“The Ultimate Fishroom Hop”

Exploring hobbyist & commercial fishrooms from all over the world! Included are visits to the UK, Germany, Norway and various locations across America. Bring your notebooks and pens………guaranteed you will see gadgets, tricks and ideas that you will want to incorporate into your own fishroom. In addition, successful spawning information will be reviewed on the Sewellia lineolata; the “Reticulated Hillstream Loach”

Bio:
Eric Bodrock, 54, is the owner of All Oddball Aquatics, a tropical fish hatchery and independent online retailer located just south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Along with his fiancé, Regina Spotti, they currently maintain about 250 aquariums in their home based hatchery where they work with a wide range of fish species.
Eric has been active in the aquarium hobby since age 10 and has worked in the retail, wholesale distribution, installation, and hatchery aspects of the industry. In addition to his accomplishment of successfully spawning nearly 500 species of freshwater fish, including a little more than 110 different Killifish and 100 species of Catfish, he has published articles, judged dozens of fish shows, and has given presentations, many while traveling abroad to aquarium related events in Canada, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and all over the USA.
Eric is the treasurer of the Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society, which he has been a member of for 40 years! He considers himself to be a “Lifer” in the hobby and continues to promote the aquarium hobby in every possible way…you’ll often hear him say: “There’s always room for one more tank!”

And there is always room for YOU! Please join us!

As Always we will try to bring in fish from davesfish.com

There will be Pot Luck, so bring some goodies!

LOCATION
Friday May 13th
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Friday Feb. 12th
Bowl Show Setup at 6:30pm
Meeting starts at 7pm

BOWL SHOW CATEGORIES for May

LAKE MALAWI – GROUP 2—MBUNA—Abactochromis, Cynotilapia, Gephyrochromis, Iodotropheus, Labeotropheus, Labidochromis, Melanochromis, Metriaclima, Petrotilapia, Pseudotropheus, Tropheops.

LAKE TANGANYIKA – GROUP 3—FEATHERFINS, FRONTOSA, TROPHEUS, PETROS—Aulonocranus, Benthochromis, Cunningtonia, Cyathopharynx, Cyphotilapia, Opthalmotilapia, Petrochromis, Tropheus.

OTHER AFRICAN/ASIAN CICHLIDS – GROUP 2—OTHER AFRICAN CICHLIDS—Alcolapia, Anomalochromis, Astatotilapia, (A. desfontainii), Benitochromis, Chetia, Chilochromis, Chromidotilapia, Congochromis, Cyclopharynx, Danakilia, Divandu, Enigmatochromis, Etia, Gaurochromis, Gobiocichla, Haplochromis (H. burtoni), Hemichromis, Heterochromis, Konia, Limbochromis, Macropleurodus, Myaka, Nanochromis, Oreochromis (O. mossambicus), Orthochromis, Parananochromis, Pelmatochromis, Pelvicachromis, Pharygochromis, Pseudocrenilabrus (P. nicholsi), Pterochromis, Pungu, Saratherodon, Sargochromis, Schwetzochromis, Steatocranus, Stomatepia, Teleogramma, Thoracochromis, Tilapia.Thysochromis.

NEW WORLD CICHLIDS – GROUP 3—SOUTH AMERICAN DWARF CICHLIDS—Apistogramma, Apistogrammoides, Biotoecus, Cleithracara, Laetacara, Mikrogeophagus, Nannacara, Taeniacara, Tahuantinsuyoa.

OPEN CATEGORY – All Other Catfish that are Non-Suckermouthed and Not Synodontis. (Those two types are in their own open categories for different months)

(To view upcoming  Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://rmcichlid.org/meetings/bowl-shows)

Ingo Seidel, was born in 1967 in Delmenhorst in the Northern German federal state Niedersachsen. Since his earliest youth he was interested in everything that was scuttling, flying and swimming outside. At the age of ten years he received his first fish tank from his father, who had been an aquarist for years before.
At first his professional development took a totally different course. After leaving school he started professional training as a mathematical technical assistant at a big electronics company in Bremen and worked as software programmer in this company for years. In 2001 he made a profession out of his hobby and moved to the Berlin area for a new job. Since this time he works in Seefeld near Berlin as a scientific assistant at one of the biggest wholesalers of ornamental fishes in Germany.

Above all the fish fauna of the South American continent is one of Ingo´s major interests. Starting with keeping cichlids, killies and livebearers he soon found out that catfishes are his real passion. From 1992 to 2006 Ingo Seidel has been the leader of the catfish section of the German study group AK-BSSW (association for barbs, tetras, loaches and catfishes). Over the years he has been able to keep and breed more than 40 species of Corydoras, innumerable loricariid and some other catfish species. On several trips to South America he had the chance to observe many of these fishes in their natural habitats. He always tried to document his observations by photography, so that his photo archive meanwhile consists of many thousand slides. For more than 20 years he has written articles about the ecology, care and breeding of catfishes. In 2002 his first book was published. He wrote the Mergus Catfish Atlas Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in co-operation with his friend Hans-Georg EVERS. The first volume has also been published in English. These two volumes of the “Catfish Atlas” (in Germany, “Wels Atlas”) are the biggest monography about loricariid catfishes ever published. Meanwhile, a new beginners’ book about L plecos has been published in the Back To Nature Series in English and is available in seven different languages. Also the “Hypancistrus-Fibel” and his newest book “Ingos Harnischwelszucht” were written by him.

(NOTE, the Open Category this month is PLECOS! So Members, lets show off our Plecos to Ingo!)

As Always we will be having a Pot Luck (please bring a dish/desert to share),  Door Prizes and Mini Auction, with fish brought in from davesfish.com!

LOCATION
Colorado Academy
3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235
Friday Apr. 29th
Bowl Show Setup at 6:30pm
Meeting starts at 7pm

BOWL SHOW CATEGORIES for April

LAKE MALAWI – GROUP 1—HAPLOCHROMINES—Alticorpus, Aristochromis, Buccochromis, Caprichromis, Champsochromis, Chilotilapia, Copadichromis, Cyrtocara, Dimidochromis, Exochochromis, Fossorochromis, Lethrinops, Lichnochromis, Mylochromis, Nimbochromis, Otopharynx, Placidichromis, Protomelas, Rhamphochromis, Scieanochromis, Serranochromis, Stigmatochromis, Taeniolethrinops, Tramitichromis, Trematocranus, Tyrannochromis.

LAKE TANGANYIKA – GROUP 2—JULIDOCHROMIS, LAMPROLOGINES, SHELL-DWELLERS—Altolamprologus, Chalinochromis, Julidochromis, Lamprologus, Lepidiolamprologus, Neolamprologus, Telmatochromis, Variabilichromis.

OTHER AFRICAN/ASIAN CICHLIDS – GROUP 1—VICTORIA BASIN CICHLIDS—Allochromis, Astatoreochromis, Astatotilapia, (A. aenocolor, A. latifasciata, A. nubila), Enterochromis, Haplochromis (not H. burtoni), Haplotilapia, Harpagochromis, Labrochromis, Lipochromis, Lithochromis, Mbipia, Neochromis, Oreochromis (O. esculentus, O. mossambicus, O. niloticus, O. variabilis), Paralabidochromis, Platytaeniodus, Prognathochromis, Psammochromis, Pseudocrenilabrus (not P. nicholsi), Ptyochromis, Pundamilia, Pyxichromis, Xystichromis, Yssichromis.

NEW WORLD CICHLIDS – GROUP 2—SOUTH AMERICAN CICHLIDS—Acarichthys, Acaronia, Aequidens, Amphilophus      (A. festae), Andinoacara, Astronotus, Australoheros, Biotodoma, Bujurquina, Chaetobranchopsis, Chaetobranchus, Caquetaia, Cichla, Cichlasoma (C. dimerus), Crenicara, Crenicichla, Dicrossus, Geophagus, Guianacara, Gymnogeophagus, Heroina, Heros, Hoplarchus, Hypselecara, Krobia, Mazarunia, Mesonauta, Pterophyllum, Retroculus, Satanoperca,   Symphysodon, Teleocichla, Uaru.

OPEN CATEGORY
PLECOS AND OTHER SUCKER-MOUTHED CATFISH

(To view upcoming  Bowl Show Categories visit the link below.
http://rmcichlid.org/meetings/bowl-shows)

MEETING! SPECIAL LOCATION!
Friday March 18th

LOCATION
18757 E Hampden Pl #160
Aurora, CO 80013

Bowl Show setup starts at 6:30pm
Meeting Officially Starts at 7pm.

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This Months meeting will be held at Aquatic Kingdom Aquariums!
Jason Alahuzos has invited us to come hang out, and check out his shop before it opens!

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The RMCA Fall Auction is Saturday, March 5th at the Colorado Academy

(!!! NEW LOCATION !!!). Colorado Academy 3800 South Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80235 United States + Google Map
CA Building/Parking Map

Note: that we will be starting at 10:00 A. M.

Please arrive early to allow plenty of time to get registered for a bidder number. All bidders and sellers must be registered and must provide a name, address and email address to register.

To sell fish at the auction, or preview items, please register for an account at mygroupauctions.com
Sellers, we ask that you get there BEFORE 9:00 A.M. so that we have time to get your auction items checked-in and verified.  This also allows time for the buyers to preview the items up for sale.

Sellers please note the following rules:
* A maximum of 40 combined auction items (does not include quick-sale items) per seller are allowed.
* A maximum of 4 bags of a single species or color morph per seller are allowed.

If more than 4 bags of a single species or color morph are entered in the auction the excess items will be considered a donation to the RMCA.  Also note, that because there is no way to track the order in which the items were sold, the donated items will be selected based on selling price whereby the items with the HIGHEST selling price will be considered a 100% donation to the RMCA.

* Auction Splits will be strictly enforced
* There WILL NOT be a “Buy-It-Now” table at the auction