Upcoming Events at SDTFS

June 7, 2008: Salton Sea Trip, Charles Pratt Chairman. Please RSVP to Charles Pratt at (619) 267-2236 or prattc@adminoff.com for details. If the weather looks like it will be too hot we will not go, so keep in touch. If we go We will meet at the Murray Drive Park and Ride for car pooling, which is on Murray Drive right next to the Red Lobster parking lot just off Hwy 8 at Grossmont Center. It is right next to the freeway and across Murray Drive from the Walmart. Meet there before 10:00 a.m. and we will leave there at 10:00 a.m. Be sure and bring sunglasses, hats and plenty of water.

June 8, 2008: Monthly Meeting: Our speaker will be Myles Nieman,  a breeder and wholesaler of Lake Tanganyika cichlids. He is a long time member of the American Cichlid Association and is the owner of Hot Cichlids.com. His talk will focus on the best species for keeping and breeding.

June 14, 2008: Fish Room Tour, Ben Ivy Chairman. Click Here for details.

August 10, 2008: TBD.

September 14, 2008: TBD

October 12, 2008: TBD

October 30, 2008: Annual Show Setup Thursday and Friday nights. Show opens Saturday morning. Judging of Aurulis Barb Grow Out Contest and small tank competition.

November 9, 2008: Fall Auction

December 14:  Potluck, room 101 (Our normal meeting room.) Single people one hot item, if two people one hot & one cold. Awards/Elections.

Fish Collecting Expedition to Colombia in July with 

Anthony Inder Mazeroll, Ph.D.

Have you ever thought about collecting fish in the Amazon?  Well, here is your chance.  I will be heading to Leticia, Colombia 

this summer again (I conduct research there on Discus and Angelfish...as some of you saw from my talk last month...If you missed it, 

you missed a good one :-)) not to do research but to have fun. If you want to go to Colombia with me, I am going to be possibly 

taking a few people down this summer for 7-10 days (mid-July) to do some fish collecting....

 Rough costs are: 

Flight - approx. $1000.00 (based on LAX-LET)

Hotel - $50/day for 2 days in Bogota, approx $30/day in Leticia

Fishing Guide(s) - $20/day

Boat Cost - $30/day

Food - $15-$20/day (which is on the high side)

Fish Shipping Costs - depends on the amount 

We need at least 5 or 6 people for the trip to make it cost effective.

We have the possibility of bringing back fish we catch.  We will be working with Savanah Tropical Fish in Bogota to ship the fish

 to the states.  It is illegal otherwise to bring fish out.  Savanah primarily ships to Europe and he has a very clean facility.  

I have imported fish from him this spring and they were great.  Please let me know if you are interested at:  ichthyology at yahoo

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More detailed information:

Select $471 + $116 taxes & fees = $587  per person Includes OrbitzTLC Alerts 

Leave Thu, Jul 17 COPA 303  

Depart: 2:12am Los Angeles, CA (LAX)

Arrive: 10:30am  Panama City, Panama (PTY) 

6hr 18min Boeing 737 

Change planes. Time between flights: 8hr 34min

COPA 629 operated by Aero Republica  

 Depart: 7:04pm Panama City, Panama (PTY)

Arrive: 8:31pm  Bogota, Colombia (BOG) 

1hr 27min Boeing Douglas MD-81 

Change planes. Time between flights: 15hr 47min

COPA 7481 operated by Aero Republica  

Depart: 12:18pm Bogota, Colombia (BOG)

 Arrive: 2:18pm Leticia, Colombia (LET)

2hr 0min Boeing Douglas MD-81 

Sat, Jul 26 COPA 7480 operated by Aero Republica  

Depart: 2:48pm Leticia, Colombia (LET)

Arrive: 4:48pm Bogota, Colombia (BOG)

2hr 0min Boeing Douglas MD-81 

Change planes. Time between flights: 16hr 17min

COPA 620 operated by Aero Republica  

Depart: 9:05am   Bogota, Colombia (BOG)

Arrive: 10:34am  Panama City, Panama (PTY) 

1 hr 29min Boeing Douglas MD-81 

Change planes. Time between flights: 8hr 28min

COPA 302  

Depart: 7:02pm Panama City, Panama (PTY)

Arrive: 12:04am Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 

7hr 2min Boeing 737 

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Anthony I. Mazeroll, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology

Soka University of America

Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 

http://www.soka.edu/page.cfm?p=289&start=1

Hi Charlie: 

I just found out that the article from the Reader is online, in its entirety.  This makes it easy to give it out to future members who may want to read it.  It's at http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/apr/23/cover/ 

Oh, by the way.  I did an interesting post about a popular eating fish under my name on the history site, Apiladey ApilSin.  It was about the history of the name, halibut, and can be found here:  http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Post/1065454

But that whole topic, titled Wacky Words, is fascinating.  http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Thread/451304

So far, I've done from the 'a's to the 'h's and although there are just over 300 posts in the topic, at least 200 of them are by me.  The topic has 20 posts linked to per page, and it's alphabetical.  You could go through it, page by page, looking for certain words, but all the origins are weird and so deserve to be read to find out what's weird about them. 

See you guys soon

Bill Cline

Rudolph There's Guppies and then there's Rudolph, the most famous guppy of all. And he's in my hatchery! Come see him, and lots of other wonderful things our members are doing on the hatchery tour, June 14th. Click Here for details.   Charles Pratt

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