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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:

• mini-auction
• Grimey Award
• Breeder Award Program submission
• Conservation Breeder Program table

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!

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:

• Organizing volunteers for FFF, registering for FFF and previewing the events for the weekend
• BAP and CBP submissions
• Grimey Award
• mini-auction

David Boruchowitz

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

Also at this meeting:

• BAP submissions
• Mini-auction
• Fall Fish Fest update
• Conservation Breeder Program… let’s get started!
• Grimey Award (we need a new winner!)

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.

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

• BAP submissions
• Mini-auction (livestock and drygoods)
• Grimey Award (gotta be there to find out what this i!)

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.

Congratulations everyone for hosting a successful first auction.  Thank you everyone who came to help out, and also thank you to the buyers and sellers.  We had one buyer drive all the way up from DesMoines, IA!  Events like this are what makes a club fun… Way to go!