[GSAS-Member] Fish help from GSAS (fwd)

[Paul Wallace <pwallace@u.washington.edu>]

Club:

Nick won the opportunity to tour the ornamental fish hobby and would like your 
help with his current stock and advice for the trip.  Please be sure to cc Nick 
Gibson <nick@moxiemedia.biz> in your reply!

-Paul


Hi Paul,

Picked your name up from the GSAS website and was wondering if you could offer 
me some help.  I attended a meeting last winter / spring (there was a talk on 
salmon fry rearing?) and had a grand time with the club, but my Tuesdays have 
been taken either by my involvement in UW Student Government or, more recently, 
by my paid political campaign work which results in working far, far late into 
the evenings in presidential years!

Anyway, when I was able to visit I mentioned to a few members a travel 
fellowship I was in the running for that I was pitching as a Fishkeeper's 
daydream, which I have subsequently been awarded!  You can check the details if 
curious, along with the poorly-worded synopsis of my plans here:

http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/scholarships/current/bonderman/fellows/

They had us write those blurbs as part of the application, so I was a bit 
stressed and focused on more important parts of the paperwork at the time. 
Basically, I'll be spending January through September wandering through 
countries connected with ornamental fish, both farmed and wild caught.

However, I have some need for help you and your group may be able to provide. 
First, who wants my fish!?  I've broken down all my tanks over the last few 
months except my favorite 29g.  It has a full-grown (~3.5") Siamese Algae 
Eater, a Botia Striata, half dozen Harlequin Rasbora and nine Cardinal Tetras. 
I'd love to offer them to anyone in the club who can give any of them a good 
home.  They're all very healthy and robust, although the tank has a green-water 
algae issue right now adopters would want to know about.  As well, any plants 
members would want are theirs, including a large, 12" diameter Bolbitis and a 
big bunch of hard-to-find Ludwigia brevipes.

Also, I'm more into the 'consumer' end of the hobby and am at a bit of a loss 
for connections to producers / fish farms throughout SE Asia and the Amazon 
where I'm traveling - if anyone in the club has any leads on places I might 
want to visit, or even farms I might be able to volunteer at to see how they 
run, I would greatly, greatly appreciate it!

Please feel free to give my contact information (email / phone below) to any 
members who might be interested.  As well, I'm going to try to make the meeting 
next week, but considering I leave for Taiwan in a month and have to move out 
of my apartment in ten days, I may be too rushed.

Thanks for any help you can provide, and apologies for the long email - I'm 
still a little overwhelmed by the experience I'm about to embark on and it can 
make me long-winded...

Nick Gibson, Campaign Director,
206-330-7651 (Cell)
ngibson@u.washington.edu



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