>Randy is a really good speaker, especially if you consider that he has only
>been doing this for other clubs since March of 1999. His first major talk
>was last year at the NEC. He really is good. BTW if you can't get down to
>Tampa to hear him you can always drive to St. Louis on Thursday, February
>17th to hear him at the Missouri Aquarium Society Meeting. If anyone is
>close by and would like to attend please give me a blip offline and I'll
>send directions. If you enjoy great speakers we'll also be hosting Rosario
>LaCorte and Al Castro at our spring show May 5th thru 7th. If there are
any
>NEC people on the list, see you there March 17th-19th. Looks like one of
>the best lineups I've seen in a long time. Hartford CT will certainly be
>the place to talk fish.
>
>Gary Lange
>gwlange at STLNET.com
>Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
>http://home.stlnet.com/~gwlange/rainbowfish.index.html
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Capelle <JCapelle at tampabay.rr.com>
>To: Jim Capelle <JCapelle at tampabay.rr.com>
>Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 4:42 AM
>Subject: [RML] TBAS Feb. meeting
>
>
>>
>> Tampa Bay Aquarium Soc. meeting for Feb.14th ( Valentine's day) will
>>feature Randy Carey on the "Art of Characins"
>>
>>The talk walks through four areas of this art:
>>[1] understanding the characins in their groupings and classification
>>[2] acquiring rarer species
>>[3] keeping rarer species
>>[4] breeding.
>>Each of these areas can be considered an "art" -- something that takes
>>practice to become skilled at.
>>Many of the slides were donated from Stan Weitzman at the Smithsonian.
>>
>>Randy Carey writes a quarterly column for TFH also titled
>>"The Art of Characins." His website is "Randy's Fishroom" (soon to change
>>to
>>"Randy's Aquaria") and can be found at http://characin.com In the nine
>>years
>>that he has been active in the Minnesota Aquarium Society, and have had
>>BAP'ed over
>>160 species and earned the club's "diversification" award.
>>
>>The meeting starts at 7 PM in class room A
>>
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