Re: NEC reports

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

I second John's good reports.

Erik and I just got off that LONG plane ride back to Seattle, but felt
that the weekend was well worth it.

Awesome line up of speakers, it was hard to pull myself out of any of the
talks!!!  They did a tremendous job and I would highly recommend it to
anyone.

We ended up buying some cyclops-eze (or however you cell it) and an a
central air pump to run the whole fish room off of.  The people were
awesome, and it was a great, friendly atmosphere.  We made lots of new
friends and acquaintances including John :)

Claus Christensen was a killer speaker on plants, awesome, he had numbers
to match the theories we had heard on plants (ie how does increasing
light, temp, and CO2 affect plant growth).  On livebears learned lots of
stuff I didn't know.  They are much easier to classify than I thought and
never knew that some gonopodiums had a right and a wrong side...

...good fish...good prices....and good plants.

..we missed the auction, and visited family in the area, and now suffering
from jet lag time to get some sleep before my next conference tomorrow am.
(yiks).

Hats off to the planning committee on this one, probably one of the best
conferences we have been too, even if they didn't have an apisto speaker
:)  (perhaps only closely rivavled by Romer at the New Orleans ACA, but
there were so MANY good speakers on interesting topics)


Kathy



On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, John Wubbolt wrote:

> Hello All 
> I was able to go down to Hartford CT for the NEC weekend.   If you
> didn't get a chance to go you missed out on a good weekend.   The
> speakers were awesome.  I know this is an apisto list, but when you get
> a chance to hear and meet Stuart Grant, you do so.   His combined
> presentation with Tom Herman, Larry Johnson and a few other Canadians
> was very impressive.    Rosario Lacorte was there and did an excellent
> presentation, Lee Finley was great, so was Mike Schadles livebearer
> talk, Claus came over from Europe and gave great talk on plants, Chuck
> Davis and Wayne Leibel were also great.   You certainly couldn't beat
> the speaker line up, oh I forgot to mention Ad Konings, he did his usual
> spectacular Talk, great underwater slides.
> 
> Then there was the convention goers.  I got to meet the Olsens, talking
> to Kathy was great.   Runniing into so many people was wonderfull and i
> didn't even stay for the auction today.   The Montreal clubs were well
> represented there this year, always great to talk with them.  Not much
> tank space, but did buy some great F1 Guianacara sp Red Cheeks, that
> were locally bred by Tom Ganley, who collected the fish himself.   Great
> buy for me, there were lots of apistos there.   Waterlife Imports was
> there and had some great looking fish, along with JIm Carmack of Oceans
> Unlimited.   He had some nice stuff too.   They sold out quick on the
> harder to find stuff.   I spent quite a bit of time talking to the
> vendors and their products this year, talking with Ray lucas is always
> enjoyable, talked to Steve Vernon about a new food line, Omega one,
> bought some at a local pet shop, Puppy Center ( awesome shop i might
> add) and will give it a try.   Even bought some Cyclops eze that i hear
> is supposed to be a great alternative to newly hatched brine shrimp,
> i'll let you know soon enough.   
> 
> Over all, i had a great time, would have liked to stay for the auction
> today, but my travelling buddy had to be home for today( we went in his
> car so i couldn't complain or i would have, you know me better)  
> 
> Just wanted to say that if this gets back to Dave and Janine Banks, that
> they did a great job again, so did all the NEC people who ran the
> weekend.   
> 
> 
> John Wubbolt
> 
> 
> 
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