Zapins

Hello Everyone,
I made it back alive from the skiing trip - it was great! Amanda and I have had a chance to speak about club activities for the next few months and have come up with a list of activities for us. Some activities may need to be changed slightly in the future but for the most part you can put these in your calender from now.

January 22: Emersed Plant Culture Workshop
Feb 19: Visit to Local Aquarium
March 19: ???
April 23: Tissue Culture Workshop
May 21: Wood and Rock Collecting Field Trip
June 18: Local Plant Collecting
July 23: Road Trip Another State - Collection
August 20: Local Trip

The January 22nd meeting will cover how to convert, grow and maintain a healthy culture of aquatic plants grown out of water long term.

The meeting will be at my house (I will send the address by email).
-Michael

LiveHumanSkeleton

Hello Everyone,

It's going to be an excellent new year!

I don't want to hijack the meeting thread, but I have a couple of items I'm looking for. Does any club member have some Nymphoides sp. 'Taiwan' I can try out and I'll also need a few more assassin snails. If you have one or both--let me know. Thanks.

-Bruno

khanzer22

I'll see if I can make it for this month's meeting...

asukawashere

I'll be there! Anything you need me to bring for the workshop, Michael?

Also, everyone bring your bettas if you have them! We'll be comparing them on the 22nd to see who wins the betta growing contest

(... it probably won't be me. My betta turned out to be crooked. I feel cheated.)

Also, anyone who wants to swap specimens of plants/fish/whatever, feel free to bring them - I'll be bringing some of my spare stuff, as always.

btw, just a thought - for our winter meetings, we should schedule a snow date, just in case the date we scheduled coincides with a(nother) blizzard or something...

Yesterday I had to dig my car out of a 2 foot snowbank.

Zapins

Oh yeah me too. The driveway never seemed so long... Took me about 2 hours to dig through the snow to the road. Then as I reached the road a snow plow came past and shoved about 3 feet of snow across the top of the driveway

Yes, everyone bring your bettas. We will compare them based on biggest fish and healthiest/best looking. The prize will be a brass plaque that I made. It can be hung on a fish tank

We may be getting a new member for this meeting. He is a firefighter and wants to set up a large planted tank in his basement. He wants to talk to people about their experiences and what they use in their tanks to make them work.

People can also bring plants, snails, fish, etc... to trade.

As for a snow date, if we get a huge snow again we can just postpone the meeting to the following weekend. For example, if it snows on Jan 22nd we will have our next meeting on Jan 29th (saturday).

As for the workshop, please bring a few submersed grown stem plants, rooted plants, etc... My plant stocks have been purposely depleted so I don't have many types to do a demo with.

LiveHumanSkeleton

While it wasn't exactly what I'd been looking for, I found some of those "lily pad bulb" packages at Walmart yesterday and figured why not give it a shot. I'll let you all know if this goes anywhere, the label claims it's supposed to start sprouting in under a month. But with my shaky luck...

khanzer22

I'm still 50/50 on this, I just checked and the wifey is working Fri-Sat-Sun nights :/

@Zapins - You said that this new member (Firefighter) is planning to setup a big tank? Does he have one already? I asked because I'm currently selling my 120gal tank/stand and other stuff for a great price

Zapins

He doesn't have a tank yet so he may just be interested! I'll let him know.

khanzer22

Great! Hope his looking about that size of a tank

asukawashere

New hitch in my plans: on my way to House of Fins today, my car keeled over. More specifically, should anyone care, the belt that controls the water pump - and thus the cooling system, as well as the power steering - turned into a big garbled mess, complete with smoke and burnt rubber.

Fortunately, there's a place across the street from HOF that specializes in European cars. Unfortunately, they're not open 'til Monday.

In other news, the sports bar next to HOF, which we ("we" consiting of Kristina and her friend Edmund and I) were stuck in for 2 hours, is easily the biggest dive in all of Greenwich. Their personal pizzas are tasty, though.

Anyway, hopefully, they'll be able to fix said car quickly and won't need to order any special parts or whatnot. *crosses fingers* If they can't fix it before Friday, I won't be able to make it to the meeting.

I'll update later in the week when I have a better idea on the whole car-fixing thing. Who knows. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will only need a new belt and they'll have it right on hand.

My brain hurts. It's been a long day