Alan
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Gary Lange wrote:
> I guess I'm a little surprised that it would cost you $1000 to attend a US show, if that's what your reference was to. I get a ticket, EVERY YEAR for the last ~ 10 years to fly from St. Louis to Hartford CT. $250-$320, look for the sales. Two night stay $80, I split a room with my drinking buddy Mike Hellweg (Finny on Aquabid). Registration $40-50. Banquet $30. Beer $20. I bring the max amount of items to sell at the auction 15 or 16 and usually end up with $100-$150 check or more to help even out anything I might buy in the auction. Presell some items or sell a few out of the room and you almost have the trip paid for. Unless you're going to MACNA, where they charge way too much for registration you're always going to come in under $600.
> Ok, Chuck's in Hawaii so he probably paid a bit more to attend the NEC last year but hey, it's probably cheaper for him to fly to Australia to attend an ANGFA convention than to fly to Hartford :-)
> Please don't try to scare people off the national shows by overestimating the prices. When you start attending these you really start to take your aquarium knowledge up to the next level. I've attended livebearer, plant, killifish, rainbowfish, betta and even those silly cichlid :-) conventions and I can say that they were all worthwhile and a lot of fun. For those of you that will be at the ACA in Chicago next year come look me up. I bartered my way into shooting the winners for the show for the Saturday evening awards. I'm betting I'll have some pretty good specimens as the midwest and Cleveland have some pretty good cichlid keepers.
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> I think you got part of my post(875) in my reply to
> Gunthers profile where i mentioned that you could spend
> around 1000 to attend some of these conv."s
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> > Rarefish at lax is Kent Webster's friend Tanner. Kent is a breeder
> and essentially a rainbowfish wholesaler. He really doesn't want
> his wholesale people getting mad at him so Tanner does all of his on-
> line stuff for him. Tanner plucks the stuff directly out of Kent's
> tank so you aren't getting stuff second hand with the possibility of
> crosses. Kent if he's not selling yet, will be shortly selling
> wanamensis again. Kent writes most of the stuff up for Tanner for
> Aquabid so he gets it right. We've had several discussions about
> making his descriptions interesting and also informative. I think I
> wrote one of his earlier writeups, probably the zigzag (G. doryiti)
> or the millenium (pseudoincisus) but the rest is Kent, with a tad of
> my influence :-) Heck I read his writeups and start to bid on the
> stuff when I realize, "hey I've already got that"! Also a great
> many of his photos are mine that I shot of Kent's fish when I was
> out at the hatchery last February. I stood on a step stool
> > photographing fish one at a time in our phototank for something
> like 8 hours. I support Kent and friend as Kent is really the only
> breeder in the US that can supply the quality and the quanity of
> rainbowfish. The stuff in Florida and what gets imported is often a
> joke.
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> > His Goo obos are only getting brighter and breeding even more
> fish with color. Some of the offspring are not very colorful and
> sort of revert back to the wild so if you buy six young fish from
> him be sure to select the brightest colored ones for breeding. He
> tells me that he has some newer pairs that even outrival the shots
> that are up on Aquabid at the moment. I think I would wait to get
> fish though until the spring as it gets pretty cold in Vermont in
> the winter. Good reason to keep fish, stay in and keep warm!
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> > cheers,
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> > Gary Lange
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> > Eileen Kortright <eileen at s...> wrote:
> > At 08:45 AM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:35:36 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Gary Lange <rainbowfish4u2 at y...>
> > Subject: Re: Re: Goo obo gudgeon article / "sports" vs. "wild
> forms"
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> > The comment was also meant for the fellow that hasn't identified
> himself yet "pair of icy fists". . . .
> > You know it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't introduce myself
> either. I'm surprised I didn't get put on the carpet for that :)
> > Lemme fix that, please:
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> > My name's Eileen Kortright. Canadian from Ontario, but married a
> Yankee and am living in VA. I'm in my mid 40s. I'm more new than
> Gunther to aquaria; I just started in August of this year. I have 6
> aquariums, with the largest being a 36g bowfront. Hrm, saw Boesemani
> for the first time and fell in love with them :) I bought a 36g
> bowfront and a school of 7 from my LFS. I seemed to have lucked out
> as mine are VERY colorful now and, I think, rather large. One of my
> females is around 3.25", males about 3", couple are 2.5, but
> not "orangey" yet. The bigger ones are now starting to exhibit
> spawning behavior and I'm very excited about that! I spend a lot of
> my time reading about rainbow fish. I just received Dr. Allen's
> Rainbowfishes book and 'm eagerly awaiting Harro's book that I
> ordered :)
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> > I have on order 3x75g and 1x50g tanks that are due to arrive in
> two weeks. My Boesemani will go into one 75g and I want to better
> the school with the ones I see on Aquabid. I want to add some Goo
> obos to that tank as well, again same person on Aquabid or another
> site that sells them and I suspect that both of those people are
> the same guy. He writes a lot like Gary Lange :) Are those yours,
> Gary? Rarefishatlax?
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> > The 2nd one will be for pseudoincisus, but I like the parva as
> well! The third I want to have as splendida dubulayi and possibly
> wanamensis, if I can find them, and peacock gudgeons. I did find
> some "Emerald Rainbowfish", but not sure if that's them or not. My
> smaller tanks will be stocked with blue-eyes.
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> > I'd like to breed the rainbows -- no crossbreeds! -- too.
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> > So, and I'm sure you can tell by the multitude of dumb questions I
> ask, I'm a real newbie here :)
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> > Eileen
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