Chris Carpenter Tanganyikan Shell Dwellers
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Monthly Meeting Starts at 8 PM This month’s Speaker is: Chris Carpenter Tanganyikan Shell Dwellers (Shellies!) www.neo-fish.com ©Jun-16 Northeast Ohio Fish Club. All rights reserved. President’s Message Hey Everyone, As many of you have heard, our member Bill King has passed away. Bill and his wife Treasurer Debbie King were charter members of the club and have been instrumental in the building and growing of our club. Bill was always willing to help and was the true definition of a great member. In this time of sadness for the King family, I think all of us can take comfort in the fact that Bill is no longer suffering and has moved onto a better place. To Debbie and the family, I am sorry for your loss and please know that the club will help you any way we can in your time of grief. Please do not hesitate to ask should you need anything. This month’s meeting should be a good one with Chris Carpenter from the Grand Valley Aquarium Society, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He will be talking about Tanganyikan Shell Dwellers. Shell dwellers can be kept in all size tanks and have a unique personality all to themselves. For those of you looking to keep fish in smaller tanks, you will want to be at the meeting to hear the Chris speak about his favorite cichlids. Secondly, we will be taking final orders for our members flake food buy. If you want to order, this will be the last time. If you have questions about the flake food please get a hold of us as once ordered we will not be adding to it. Lastly, with summer upon us and with Fish Bingo being at our July meeting we will be looking for things or speakers you as a club would like to have in the coming months. Our speaker dates will be August, September. Please let us know. See you Friday, June 17th at the meeting. Dan www.neo-fish.com NEOfish Board Secretary Minutes Board meeting Started at 7:20 Present Dan Ritter Rich Grassing George Hollister Debbie King Brian Shrimpton John Chapek Jan Bilski and Bill Bilski 1st Topic Talked about Calendar- pictures 5 pictures per entry a committee to pick. 2nd topic rules for auction items 5 dry items for auction 3rd Sponge filters to buy 4th topic Fish foods items of flake food 5th Akron Zoo 50 dollars a family . Thanks Jan Bilski www.neo-fish.com About NEOfish The Northeast Ohio Fish Club (fish) is an all species Fish club in Northeast Ohio. We pride ourselves in being a progressive club offering all our members not only the normal fish club programs, but others like individual e-mail addresses, club member websites, spawning con-tests, aquarium decorating contests workshops, road trips and more. Our goal is to make every meeting exciting, educational and leaving you with the feeling that you can’t wait until the next meeting. Look at our website and see if this club isn’t the club you have been looking for. If you already belong to a club, that’s okay, think about making us your second club and come enjoy the fun. Both www.neo-fish.org and www.neo-fish.com show the same website. The Password for the Members Only area of the website is neofish2013. NEOfish Meetings As always, the Northeast Ohio Fish Club (NEOfish) holds monthly meetings in Independence, Ohio on the 3rd Friday of every month. Meetings are at: Independence United Methodist Church 6615 Brecksville Road Independence, OH 44131 There is no smoking on Church Grounds or littering of cigarette butts on nearby properties. 8:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. (Anniversary and Christmas Party starts at 7:00p.m.) Everyone interested is invited to attend. NEOfish is an all species club, such as Betta, Guppies, Tetras, Barbs, Cichlids etc. The Board meets before the general meeting at 7:00p.m. at the church as well. Even though you’re not on the board, your are still welcome to sit in on the meeting. You would not have a vote but you certainly could share some input. Per our Constitution and By-Laws, this is also the appropriate time and place to air any concerns about the club. It would be helpful to first contact a board member to discuss the issue but if you feel that the whole board needs to hear it then feel free to attend. www.neo-fish.com NEOfish Sponsors Please support these great companies who support us. API Paradigm Fish food Aqueon San Francsico Bay Brand Best in Pets Seachem Laboratories, Inc. Coralife Southern Delight Fish Foods Kent Marine TLC Products Mike’s Cichlids William Trickers, Inc. Omega Sea, Ltd. Zoo Med www.neo-fish.com Greenhouse and Hatchery located at 7125 Tanglewood Dr. (South of Rockside, just off of Brecksville (RT 21) Road ); Independence,www.neo OH- fish.com44141 underwater By STM Hello everyone, and hope you and your fish are doing well. I want to write about the hobby, but as Frank has taught me, it's about the people in the hobby. This week we lost a club member and great friend in Bill King. Bill knew a lot of people and a real lot about the hobby. I got to know Bill these past few years through Neo. I would run into Bill and Debbie @ other places then just the club. He was always a gen- tleman. I remember Bill helping me @ the Talmadge fish show last year. Helping me set up my bowl for the show. Or taking time @ the OCA Extravaganza last year to help me understand more about plecos. Bill your really going to be missed........may you rest in peace..... STM www.neo-fish.com Treasurer’s Report Due to the passing of Bill King this week, Debbie will delay this report until down the road. Brian www.neo-fish.com Treasurer’s April Meeting Report www.neo-fish.com Treasurer’s April Monthly Report www.neo-fish.com Treasurer’s April Monthly Report www.neo-fish.com Committee Announcements Membership Committee As of late I have been using Debbie’s financial report to know who renewed and who is new to the club. Due to the passing of her husband Bill King, I don’t have that information. If you renewed last month and your name is still listed, that is why. Feel free to drop me a note that your did renew and I will update my records. Brian—Editor. The following members had their memberships in May 2016 Ray Bierbower Gabriel Martinez Terry & Heather Zack Campogni Galvin Norman Lee Faecking Chuck Nowakowski Alexander Gonzalez Tim and Tammy Ryan Richard Grassnig Zackery Sitka John Griffith Ken Walker Marty Jo Harris David Wetland Matt Lacy Don Youngkin The following members will have their memberships expire in June 2016 Robert Bina Gary Mendez Jacob Jerin Heather Zack Robert Krocker Gary Zalewski Dennis Kuehn & Carole Doerr Brian Shrimpton www.neo-fish.com Committee Announcements (cont.) Breeder Award Program (BAP) & Horticultural Award Program (HAP) BAP: We only had 8 submissions last month and one was a fish the person had already turned in so there were only actually 7. There were 3 new offerings and they were very nice fish. If you got em bring em this month. I am at a loss this month so the rest of the report will be short. This morning I learned that my friend Bill King passed away. I've known him since the early days of OCA. He assisted me the past few years with by registering the fish for BAP, plants for HAP and items for the Monthly Members Auction at our meetings. I never had to ask him, he just jumped in and did it. That is the way he was. I never really knew how brave he was, he fought hard and we thought he beat cancer, unfortunately it came after him again and he couldn't win this time. I never heard him complain about anything. I will miss him. Now I will ask a favor of all our members, his wife Debbie always sat to his right and I to his left for awhile I would ask that the seat remains vacant. I'll miss his hot sauce too, that will pass, missing him will take quite awhile... John Griffith thank you for filling in last month and agreeing to help again this month. I'll see you at the meeting! John Chapek www.neo-fish.com Committee Announcements (cont.) Breeder Award Program (BAP) Member 2013 2014 2015 2016 Lifetime Points Don Grey 155 185 295 120 755 Chuck Nowakowski 115 185 195 100 595 Dave Hearn 185 95 280 Richard Yoder 25 205 215 55 500 Bob Blazek 55 55 John Griffith 40 105 40 185 Bill & Jan Bilski 10 40 50 Dan McMonigle 30 35 90 35 190 Brian Shrimpton 280 165 55 30 530 Justin Way 110 150 30 290 Mark Kazanoff 180 30 210 George Hollister 35 50 35 30 150 Dan Ritter 140 165 185 25 515 Ken Walker 30 60 145 25 260 Dustin Sedlock 30 25 55 Frank Orteca 10 25 35 Kenneth Carey 20 20 Mark Lomax 20 20 Jessica Foster Oravetz 15 15 Tom & Carolyn Evers 145 135 10 290 Steve Olander II 5 90 40 10 145 Gary Mendez 10 10 20 Joe Doyle 10 10 Denis Rozmus 45 30 20 5 100 Bill & Debbie King 35 50 5 90 www.neo-fish.com Committee Announcements (cont.) Breeder Award Program (BAP) Member 2013 2014 2015 2016 Lifetime Points Tony Poth 145 180 30 355 Paul Palisin 80 80 160 Matt Urbin 70 55 30 155 David Lutz 30 100 130 Scott Hartness 60 30 25 115 Jim Damm 20 75 95 John Chapek 90 90 Jim Jensen 40 50 90 Ken Grimmett 35 20 30 85 Bob Bina 60 20 80 Dennis Kuehn 20 50 70 Stan Jachna 20 35 55 John W.