[GSAS-board] Fwd: Re:Thai Huynh, Senior project

[Bob and Judy Holmes <jbholmes@nwlink.com>]

Hi Susan.
I had offered to pay Thai's dues (see emails below), just to give a kid a
break. Go ahead and sign him up, and I can either send you a check or
give it to you Tuesday. Do you have any welcome letters? If not, I have
two here and can send him one.

As far as helping him out with his senior project, I kinda had it in mind
to keep this very low key and just solicit donations from members for
some of the equipment he still needs (see items listed below).
I've got a spare 10 gal. tank and some gravel to donate, maybe a heater
and light, and fish when he's ready for them. I think once he's on the
gsas-member email list he'll be able to get most of what he needs.

I can provide a gathering spot for any donations. My garage is full of
auction stuff now. A little more won't hurt.
Bob

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:14:33 -0800
To: Thai Huynh <thaichicken162004@yahoo.com>
From: Bob and Judy Holmes <jbholmes@nwlink.com>
Subject: Re: Senior project.

Hi Thai. Glad to hear from you!
I passed your email along to our board member list, asking for comments and suggestions. I'll let you know what I hear back. My offer to pay your GSAS dues is still good. Just send me the filled out app.
Bob

At 02:14 PM 1/23/2005 -0800, you wrote:

Dear Bob and Judy
 
I am so sorry that I did not get back to you until now. I was so caught up with my senior paper along with college aps and other school work that I have not been checking my email until today and therefore, did not see your reply.
To answer your questions, I've been keeping fish for about seven years now and the fish that I have or have had includes oscars, parrots, gouramies, killies, guppies, bettas, neons, cardinals, plecos, corys, goldfish, barbs, pristella tetras, swordtails, platies, pretty much everything and currently, I'm keeping a 100 gal discus tank, and a 45 gal oscar tank.
Since I enjoy having a community tank, I decided that it would be best to get the fifth grade kids that I will teach (at Ardmore Elementary in Bellevue at the end of Feb.) a community tank in their own classroom, both for recreational and educational purposes. It would be boring just to learn about fish keeping and not have a hands on learning experience.
I've talked to my old fifth grade teacher and we already have a 45 gal tank available, and the rest of the setup will require:
Gravel
Air pump
Heater 150-200 watts
Plants
Filter
fish
and any other decorations like bog wood or rocks, etc.
 
For my other part of the project in which I will be breeding fish for pesonal learning, I will be breeding bettas, guppies, purple cichlids, and some type of killifish probably gardneries. So what I also need are:
2 small five or ten gallon tanks
sponge filters for the fry stage
and heaters preferably submersible since the water level will be low
and any floating plants.
 
Again I thank you for your help, and I'm really sorry that I did not get back to you on time. Anything you can give me will help go towards the two hundred dollars on fish and equipments I estimate the project will cost.
 
PS. My phone number is 425 861-7902 if you want to contact me for more questions or I can call you if you give me your number. And thanks for the website.
 
Thanks a lot
Thai
Bob and Judy Holmes <jbholmes@nwlink.com> wrote:

Hello Thai.

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Our club has had to deal with some

urgent issues recently.

At our last board meeting we talked about your project. We would like to

get a few more details from you if we could. What equipment and materials

would you need to set the tank up (size of tank, need for a stand, etc.).

Have you arranged for a grade school class to work with?

It sounds like you have some fishkeeping experience. How long have you been

keeping fish, and what kind?

At this time I can't promise you any financial help from the club because

that would be something we would have to vote on at a board meeting and the

next one isn't until Jan. 20, and you probably want to get started on your

project if you haven't started already. What I can do is to solicit

donations of equipment, material (gravel, plants, fish etc.) from members

for your project.

Here's another idea. You could join the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society,

which would give you access to our member chat email list, where you could

explain what you're doing and ask for guidance and advice from other

members. You would also have access to our club library (we hope to have an

on-line list of our library books soon). Just go to our website

(www.gsas.org) and print out the application. Mail it to me (5420 49th AVE

SW Seattle WA 98136). I'll kick in the $10 dues.

Hope to hear from you soon

Bob

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