Heiko Bleher in Southern California

[Chad Hughes]

Looking forward to the pics! Sorry I couldn't make it!

Best wishes!

[rickztahone]

here you are Chad! wish you could have gone buddy.






from left to right:
me (rickztahone), casper (casw), Tien (ewok), Heiko Blehr, Julie (frenchie100), Benedict (gotfish?), Rick (rickscics)

pictures taken by Benedict and uploaded by me

[Disgirl]

Good to get to see the fun some of you got to have! Wish I could have heard Heiko speak too. Bet it was a fun day!
Barb

[rickscics]

It was really informative and extremely entertaining. Heiko was great and truly perhaps the most traveled well informed speaker in the business.
Amazing. Great to see and meet all the Simply Discus members . Heiko also took a picture of our group to post on his Web site I assume. Rick

[Chad Hughes]

Wow! Looks like you all had an awesome time! I swear I'll be at the next whatever! LOL! Thanks for posting up the pics Rick!

Best wishes!

[Eddie]

Great pictures Ricardo! Bet is what a pretty good time.

Take care,

Eddie

[rickztahone]

Great pictures Ricardo! Bet is what a pretty good time.

Take care,

Eddie

it was very informative. i had a great time

[frenchie100]

I had a great time. I learned so much and is was good to get a better understanding of discus in their natural environment. The take home message I got was that I had to put white sand in my tank LOL!

Ricardo and Casper- It was great seeing you both.

Tien and Rick- It was really nice meeting you both.

Benedict- I am sure this meeting made it that much more difficult for you to part from your discus. I have a feeling you are going to have to set up a new tank once in the Philippines .

Meeting Heiko Bleher and listening to his presentation about biotopes was absolutely amazing.

The auction was pretty fun too. Thank goodness there were no discus .

-Julie

[gotfish?]

haha yea i know ...hey julie hows your new deservingly earn plants doing?(someone went on a bidding spree ) LOL

i have to tell yah people, after attending this lecture with heiko bleher, a tiny voice(with a italian accent) is whispering..."go get wild discus, go get wild discus....and build a BIOTOPE!" haha...

[frenchie100]

They are doing great! They look that much better in my tank knowing that I had to fight for them, LOL!

Go get wilds and build a biotope!

-Julie

[rickscics]

Hi Julie, I know you had a blast and the auction was fun for you
Sure was great to meet you and the others. Hope to keep in touch. Pm me your email so I can send you some videos. take care,Rick

[Heiko Bleher]

Hi Guys,

this is really nice of you all, and specially (rickztahone), casper (casw), Tien (ewok), Julie (frenchie100), Benedict (gotfish?), Rick (rickscics) and Benedict,
you are great and thank you very much. For those nice comments and the pictures.

I had also paced a couple of the comments and pictures of most of you all at my website, look under:
http://www.aquapress-bleher.com/inde...d=385&Itemid=1
(you can also see some picture from my June field trip in Australia, no discus, but an amazing neck-bending fish - the only one on earth).

I had a long flight back on Monday, but I guess some of you also came from far, but made it well back aswell, as I can see.

Sorry I could not show the informative videos, still do not undertsnd why their beamer did not transmit, but surely the next time I will show it.

You now take care (as I explained) of these nice discus, you and the fishes will enjoy it much more,

you all keep up the good work, also in the Philippine (where I should go soon to lecture, officially invited, but date not set), and hope to see you all soon again,

always from a collector and (also) discus lover,

Heiko Bleher
www.aquapress-bleher.com

[terps]

People should start video taping meetings and lectures like Heiko's and post them on youtube. Every fish club should have a guy/gal in charge of taping these meetings/lectures. It would be good for the hobby.

[Discus-Hans]

People should start video taping meetings and lectures like Heiko's and post them on youtube. Every fish club should have a guy/gal in charge of taping these meetings/lectures. It would be good for the hobby.

Not all speakers want that, neither would I.

this is for a few reasons, some people get paid for their talk and it's a kind of income. We never ask money for our talks only travel expense and if needed (distance more as 3 ~ 4 hours drive) a hotel room for Joanne & me.
We bring to most talks a box of Discus as donation, most clubs MAKE money on my talk.

Other thing is, clubs have meetings with speakers, get people away from their computer for a while if every speaker is online ................................... ????

Hans

[rickztahone]

Not all speakers want that, neither would I.

this is for a few reasons, some people get paid for their talk and it's a kind of income. We never ask money for our talks only travel expense and if needed (distance more as 3 ~ 4 hours drive) a hotel room for Joanne & me.
We bring to most talks a box of Discus as donation, most clubs MAKE money on my talk.

Other thing is, clubs have meetings with speakers, get people away from their computer for a while if every speaker is online ................................... ????

Hans

that is a very good point Hans. i know there was someone recording this meeting but it might have been for the Costa Mesa group they have going only.