BayAreaDiscus(BAD) Meeting

[discusvast]

cliff,
I cant do it this friday, funeral to be attend.

Hi Everyone,
I going to finalize the meeting date for this Friday, Dec 7, meeting will be in Daly City in the afternoon. Anyone interested send me a PM and I'll give you
the location.
For the people already coming I will be giving away half a case of Hikari Bloodworms Frozen.
Thanks,
Cliff

[CliffsDiscus]

Hi Cliff,

Your inbox is full. Please count me in for Friday.

Steve

Hi Steve,
I just sent you a PM.

Thanks,
Cliff

[CliffsDiscus]

cliff,
I cant do it this friday, funeral to be attend.

Hi Si,
Sorry to hear that, we'll miss you at the meeting, hopefully next years meeting we'll get together.

Take Care!
Cliff

[rickmiles]

Hi Cliff,

It would be great If you could make it over here.

I'm open 7 days a week 11 to 5 (I usually arrive about 9 and leave around 6 or so) except Mondays 2 to 5 ...I go bowling..I have 7 breeding pairs of Discus that I'm working on.

Rick

[CliffsDiscus]

Hi Everyone,
I got more donations, so BYOB(Bring your own bag).

Cliff

[CrazyAngels]

Cliff, I so wish I still lived in the area. Having grown up in Pacifica and Colma, would have made it so easy to have met you all. Maybe one day I can break free from work and make one of the meetings with all you guys and or gals..

Happy Holidays to you all.

[CliffsDiscus]

Cliff, I so wish I still lived in the area. Having grown up in Pacifica and Colma, would have made it so easy to have met you all. Maybe one day I can break free from work and make one of the meetings with all you guys and or gals..

Happy Holidays to you all.

We were right up your alley, between Pacifica and Colma near Ranch 99. Maybe next year we'll see you.

Have a great Holiday!
Cliff

[CliffsDiscus]

Hi Everyone,
First I like to thank John and his wife for letting use visit his home with all those homebred Discus. Hope everyone that were there had a great time.

Second, I like to thank some LFS for their donations and also Diana, Jack and Bill for their donations also.


Cliff

[CrazyAngels]

We were right up your alley, between Pacifica and Colma near Ranch 99. Maybe next year we'll see you.

Have a great Holiday!
Cliff

Thanks Cliff, hope you also have a great Holiday, I'll keep an eye on this thread in hopes I catch it in time.

[magewynd]

Well we were finally able to gather a few people together for a meeting in Daly City. Present were:

Cliff (Cliffsdiscus)
John T and his family (host)
Perry (phat nyguyen)
Kip (SFAS board member)
Cal and his wife Helen (SFAS members)
Danny (SFAS member)
Ryan (Silicon Valley AS member)
Steve T (magewynd)

We would like to thank Cliff for putting this together and John for his hospitality and letting us into his fish room. It looks like John was quite the fish keeper at one time. He has two garage length racks in his basement. He is retired now and keeps just a few discus. Apparently Cliff gave John a few handfuls of dime size fry awhile ago and John grew them ALL out. They were plenty of Wattley lineage Turqs (all adults) and a LOT of white butterfly pigeons. I stopped counting the WB pairs when I got to eight. And there were fry from these. One of us was able to pick up a pair and a few nice fry from another pair for a good start.

What was interesting to me was these were artificially reared fry from Cliff that paired and were raising their fry naturally. Cliff said that these were a WB (Cary's)xStendker Fire Red. This was crossed with an albino for the fry that John raised. These were all real clean WBs. There were also a few Marlboro types that were grown out too. Cliff is an amazing resource of information and was very helpful in answering questions and sharing his knowledge. (Including mine, "Where did all the peppering go?" Took awhile to "splain" that to me.)

Later that evening a few of us made it to the SFAS meeting where a presentation was made about how the SFAS was instrumental in bringing brine shimp to the hobby as well as aquarium societies around the world as a food source. They started as a benefactor to Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park.

This was a great, but small meeting of discus enthusiast. Cliff plans on getting another meeting together in the early spring. He was able to get donations for raffles and would like to do a fish swap too. Johnnathan is willing to host one of these also. He's in Asia touring Discus farms now. Please look for future announcements and plan on joining us.

[phat nguyen]

Hello all,

A big Kudos to Mr Cliff Young for organizing the meet last week. I had a great time meeting some other Discus hobbyists in the Bay Area.
Mr John T and his family were great host for our group.
I hope to get a chance to see more Discus and meet other hobbyist in the near future.

Sincerely,
Perry Nguyen

[CliffsDiscus]

Hi Steve and Perry,
Thanks for the feedback and coming to the meeting, I think everyone had a great time, a lot of Discus information exchange. BTW did anyone take any pictures?

Thanks,
Cliff

[bonginator]

Sounds like it was a great meeting. Sorry I was out of town. Please keep me posted on future meetings!

Sandy

[CliffsDiscus]

Sounds like it was a great meeting. Sorry I was out of town. Please keep me posted on future meetings!

Sandy

HI Sandy,
Hopefully we'll see you at the next meeting.

Thanks,
Cliff

[milkweed]

I'm in San Ramon and would be interested in attending the next meeting. How do I get an invite? Thanks - Bobby