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

[korbi_doc]

WWWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Not enough time------here it is 9.am. & not recovered yet!! (was a long ride home, but I had a good co-pilot) From a great meeting, THANKS AL,!! Appreciate all the efforts you all made to make this a fun mtg. Had a great time, even educational with hatcheries & artificial rearing, hahahahaha, not even going near that one! Really enjoyed meeting everyone, wish we could have spent more time socializing, went by too fast!!!
Joihn, Irene, Slick, aL great pictures of us all having a wonderful time; look forward to doing it again!!!!!!!!
& thanks Al to you & your very patient wife for your great hospitality!! Had to have a taste of "the brew", & it tasted like beer, (sorry, no experience, can't judge) but it was very good!! It was a super visit, I think everyone had a fun interesting time. Dottie

[daninthesand]

Looks like it was a great meeting.

Sure wish I lived close enough to consider gettting to one of those.

Al, are you sure those angels or spawning..looks to me like he's just checking out what that stupid blue button is for!? lol

Daniel

[Chaos]

Thanks for a great time Al + wife, Jeff and everyone. The meeting started great, bumping into Al going into the restaurant. Nothing like an opportunity to meet face to face and to shake hands with "Brew" and all the other dedicated contributers to the Disucs hobby. One of my first objectives was to buy 5 Marboro Red juvies from BoxerDad (John A). My wife, I and two relatives who just got started with Discus and Angels attended. Picture #5 from Al from left to right (Khai, John C - aka Chaos, Anh - wife and Henry)

By the way, Henry said he'll donate the 4lbs of bloodworm back to Simply.

The restaurant was very charming. Sat on same table with Wayne from Wayne's World. A dedicated and succussful Angel Fish breader. It'll be great if he can get his Discus breeding stock going. The speech by Jeff and Al was very informative. One thing for sure the passion for Disucs keeping is strong and growing by the day. Imagine Al, up all night feeding his artificially hatched discus frys and cooking breakfast for them, scramble eggs cooked just right. ;D ;D The "force" is getting stronger by the day.

The day ended at Al's Discus dungeon ( ;D oops castle). Do you feed your culls to the snakes? What about that huge iguana (Lizard)? Al had some great fish. I bought four ssxred turq. I would of bought the rest if I had more room in my tanks.

Need to make this short, got to go now and see Henry's Angel and Discus tank.

Thanks again for a wonderful day.

[rsawest]

It looks like a great meeting and a great turn-out! ;D ;D

[BoxerDad]

Just wanted to pop in to say what a good time I had meeting everyone, and also thanks to Chuck for taking the ride up with me as we chatted about discus on the drive up and back which made the time fly. We also shared quite a few laughs over our different experiences with discus keeping.


I'd like to say thanks to Al for the hospitality in welcoming us to his place. Some great fish Al, if I had a free tank I would have grabbed a few from ya. Maybe at a later date we can work something out.



I would like to thank-you very much to everyone who purchased the Marlboro Red fry:

Ron Mench
John (Slicksta)
John Chao
Fred Oliver
RichieE




In speaking with a few of you, I probably should have brought some more extras up with me.

I have about 30 fry left if anyone else is within driving distance to Long Island.

Let me know if anyone is interested.


Again, thanks to all.

John Apuzza aka BoxerDad

looks like you guys had a blast,

I really admire Tyler's mom and Francisco.

All the experts in the world can write all the books they want, or develop all the newest fancy strains. but by getting the kids involved and supporting them, you are contributing more too this hobby than any book or new fish ever could.

and I commend you both.

[mench]

Yep a good time was had by all,good food ,good people,good beer,good fish,what more do ya need!!!!!
It was fun putting faces to all the names,but we HAVE to get more food into Tyler LOL,the poor guy is fading away to nothing......My traveling bud Gary and I had a good trip,we wnet from out house in Rochester to NYC,6 hrs, to visit D.Webber,who has some terrific fish and rays,then by the time we got out of the city traffis and to Dark Discus house,Meatloaf forever!!!! another 3 hrs,then another hr...North John!!!!.....to our hotel for a little rest...The next day with all the discus friends and again some rest then back home another 6 hrs... only about 1000 miles this time....who says fish people are nuts????
Another weekend gone and time to think about planning the next "Road Trip"
Thanks again to Al and Jeff who were the main forces behind getting the First Meeting going.

Mench

[Tyler]

Wow Ron, you were a busy guy!
Ryan, lol......... the salmon was really good! See ron, i eat!

Tyler

p.s. Jason, mom says thanks .

[Don_Lee]

Great to see everyone had a great time! I hope that we all can get together someday, discus people are the best! It was great to see Maya, she is really growing up Francisco. Please tell her I said hi, maybe she will remember me, we caught a few frogs together! I was busy though guys.....my tank is bare!

Don ;D

Sounds like everyone had a great time, I wish I could of been there. Maybe next time............Randy

MAN I MISSED OUT!
looked like everyone had a great time.
Maybe the next one I will be able to attend.
takecare,
cary Gld!

[gary1218]

Cary,

You WILL be able to attend the next meeting. One of the things we voted on at the meeting was to have the next meeting IN YOUR BASEMENT. We will get back to you with a date and time to expect us ;D

GARY

[Tyler]

Don!!!
No gravel? No PLANTS??? I have succeeded!! I'll admit it though don, you were a tough one to reel in :P .
Yeah GLD, we hope to see ya next time.........I've already met you once, and since i made it out alive the first time, I wouldn't mind seeing you again!

Tyler

[DarkDiscus]

It was definitely a good time! I really enjoyed meeting a lot of the people I post with here and it's a lot more fun being able to put a face with the name.

Getting to meet Ron and Gary the night before was a pleasure, and meeting Tyler, Dottie, John, John, John, John, John, John, John (heh!), Jeff and everyone else was a lot of fun. I'm pretty bad with names, so being able to call everyone John worked out well!

It was also fun seeing Al and Francisco again, of course. Don, you are right, Maia (Maya?) has put on 6 inches since this summer!

Both Al's talk on artificial breeding and Jeff's on fishrooms were interesting and informative. My family won a billion wormkeepers (the fix was NOT on) but I could only use 2 more, so we re-donated one. Of course the 2 I got are STILL stuck together... LOL!

Al, did anyone bid on the DiskusBriefs? Things got a little rushed there at the end!

And Al's fish, of course, were great, as always! I am really looking forward to getting some of the PBxWG cross. They are looking good and the parents are great!

Definitely a lot of fun and I'm already looking forward to the next meeting. Rochester anyone?

John

PS. Ron, Sandra has already got your meatloaf dinner planned and ready to go - and Gary's cheesecake is in the works as well!

[Francisco_Borrero]

Excellent pictures guys.
I too want to thank Al, Jeff and every single one who attended, and those who supported it even if not in person.
Yep, Maya is growing fast! She commutes everyday to Providence with me, to the school where I teach and she is in pre-school. She thinks she is a senior....and behaves like one. Helps with the worms and the hoses but does not do water changes yet. Don, she does remember you and your son, and spoke about wishing she could catch frogs again.

I am also looking forward to another great meeting like this, and agree that it would be nice to have more time. I guess it would be important to plan have a plan, and go by the plan. Since all plans are over-ambitious, even more time is needed.
All in all it was wonderful puting faces to names, even real names to screen names. Thank you gals and guys.
Cheers, Francisco.