Re: talks (fwd)

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

These are the talks lee does.
Pam is a new ACA speaker in Sacramento, these days they have $100 or so
roundtrip airfares if planned early enough.

Kathy

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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:28:23 -0700
From: "Newman, L" <Lee_Newman@bc.sympatico.ca>
To: Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>
Subject: Re: talks

Hi Kathy,

> Hi, I hear you will be in California soon, ...
> What is the topic of your talk?

They have asked me to do two talks, one on the Vancouver Aquarium and
the other on my trip to Uganda the purpose of which was to do cichlid
conservation work.

> Actually the board has now asked me twice to ask you down to Seattle for a
> talk next year if you are willing.

Sure, that would be great!
 
> Topics thrown around were your collecting talk, or ? a general So american
> talk.  What are your specialties?

Aside from the above mentioned talks, I can do a Peru collecting talk
(flood and dry seasons), or collecting on the Rio Negro. While I could
do a general SA cichlid talk, my real specialty is a talk on
Satanoperca. I also have a short (30 - 40 mins) talk on using
terrestrial plants as filters.
 
> How are the Satanoperca doing?

They are doing fine. They are in my 180 gal. along with the keyholes
that Wayne bought me and a large shoal of rummy-nose tetras.

> The C. amazonarum (or however you spell it) have grown up quit nice,
> except we left for 3 day vacation, and I came home to discover they had
> entirely eaten my school of rummy noses!!  Darn fish.....grrr. Portland
> auction for them.....maybe.

That's why I like the wimpy SA cichlids - the ones that are almost
completely inept at catching other fishes or damaging their other
cichlid neighbours. Hey, maybe that could be another talk someday - SA
cichlids that really are peaceful! 

> The Apisto. steindachneri spawned in the same tank as them, amazing they
> didn't get eaten.  It has now been more than a month, and fantastic
> brooding behavior.  Then female does a close inner cirlce and the male
> maintains a bigger outer circle.  They move the fry from one side to the
> other, bastard amazonarum still haven't eaten them...or the hoplo cats.

Good luck!
 
> that is all on my front, still struggling to have a life despite being a
> resident.

Good luck on that too!

> How are you guys doing??  Erik and I keep talking about trying to get up
> there to say hi to you and Lisa, well one of these days!!

We're doing fine (Lisa says hello). You guys are welcome anytime!
Although...if you wait til spring...we may...have a house! Right now, if
you remember, we're in a one bedroom fishroom...I mean apartment.

Hope all is well, give our best to Erik.

Lee