Sep 04
Thursday
MAS Regular Monthly Meeting 

Location: St Christopher's Church 

Speaker: Ken Davis

I started keeping fish when I was 6 years old, catching introduced exotics in the creek behind my house when we lived in Tampa, Mostly livebearers, but it was a start. Little did I know where this would lead! My parents bought me a 10 gallon tank to keep my catch is as I was proliferating little containers all over my bedroom full of aquatic creatures. Tanks seem to multiple as easily as guppies as I now have about 600! I don't think there has ever been a time in the last 42 years when I did not have fish.

I keep a variety of cichlids from Africa, Central and South America and many wild type and fancy livebearers, but my love is discus. I got my first discus in 1978 and just keeping them alive back then was the challenge. My first successful spawn was in 1982 with some of those new Wattley Turquoise and I've been hooked ever since.
I love to breed fish and have spawned 100's of species, but my current goal is a successful spawn of heckel discus and raising the fry. Still working on that one. LOL

• I've owned a retail pet store, wholesale distributor, and currently have afish hatchery.
• I've been the President of the Atlanta Area Aquarium Association since 1998,was elected to the first of 4 terms to the ACA BOT in 1998 and served as
• Chairman of the Board in 1999 and 2004. I was also elected to the Board of Directors of The North American Discus Association in 2005 and I've belonged to the American Livebearer Association for many years.
• n 2001, I went with a group of breeders and importers, organized by Bing Seto, to Asia for a two week tour of Asian fish farms and the international discus show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the Aquaramain Singapore. WOW what a trip. We visited Hong Kong, Bangkok, Saigon, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Singapore. The past five years I have gone on collecting trips to Honduras, Mexico and Uruguay, seeing how the fish live in the wild. Collecting them and bringing them back with the chance to introduce new fish and new bloodlines to the hobby is my main focus now.

Oct 02
Thursday
MAS General Meeting 

Location: St. Christopher's Church 

Speaker: Dan Woodland

Dan has been involved in the aquarium hobby since the age of ten. His illness began when his parent’s purchased a ten-gallon tank where he spawned black mollies for the first time. At that point he was completely and hopelessly infected with the tropical fish hobby. Dan has kept many different types of aquatic life including: salt water fish, turtles, indigenous Ohio species, and amphibians but, has turned most of his attention to Cichlids.

Active in his local fish club, the Ohio Cichlid Association, for the past 20 years Dan has held the positions of President, Editor, Program Chairman, Librarian, and is currently Vice-president. Maintaining over 1500 gallons of water in his self-built fish room he has raised and bred a wide variety of animals including some of the largest Cichlids.

Since 1998 Dan has traveled to Central and South America annually in an effort to inject new specimens into the hobby as well as taking a small part in the preservation of troubled Cichlids through captive breeding. His 2002 trip was truly an "Adventure in Panama" where his collecting party was stranded on a remote beach overnight with no food, water, or dry clothes. In 2003 Dan traveled to South America where a wealth of new fishes was found.

Dan has written articles on his adventures, breeding cichlids, and other aquatic interests appearing in Cichlid News, Aquarium Fish Magazine, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, and the American Cichlid Association’s Buntbarsche Bulletin.

Read more about Dan @ cichlidae.com

Next Auction: Saturday October 25, 2008

LOCATION:
Lutheran Church of the Redemption
927 E Old Shakopee Road
Bloomington, MN 55420
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Lutheran Church of the Redemption
927 E Old Shakopee Road
Bloomington, MN 55420