December - Hill Country Cichlid Club
December - Hill Country Cichlid Club December - Hill Country Cichlid Club
2 The HCCC is a proud member of the Federation of Texas Aquarium Societies. The HCCC is a proud member of the Federation of American Aquarium Societies. On the Cover - Alcolapia alcalicus Editorial 3 Keeping Cichlids Outside Year Round—Ghetto Style! 8 - Greg Steeves Iranocichla hormuzensis, Coad, 1982 12 - Dave Hansen C.A.R.E.S. Yssichromis piceatus 18 Spawning Corydoras axelrodi...Sort of! 19 - Keith Arnold http://www.hillcountrycichlidclub.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/hillcountrycichlidclub
3 Editorial First off, to all HCCC members and other clubs that we exchange publications with, let me apologize for the lengthy lapse between Lateral Line issues. 2012 has seen some changes in the club and 2013 is going to see even more. I feel the time of growing is fantastic for the longevity of our organization and I’m very confident that the future will bring only better changes to the Hill Country Cichlid Club. While from the outside looking in it might seem as though 2012 was not an active year for us and for some that might be true. For others, it was more than busy enough with club business. We held three successful auctions with a ton of new faces attending. We have actually changed some aspects of the auction including the methods of payment and greatly shortened the time that sellers receive payment. Diane Tennison has almost solely been responsible for revamping the system and deserves all the credit for our success in this area. Another hugely active area of involvement within our club has been the HCCC Facebook site. Our presence here has allowed us to reach a much larger audience as well as publicizing our existence to local hobbyists who had no idea there was a cichlid club here. If there is a dark side to the Facebook site is that it has become so active that it has actually taken away some of the activity that we traditionally seen on the HCCC message board. What I would like to see is someone step up and publicize informative posts received on Facebook to our HCCC forum and vice versa. I would like to recognize one of the pillars of our group, Dave Schumacher of Dave’s Rare Aquarium Fish for what he does. Dave borrowed a great idea that the East Coast Cichlid bunch do at their auctions. This was the catfish raffle. I was told this was well received and is something we want to incorporate into future auctions as well. Dave provided the fish for the raffle and together with his wife Amanda, secured our permanent location for club auctions. Starting in 2013 we will be holding our first ever Swap Meet here as well. I will make the information on this available just as soon as I can. Dave and Amanda have been searching for a location where we will permanently move our meetings to. The plan is to have an HCCC meeting every second month at the same day and time (ex. every second Saturday at 6pm). The meeting will include a BAP and members auction, a speaker that will present on a subject relevant to our members interest, and snacks for all. The plan is to turn our meetings into an event that anyone with even a passing interest in cichlids that lives in the area, would not want to miss. We were hoping to have a location locked in by now but we are still searching. Ideally we would like to find something on the Northside of San Antonio, Shertz, New Braunfels or San Marcos…..or anywhere in between. If you have an idea for a location or know of someplace we could frequent, please let us know. I fully expect that we will eventually need meeting space for 100 people. The club is willing to pay for a location willing to house us but it must be reasonable. In speaking with Dan Schacht, our BAP Chairman, BAP entries have been slow in coming this year. I know by seeing some of the species that people have breeding on our Facebook site, that next year could be a record breaker. Troy Veltrop is not only our club CARES Chairman, but also the CARES Preservation website master. He has asked, told, beg and asked me again to update my CARES species and I am yet to do that. Some shining example I turned out to be! I will be doing that and sending my information in to him and I would urge those of you already registered to do that same. Those of you with CARES species that have not registered them should do so. You can reach Troy on the HCCC website. A listing of CARES fish can be found at http:// www.carespreservation.com. On the CARES bandwagon, three HCCC members recently appeared on the Under The Sea Radio Show. These shows are all archived and can be listened to at your leisure anytime. All had both CA- RES and HCCC content. Artist/ Paleontologist/ Aquarist Ken McKeighen painted three works and donated them to the CARES program. These beautiful paintings are in my procession right now. One will be auctioned at the North East Council of Aquarium Societies Convention in Cromwell CT.
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- Page 5 and 6: 5 September 28, 2012. Mr. Greg Stee
- Page 7 and 8: 7 Retail Store Hours: Tues-Sat 10am
- Page 9 and 10: 9 cerned with. That is heat and col
- Page 11 and 12: 11 Perhaps the most enjoyable part
- Page 13 and 14: 13 ter when what we put into their
- Page 15 and 16: 15 I had the tank prepared for a we
- Page 17: 17 was aborted several days later.
- Page 20 and 21: 20 meantime, Java moss in the tank
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The HCCC is a proud member of the<br />
Federation of Texas<br />
Aquarium Societies.<br />
The HCCC is a proud member of the<br />
Federation<br />
of American Aquarium<br />
Societies.<br />
On the Cover - Alcolapia alcalicus<br />
Editorial 3<br />
Keeping <strong>Cichlid</strong>s Outside Year Round—Ghetto Style! 8<br />
- Greg Steeves<br />
Iranocichla hormuzensis, Coad, 1982 12<br />
- Dave Hansen<br />
C.A.R.E.S. Yssichromis piceatus 18<br />
Spawning Corydoras axelrodi...Sort of! 19<br />
- Keith Arnold<br />
http://www.hillcountrycichlidclub.com/<br />
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hillcountrycichlidclub
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