This month`s speaker will be Ron Georgeone Talking about Goldfish

This month’s speaker will be Ron Georgeone
Talking about Goldfish
Medina County Aquarium Society 2010 Officers
President:
Joe Ring
Vice President Gene Gore
Treasurer:
Teresa Biggs
Secretary:
John Kaminski
(330) 483-0419 jring1@gmail.com
(330) 334-1447
(330) 334-1447 aunttbiggs@hotmail.com
(330) 225-0709 johnrkam@roadrunner.com
Board of Directors
Bob Blazek (330) 725-1173
blazeks@zoominternet.net
Nick Evanoff (330) 722-3887
nevanoff@neo.rr.com
Tracy Douglas (330)350-6891 runningdeer@zoominternet.net
Nate Larson (330) 882-5158
Neohdiscus@aol.com
Charlie Suk (440) 886-7178
cichlidcharlie@aol.com
Committee Chairpersons
Editor
Programs Raffle Library Auctions Bowl Show
A.C.A.
B.A.P. Refreshments
Nick Evanoff
Charlie Suk
Gene Gore/Teresa Biggs
John Kaminski
Teresa Biggs/John Kaminski
Joe Ring
Ron Georgeone
Nick Evanoff/John Kaminski
Joe Ring/Gayle Ring
Nomination Committee-Nate Larson/Teresa Biggs
Exchange Committee—Bob Blazek/Nick Evanoff
Club Photographer
– Ken McGill
Publicity - John Kaminski/Nate Larson
Show - Joe Ring//TBD/TBD
Sunshine - Eileen Evanoff/Nick Evanoff
H.A.P. - Nick Evanoff/John Kaminski
Membership John Kaminski /Bob Blazek
The All Wet Gazette is published by the Medina County Aquarium Society. The objectives of this society are to bring together a congenial
group of people mutually interested in tropical fishes and to promote the keeping, study, breeding, and exhibition of aquarium fishes and related aquatic life.
Send to:
Medina County Aquarium Society
P.O. Box 1485
Medina, Ohio 44256
Website: http://www.mcasclub.org
EDITORS CORNER
This month the bowl show will be ALL LIVE BEARERS.
The fish room featured this month is Bob Blazek’s. yours could be next ,contact Bob if you are interested.
Don’t forget about our auction coming next month ,it’s October 9th at the Prince of Peace Church.
Nick
Bruce Fraley is selling his fish room if anyone is interested here is some information
Fish Room for Sale Bruce Fraley 440-946-1605
email; fraleyb@sbcglobal.net
2-40 gallon tanks with top, heater, filters, and 2x4 stand - qty. 3- $120/ea.
3- 20 gallon long tanks with top, heater, filter, and 2x4 stand- qty. 2- $80/ea.
9-10 gallon tanks with top, heater, filter, and 2x4 stand- qty.1- $110
7- 10 gallon tanks with top, heater, filter, and 2x4 stand- qty. 1- $90
¼ hp gast blower with 70 air valves and tubing- $175
Total price- $895; Pkg. Price- $700
6 -2lb frozen brine shrimp- $7/ea.
BOWL SHOW CLASSES 2010
JAN————ANY CATFISH
FEB————BARBS & TETRAS
MARCH——ANGLES & DISCUS
APRIL———RAINBOWS & KILLIFISH
MAY———-GOLD FISH
JUNE———OLD WORLD CICHLIDS
JULY —————
AUGUST————NEW WORLD CICHLIDS
SEPTEMBER——ALL LIVE BEARERS
OCTOBER———BETTAS & GOURAMIS
NOVEMBER——ANY FISH NOT IN A CLASS
DECEMBER——-CHRISTMAS PARTY
August 2010 bowl show results
1st William Markosky
BAP PROGRAM REPORT
By Nick Evanoff
…BREEDERS AWARD PROGRAM
Standings as of
August 2010
If I have any of your numbers wrong please let me know
So I can correct them for you.
SUPREME GRAND MASTER 70 SPAWNS
GRAND MASTER
Dan McMonigle 66 spawns
60 SPAWNS
MASTER……
50 SPAWNS
EXPERT …..
40 SPAWNS
HORTICULTURE AWARD
PROGRAM
STANDING AS OF
August 2010
10 points for each entry
SUPREME GRAND MASTER…..500 POINTS
Dan McMonigle…. 940 points
SPECIALIST …..
30 SPAWNS
Bill Bilski 36 spawns
Brian Shrimpton 33 spawns
Charlie & Cathy Suk 31 spawns
GRAND MASTER………………..400 POINTS
ACCOMPLISHED ….. 20 SPAWNS
John Clark 24 spawns
Bob Blazek 21spawns
EXPERT…………………………...250 POINTS
NOVICE ………….. 10 SPAWNS
Linda Wallrath 19 spawns
Robert Patrick 14 spawns
Teresa Biggs 14spawns
Joe Ring 11 spawns
Gene Gore 10 spawns
Nick Evanoff 11 spawns
Tom &Carolyn Evers 10 spawns
BEGINNER …………. 5 SPAWNS
John Kaminski 9 spawns
Ken & Karen Grimmett 2 spawns
MASTER…………………………..300 POINTS
Linda Wallrath….340 points
ACCOMPLISHED………………..150 POINTS
Robert Patrick…..180 points
NOVICE…………………………...100 POINTS
John Clark……….100 points
BEGINNER…………………………50 POINTS
Nick Evanoff ……80 points
John Kaminski….60 points
Charlie Suk……..50 points
Bill Bilski………..70 points
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Bring a Friend to the meeting!!!!! Who knows you might get them hooked!!!!!!
EMAIL
Single-$9.00,Family-$12.00,Juniors-$5.00,Seniors-5.00
SNAIL MAIL
Single-$15.00,Family-$20.00,Juniors-$5.00,Seniors-$5.00
You can mail your dues in or BETTER YET bring it to Januarys meeting!
Reduced Membership for 2010
Take Half Off!
ONLY ABOUT ONE THIRD of members ATTEND MEETINGS.
ATTEND A MEETING, GET YOUR MONEYS WORTH.
MEET FRIENDLY PEOPLE THAT SHARE THE SAME HOBBY YOU ENJOY.
SHARE YOUR HOBBY EXPERIENCES AND MAYBE PICK UP IDEAS FROM OTHERS.
Please pass this on :
What a Deal
WON’T YOU CONSIDER JOINING?
MCAS (Medina County Aquarium Society) offers a wide range of programs and events to
satisfy the needs of almost every aquatic hobbyist, from the single community tank
enthusiasts to the multi-tank breeder, as well as those who desire to show their fish.
Regular Monthly Meetings Feature:
Bowl Show with Auction Dollar Prizes. Auction dollars are the same as cash at any
MCAS auctions.
Manufacture’s Donated Supplies in Raffles.
Programs by Hobby Experts on Some Phase of the Hobby.
Refreshments
Chat with Fellow Members about Problems and Successes.
Monthly Meeting drawings for cash prize if you’re present and signed up at the meeting.
Annual Spring and Fall Auctions:
You can sell your Excess Fish, Plants, Equipment and Food.
MCAS offers a 75/25 split to Sellers that are MCAS members!!!!
You can buy Fish, Plants, Equipment and Food.
50/50 Drawings during Auction.
Food and Drink for Sale at Auctions.
Various Raffles.
National Recognized Bulletin Every Month.
Interesting Reading on Various Facets of the Hobby.
Either walk into a meeting or phone, e-mail or contact John Kaminski
for more information.
Thanks go to Ken McGill for our new web site. www.mcas-fish.net
John Kaminski
johnrkam@roadrunner.com
330-225-0709
MCAS
P.O. Box 1485
Medina, OH 44256
A fish eyes view
By Bob Blazek
Hello Everyone, I hope you're having a great Summer and welcome to the next chapter of : "A Fish Eye's
View" This months' article will feature "me" Bob Blazek. I have been in and out of keeping fish since I
have been about 12 years old. When I was younger I was mostly into angelfish and bred about every
color variety you can think of. Then my "fry/children"" came along and I had to put fish on the back burner
for a few years. When I decided to get back into fish I had already moved to the Medina area from the
North Olmsted/North Ridgeville area. I decided to get into African Cichlids and primarily lake Malawi
Peacocks. My favorite Peacock is Aulonocara Stuartgranti "Ngara Flametail". I also keep a variety of
livebearers and corydoras. I have been recently expanding my collection to South American, Central
American and West African river basin cichlids. I am currently running 20 tanks ranging from 10 gallons to
75 gallons. I really enjoy the comraderie of our club and the vast variety of what each member is into. I'm
also a member of the Ohio Cichlid Association. I would probably join at least one or two of the other great
local clubs but like the amount of tanks you keep there's a limit. See You at the meeting, Bob Blazek
White Worms ~ Care and Feeding
by Steve Mc Donald, SWMAS; from SWAM, July / August 1993 Issue
These worms are an excellent live food supplement to any fish’s diet. Keep the worms in small
covered container with a loose lid such as a plastic shoe box. The soil should be a mix of fifty percent
peat moss and fifty percent top soil or African Violet soil. Leaf mold can also be added. Keep the soil
damp, but not soaked to the point that it can’t hold any more water. Add your worm starter culture to
the box. In approximately three weeks, you should have enough worms to be able to begin feeding
your fish.
Care of the Worms
Feed the worms a teaspoon or two of the following, every couple of days: sour cream, Gerber
baby food oatmeal or mixed cereal, mashed potatoes, or cooked oatmeal. Place the food into small
holes poked in the soil. Do not feed more than can be consumed in two days. Keep the worms cool at
about 40 to 55 degrees F and they will reproduce rapidly.
Feeding Worms to Your Fish
Remove clumps from the dirt and put them into a small container of clean water for up to an
hour. Pour off the excess water and dirt, rinsing as needed. The worms are then ready to feed to your
fish.
Cherry Red Shrimp as a
Cory Egg Hatching Aid
By Steve Smith
Reprinted w/permission. This article first appeared in ‘Fincinnati’ the magazine of the Greater
Cincinnati Aquarium Society.
We are always looking for new ways to successfully hatch eggs. In the fall of 2008 I found one
more. An Aquabid.com user named Neoncory was advertising corydoras eggs of various kinds
for sale. He would ship however many eggs he had on a given day, so I ordered eggs from
Cory. davidsandsi, C. duplicareus, C. sterbai and C. panda. When they arrived we opened the
package to see several bags of Cory eggs, some of which had already started to hatch and a
surprise. In each of the bags there was a single Cherry Red shrimp. I poured a couple of these
into a 10 gallon tank and watched as the shrimp pick up eggs and clean them, rotating them and
nibbling at anything they found. I contacted Neoncory and found that he had been
experimenting with this method in his own tanks for quite some time and found the shrimp to be
excellent egg cleaners.
In experiments with some Orange Laser Cory eggs I found that an individual shrimp in a plastic
container and air bubbler did best with no more than 20-25 eggs. Beyond that I don’t think one
shrimp can keep up with the egg cleaning duties. Also, keeping the air bubbler to a minimum
seems to be more agreeable with the shrimp. Once the eggs hatch the shrimp pay no attention
to the fry and I was not able to see any loss of fry over the first few days when I left shrimp in
the hatching containers. I typically remove the shrimp back to their own tanks once the Cory fry
are free swimming.
This method is preferable to the addition of chemicals and even easier than the other relatively
new method with alder cones, which need to be changed daily.
MEDINA COUNTY PARKS DISTRICT
6364 Deerview Lane, Medina, Ohio 44256
(330) 722-9364, (330) 225-7100 ext. 9364
Website: http://www.medinacountyparks.com
The Medina County Aquarium
Society extends our extreme
appreciation supporters appreciation to our supporters
Ray "Kingfish" Lucas / King-fish Services …...
Wardley’s
8 in one pet products
San Francisco Bay Brand
Tetra
Zoo Med Laboratories inc
Ocean Nutrition…………………………..Members, please remember these manufacturers
and businesses when you shop for your pet supplies. They all support us and we
should in turn support them. For without them, our club raffles, Show, and Annual
Auctions would be very bleak indeed… A bigger and better year for them all!
Medina County Aquarium Society
We meet the 2nd Friday of Each Month at
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
3355 Medina Rd. (Rt.18) Medina, Ohio
8:00pm
All are Welcome!!!
M.C.A.S.
P.O. Box 1485
Medina, Ohio 44256
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