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Oca Social Meeting Programs Buckeye Bulletin October 2018 • Next Social Meeting: Friday, October 5, 2018 at 8:00 pm • Buckeye Bulletin Staff Andrew Schock Editor [email protected] Eric Sorensen Exchange Editor [email protected] The Ohio Cichlid Association’s Buckeye Bulletin is produced On the Cover monthly by the Ohio Cichlid Association. All articles and This month’s cover photo is courtesy of Carl Oslewski, check out photographs contained within this many more of Carl’s photos on the club facebook page! publication are being used with consent of the authors. Do you want your picture on the cover of the If you have an article, photograph, or ad to submit for publication, Buckeye Bulletin? Please email photos to please send it to [email protected]. [email protected]. When submitting articles for publication in this bulletin, please remember to include any photographs or art for the article. The Ohio Cichlid Association is not responsible for any fact checking or spelling correction in submitted material. In This Issue of the Buckeye Bulletin Articles will be edited for space and content. *Exclusive Article from Mike Wise* All information in this bulletin is for the sole use of The Ohio Cichlid • APISTOGRAMMAS IN A COMMUNITY TANK • Association and the personal use of its members. Articles, photographs, illustrations, • PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE • and any other printed material may not be used in any way without the • CICHLID BAP RESULTS • written consent of The Ohio Cichlid Association. • CATFISH BAP RESULTS • For membership info please • BOWL SHOW INFORMATION • contact Hilary Lacerda: [email protected] or visit the OCA forum. About the Ohio Cichlid Association The OCA is an organization dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of information relating to all aspects of the biology of cichlids and related aquatic life. Our purpose is to promote the interest, keeping, study, breeding, and the educational exhibition of Cichlids. Additionally, the exchange of ideas, meeting new people, and distribution of information concerning Cichlids is of primary interest. The 2018 OCA Board Don Danko President Lew Carbone Vice President Promotions* Program Chair* Jim Smith Fund* Sherry Olszewski Treasurer* Refreshments Jonathan Dietrich Secretary Hilary Lacerda Membership Andrew Schock Bulletin Editor* Librarian Mark Chaloupka Cichlid BAP Gary Mendez Web Master* Manufacturer Liaison* Scott Myers Bowl Show Historian Steve Heinbaugh Catfish BAP Carl Olszewski Raffle Carole Doerr Apparel* Refreshments Marilyn Danko At Large Jonathan Strazinsky Photographer Eric Sorensen At Large* Dan Ogrizek At Large Rhonda Sorensen At Large* * denotes appointed position Get The Most Out of the OCA The OCA’s monthly meetings are free and open to the public. Feel free to invite a guest! There are many ways to get the most of your membership: • submit an article, classified ad or photograph for the bulletin • put a fish in the bowl show • attend the OCA Extravaganza • turn fry in for the BAP program • attend the social meetings • buy and sell fish during the winter auction • join the board • start a forum discussion • visit ohiocichlid.com • SOCIAL MEETING INFORMATION The Next OCA Social Meeting is Friday, October 5, 2018 at 8:00 pm Middleburg Heights Community Center, Room C 16000 Bagley Rd Cleveland, OH 44130 Meetings usually begin with a talk about cichlids or a related subject. The OCA is proud to bring world SOCIAL MEETING class speakers to Ohio, not only for our yearly SCHEDULE convention, the OCA Extravaganza, but also for our monthly meetings. With Northeast Ohio being the (All times approximate) hotbed for cichlid breeders that it is, we have 7:30 Doors Open discovered that there seems to be no shortage of world-class speakers locally, a number of which have used the opportunity to talk at OCA meetings to 8:00 Social Time later tour the country with their fantastic presentations. After the talk we usually take a break 8:15 Call to Order for refreshments and some socializing among Announcements “cichlidiots”. This also gives people a chance to look New Member Welcome at bowl show entries, and after the break the bowl & Speaker Introduction show winners are announced. Next, Breeder Award Program (BAP) awards are handed out. We have a Breeder Award Program for cichlids and one for 8:30 Speaker catfish, turning our program into probably the largest one of its kind in the country. The entries are 9:30 Break subsequently auctioned off, making some of the newest and rarest cichlids in the hobby available to 9:45 BAP Awards our members at low auction prices! The OCA has had a number of first spawns in the United States Bowl Show Results and members have donated some very nice stuff to be auctioned off for the benefit of our Jim Smith 9:55 Mini-Auction Fund. Meetings end with a raffle, where we give away prizes that are set up on a huge table, which 10:25 Raffle typically bends to the point of breaking under their load! PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE FROM DON DANKO Well, only one month to go before our 24th Anniversary Extravaganza will be held at the Strongsville Holiday Inn! This great show will run from November 16-18 and details can be found at OhioCichlid.com. With the above in mind, I’d like to highlight the following items: 1. You can now start posting your Wants and Sells on the OCA Facebook Group and can always post on the OCA Forum as well. Other attendees will be posting, so you can keep an eye open for the fish you may be looking to find. 2. If you haven’t registered for the Extravaganza yet, please do so at the Ohiocichlid.com website . You can also sponsor classes there, buy sponge filters, as well as purchase OCA baseball caps and coffee mugs and pay with Paypal. 3. The registration prices posted on the website are valid until the end of October, at which time the two packages that include a tee shirt will no longer be available. And, tee shirts won’t be available after that date either! So, act now. Additionally, the base registration price will go up a little. The reasons for these actions are to allow us to effectively plan the tee shirts ordering and to allow us to plan other activities more effectively. 4. You can pay for Show Entries on the website. So, be sure to take care of your Extravaganza items soon! Last month, Mark Sabaj gave a great talk on the history of the Cope collection and how the OCA’s Jim Smith Fund has helped further the cataloging efforts of the collections. It was a very interesting talk and I’m certain that all in attendance enjoyed it much. Mark Kazanoff was the winner of the Extravaganza package for which the winning raffle ticket was pulled last month. Congratulations, Mark, and thanks for your ongoing support to the OCA! Please join us at the October 5 meeting at the Middleburg Hts. Recreation Center at 8 pm. Dwarf Cichlid aficionado, Mike Wise, will present his talk, entitled “Apistogrammas and Me” If you enjoy dwarf Cichlids, you won’t want to miss it! Don Neptune Aquatics Triton Freshwater Handcrafted Aquariums LLC Aquatics Famous for @handcraftedaquariums https://www.faceboo Plecocaine https://handcraftedaquariu k.com/tritonfreshwat eraquatics/ Contact: ms.com/ http://tritonfres John Patakos https://www.facebook.com/ HandcraftedAquariums/ hwateraquatics. [email protected] com/ “We are innovators, hobbyists, and perfectionists. We are the best fish foods in the world.” Program Preview October, 2018 Mike Wise Submitted Mike Wise has been a fish hobbyist for over 40 years, and has kept dwarf cichlids almost from the beginning. Presently, Mike is a moderator for apistogramma.com and curates Apistogramma for the Cichlid Room Companion web site. He was technical editor for The Apistogram, the journal of the Apistogramma Study Group, for more than 20 years. Mike has articles published in several magazines and received writing awards from the ACA and the Federation of American Aquarium Societies. He also translated three German language books, as well as many scientific and hobby related papers on dwarf cichlids, into English. He is one of the contributors to the German/English book South American Dwarf Cichlids, a “Special Publication” (Sonderheft) published by the German magazine, DATZ. Among his many experiences are three 4-week-long collecting trips to the Amazon where he lived, ate, and collected fish with native collectors in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Mike has given programs at national conventions for the American and British Cichlid Associations, as well as to many local, regional, and international fish clubs, on the various aspects of collecting, identifying, keeping, and breeding dwarf cichlids. The title of Mike’s presentation is “Apistogramma and Me – A 40 Year Love Affair”. Next month, Jeremy Basch, from Columbus, will be back in town, this time to discuss Geophagus. UPCOMING OCA SOCIAL MEETING PROGRAMS 2018 October 5 Mike Wise "Apistogrammas & Me" November 2 Jeremy Basch Geophagus December 7 Christmas Party Details TBA 2019 January 4 TBA February 2 Joe Cutler National Geographic Society West African Cichlids March 2 Jonathan Strazinsky “Breeding New World Cichlids” April 5 Ryan Greenway Winner of 2016 JSF Grant Thorichthys May 3 Josh Cunningham “Breeding Set-Ups for Rift Lake Cichlids” Python Products, The Fish Factory Bergen Water Inc. “Aquatic Business of the Gardens &Nursery Year” No spill Clean & Fill Gravel 7443 Buffalo Road, Cleaner, Ulti-Vac, and 9218 W Oklahoma Ave Churchville, NY 14428 more! West Allis, WI 53227 (585) 293-2860 Pythonproducts.com (414) 546-2201 http://bergenwatergardens.com/ Thefishfactoryonline.com Reserve your spot in every issue of next year’s bulletin by contributing $100 in sponsorship at the Extravaganza! Swiss Tropicals NorthFin Premium BLUE ZOO Nature’s Replica Stephan M.
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