Texas Cichlid Association

[jonah]

Anybody else going to the show and auction? It's June 6-8 in Irving, Texas. I'll be there for the auction on Sunday and probably the classes and show on Saturday. It's still a month and a half away, but I can hardly wait.

Here's a website for them:

www.flash.net/~tcichlid/

Only 52 days to go.

[SGypsyMermaid]

you sound like a little kid headed for disneyworld!

[jonah]

Only a week away now. Aren't any of you Texans going? It's got to be the biggest cichlid event of the year in Baja Oklahoma.

The speakers are Pam Chin, Ad Konings, Wayne Leibel, Jack Wattley and John Farrel Kuhns. If you can't make the workshops on Saturday, at least try to get to the auction on Sunday.

[Boilermaker]

Wish I could go Jonah, I noticed this on your Ok. site

[Chet]

Well, I tried to convince my wife that we should go, but we were in Dallas two weekends ago, and have to go back next weekend. She just wasn't up for another trip and I'm not sure I am either. Please tell us how it goes and maybe get some pics.

[Noelemac]

Hey, I might end up going today. Just noticed this is down the road from, also just noticed this message.

[jonah]

I had a good time down there. We arrived too late for Ad Konings talk on Central American great lakes, but we did see Pam Chin talk on Tanganyikans, Wayne Leibel talk on breeding and John Kuhns talk on water chemistry (ow my head hurts).

We missed out on Jack Wattley so we could check out Keller Farms in Haltom City. Funky little shop in an old house. Wall to wall with fish stuff, including many of the species I can't find here in OKC. I almost bought some black calvus for $7, but I wanted to save my cash for the auction the next day. If anybody happens to be in that area, definitly check them out.

At the auction I bought a breeding pair of spangled pikes (8"/6") for $23, 5 demasoni (1.5") for $23, 4 Lamprolgus cylindricus (2") for $10 and a 600g jar of Purigen for $7. I was surprised there wasn't more interest in the pikes since Leibel had mentioned them as one of the challenging fishes for breeding. The demasoni sell for $15 minimum in OKC if you can find them at all and I never see cylindricus at all here. There were a ton of excellent deals on fish, but I was limited by what tanks I had available and money. They sold a least 8 bags of 5 gold severum (2"-3") for $5-$8, 3 "discus for less than $10 each. Common fish like Mel. johanni went for as little as $1 for a bag of 5. I'm already making plans for their next auction.

[SGypsyMermaid]

glad you had a good time--sounds like it was a blast!

[NyassaeMan]

jonah, did you get some pics of the event/auction?

[jonah]

I took a few pics, but I haven't checked them out yet. My cameras been beat up a bit and it's hard to tell how good the pics come out until I download them. I'm pretty sure I got one of Wayne Leibel and Pam Chin. Pam had a bunch of her own Tanganyikans for sale at the auction, but they were mostly brichardi complex and I've got plenty of those for now.

I'll try to get the pics up tomorrow along with some of my new set up. I moved my Africans to the garage and set up my living room 125g with driftwood and rocks for my pike cichlids, convicts and young trimac. There's still some question about the trimac's blood lines so I'll want to post a shot of him anyway. He's got a nice hump going, but his color doesn't look right. He doesn't even look like a flowerhorn to me, so I'm not sure what's up with him.