Hey folks, here's a link to our newsletter published each month. We have just started this back up and I believe it's very good. Please check us out. Our newsletter is called the "Highfin" with pictures of a swordtail and a gold angel. We use the gold angel because one of our founding members developed this breed.
Enjoy!
http://www.peelaquariumclub.org/hifin/2010v1.pdf
And that is exactly what I would love to achieve with ours. We have a organization, CAOAC, which is the same as you have, but they don't think it will benifit the other clubs to create one site, "old boys club".
Thanks folks!
Since my post we have had a few of your members visit and join our site, thanks!
I would love for our site to become as good as this one, but that will never happen. We have been trying to get a few local clubs make one site however everybody believes they can make it on their own.
Our club was started in 1972, which has a great history. If you notice on our logo we display the gold angel (which was developed by one of our original members).
http://www.peelaquariumclub.org/index.html
Hello folks,
I am a member here and the President of the Peel Region Aquarium Club (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) we have just started our forums and would love your input. As a club we are in the re-building stage and we hope 2010 will be a great sucess.
Please come by and introduce yourself.
http://peelaquariumclub.org/forum/index ... 1f27dd0f07
Thanks!
Formally the Brampton Aquarium Club
We will be holding our annual auction at the Royal Canadian Legion, 25 October 2009. Doors open at 8:00a.m. Auction starts at 10:00, plenty of free parking!
I would like to provide the link to our auction page:
http://www.peelaquariumclub.org/auction.html
Thanks
Over the years I have caught and purchased "Wild Caught" fish from South America and Africa. I can say that I have had a over 80% sucess rate. I have caught guppies and mollies in the Caribean and flown 6 hrs back home, 10 hrs total travel time and may have only lost one or 2 fish out of about 5 or 6 bags. The group I had belong to imported African cichlids to Canada, over 36hrs travel time and again losses were below 20%.
What I have used for cheap covers and lighting are 4' Flourescent - 2 tube fixtures from your local building supply. Use the ones that are used for drop ceilings, they are 4' long, I have even added 2 extra tubes and a ballast to make them even brighter. These fixtures are usually painted white by the supplier, I purchase a can of flat black spray paint and paint the outside cover black. You can even cut out the back of the fixture if you have a filter that hangs on the back of your tank or for what ever you need.
I usually go away for 3 weeks at a time on vacation, my last vacation was when I visited your lovely country. I will NEVER use feeding blocks as they offer no food or nitrutuional value (my opinion). Do not have people come in a feed your fish for you as they will not know how much to feed or if you use different types of foods which ones to feed. When I last left my fish (11 tanks) non were fed for 2 weeks and I had no losses that I could see or determine.
Your fish will do just fine.