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SEPTEMBER 8th MEETING! WELCOME BACK YOU ALL!

Alright you cichlid nuts! Summer break is coming to an end! Time to get things rolling again, and to kick off the new season, we have a real treat for you guys! Jimena Golcher-Benavides will be coming into town, to speak about her adventures underwater in Lake Tanganyika!

Jimena began working towards her PhD in the Program in Ecology at the University of Wyoming in Fall 2015. She came to Dr. Catherine E. Wagner Lab’s at UW with extensive background in tropical biology, particularly fieldwork with cichlids in her native Costa Rica and in Nicaragua. She received an MS from the University of Konstanz, Germany, prior to coming to UW. In the past two years, she has been conducting research in Lake Tanganyika, Africa, trying to better understand species distributions, ecology and variation. In her talk, Jimena will take the audience on a journey to the underwater world of Lake Tanganyika cichlids, share her experiences while in Tanzania and hopefully encourage others to go and explore cichlids in their natural habitat.

Growth Contest Time! Every couple months we provide our Members with a fun game called a Growth Contest, where we bring in and sell some fry/juveniles basically at cost. Every time we hold a Growth Contest, we rotate the type of cichlid it is. Members who win in the Growth Contest get “Auction Dollars” Which get rewarded at the time of our big Auctions. Become a Member! Membership is only $15 for a Year! Memberships help fund these little events.

This month we will be bringing in a Rare South American species.

How it works…

For example: We usually bring in about 100 fry/juveniles. (Give or take) If 10 people raise their hand for entering the contest, each member will buy a bag of 10 fish. Or if 20 people raise their hand to enter, each person will buy a bag of 5 fish.

Growth Contest Rules:
1. Fish are NOT to be traded in, or resold to pet stores or online at anytime before the contest is due back!
2. This is a Members Only event.
3. It only takes 1 fish to win out of the bag lot you get. Who Ever Raised the BIGGEST ONE WINS!

Happy Growing.

Mini-Fish Auction! Please bring a bag or two to sell! Our Monthly Mini-Auctions have been growing, and becoming “not so mini” So if you have some extra fish you’d like to sell, plants, ext. Bring them!

We will also be bringing in fish from davesfish.com for the Mini-Auction. Feel free to contact Dave if you would like to order any fish and save with no shipping cost. Just tell Dave to ship it to the RMCA September meeting.

Also there is a Bowl Show, categories listed below.
Lets show off some of our Best Fish!

Pot luck, and Door Prizes!
So if you’d like, please bring some goodies!

LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235

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Alright everyone! Lets make this meeting count! This is the last official Meeting we will have with Bob! So please, lets just gather around, and give him a great send off, as he starts the new chapter in his life in Florida!

Bob has been around in the RMCA longer then a lot of us have been alive. To many of us, not only is he the face of the RMCA, but a father figure and mentor to us in the fish hobby. Everybody knows Bob! He has helped this community not only in Colorado, but in the nation in general grow substantially. He is a great role model to many people. This club would not be what it is today, without his influence, his humor, and his love to help people, not only in fish, but in life as well. Bob understands the importance of the younger generation getting into fish. Always being up beat, and great with kids. His love and jolliness has rubbed off on all of us. Even if we are having hard times, just him being there brings uplifting feelings in our hearts. He is our Fish Dad. So lets gather together this month, and just fill the room with Fish, Love, and Bob!

Mini-Fish Auction! Please bring a bag or two to sell! Our Monthly Mini-Auctions have been growing, and becoming “not so mini” So if you have some extra fish you’d like to sell, plants, ext. Bring them! As Always we will try to bring in fish from Davesfish.com for the Mini Auction!

We will also be bringing in fish from davesfish.com for Mini-Auction. Feel free to contact Dave if you would like to order any fish and save on shipping. Only $20 for same day air-cargo delivered to the meeting. Just tell Dave to ship it to the RMCA June meeting.

Also there is a Bowl Show, categories listed below.
Let’s show off some of our Best Fish to Bob before he leaves!

We will be bringing in Food and Door Prizes!
So if you’d like, please bring some goodies!

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All the way from Canada, we are proud to have Jim Cumming joining us for a presentation of the Cichlids of Madagascar!

Our Meetings are open to everyone that would like to come! If you would like to be a member, you can join at the meeting, so please Share!

Biography
Jim Cumming hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and is a lifelong fish hobbyist, having been involved for over 50 years. Other than a fifteen year sojourn into the world of killifish (his online moniker is ‘notho2000’) he has kept and presently keeps mostly Central and South American cichlids, but he currently devotes about one third of his 40 aquarium fish room to Madagascan cichlids and the Etroplus genus from India. He has given presentations on Madagascan cichlids and their plight to the Winnipeg and Saskatoon Aquarium Societies, the New England Cichlid Association, the Bermuda Aquarium Society, the Dead Fish Order, the Ohio Cichlid Association, the Greater Chicago Cichlid Association, the Durham Regional Aquarium Society and the Great Salt Lake Aquarium Society. Jim has also had extensive collecting experience in Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Brazil and the southern U.S.

He maintains a very active YouTube channel with around 470 videos at last count, highlighting the fish he keeps or has kept, and emphasizing maintenance and breeding. Jim is also a moderator for several Facebook forums, contributes regularly to other on-line forums as well (CRC, ACA, MFK, and the Winnipeg Fish Forum) and has had articles published in Amazonas and Cichlid News magazines. He is also a Species Specialist and a speaker for the CARES program. He looks forward to enthusiastically spreading the word on this magnificent group of fishes

“The Cichlids of Madagascar – A Land in Crisis”

Talk Outline

• Where Madagascar is located.
• How large it is, comparatively speaking.
• How it got to where it is.
• Its importance in global distribution of all cichlids.
• State of the land– ‘the good , the bad, and the ugly’.
• Described genera of the endemic cichlids
• Species that I have experience with.
• A more detailed look at some species
• The people behind the cichlids
• Saving a species from extinction and conservation.
• The future of the endemic fishes, and fauna in general.

The Club will be bringing in, by request, a Catfish Growth Contest Fish!

As Always we will try to bring in fish from Davesfish.com for the Mini Auction!

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APRIL MEETING!!! FRIDAY THE 21st! (Special date,  to not intrude on Good Friday and Easter Weekend)

Bob Allen will be coming in to town to speak to us again this year! He is one of the highlight speakers we love to have! Specializing in Tanganyika Cichlids!

Bob Allen started keeping fish in 1948 at age ten. He was actually interested in tropical fish before that. He now lives in Salem Utah where he operates a tropical fish hatchery specializing in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika. The hatchery has 240 fish tanks. He has written articles for Tropical Fish Hobbyist and Cichlid News magazines. His day job for 40 years was operating two camera stores in the Provo, Utah area. His articles and lectures include professional quality slides and video. He has spawned some unusual fish such as Monodactylus sebae, Bathybates minor, Lampricthys tanganicanus and Enantiopus sp. “Kilesa”. He has spoken at aquarium clubs in Cleveland, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Tucson, Phoenix, San José, Minneapolis, Chicago, Sacramento and at the American Cichlid Association convention in Denver.

GROWTH CONTEST TANGANYIKA FISH WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS MONTH provided by Bob Allen himelf! As well as a Catfish Growth Contest in May!

As Always we will try to bring in fish from Davefish.com for the Mini Auction!

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March Meeting! Friday March 10th!

Bruce Ferguson will be doing a presentation on Planted Aquariums!

“I am a retired House Painter, who many years ago decided to add fish to the terrariums I was making, and I’m still not sure that wasn’t a mistake!”
-Bruce.