Tank Topics January/February 2013
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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/[email protected] 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] The Greater Akron Aquarium Society Membership Form Name __________________________________________ Age _______ Address ___________________________________________________ New Renewal City _______________________ State ___________ Zip ____________ Electronic Mail 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.