NEOnews May 2014

Monthly Meetings Starts at 8p.m.
This month’s Speaker is:
Ken Walker
May’s program will be on care and
breeding of Catfish.
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President’s Message
Happy Anniversary,
Well we did it. We have been meeting for the past 12 months and each and every month our club has been
growing and getting better and better. Last month we had a great talk by Eric Bodrock and this month we
have Ken Walker who will provide us with another interesting talk on his pleco’s and other fish he keeps.
This meeting we will be having a cookout, hot dogs and fixings along with a sheet cake to commemorate our
first year. We also will be giving away to 1 lucky member a 72 gallon bow front complete setup including
stand, light, glass tops, filter, heater and fish. Everyone who comes will receive a ticket and a chance to win.
All the winning ticket holder will have to do is be there to win and have a little luck. We also will have a large
raffle including fish, food and several other items. We want this anniversary to be one to remember.
Bring your fish for the BAP and bring a few fish for the end of meeting auction. (Remember to save some fish
for the upcoming auction) Hopefully we will have a lot of items and everyone will be able to win or bid on
something they want.
Bowl Show – Bring your fish to participate. This month with it being cichlids, we should have tons of fish for
the bowl shop. It would be great to see a good turnout and more members involved.
In 3 weeks after our meeting we will be holding our summer auction. Again this auction we will need
everyone’s help in making it a success. Bring your fish and hard goods. We have had 2 great auctions, we
didn’t make lots of money, but we had a lot of items and we need to keep that going. People will come, it’s
up to us to provide the environment.
I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting and at our next auction, Saturday, June 7th.
Remember the auction starts at 11am and set up will start at 8 with registration beginning at 9am.
Lastly, please remember this club, belongs to all of us. The board is always trying to make sure what we
do is correct and good for the club. Many of you have come forward with idea’s or things you would
like to see. We always try to bring up and talk about your idea’s or wants or complaints. That
being said, we are always open to suggestions and ways to make our club better. If you have an
idea or input, let the board know. It takes all of us together to make a great club. Dan
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About NEOfish
The Northeast Ohio Fish Club (fish) is an all specie Fish club
in Northeast Ohio. We pride ourselves in being a progressive club offering all our members not only the
normal fish club programs, but others like individual e-mail addresses, club member websites, spawning
con-tests, aquarium decorating contests workshops, road trips and more. Our goal is to make every
meeting exciting, educational and leaving you with the feeling that you can’t wait until the next meeting.
Look at our website and see if this club isn’t the club you have been looking for. If you already belong to a
club, that’s okay, think about making us your second club and come enjoy the fun.
Our website is (new) www.neo-fish.org and (old) www.neo-fish.com
NEOfish Meetings
As always, the Northeast Ohio Fish Club (NEOfish)
holds monthly meetings in Independence, Ohio on the 3rd Friday of every month. Meetings are at:
Independence United Methodist Church
6615 Brecksville Road
Independence, OH 44131
8:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. (Christmas Party starts at 7:00p.m.)
Everyone interested is invited to attend. NEOfish is an all species club, such as Betta, Guppies, Tetras,
Barbs, Cichlids etc. We will look to the attendees to pick out a name for the new club. Current club
members are welcome to join a second club.
The Board meets before the general meeting at 7:00p.m. at the church as well. Even though you’re not on
the board, your are still welcome to sit in on the meeting. You would not have a vote but you certainly
could share some input. Per our Constitution and By-Laws, this is also the appropriate time and place to
air any concerns about the club. It would be helpful to first contact a board member to discuss the issue
but if you feel that the whole board needs to hear it then feel free to attend.
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NEOfish Sponsors
Please support these great companies who support us.
API
Hydor USA
Seachem Laboratories, Inc.
Aquarium Technologies, Inc.
Marineland
Tetra
Aquatic Creations
New Life International Inc.
TLC Products
Blue Ribbon
Omega Sea, Ltd.
ViaAqua
CaribSea
Penn-Plax
Zoo Med
Cobalt Aquatics
PetSmart Store Support Group, Inc.
Hagen
San Francsico Bay Brand
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If you missed or enjoyed Eric’s great talk last month, here is another opportunity to learn from him. You also will be
able to hear from his very accomplished fiancé Regina Spotti. Original PDF flyer is attached to the bulletin email.
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Labidochromis sp. “SRT" Hongi
By Amy and Jim Damm
I've been asked to write a small article on
these fish, so here goes. Lets start by saying
that I'm NOT an expert. I do have these fish
and breed them with some success. From
research that I've done these fish are line
breed and don't occur in the wild, at least
not with such brilliant colors. The Labidochromis sp. hongi is the wild breed that
live in lake Malawi near and around hongi
island.
This fish is one of my favorite, with their
beautiful lavender body's, reminds me of our
lilacs in our back yard, their deep orange/red dorsal fin and face, best described as the
burning embers and coals of a night time fire, to the yellow pelvic fins and dark bars that
run through their lavender body's.
The hongi was one of the first fishes I acquired after getting back into the hobby, I had
aquariums for probably 15 years then just got out of the hobby but never bred them until
now. Since I got back into the hobby my wife and I have been breeding these and other
fish. I guess that I can attribute our success in breeding to the fact that I think that the fish
needs to "be happy". I gave them substrate
to dig in and rearrange, caves to hide in
and plenty of water changes, usually 3040% weakly also cichlid salts to help keep
quality of the water to what they like. So
far they haven't complained....
The hongi seem to be a skittish fish also
so I keep dither fish in with them. I have
found that giant danio's seem to be the
best for this. Well I guess that is about it
for my hongi and thanks you for reading
and have a great day.
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Treasurer’s Report
Hi guys,
I’ll make this short. Reports are on the following page. At the end of April meeting
there was a balance of $2294.03 in the bank account.
Don’t forget we now take charge cards at the monthly meeting as well as our big auctions. If you want to run a tab for all areas of the meeting, (auction, raffle, payment of
membership, etc.) just get with me at the meeting to run your tab.
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, please feel free to contact me. I
know I get kind of busy at the meetings, but please come up and interrupt me. There
are so many members I haven’t met yet and I would like to meet you all.
See you at the meeting….
Debbie
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Treasurer’s Meeting Report
COMMITTEE / DESCRIPTION
MONEY
OUT
MONEY IN
TOTAL
MEMBERSHIP
2 NEW SINGLE 4 SINGLE RENEWAL
$
60.00
BOWL SHOW MONEY USED TO PAY FOR A MEMBERSHIP
$
10.00
$
50.00
$
1.00
$
(16.22)
$
41.58
$
45.00
$
71.00
$
3.00
$
15.00
$
0.00
BOWL SHOW
2 ENTRIES @ 50 CENTS
$
1.00
REFRESHMENTS
DONATIONS
$
8.78
DENIS ROZMUS REFRESHMENTS PURCHASED
$
25.00
RAFFLE
COLLECTED
$
118.00
CK #1248 JIM LACO ITEMS FOR RAFFLE
$
54.50
CK #1178 JIM LACO FOR TANK (PD MARCH)
$
21.92
T- SHIRTS
COLLECTED FOR 3 SHIRTS
$
45.00
DONATION AUCTION
1 BAG KC JENKINSON
$
6.00
DONATED PROCEEDS FROM AUCTION K WALKER & BRIAN S
$
65.00
$
53.00
BUCK A BAG AUCTION
11 ITEMS
PROCEEDS PAID OUT CASH
$
50.00
BAP AUCTION
33 ITEMS
$
236.00
PROCEEDS PAID OUT CASH
$
221.00
$
21.00
HAP AUCTION
10 ITEMS
$
PROCEEDS PAID OUT CASH
21.00
SPEAKER
CK #1250 ERIC BODROCK
$
50.00
$
(50.00)
$
100.00
$
(100.00)
$
60.36
RENT
INDEPENDENCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
GRAND TOTAL
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Committee Announcements
Program Committee
This month we will be welcoming Ken Walker one of our members and an active member of a lot of the
local clubs. His program will be on Catfish and I am sure it will be interesting since he has bred quite a few
of them and a lot of nice plecostomus.
Dean and I are working on the second half of the year so if you have any suggestions PLEASE feel free to
speak to either of us.
May 17
June 19
Ken Walker Breeding Catfish
Rich Bierbauer Angelfish
John Chapek
Raffle Committee
Rich Grassnig is preparing a mailing to manufacturers to see if they respond better to a written letter and
a paper copy of our bulletin.
Membership Committee
Greetings fellow fishheads,
Our one year anniversary is upon us. We have come a long way as a club and as a hobby. I am sure I
can speak for most of our membership when I say this. I have met alot of great people and grown in my
experience as much.
I am glad to be a part of this unique group and found pleasure in watching it grow. As always feel free
to contact myself or any other board members.
Doug Poole
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Committee Announcements (cont.)
Breeder Award Program (BAP)
Hey we had another banner month there were
33 spawns turned in and a few of them were
new to the program. I am still trying to set the
HAP program up and we are at kind of a stand
still until the New Web site is up or the stuff
from the old one gets moved I really don't want
to push KC because her plate is already full I am
sure it will work out it is just a matter of time.
Keep up the good work how about 40 spawns
for this month.
Member
Don Grey
Brian Shrimpton
Chuck Nowakowski
Paul Palisin
Dan Ritter
Richard Yoder
Tony Poth
David Lutz
KC Jenkinson
It's begging and pleading time again, we would
Matt Urbin
really like some more articles for the bulletin to Steve Olander II
add some meat to them other than just club
Tom & Carolyn Evers
business. I really enjoyed Joe Doyle's article on
Ken Walker
Bumble Bee Gobies last month and unless some
of you begin contributing I will force you to look Amy & Jim Damm
at some more of my ramblings. Once again I will Denis Rozmus
state that they will not be graded and Brian and I Jeffery Yadlovsky
will clean them up and try our best to make you Justin Way
look like a genius. They can be about any part of George Anagnostopoulos
the hobby like DIY projects with photos, how to Don Youngkin
culture live foods or whatever just go for it!
Scott Hartness Jr.
Dan Watson
For all of those that are bringing either BAP or John Chapek
Auction fish to the April meeting are asked to Scott Hartness
register their fish using the auction site. They Ken Grimmett
can be added anytime before they arrive at the George Hollister
meeting. Click HERE to get to the auction site.
Hilary Lacerda
If you have been already signed up your passDan McMonigle
word is neofish (unless you have changed it
yourself). Unregistered members can register Douglas B. Poole II
Stan Jachna
on line as well and then add their items.
Don Danko
Rick Foster
John Chapek
Dwhite Goffe
Anthony Kidd
John W. Tesar
2013
150
280
115
140
20
140
30
70
5
30
45
110
20
20
85
60
35
35
35
30
25
20
10
10
10
10
10
2014
110
90
65
60
45
45
40
40
35
30
30
30
25
25
20
20
10
10
10
10
10
Lifetime Points
260
370
180
60
185
65
180
70
35
100
35
30
55
25
65
20
120
30
30
10
10
85
60
35
35
35
30
25
20
10
10
10
10
10
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Committee Announcements (cont.)
Bowl Show
April winner was the Rick Foster (aka Mail Man) with a Texas Chiclid and Cichlasoma Spilurum
NEO BOWL SHOW POINTS LIST Through April 2014
Month
Name
Total Points
Bill Bilski
17
KC Jenkinson
8
Rick Foster
6
George Hollister
5
Dan Ritter
5
Brian Shrimpton
3
Richard Yoder
Bill King
Doug Poole
1
1
1
List of remaining bowls show:
May: Haps/Mbuna/Peacocks/Tangs
June: 1st place winners from April and May
July: Killiefish/Apistos
August: Angelfish/ Discus
September: 1st place winners from July and August
October: All livebearers
November: Aspidoras / Corys/ Plecos/ Loaches
December: 1st places winners from March, June, September, and December for Best of Bowl Show
All Quarterly winners compete in December for Best of Bowl Show
Bill Bilski
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Committee Announcements (cont.)
Website/Social Media
Hello Fellow NEOfish Members,
I hope you've all been able to enjoy the wonderful weather we've been having after such a harsh winter; I know I have when I've had the time. Development on the remainder of the website has been a
little slower than I had anticipated due to some personal life issues, travel, and our site host having
network issues. Hopefully our hosting has straightened out their issue so I can roll out our forums
and classifieds this week. Once those are live I hope to see a lot of activity from our members on
there. Email is the best way to reach me if you have questions about the site - especially over the
next month since I will be out of town for at least a portion of each week from now until mid
June. See you at the meeting Friday!
KC
Auction Committee
Only 3 weeks away until our next auction on June 7th. There were a few people asking at the last
auction why we were not using the auction software that we were testing out for our monthly BAP.
There are a couple of changes at our auction site that makes it expensive to use. First, they took
down internet access. We could provide our own by making a hot spot from a cellphone, but that
uses up someone's data plan. We also were hoping for and they did upgrade their AV system. But
it’s a very expensive upgrade so they are now charging for it’s use and they want one of their employees present to make sure it’s not damaged. It wouldn’t be out of line if you held a wedding there but
for our small auction, it too expensive.
We will be testing out a process of printing a single label at the queue table with the seller ID and bag
number and placing it on the runners slip. The hope is that it will reduce mistakes when the slip is
typed into the computer. This is a test, we think it will work out fine, but if we have issues we can
always go back to the old method.
Lastly we are looking to have at least NEOfish members that sell at the next auction to supply us
with a list of items on our form. We hope that this too will help in accurately paying our sellers
along with helping to enforce our auction rules.
We may try using two forms. One form if you hand wrote your ID and bag number on the bag. This
form would allow us space to print out a label to place on the bag and on the form to ensure we
have a match.
The other form could be used if the bags are labeled with a computer generated label already. In this
case we would not reprint a computer label, just have you supple the list.
Again these are just tests to see if we can insure an accurate bag count by each seller and to help us
implement ours (and most other clubs) rules on number of bags of each species.
Thanks for your help and support,
Brian
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New Website is starting to take shape. Many more
features and information to come.
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If your club’s event is not listed or incorrect or needs updating
please contact Brian Shrimpton at [email protected]
NEOfish 2014 Auctions Dates
Spring, Summer, and Fall 2014
NEOfish is proud to announce their
auction dates for 2014.
They are:
Saturday June 7, 2014
Saturday September 20, 2014
All auctions will be held at the:
Pipefitters Union Hall, Local 120,
6305 Halle Drive (off Rockside Road)
Valley View, Ohio 44125
Registration opens at 9am and the auction starts at 11am.
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2014 Regional Auctions
Let’s get out and support our Neighbors!
also...
Columbus Area Fish Enthusiasts
Greater Akron Aquarium Society
Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society Inc.
Lorain County Aquarium Society
Medina County Aquarium Society
Michigan Cichlid Association
Motor City Aquarium Society
Ohio Cichlid Association
SCALES
Youngstown Area Tropical Fish Society
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please contact Brian Shrimpton [email protected]
Regional Auctions & Shows
2014
Saturday June 7, 2014
Northeast Ohio Fish Club
Our Summer Auction
Pipefitters Union Hall, Local 120,
6305 Halle Drive (off Rockside Road)
Valley View, Ohio 44125
Registration opens at 9am and the auction starts at 11am.
http://www.neo-fish.org/index.php/meetings-and-events/auctions
Saturday and Sunday June 21-22, 2014
Greater Akron Aquarium Society’s Annual Ultra-Aqua
Greater Akron Aquarium Society’s annual 65 class all species show Ultra-Aqua will be
in June on the 21st & 22nd, due to a new conflict with the ACA. We didn’t want a
conflicting interest so we’ve moved our date.
http://www.gaas-fish.net/default.asp?pageName=comingevents
Sunday, June 29, 2014
S.C.ALES Auction Summer Auction
Auction will be held at:
The Perry Grange
6300 Richville Drive S.W.,
Massillon, Ohio.
New Start time: Registration: 10AM , Auction: 11AM.
http://www.scalesclub.com/
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If your club’s event is not listed or incorrect or updating
please contact Brian Shrimpton [email protected]
Regional Auctions & Shows (cont.)
2014
Saturday September 20, 2014
Northeast Ohio Fish Club
Our Fall Auction
Pipefitters Union Hall, Local 120,
6305 Halle Drive (off Rockside Road)
Valley View, Ohio 44125
Registration opens at 9am and the auction starts at 11am.
http://www.neo-fish.org/index.php/meetings-and-events/auctions
Saturday October 18th
Michigan Cichlid Association Fall Auction
http://michigancichlid.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?board=11.0
Saturday October 25th
Greater Cincinnati Aquarium Society Fall Auction
gcas.org
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Motor City Aquarium Society
"Auction
of Tropical Fish & Supplies"
Please join us at our new auction location
Madison Place
876 Horace Brown Dr
Madison Heights MI
(13 Mile Rd @ I-75, 1 block east of I-75, south on Montpelier to end)
http://motorcityaquariumsociety.com/
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If your club’s event is not listed or incorrect or updating
please contact Brian Shrimpton [email protected]
Regional Auctions & Shows (cont.)
2014
Saturday October 4, 2014
C.A.F. E. Fall Auction
Courtyard Columbus West
2350 Westbelt Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43228
http://www.columbusfishclub.org/auction_fall.php
Friday—Sunday November 21-23, 2014
Ohio Cichlid Association Extravaganza
Extravaganza is held at:
Holiday Inn
15471 Royalton Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44136
Phone: 440-238-8800
The hotel is conveniently located at I-71 and Route 82
just 10 minutes south of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
http://www.ohiocichlid.com/Extravaganza.html
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