LIAS Paradise Press January 2012 inside - Tampa Bay Aquarium ...
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This month we are happy to welcome back one of our long time<br />
friends, Ed Vukich, who will be speaking to us about the various<br />
types of cichlids he has bred successfully. Ed is an experienced<br />
hobbyist and I am certain you will enjoy his presentation. Thanks<br />
to great efforts on the part of our vice-president, Jon Schweikert,<br />
we will be having a special presentation from a photographer and<br />
a hobbyist at our February meeting. He will go over how to take<br />
good pictures of your fish and aquariums. This is a subject that<br />
has come up many times, especially when taking pictures for the<br />
<strong>Paradise</strong> <strong>Press</strong> or to use in our annual calendar. So, please<br />
bring your cameras and your questions and take advantage of<br />
this special offering. In March, we welcome Frank Greco of<br />
Frank’s <strong>Aquarium</strong>, to <strong>LIAS</strong>. Frank is the curator at the New York<br />
<strong>Aquarium</strong> and many of our members know Frank from his participation<br />
in the AFISH conventions. He will be giving a presentation<br />
on the “Fishes of Taiwan.”<br />
The bowl show resumes this month and I would like to see an<br />
increase in the number of participants. Why not consider entering<br />
a fish that you put in the bowl show into the club’s auction? Fish<br />
that are entered into the bowl show should be fish that you raised<br />
or bred. That said, why not use this same fish and make some<br />
money from our auction? We will be providing specific containers<br />
for all bowl show entries and our bowl show chairman, Mitch<br />
Markowski, will be in charge of caring for the bowls. Keep in mind<br />
that points are received for participation in the bowl show. This is<br />
one of the many facets of contributing to the hobby that are tallied<br />
for consideration when selecting the Hobbyist of the Year<br />
award.<br />
Lastly, we will be discussing some new ideas for <strong>LIAS</strong> in <strong>2012</strong><br />
and hopefully we’ll make some decisions that will help increase<br />
participation and attendance as we continue to move forward in<br />
the year ahead. The winter weather has been mild to date; however,<br />
we still have at least eight weeks of winter remaining. In the<br />
event of inclement weather; please check the club’s website @<br />
www.liasonline.org to see if the meeting has been cancelled. Remember<br />
that if SUNY Stony Brook is closed, there will be no<br />
meeting for <strong>LIAS</strong> since we use their space to meet!<br />
~Margaret Peterson<br />
<strong>Paradise</strong> <strong>Press</strong> 3
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