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Buckeye Bulletin Buckeye Bulletin January 2014 December Cichlid/Catfish BAP Exchange Article – Wayne Toven List of ALL 2013 Spawns More AWESOME Extravaganza Pics Happy New Year! May your CICHLID resolutions come true! Our next meeting is January 3rd at 8:00. OCA Mission 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 Buckeye Bulletin Staff distribution of information concerning Cichlids is of Jonathan Dietrich primary interest. Editor [email protected] Eric Sorensen Exchange Editor [email protected] The Ohio Cichlid Associations Buckeye Bulletin is produced monthly by the Ohio Cichlid Association. All articles and photographs contained within this publication are being used with consent of the authors. If you have an article, photograph, A young Oscar Cichlid poses for a quick shot before or ad to submit for publication, please send it to devouring a tasty snack. Mmm… [email protected]. When submitting articles for In this Issue of the Buckeye Bulletin… publication in this bulletin, please remember to include any photographs or art for the Monthly Features article. The Ohio Cichlid Association is not responsible for any fact President’s Message checking or spelling correction in Editor’s Message submitted material. Articles will be edited for space and Bowl Show Results content. Cichlid BAP Results All information in this bulletin is for the sole use of The Ohio Cichlid Catfish BAP Results Association and the personal use of BAP Point Schedule its members. Articles, photographs, illustrations, Program Preview and any other printed material may 2014 Program Preview not be used in any way without the This Month in OCA History written consent of The Ohio Cichlid Association. For membership info please contact Andrew Subotnik: [email protected] President’s Message Don Danko January 2014 We had an awesome holiday meeting in December, with members bringing in great dishes to share. I cannot imagine that anyone went away hungry! While there were many awesome items brought to share, I have to say my favorite dish hands down was George Anagnostaupolos’ spicy noodle dish. So, I guess he gets the Presidential award for the spiciest noodle dish!! LOL. Thanks to everyone for coming and we hope you had a great time. We conducted our annual elections at the December and here are the results for the elected positions on the board: • President, Votes ties only – Don Danko • Vice President, Voting – Lew Carbone • Secretary Elected Voting – Steve Heinbaugh • Membership Elected Voting – Eddie Hall • Breeder Award – Cichlids, Voting – Mark Chaloupka • Breeder Award – Catfish, Voting – Steve Heinbaugh • Bowl Show, Voting – Gary Mendez • Photographer, Voting – Dennis Rozmus • Videographer, Voting – No candidate • Historian, Voting – No candidate • Librarian, Voting – Hilary Lacerda • Refreshments, Voting – Bob Tilman • Board-at-Large 1 (Elected), Voting - Dan Woodland (Jim Smith Fund Coordination) • Board-at-Large 2 (Elected), Voting – Scott Myers (Role TBD) At our next board meeting, we’ll be confirming the appointed positions on the BOT. All for now, so see you back on Friday, January 3, at the Ohio Cichlid Association meeting at the Old Oak Bible Church at 7575 Old Oak Blvd in Middleburg Hts. And, bring a friend! Also, check us out on Facebook, www.ohiocichlid.com and on the OCA Forum at http://www.cichlidae.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=40. Happy Holidays, Don 2014 Bulletin Needs! You are the EXPERTS! The Buckeye Bulletin staff is asking members of the Ohio Cichlid Association to submit pictures, blogs, blurbs, product reviews, species profiles, and articles (long or short) to be published in upcoming issues of the bulletin. Please contact Jombie at [email protected] to submit documents and photos. Here are some ideas… • How has your fish obsession grown from your first tank? • What is your favorite species? Describe your experience. • Describe the spawn that of which you are most proud. • Tell a story of a disaster and the way you handled it. • Illustrate breeding techniques that are unique but effective. • Explain how the friendships you have made through the fish hobby impacted your life. • Why do you still trust your undergravel filter? • How do you save money in your fish room? Clean your glass. Grab a digital camera. Shoot at an angle. We look forward to publishing your work. The Cichlidroom Companion Mike’s Wet Pets Owned by JUAN MIGUEL Aquarium Plants & Fish in Imperial Tropicals ARTIGAS ASAZ Lancaster, New York One of Florida's leading The Internet Cichlidae Family Owned and Operated for tropical fish farms since 1970 Information Center! More than 10 Years! Operated by Mike Drawdy Visit Live Arrival Guarantee http://www.mikeswetpets.biz/ Visit Imperialtropicals.com Or Email 863.665.1673 [email protected] RMS Aquaculture Plecocaves.com Over 25 years experience in We carry Pleco caves, breeding caves, both freshwater and SERA fish food, Poret foam, saltwater aquarium sales! driftwood, California Blackworms, OMEGA One food, cichlid caves, 6629 Engle Rd., Middleburg cichlid huts Hts., OH 44130 Visit plecocaves.com (216)433-1340 Or Email Cichlid News Visit http://www.rmsaquaculture.com/ [email protected] Visit http://cichlidnews.com/ Editor’s Message Jon “Jombie” Dietrich January 2014 Hey OCA friends! First, I want to wish everyone the happiest of holidays! Although at times stressful, this is truly a wonderful time of the year. It comes and goes so quickly, and I hope you make the best of each and every moment. The Year New is on the horizon too. (It might be 2014 when you read this!) When a New Year presents itself, it makes us reflect on the past and hope for the future. We all had different 2013s, but we all have one thing in common. We look for even better in 2014. I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year and only the best in 2014. On the fish spectrum, it is wintertime, so I expect everyone is spending more time with his/her fish! Being cooped up in the house isn’t the worst thing when you have warm tanks of beautiful fish. Looking at the BAP submissions, we have had quite the tablefuls at our recent monthly meetings. The diversity of fish within our club is amazing! Last month I went into the meeting knowing I had no room for fish at all. By the end of the meeting, I left with three bags and three new species. A few shifts and my stock became even more diversified. You can’t pass anything up because you truly don’t know when that species might become available again. With that said, let’s push forward into the New Year with the motivation to spawn more than ever. Keep working with your tanks. Warm weather isn’t around the corner just yet! On December 14th, I had the OCA Board over my place for a meeting to discuss the New Year. 2014 will be an amazing year for the OCA and its members. We have some awesome initiatives in the works, all leading up to the 20th Anniversary of the OCA Extravaganza. The details are still coming together, but I can guarantee this year will be the best convention in our history. Start planning now because no one should miss this event. Well, I hope to see everyone at the January meeting. I have two obligations outside of this meeting, but you will definitely see me there considering our speaker. A simple internet search of Charlie Grimes provides years of comments about “The Death Fish Talk.” I’m sorry other obligations; they will have to wait! Thanks Lew for booking this talk! See you then. Email me your photos and articles. [email protected] Take care, Jombie November 21-23 eX travagaNza XX 2014 Winter BAP Update Mark Chaloupka January 2014 Lew Carbone Cryptohers cutteri (Rio Jutiapa) 10 Josh Cunningham Astatotilapia sp. 35 “tomato” 10 Aulonocara sp. “OB peacock” 10 Cyprichromis sp. “leptosome jumbo” (Mamalesa) 15 Lamprologus speciosus “black ocellatus” 15 Opthalmotilapia nasuta (Chimba) 25 Otopharynx lithobates “red top aristochromis” 10 Pseudotropheus acei (Ngara) 10 Telmatochromis sp. “temporalis shell” 10 Tramitichromis intermedius 10 Don & Marilyn Danko Paracyprichromis nigripinnis “albino” 15 Bryan Davis Neolamprologus prochilus (Zambian) 20 Jonathan Dietrich Neetroplus nematopus 10 Ken & Sue Galaska Lepidiolamprologus hecqui 15 Kyle May` Amatitlania nigrofasciata “marble convict” 10 Gary Mendez Amatitlania siquia (Rio Cabayo) 10 Lamprologus tetracanthus 10 Peter Nario-Redmond Cryptoheros sajica 10 Carl Olszewski Hypsophrys nicaraguense 15 Tony Poth Lamprologus stappersi “pearly ocellatus” 15 Jeff Yadlovsky Herichthsy cyanoguttatus 10 Nicholas Zarzeczny Neolamprologus multifasciatus 15 Juvenile Amphilophus hogaboomorum finding his mate. Tom Swiderski - 905 Winter 800 POINT LEVEL BAP Update Dustin Brummitt - 840 Mark Chaloupka January 2014 700 POINT LEVEL CURRENT B.A.P. STANDINGS (12/6/13) 600 POINT LEVEL Jeff Natterer - 690 BREEDER 2013 TOTAL Jeff Yadlovsky 35 675 Gary Mendez 60 670 MASTER BREEDER 1000 POINT LEVEL Hilary & Antonio 25 625 Lacerda Lew Carbone 80 2605 Charlie & Cathy Suk - 615 Don Danko 50 2335 Ken & Sue Galaska 125 610 Dan Woodland - 2050 Bill Loudermilk 30 1190 500 POINT LEVEL Linda Wallrath - 1130 Bryan Davis 210 1115 Bill Schwartz - 595 Rich & Maggie - 1065 Tim Craig 210 540 Schoeffel Ron Georgeone - 510 Mark Chaloupka 30 1020 900 POINT LEVEL 400 POINT LEVEL Dennis Tomazin - 965 Rick
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