctioned and tickets are drawn for the raffle. THE BOWL SHOW: Each month members can bring in fish for specific classes to compete for first, second and third place awards. The charge for each entry is only $.25. Members also compete for annual awards by accumulating wins throughout the year. BREEDER’S AWARD and HORTICULTURE AWARD PROGRAMS: members can receive recognition for spawning species of fish or propagating aquatic plants. All that is required is to turn in a minimum of six fry from the spawn that are between 30 and 90 days old. Members earn certificates for each species and can work towards plaques in different categories. EQUIPMENT RAFFLE: The raffle table has such items as tanks, fish food and aquarium accessories that are donated by national manufacturers, area dealers or purchased by the Society. Tickets may be purchased by anyone attending the meeting. Save your losing tickets for the Christmas Party raffle. ANNUAL SHOW: The Ultra-Aqua show is held during the summer at the Tallmadge community Center. This has become one of the largest all -species tropical fish shows in North America. It is an international gathering of hobbyists to display their fish in class competition, talk fish and to learn about the hobby from each other. TANK TOPICS: is published on a bi -monthly basis for the members of the Greater Akron Aquarium Society. Articles and comments for this publication are welcome and encouraged. Such articles are to be submitted no later than the board meeting prior to publication. All articles may be reprinted as long as the author(s) and GAAS are given proper credit and two copies of the publication containing the reprint are sent to GAAS. Please send any correspondence regarding this publication to: Editor/Tank Topics, P.O. Box 494, Akron, OH 44309 -0494 or email to [email protected]

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Phone ______email ______Adult (18 years and older How did you find out about GAAS? ______1 year $7.50 2 years $12.00 Memberships are due one year from the date of joining. Completed mem- Family 1 year $10.00 bership forms can be turned in at a meeting or mailed to the membership (includes children under 10) 2 years $15.00 chairman at this address: Junior (10-17 years) 1 year $5.00 2 years $7.00 GAAS Membership Chairman, P.O. Box 494, Akron, OH 44309-0494 Dues Collected ______Date Received ______President’s Message P a g e 3

Well Happy New Year folks! We have our year’s schedule ready and See you at the meeting will be printing it soon. First thing will be Hope the holidays were good for you the Spring Auction, March 3, so start get- and you are still in one piece after ting things ready for that. That’s all for me! New Year’s partying. I for one have had a couple of rounds with the flu bug over the last few weeks, getting better, just wish it was not so slow.

Anyway, if you made it to the Christ- mas party you know it was fun, if not then you missed out on a good time Bud White with fish friends, better luck next time.

Editor’s Message Dave Williamson

Wow, another Holiday season year and distribute it to all the articles a year. Just sayin’ You’ve come and gone. I guess it’s really board members and maybe I heard me say this many times be- true what they say about time won’t be the only one to think fore (and I’m sure you’ll hear it a picking up speed as we get older. about it that way when I forget few more) It’s not that hard to let I thought that getting out of work- there can be someone to remind the rest of us know what you’ve ing retail would help with alleviate me! been up to or seen in your fish the feeling of being rushed tanks. Inquiring minds want to through this season, but it didn’t You’ll probably notice that content know! work! I guess all the overtime was a little lacking this time also. they make us work to supply our That’s to be expected this time of One thing I don’t want to leave out retail stores ends up feeling the year as there aren’t many club is that we’ve got some pictures same. Oh well, I guess there’s no functions going on (Face it, it’s from the Christmas Party scat- rest for the wicked after all! busy this time of year and besides tered throughout this issue sub- (Apparently that’s why Santa did- it’s cold outside, not exactly mitted by our historian, Russ. n’t bring me that 50” LED TV I “tropical fish” weather!) Add to was wanting. . . Maybe next that the fact that we start all our I’ll see you at the meeting! year!) annual competitions over so there isn’t much information to put in I guess where I’m going with all most of the board reports. There this rambling is that this issue is one very interesting article and was not easy for me to get to- this is where you come in. . . You gether this time. You see I had so could be our next published au- much other stuff going on, it kinda thor! We are one of the few got forgot about it until the week aquarium club publications that I between Christmas and New see with all locally produced con- Year’s. So hopefully everyone got tent. So many of them rely mostly their copy in time for the January on reprints from other clubs. To Meeting. I do have to thank all the be honest including some reprints BOD members who stepped up isn’t a bad thing since many of the and got their board reports to me articles are very well done. It just in record time. I think what I need doesn’t say much about the to do is set up a calendar with health and wellness of the hobby publication dates and due dates in general if a club with 50 or 100 for each issue throughout the members can’t produce 10 or 20 P a g e 4 Tank Topics

can be downloaded from the club’s web site. Then in Decem- BAP/HAP ber we had our annual Christmas party/ monthly meeting; where the Breeder of the Year plaque was presented to Joe Reich, and the Horticulturist of the Year plaque was present- Report ed to Phil & Tiffany Hypes, congratulations to all. Like I said the new BAP/HAP year started in December with a thud. All Wayne Toven members are welcome to participate in the programs; it’s not that hard, let’s see if we can do better than 2012. Th, Th, That’s all folks! The Breed- er’s Award Program and Horticultur- November 2012 al Award Program year officially Species Common name Class Points ended in November. Now in De- cember we start fresh for 2013, BAP 2012 was not a very good year for either of our programs; I do not re- Wayne Toven call lower yearly totals since I have Puntius semifasciolatus Gold barb B, M, & R 10 been Chairman, which has been for many, many consecutive years. It’s not like breeding stock has not been available, with all the club auctions Final 2012 Totals BAP Points HAP Points in our area I know as I have been to almost all of them there has been Joe Reich 7 60 - - lots of fish for breeding. The grand Phil & Tiffany Hypes 3 40 6 75 totals for 2012 were: 21 spawns turned in and 14 plant propagations Wayne Toven 3 25 1 10 and flowerings. Dave Williamson 3 25 - -

Dan McMonigle 2 20 5 60 Way back in November we had our annual club elections, and needless Rich Serva 2 20 - - to say I was unopposed for reelec- Don Youngkin 1 5 - - tion as the BAP/HAP Chairman, so I get to do this fun job for another Brad Johnson - - 1 15 year. By the way the BAP/HAP rules have been reviewed and re- Orin McMonigle - - 1 15 vised, so if anyone needs a copy of the new rules I will have hard copies at the monthly meeting or they

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ored vertical bands on one side, Nomorhamphus towoeti- but the other side of him is entire- ly different with it nearly com- pletely black. Sometimes the fe- the Black Halfbeak males will have a faint orange Joe Reich blush on their body just under the dorsal fin. The trailing edge of the anal fin of Black Halfbeaks is marked in black. From juveniels to adults of all color modes the black edging on the trailing edge of the anal fin is plain to see. Males don't have the black mark on the anal fin though. The ven- tral fins have a bit of black color- ing in them just after the leading edge and closer to the body, other than that, the retst of the fins lack coloration. These halfbeaks might also be called "beakless" halfbeaks. These fish have stumpy little beaks compared to most other halfbeaks. You won't see one swimming around with a Halfbeaks are live bearing fish beak with fish small enough to broken beak anyway. The bottom from Malasia. They have sleek, become a meal! That includes beak is just a bit longer than the slender, torpedoe shaped bodies newly dropped halfbeak fry! Yes, top, so it definately looks like a with a long beak attached and look unfortunately they are cannibalis- halfbeak in that regard. At any like needle fish or north american tic. Nomorhamphus don't have rate, they have big mouths and gars. They are called halfbeaks any problem taking food from the can eat insects bigger than you becouse the top beak only reach- bottom of the tank either, unlike think they would be able to. es out about half the length of the Dermogenys which stays up at Something to be mindful of when bottom beak. At least usually. I'll the top. Their "beaky" appear- choosing tank mates for them. go over that remark shortly. Their ance, the fact that they stay small beaks allow them to take any in- as compared to gars and needle- Black Halfbeaks come to us from sects that happen to alight upon fish, and the fact that they give the island formerly known as Cel- the water with ease. For that rea- birth are what attracts me to keep ebese, one of many islands north son they generally like to stay in this "oddball" livebearer. of Australia. Today the island is the upper part of our aquariums, known as Sulawesi. They can be near the waters surface where So now some information about found in Lake Towuti and also the they await a chance at a morsel of our Black Halfbeaks. For starters, surrounding basin area which in- food. Wingless fruitflies are they aren't exactly black. But if I cludes Lake Matano, Lake Maha- munched down with gusto! So far, had to give it a common name, lona, Lake Masapi and Lake of the three species of halfbeaks that would be a good choice! Like Lontoa. Lake Towuti is the largest that I've kept and bred, none of all halfbeaks, they are mostly light of the lakes in Sulawesi with an them needed to be kept on a live gray in color with a white, silvery area of 217 square miles and a food diet. Quality flake and pellet underside. However our Black depth of 666 feet and sits at an food has been the mainstay, with Halfbeaks do change color de- elevation of 961 feet above sea frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp pending on their mood! I have level. Lake Matano happens to be and mysis shrimp added a couple seen them from nearly all black to the 10th deepest lake in the world times a week as a treat. On the regular gray, all in a matter of at 1,936 feet. All of the lakes are rare occasion, I'll offer some wing- seconds! The coloration over the fed by mountain streams. Sula- less fruitflies or white worms. In body is not very uniform. They wesi is said to have 10,000 light- short, feeding is not a problem! could also easily be called mar- ning strikes per day! That's a lot Even though these fish aren't pis- bled. One of my males looks like of thunderstorms if you ask me, civores, I wouldn't trust any half- he has 3 evenly spaced light col- so there is no shortage of fresh- P a g e 8 Tank Topics water feeding those streams. can either be aligned head to tank. I haven't seen any of the Their current habitat is possibly head or head to tail. When they females do this type of combat, going to be changing, if it hasn't are head to tail, both contestants so it just might be something that already. There are, or were, plans start to swim around in tiny circles the males do. I also have two ma- to build a nickle mine near Lake as if they are chasing each other. ture pairs in a ten gallon tank and Matano as well as a lumber mill. On occasion they will open their they seem to be doing well with Waste water runoff from either mouth a little to make their dis- respect to limited aggression. facility into the lake would be display look a little more ferocious. Perhaps maybe becouse they asterous! Becouse of the pos- They also flare their gills the way stay so close to the surface they sibilty of water visibilty being re- cichlids do. Lightning fast, one seem to be somewhat shy. They duced, the International Union for fish will strike the other fish, or at don't exactly go and hide, but Conservation of Natives (IUCN) least try to. Usually they break off they do go to the back of the tank has listed this fish on their "red" combat with the end of the dis- at the first sign of movement out- list. Red means that they are play and the winner will give just side the tank. Once they realize threatened. The lake water is enough chase to the loser as if to it's feeding time, it becomes a very clear and many species in say "beat it!" After a few minutes feeding frenzy though. They will the lake rely on visual cues for the same fish can be seen next to also come to the front of the tank mating, and silty polluted water each other as if nothing had hap- to satisfy their curiosity once they would have an impact on their pened at all. When they are see the threat of danger has mating behaviors. So we aqua- aligned head to head, they do just passed. rists must do our best to preserve as cichlids do and send a blast of this species before it has a water with their tail fin toward the Sexing these fish isn't too hard at chance to go by way of the West- other fishes lateral line. I have all. Even half grown fish are easi- ern Black Rhino, which was de- also seen two males lock jaws. In ly sexed. The anal fin of the male clared extinct as of January 2012! that mode of combat they either is modified, and looks a lot like Of the 19 species of halfbeaks, play tug of war or try to push the anal fin of male goodieds. almost all of them can only be each other. This type of combat Sort of like it hasn't unfolded all found in Sulawesi. doesn't seem to last too long, but the way. Then there is the matter it can go on for several bouts. of size. Males are a lot smaller Halfbeaks in general have a ten- The loser is chased away after than females. My biggest male is dency to squabble amongst this type of combat a little more around two inches in length from themselves. The so called aggressively, but he isn't maimed the tip of his beak to the end of "Wrestling" Halfbeaks tend to be or molested, at least not in the his tail. The female is around more aggresive among their spe- confines of my 20 gallon high three and a half to four inches in cies. The Black Halfbeak is a lot more tollerant of their tank mates. In fact, I have to say that of the halfbeak species I've kept, they have to be the most docile. That makes keeping these guys a lot easier! Don't get me wrong here, they do still have their scrums. But the most damage I ever see is the occasional torn fin. Combat happens either between two females or between two males. I have yet to see any combat of male versus female. But I have seen an unreceptive female drive off the overly eager reproductive male. For the most part, combat consists of two fish facing off with their bodies parallel to each other. Fins are spread wide and the pectoral fins are held upright behind their heads. These displays Tank Topics P a g e 9 length, but she probably weighs have some floating vegatation in Temperature was kept around in over three times his weight, the tank so the fry have some- 75* F. The occasional water easily! When a male tries to thing to hide in. I have yet to see change. Some patience on my breed with the female, he stays a female dropping fry immediately part. My above mentioned feed- just below her and a little behind. eat any. But when labor is all ing regime. That was all that was It almost seems as if he is trying done she will be hungry! I do needed in order to get them to to be in her blind spot. Any other have and use one of those float- spawn. Super easy! In closing males that try to take up this posi- ing breeder fry traps, but it is old this article I have to say that the tion get chased away. The male and I'm not sure if they still make game of life threw one of those will hover in the blind spot until he them. What's unique about it is curve balls at me. I didn't get to sees an opportunity. A males the slots for the fry to drop play with my fish for a couple courtship display looks the same through, they are big compared to days in a row. One thing about to me as when he's displaying all the others I've seen. Halfbeak halfbeaks, they NEED to be fed! I against another male in combat, fry generally are too big to use purposely don't feed my fish once with the pectoral fins held upright most fry traps. I did come up with or twice a week, but two days in a against their body and all fins a handy do-it-yourself trap. My row doesn't cut it with halfbeaks. spread wide. Unfortunately I have dishwasher decided one day that My peaceful female Black half- my halfbeaks in a community it would rather smoke up the beaks decided that the male of tank. So when any fry are house than wash dishes. The half their size would be a good dropped, most get eaten. So I basket that holds the silverware meal. An hour before I found the haven't been able to tell how had a mesh big enough for any male all mauled, he was chasing many fry are actually being re- newborn halfbeak fry to swim the females in his mating ritual. I leased. If I had to throw out an through! But it was quite a chore hope he was succesful! The best average number, I'd guess may- to remove the inner dividers. I thing I ever did was to put an be 10-15. The fry are big and attached some foam floats and all aquarium in my computer room. around 1/2 inch long at birth. was good. Since I spend so much time on Some are able to take smaller the computer it gives me a re- wingless fruitflies on the very first I don't do anything "special" in freshing break to look at the tank day. Finely crumbled flake food regards to water parameters. I full of halfbeaks and watch their has always been my first food have well water that comes out of various moods and behaviors. offering for the fry, and they take the ground slightly on the soft Something that I heartily recom- to it pretty quick. Make sure to side. The PH is between 7-8. mend for everyone.

GAAS Spring Be here or you’ll Auction never know what March 3, 2013 you missed!

Tallmadge Community Center 80 Community Rd. Tallmadge, Ohio

Registration opens at 10 am, auction begins at 11

For more information: Bud White (330) 848-3856 ([email protected]), Wayne Toven (330) 256-7836 ([email protected]) Rich Serva (330) 650-4613 ([email protected]) The Greater Akron Aquarium Society P.O. Box 494 Akron, OH 44309-0494

Meeting Notice - Do Not Delay Meeting Notice

Thursday, January Thursday, February

Program: Rich Serva - Program: Video Presentation Everglades Adventure, see how our Dr. Noga on fish diseases. intrepid Treasurer avoided being eaten by alligators! Bowl Show: Suckermouth Catfish, Swordtails, Characins Bowl Show: Goldfish, Male Guppies, Minnows, Danio & Rasboras

All general meetings begin at 8:00 p.m. at the Mogadore Community/Senior Center

Coming Events

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