Monthly Meeting Starts at 8 PM This month’s Speaker is: Fish Photography by Elsie Swanson and Brian Shrimpton www.neo-fish.com ©Apr-16 Northeast Ohio Fish Club. All rights reserved. President’s Message Hey Everyone, Well maybe by the time you read this, the snow will be gone and so will winter. We can only hope. As announced at the last meeting we will be holding a fish picture contest as we will be printing a calendar for 2017. A group of members will be assigned to pick out the pictures. To help everyone, this week our speakers will be Elsie Swanson and Brian Shrimpton. Both people have a lot of knowledge in taking pictures of fish and their experience will help all of you. Only 1 picture per person can be a winner, but you can enter as many pictures as you want. It's a little early, but next month will be our Anniversary Party. We will have a cookout, a speaker, talking about Cory Catfish and a Chinese raffle with all types of fish. Our meeting will start earlier due to the cookout, so please mark your calendar to arrive around 6:30pm. We will let everyone know the exact time. Lastly, as all of you know, we try to make every meeting different and provide each member many different things for their yearly dues. We are working on the sponge filters and we will have it finalized by the night of the meeting. If there is something you would like the club to do or something you think the club or members could use, please let us know or go to our new Facebook page NEOfish News and tell us what your idea's are. See you Friday, Dan www.neo-fish.com NEOfish Board Secretary Minutes Board meeting for March 18,2016 7:14 Present. Dan Ritter Brian Shrimpton John Chapek Paul Palison George Hollester Debbie King and George Anagnostopoulas 1st Topic Tampa Bay Aquarium Society Orlando Researched a Group of Fish They ran a contest for 3 months one entry per member. Motion made by George to check prices 2nd by Debbie passed Also the club has a chip reader for credit cards Board meeting adjourned at 7:45 Janice 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. (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 CAFE Convention – March 12th -13th, 2016 Columbus Area Fish Enthusiasts (CAFE) I drove out from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to Colum- bus Ohio with a fellow club member, Friday evening, arriving at the hotel at 9:00pm. Checked in and or- dered pizza from a local shop. We hung out in the lobby until we hooked up with some folks in for the convention weekend. Surprisingly, we took a last mi- nute midnight fish room tour of some of the local club members who lived nearby. This was the only time over the weekend we could see local fish rooms. The weekend’s events were supported entirely by club volunteers who dedicated many hours to the planning and carrying out of all events. Saturday morning at breakfast, sat next to Richard Pierce, one of the speakers for the weekend. We had a short conversation on the subject of native killifish in Mid- west states. While we were talking, had a flashback to 2 years prior at the first ever CAFE Convention. I sat across from Ted Judy and Mike Hellweg during a Saturday morning breakfast and was surprised I had immediate access to ask questions to either speaker. Moving forward to the present, it's really something special being able to have access to experts in the hobby and ask questions to advance under- standing of topics. I am always looking for that edge in BAP (Breeders Award Pro- gram) to get ahead of my peers back home. You don't learn anything by sitting home weekends when you could be out at a convention meeting other breeders and speakers. The first event to kick off the con- vention was a swap meet. Twenty or more tables were setup in a series of hotel banquet rooms staged to- gether. 10:00am to 12:00pm ven- dors and hobbyists sold everything aquatic related from fish, to equipment, to food, driftwood, pleco caves, books, poret foam, the list goes on and on. I picked up a few must have items. Renewed hellos with fellow hobbyists not seen since the last event. We took a break for lunch. The first speaker Rob McLure gave a presentation on catfish entitled "An overview of spawning, husbandry & raising of corydoradinae fish". A short break www.neo-fish.com followed by Richard Pierce, "Fish of the genus Fun- dulopanchax". Dr. Stephan Tanner educated us on "Modern Filtration". And after the evening banquet supper, Spencer Jack presented the "Fish of Uru- guay". Despite the close lineup of speakers, we managed to fit in a couple of shop hops with friends from Detroit, Youngstown, Wooster, and Pittsburgh. Saturday night stayed up late hanging out with fish friends. Some of the attendees were selling fish out of their hotel room. I picked up a small group of Corydoras dyphyes. Sunday morning was CAFE's Spring Auction, 11:00am till 5:30pm. The highlight of the auction was the New & Rare fish the club purchased from Rivers to Reefs (R2R) in Columbus. A medium size fish store packed with the highest quality of fish I've ever seen. Their quality is so high; I have gone out of my way on numerous occasions to drive there (3.5 hours each way) on a weekend just to get my hands on some really rare and healthy fish. R2R is my secret weapon when it comes to BAP. When I need 1 fish to pull ahead of the BAP pack in my hometown, I go to R2R. Anyway, CAFE bought a number of wild & healthy species from R2R to sell in their auction. The one bag everyone had their eyes on was the chameleon whiptails, Pseudohemiodon apithanos. It was truly an experience seeing these fish in person for the first time. They are rarely ever imported, and having a chance at owning these beautiful specimens made the weekend com- plete. Of course, I didn't come home with them, but to know someone in the tri-state area will be breeding them and putting fry up for sale soon is a great step forward for the hobby. Had a really great weekend, thanks to the club of CAFE and all of their dedicate mem- bers. Really wished you could have been there. There will be more conventions coming up before year end. Hope I see you at one or more in the near future. Best Fishes, www.neo-fish.com ~Joe Doyle underwater By STM Hello everyone, so did you cut grass or shovel snow recently. The weather will get nice soon enough. How is everyone's fish doing? Mine are fine and awaiting for two shows coming up soon. The IFGA has a six show season. These are Guppy shows. The first show was this past October. It's called the annual. The awards dinner from the previous season and start of this years circuit.