Our next event is our annual Spring Auction. For more information about coming to the event to buy and/or sell, please link to the: SPRING AUCTION.
Fast link to: Seller Sheets/Labels
This is the largest and most important fundraiser of the year for MAAH. We look forward to having a large turnout. Our past auctions have drawn people from as far as Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. Our event features a new product raffle as well as the auction.
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THERE WILL BE A LOCATION CHANGE FOR THE APRIL MEETING… STAY TUNED!
April will be our annual Plant Meeting, which we are moving from the Fall to the Spring in order to separate the event from the Fall Fish Fest. We also had the opportunity to book an EXCELLENT speaker, Kris Weinhold, to give the presentation.
Kris Weinhold grew up keeping aquariums, but really fell in love with planted aquariums several years ago, diving head-first into researching and experimenting with various plants, growing techniques, and aquascape designs. Kris is a past-president of the Greater Washington Aquatic Plant Association (GWAPA), and has published articles in The Aquatic Gardener (www.aquatic-gardeners.org). He also maintains a website/blog (www.guitarfish.org) showcasing his aquarium and nature photography, and his informative articles on aquarium keeping and aquatic plant ecology (check out his excellent Planted Aquarium Guide).
Kris’s talk, “Taking the Next Step,” is designed to take the low-tech planted aquarist into the more advanced world of the aquarium plant hobby. If you’ve had problems going specific plants, want simple recipes for CO2 or fertilization, or just want some tips/tricks that the pro’s use, don’t miss this presentation.
Official rules will be posted soon, but here is an overview:
Participants will purchase a starter package of plants, which they will get at the April meeting, and will use those plants in a 10-gallon display aquarium. All of the plants in the package must be used, and each tank may have a ‘wildcard’ plant species of the aquascaper’s choice. All other aspects of the tank are at the discretion of the participant (fish, filtration, hardscape…. anything goes). The tanks are to be transported to the Fall Fish Fest in September for judging.
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MAAH will be manning a booth at the WI Garden Expo, Feb. 10 – 12, at the Alliant Energy Center. Come to the event, meet some club members and take a look at a 75-gallon planted display tank stocked with full-color rainbow fish. We will also be having a drawing for a 29-gallon aquarium with Eclipse hood/filter system. We will be joined by members of the Madison Aquatic Gardeners’ Club, a long-standing aquarium society here in Madison dedicated to keeping aquatic plants. MAAH and MAGC members who want to help us out manning the booth are invited to contact Ted Judy (tjudy on the forum) to schedule a time. We have some passes into the Expo for people help us out.
Our next general meeting will host the second annual MAAH Gadget Contest.
When: January 21, 2012 11:30 AM
Where: Dream Lanes (13 Atlas Ct., Madison)
The gadget contest features several short presentations by club members about ‘Do It Yourself’ applications of objects used for aquarium keeping. Anyone may enter a gadget. The audience will choose the winner, who will get a prize. Please see the official Gadget Contest rules to learn what is eligible and how to enter (contact Dave through the forum. Username: Dave).
Also at this meeting:
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The event starts one week from today. According to an MAS member who called the hotel yesterday, they are still honoring the $59.00 room rate even though the cutoff date has passed. So if you want to stay at the hotel, be sure to ask for the event rate.
Several vendors are pre-selling fish and supplies on the MAAH forum. Some of the sellers have limited numbers of some of their products, so reserving something you really want may be the best way to make sure you get it.
Look for the list of raffle prizes and silent action items that will be posted soon on the forum. We have a lot a great donations from local stores and national manufacturers, and are planning at least 5 rounds of raffles.
Fall Fish Fest will be a great event! Don’ miss it!
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October is a big month for MAAH. We will host our first weekend event on October 29-30. If you have not registered yet, please do so. There are instructions and registration form on the Fall Fish Fest pages (link at the upper left in the menu bar). Please make note of these dates:
October 10 – the last day to order a Fall Fish Fest tee-shirt
October 12 – the cutoff day for reserving a room at the hotel at the event group rate. If you are staying overnight, make your reservations soon!
The vendor room is very full. Lot’s a great sellers are coming to the event. You will be able to find everything from aquariums to black worms. Watch the MAAH forum for a list of vendors and their contact information to do pre-orders.
The Saturday speaker line up is full also. A full schedule will be posted soon.
The general meeting is scheduled at the regular time and place for October 15 (Dream Lanes – 13 Atlas Ct., Madison @ 11:00):
Feature Program: Video of a featured cichlid speaker from ACA 201o. We will choose the video by vote on the MAAH forum a couple weeks before the meeting.
Also at the meeting:
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David has been in the hobby for 57 years and figures he’s probably hooked for life. Although cichlids always hold a special place in his heart, he’s never met a fish he didn’t like, and his collection grows ever more eclectic, with primitive fishes and mudskippers just a couple of current focuses. He has been Editor-in-Chief of TFH Magazine for more than a decade and is the author of many books, most about aquarium husbandry. He has a personal mission of helping beginning aquarists to succeed, believing that anyone who succeeds with a first tank will find a life-long source of entertainment and education in the aquarium hobby.
David comes to Madison to give us a presentation about freshwater nano-aquariums. He will give us tips on how to start and maintain these very small aquariums, and tell us about the many different fish that are suitable.
Where: Dream Lanes, 13 Atlas Ct., Madison (east side,near the intersection of Stoughton Rd. (51) and Cottage Grove Rd.)
When: 11:30
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We will be hosting the MAAH picnic on July 9th 2011 from 12-4pm.
GPS Location: 9382 Glacier Dr. LaGrange WI 53190. Actual Address is N9402 Glacier Dr. Eagle WI 53119.
We will be providing brats,hot dogs,hamburgers and authentic homemade tamales. We’ll provide beverages, but please bring your own alcholic beverages AND chairs.
Entertainment will be pony cart rides for kids and small adults,roping dummies,horseback rides and also live music with Dusty and Don Wiggins.
Please RSVP via PM, or email tara_n_dusty@yahoo.com OR reply to post so we know how many to expect. We ask everyone to bring a dish to pass. Please post what you’ll be bringing so others know what other foods will be at the picnic. Look forward to having a great time, and meeting new/old MAAH members.
Thanks. Tara and Dusty.
The next meeting of the MAAH features a presentation by Ron Coleman, Ph.D. Ron is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at California State University, Sacramento. He will be speaking on his research and adventures in Costa Rica, where he and his students study the parental care of cichlid fishes.
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The next general meeting of the MAAH is coming up in a few short weeks! The speaker presentation will be given by Phil Benes, on the topic of rainbow fish (click here for Phil’s Bio).
Also at this meeting we will have
The meeting is at Dream Lanes (13 Atlas Ct., Madison) on the east side, near the intersection of Cottage Grove Rd. and 51. Doors open at 11:00 and we get started about 11:30.
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