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>From: Gary Lange <rainbowfish4u2 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
>To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [RML] weekend conventions
>Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:46:06 -0700 (PDT)
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>Sorry you couldn't make it. It was a fantastic weekend. People I haven't
>seen in years so that was nice. Learning about the Limias in the islands
>plus a few new ones that are really cool! Rusty had 8-9 pictures of
>Monties that he caught at the same location that were very different
>looking. This fish is extremely variable, which is something that those of
>us that keep it have found out. The old guard from the ALA was worried
>about moving it out of either Ohio or MI and they found out that this
>convention was really more sucessful than any other. More fish bowled than
>ever before. I don't know if it was a bigger number for attendance though
>as this was the first one that I've attended. Auction prices held up
>pretty nicely. An OLD friend Pat Hartmann took best wild livebearer (X.
>birchmanni) which was fantastic. He also took the Goodeid best too, I
>forget which one. In the manmade varieties a silver molly won. I really
>hate silver mollys ;-) but a lot of the fancy swords
> did have issues. I realize now that the ALA has a lot more class than
>the other "initial" clubs. They had a wine tasting :-) on Saturday
>evening. Ok, translation a lot of people arrived at the dinner already a
>tad tipsy.
>BTW for all the midwesterners - Joe Fleckenstein gives probably one of the
>best live food talks that I've heard in a long time. Good practical advice
>with hands on cultures. The auction afterwards on his culture materials
>netted $100 for the club too so people were eager to try out his
>suggestions. He'll also be speaking at MASI's spring show, April 29, 30th
>May 1st.
>New fish for my fishroom. Scored some Neohet. elegans (~ 3/4 inche) for
>photography as there really aren't any good pics of these fish out there.
>Also have some Xiph. mayae coming and eventually some X. birchmanni,
>another photography challenge. It's going to be in New Jersey next year so
>start saving your $ for a plane ticket. Oh, and Scott Buckel, for all on
>the other side of the pond. He didn't make his flight back to Denver
>because they had a foot of snow there. It was ~ 80 degrees in Indy!
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>Gary Lange
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>Rhonda Wilson <rhonda at naturalaquariums.com> wrote:
>Everybody but me. I'm stuck at home with the kids. I'm so sad not to be
>going. It sounds like it's going to be a great year.
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>Rhonda
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>Gary Lange wrote:
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> > Nah, nobody is going to be there. All of the action is in INDY this
> > weekend as it's the ALA convention :-) Planning to pick up some 3/8
> > inch something or others for photography fun.
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> > gary lange
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