This is your chance to show your skill at raising cichlids. So the question is:
Who will prove to be our champion fish keeper for 2012?
John Hansen has agreed to donate an adequate number of Hap. moorii to the club to answer the question above.
Here are the rules and all the details you need to enter:
1. As stated above, the fish will be Hap. Moorii, the Malawi Blue Dolphin, all similarly sized at about 1.5″
2. Each entrant will receive 4-6 fish, depending on the number of entrants.
3. The fish will be judged at FOTAS scheduled for next September, so you will have about 6 months to grow your fish.
4. We will set up one 10 gallon tank for each entrant, and everyone who gets fish is expected to bring their best fish to FOTAS.
5. There is no charge to enter, no charge for the fish, and no charge to show these fish at FOTAS.
6. One prize will be awarded to the biggest fish.
7. Another prize will be awarded to the most attractive (aka “best”) fish.
8. They will be judged by the show judges at some point in the show.
9. Winners will be awarded when we announce FOTAS show winners.
10. Prizes will be determined later – and will be highly desired.
11. If you want to enter you must:
a. Send Marvin England an e-mail by this Wednesday (March 14) at midnight,
b. Attend the meeting this coming Saturday at 7 PM (see details below) to pick up your fish.
c. Agree to bring your best fish back and show it at FOTAS next September.
d. Be a current member of TCA. If you are not a member now, let Marvin know you want in the contest, come to the meeting and join on site for the new low membership fee of just $5.00 for the rest of the year.
Now that’s pretty simple and sounds like lots of fun. A huge thanks to John Hansen for donating these fish and supporting TCA year after year.
Here are the details about the location of the meeting next Saturday.
The meeting will be held at Dawson Middle School, 400 South Kimball Ave. in South Lake, where we have met several times in the past.
We had originally planned to have Don Conkel speak at this meeting, but due to circumstances beyong our control, Don will not be able to attend this month. Perhaps he can be re-scheduled later.
So instead the entire meeting will be dedicated to the Cichlid Grow-Out Contest. We will have several presentations related to the contest, and will distribute the bags of fish by a drawing contest. We even plan to have a guessing competition as to which bag of fish will prove to be the winners – before we distribute the fish. Rumor has it there may even be a surprise visit and talk by Ric Perez, famed Chicago Cichlid guy.
So you can expect to have lots of fun and good-natured competition.
A map to Dawson Middle school is below.
See you next Saturday.