Re: [GSAS-Member] Awesome meeting and auction, thanks all!

["Connie Carlson" <nwconniec@hotmail.com>]

That was indeed a terrific meeting!  The talk Steev gave was stellar, and 
quite timely I discovered once I was home....

Seems my columnaris problem is back in my guppy tank but different this 
time; it seems to be the skin-shearing type that Steev showed us examples of 
- starting at the head, on two fish that I saw so far.  I am now a very firm 
believer in that methylene blue treatment, in case anyone missed that last 
night; seems to make the fish feel a WHOLE lot better even if they do get a 
little blue around the gills (as in stained blue where the problem was)!  If 
anyone wants a recap on that let me know.

Thanks for all the great pics of what to look for Steev; I might have missed 
these two fish until it was too late and I woudve never known what it was 
without your slides.  I dont see any of the horrible fin rot I saw last 
time, just that weird color starting at the head and what looks like missing 
skin along their back.  What caught my eye first though was a very skinny 
(as in not eating/emaciated) fish - that loner swordtail!  Hopefully she and 
the other guppy that seemed to have some too will survive.  And the whole 
tank got a big water change and is going through another round of Maracyn 
starting yesterday.  Everyone else seems fine (sans the dead one I found at 
the bottom of the tank this morning), but I am not taking any chances this 
time.

My own fault too; I have been less than fastidious about water changes in 
that tank.  Guppies sure are sensitive to that!  Lesson learned.

In addition, I can second Hiros sentiments about being glad no one wanted to 
bid another one of Jessies buckets higher; I am pleased as punch to have 
that group of Limia caymanensis!  What beautiful little fish!!  They are 
very happy to be out of that bucket and into a tank I will say, all 20+ of 
them.  And for a dollar?  The bucket itself was worth that!  They will be 
good feeder producers too, I can see that already.  These guys are also 
enjoying the multitude of very quality plants that I also ended up with. Now 
if I can just keep these plants ALIVE...  ;+)

A huge thank you to everyone who brought such great stuff to the auction!  
May we have many more similarly successful ones in meetings to follow.

And as for the room, I myself didnt have much issue with it, and completely 
agree with Erik about the orientation.  It looked like the same size to me 
and was indeed much easier to see the slide screen from anywhere in the 
room.  I had a terrible time with that in the other room, especially my 
first meeting when I tried to sneak in after it started.  BUT, the locking 
doors was a bummer; Larry and I almost didnt make it back in after a first 
run to the car.  Some issues to work out it seems, but in the end just 
having a convenient place to meet is pretty great!  I am sure the board will 
do their best to figure out what can be done with the issues and the rest we 
will just have to live with.

I for one will be happy to be at the next meeting no matter where we meet!

Cheers,
Connie


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Phil Lacefield Jr." <phil@lacefield.com>
Reply-To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member 
chat<gsas-member@thekrib.com>
To: <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
Subject: [GSAS-Member] Awesome meeting and auction, thanks all!
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:27:41 -0700

Wow, what a night!  New faces, another great talk with gasp-inducing slides
by Steev, and great jumping cats what an auction!

....I got another log...  *squee!!*

I'll tell ya, the new meeting room location is great, but the lack of
ventilation and relatively small size is going to kill us for bigger events,
like the auction.  Is there any chance at all we could go back to the
student union area for those events?  There's just no way we could
efficiently hold a big auction in that little room.

Looking forward to my turn at the mic next month, and from all the questions
I got last night it sounds like everyone else is too.  Great - now I have to
make "Saltwater For Dummies, By A Dummy" sound halfway intelligent :-)

Phil



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