Members from Marlborough, Canterbury and Timaru headed south to participate in Dunedin's annual Tank Parade. We all had a great time, saw a large variety of set-ups, met some interesting people and were well fed! Does your club hold Tank Parades?

Thanks Dunedin, you were excellent hosts and we came home enthused and with new ideas to try (not to mention the extra fish, plants and axolotyls too).

There's a lot of discus down south and some beautiful rainbows. Tanks ranged from small tabletop sized plastic aquariums to a huge (8ft?) set-up with large severums, plecs, Jack Dempsey and pacu.

We had a local in our car to help us find our way around - only to find he didn't know where he was going either! Others had similar problems and when it came to finding the last entrant of the day - we Marlburians led the way! It pays to carry a Year Book and cell phone

Marlborough has their Parade in 3rd weekend of Feb. All welcome! Come a week or 2 before and enjoy our beer and wine festivals too.

Check out photos of Dunedin's Tank Parade at http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/carylnz