South Florida Discus Club Forming

[yogi]

I want to let everyone know that Dan Espinosa (Elite Aquaria) and me are forming a South Florida Discus Club. This club is free and our plans are to have barbeque get together's 3 or 4 times per year. We are fortunate to live in South Florida and we will try to have a speaker from time to time like maybe Jack Wattley, Tony Silva or Marc Weiss. If you are interested in being a part of this you can either post on this thread or send me a pm or an email at zeusbdog@aol.com. If you send a pm or an email please title the subject line discus club. I would like to put a group email list together of all interested people. I currently have the emails of about 10 discus keepers from our area already. Thanks, Jerry Baer

[Dkarc@Aol.com]

Awesome. Im definetly interested!

-Ryan

[jball1125]

Im in. Sounds like fun!

[baarda]

count me in.:)

[dbfzurowski]

sounds like a great idea, i'm in Florida every year end of may begining of june to do some deep sea fishing. Would be nice to score a bbq with some discus lovers.

[jball1125]

sounds like a great idea, i'm in Florida every year end of may begining of june to do some deep sea fishing. Would be nice to score a bbq with some discus lovers.

Searching for Dolphin?

I went out last weekend. We cought over 60 schoolies, 1 huge bull and I also pulled in a 4 foot baracuda while trolling. (Kinda unexpected, lol)

There was schools of tuna all around us but they werent chasing our bait. If only we would have brought bait for them too we would have sunk the boat with fish. lol

I agree it would be awesome to see a bunch of discus lovers at a bbq.

[Tigerfish]

Hi Guys,
Count me in as well.
Don't forget Alberto and Irwin. Larry will join I'm sure too.
"Free" and "barbeque" will likely attract others too! GGGG
best,
Marc

[CliffsDiscus]

Hi, Jerry and Dan,

Good luck with your new Discus Club.

Cliff

[rsawest@yahoo.com]

Jerry and Dan,

It looks like your club is off to a great start!

Jerry, it was nice seeing you and Lori in Dallas. Hopefully the next time we see each other won't be so long.

Dan, it was a pleasure meeting you and your Dad. And you have good stock from Wayne. One of these days, I will have some of those Royal Blue Titans and Super Angel Diamonds swimming around in my tank.

Linda

[Elite Aquaria]

I am glad that we are starting to get some people interested in getting together and talk about Discus. My wife is especially happy since now I won't need to talk with her about why my pairs are not fertilizing their eggs. It is going to be a great time so if you are interested please post here or contact either Jerry or myself via PM or email.

Andre, good meeting you yesterday. Not sure what your handle is here on simply but please make sure you reply here or contact Jerry.

[yogi]

Hello Everyone,

I want to inform you that we will be having our first discus get together and barbeque this Saturday July 31st. It will be from 1 pm until 4 pm at Dan Espinosa's house in Weston. His cell phone is 954 592-3020. If possible please R.S.V.P. to Dan at dan@eliteaquaria.com by Thursday night to get his address. It's also so we know how much food to buy. Looking forward to meeting all of you this Saturday. Thanks,

[angelfishusa]

Just got back from the 1st south florida discus club meeting. Had a great time and great to meet everyone. Dan and his wife are GREAT. Beautiful fishroom and everyone had a great time. My hat's off to Dan and his wife for hosting this first event.
David
ANGELFISHUSA, INC.

[Elite Aquaria]

I want to thank Jerry and everyone who came over to make this event a success. I know we did not have much structure to the meeting but that was by design. Moving forward we have a more formalized approach. Since this was the first meeting we wanted it to stay light and loose so we could get to know one another. Here are some photos that I took while we were eating.

We had 12 discus enthusiast including my wife and I.

Here we have Irwin Solomon front and center, Chuck Davis seated at the table, Jerry Baer has his back to us and Russ Reiner behind Jerry.
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_001-6.jpg


Another shot of Irwin, Jerry and Russ. I believe that is Steve in the background
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_002-4.jpg

This is a motley crew here from left to right... Mark Weiss, David Labell (Angel Fish USA) and Ed AKA "The Russian"
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_003-6.jpg

Same crew as above but we have added Sharaz back left
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_004-3.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_005-3.jpg

Here Steve interjects his thoughts about the breeding habits of the Heckle Discus with Mark
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_006-3.jpg

Jerry and Russ with the star of the event, Patty my wife. I think she would kill me if she knew this photo was posted on the net. She was a huge help regarding the food. Thanks Patty..:D
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_007-5.jpg

Here is John Baarada speaking with the youngest member of the club
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_010-2.jpg

...And of course our youngest and brightest member Joshua Espinosa...well on his way to be a true gentleman with the ladies...I hope..:(
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/eliteaquaria/m_009-2.jpg

[Elite Aquaria]

I did not get a photo of Juan Ruiz and his son. That takes the count up to 14..:D

[swami]

Dan first of all i want to thank you and your wife for hosting the first successful south florida get together. It was great meeting everyone.I had a great time.Alot of knowlege.

Sharaz.

[Dkarc@Aol.com]

Sorry I couldnt attend this meeting. Would have loved to have been there. Any idea when the next meeting will be?

-Ryan

[Tito TW]

Thank you very much for the invitation :) we had a great time! the only sad part is that we now realize how little do we know about this type of Fish, listening to Jerry and Dan (among others) is remarkable the amount of knowledge this gentleman's have about this subject.

Dan, my new fish is doing very well and at this pace I can see us getting a bigger tank in the near future :D:D

Regards

Juan Ruiz AKA ( Tito TW)

[REDHECKEL]

Sounds like everybody had a great time, good to hear!

Gary

[baarda]

thank you Dan and your wife for making me feel at home and i am pleased to have meet some of South Florida finest Discus enthusiasts including your son, thank you again (I Can wait for the next meet):D:D:D

[yogi]

The discus club

[yogi]

The first picture is the clean up crew. The next picture is simply sponsors Dan (Elite Aquaria) and David (Angelfish USA)

[Willie]

I recognize Dan's mug. Nice to meet you, David.

Willie

[John_Nicholson]

Jerry if ya'll are interested in hosting the next NADA show someone needs to let me know.

-john