WOW!!!! NE MEETING was GREAT!!!!

[brewmaster15]

Hi all,
We'll we wrapped up the First Northeast Discus meeting and I have to say... WOW! It was great meeting everyone and talking to you face to face. I think it was a great afternoon, and I'm glad so many could be there. We socialized, ate, and Jeff Richards gave a good talk on hatcheries based on his experiences, and I fumbled my way thru a talk on artificial rearing of discus. We then gave away some Blackworm Keepers generously donated by Dan at Aquatic Foods, as well as 4 lbs blackworms.!!Thanks Dan!. ( ps... 2 people left them here...email me... and henry...email me about the worms.) Then we squeezed into my house and hatchery, for beer/discus/and salsa!

WE talked about the future plans, and it looks like we will rotate around the area, and plan on 2 meetings a year for now.Possibly one in conjunction with the ACA? I'm going to try to come up with a website for the group, and I'll keep everyone aware as best I can.

Next time around, I think we'll need more time.....maybe an hour more for a real auction but we can talk about that as time goes on . I left feeling like it was a really great thing. I think we can turn it into some very good.

Thanks Jeff Richards and thanks to all who attended...

Heres a few pics of the event....























oh and about 10 minutes after everyone left the Angels I got from Jeff Richards (tonight!) spawned... So far they have layed about 100 + eggs on the Black cap of the ebo in the tank@!!! ;D





You know Jeff this happened when I bought that snakeskin from you 2 years ago!


Take care,
al

[Carol_Roberts]

Boy, I bet that meeting was FUN!!!

Who all attended?

Carol

[Tyler]

Yep, we had a GREAT time! It was cool getting to know everyone better....and meeting the real person behind the name . Turns out 30 or so of us showed up, so it was a pretty neat event. Jeff and Al gave some great talks on maintaining a hatchery and artificial rearing....very interesting! But back at Al's house was certainly the highlight of the night. All his fish are gorgeous, and it was really neat for me to see a fishroom/hatchery for the first time. Overall i had a wonderfull time, and i already can't wait for the next meeting!

Tyler

[darcy]

I'm glad you guys had a ggod time I'm JEL!!!!! :'( :'( :'(
Darcy

[FishHead]

It truly was an awesome meeting. It was nice to meet you all. Food was great, along with a nice atmosphere. Al & Jeff... kudos to your outstanding lectures, I've learned allot from it.

Tyler is right, the highlight of the event was back at Al's house checking out his set-up while chuggin on one of his home brews... delicious ;D He's got some beautiful fish.

Francisco, thank you very much for that large wild angelfish, I'm hoping to cross it with one of my blacks.

Al had a tank full of juvies discus when we all arrived. He announced they were for sale and then the line formed, I brought home 4 with me, thanks Al. I am hoping they will look like the parents, those were my favorite out of all the ones you had. Did we clean out that tank?

I can only imagine that your water has to be perfect for those angels to spawn so quick in a new environment, good luck raising their fry!

Thanks so much for the work you guys did, it was a great success. I am looking forward to the next event!

[jdr3366]

Excellent meeting, Al.

Special thanks to Al, Jeff, and everyone for sharing their insights and experiences. I look forward to our next meeting.

Al has spic and span tanks and beautiful discus fish. We adopted 4 young ones. I just put them in their new home. We will take photos tomorrow.

For now, my wife, Irene, posted our photos at the URL listed here.

http://www.medcomres.com/OurHOTrains/discus1.htm

All those who we promised pictures should go to this site (3 pages) to see them.

John R and Irene R

[Wolf]

Wow. That looks like a lot of fun. We need a meeting down here in Texas.

BTW my name is John R also. Everytime I see you post for a split second I think it's me.

[chuck]

You did a TERRFIC JOB BREW! I had a real good time
you have some super fish, GREAT TAsting BEER, HOT salsa and a real tolerent wife to put up with all the people!! ;D
You couldn't have asked for a better bunch of people, Everyone was really nice and friendly .. Good to meet you all..
chuck

[Ryan]

Wow, who knew Wayne of Wayne's World was one of our residents here? LOL.. Funny how fish folk travel in the same circles, isn't it? I wish I could have gone.. the two main fish I keep are discus and angels. Oh well, maybe another time.

I'm glad everyone had a great time. I hear you all have younger siblings to my wild green x blue ss now. You guys will love them, they are a very healthy, vibrant cross!

Ryan

[jim_shedden]

Great pics .................but who are the people that attended? Looks like a great idea.

Jim

[chuck]

Ok I'll try to identify the people, But I don't remember everyone.. So since Most of the poeple there were named John, It would be a good guess that his name... ;D
picture #1 Irene R (john R's wife) and Fred
#2 (L_R) Fred, ??? (brought some SUper Koi Angels), John R
#3 BoxerDad (john Appuzzo) KoriDOC (dottie)
#4 Tylers Mom (laurie ??), Tyler
#5 John Wu and some family/friends
#6 ??? (The angel guy (OEG), ???
#7Irene r, Fred, ???, ???,Jeff richards
#8, back L-R RichieE, His wife Helene, me, Slicksta, (front) Fransico and daughter Maya
#9 Jeff Richards
#10, Me- hogging down, boxerDad, Tylers mom
#11, John R, ???, Fred,Gary Wu
Sorry about forgetting names....
maybe someone else can fill in the missing people.
anyway..
hTH
chuck

[slicksta]

Great Meeting!

I really had a good time, and it was nice getting to meet everyone and spend the day talkin' discus.
Everyone was great, and we really need to do this again.........

At my table it was me and a friend from work, Francisco and his wife and daughter who were super
nice and have a great sense of humor. Little Maya is great at peek-a-boo..... ;D

I want to thank Brew for organizing the event and especially for inviting all of us fish lunatics back to
his house.....his wife is a saint!!!Brew.....
Special thanks to John, aka BoxerDad and Brew again for my new discus...I took two small guys home
from each of them and if they look half as good as the parents......I've got some show winners!!!
p.s. Brew, my friend wanted to know if the hour ride home was long enough QT.....

......see you all in May...........









Just so you know.....the day wasn't all discus......
here is a shot of Al showing Jeff how to do "Hand -Jive"...... ;D

[fred 22]

Thanks AL and Jeff great time . I have been away from Discus for about a year. I have been breeding Koi Angels. But I picked up Marlboro Reds at the meeting from John Apozza thanks JOHN SO I guess I am back into it.


THANKS AGAIN

FRED OLIVER

[Ryan]

[quote author=Slicksta link=board=1;threadid=4816;start=0#49754 date=1038145883]Just so you know.....the day wasn't all discus...... here is a shot of Al showing Jeff how to do "Hand -Jive"...... ;D[/quote]

LOL.. That's great... I also like the pic of Tyler eating.. since everytime he comes into chat he is either talking about food or eating something. I'm so glad everyone had fun, and glad that Al helped contribute to converting some more of the good angel folks to the "dark side" of discus keeping. They can never turn back now ;D

Ryan

[RichieE]

Thank you AL!!!!!!!! I had a great time and my only regret was I didnt get to meet more of you. The day went soooo fast and the group at the table my wife Helene and I sat at got along real well. The talks were great and as Jeff Richards pointed out books and the internet are no substitution for talking face to face.

The idea of getting together 2 times a year is ideal IMO. Anything more and it might get stale and repetitive. Anything less wouldn't be constructive enough because it takes an hour or so just to get aquainted and reaquainted with everyone.

Al has some really nice Discus and it was really generous of him and wife to let 30 or so people truck through their house. If i didnt have such a long trip back home I might still be in his basement.(standing up because there isnt much horizontal room left ;D)

I got five (thanks for the extra one) Marl Red 1/4 size Discus from Boxerdad John. Hes doing something right with his pairs because hes got more fry in the pipeline.

If you were thinking of attending but didnt because your not THAT CRAZY about discus you should reconsider. My wife has almost no interest at all and she had a good time. In fact on the way home she STARTED the conversation about how interesting Als talk was on artifical hatching. I think she could do it with a little practice!

Lets do it again! Rich