Akron Ohio July 1 Steve Pro

[Rhodophyta]

Thursday 8:00 PM, July 1 - - Greater Akron Aquarium Society presents -

Steve Pro - Selecting Healthy and Appropriate Marine Fishes.

Meeting place is Tallmadge Community Center, 80 Community Rd., just east of Tallmadge circle. (near Kent State University) Guests welcome. No parking or admission fees. Steved is a great speaker and has been an active member and officer of Pittsburgh Marine Aquarium Society, Inc. A social hour follows the speaker with a light meal for $1. It might be pizza, fried chicken, Quizno's subs, home made chili and salad, whatever the refreshments person decides. There are also book and equipment raffles.


There is still time to arrange some car pools. I will be arranging one from the southwest Cleveland suburbs.

Anyone able to arrange a car pool from their area?

[MattG]

i would really love to show up to this but the drive would be a real killer. ~5 hours one way.

if anyone else around here decides they are going to go please let me know.

[Rhodophyta]

If you can get another person or two to split the driving and travel, the "four hours and twenty one minutes" from Barboursville WV at highway posted speeds would go fast. And often you can pick up more reef and tank thoughts in the talk on the way and back. It's always neat how someone else's take on the speaker's subject can open up new ideas.

I hope you get the chance to come and that you don't have any classes on the next day, July 2. Some people have that day off from work because the 4th is on Sunday.

[Rhodophyta]

The book raffle after Steve Pro's presentation on July 1 in Tallmadge will offer three books or sets of books. The first two tickets drawn each get their choice in the order drawn. The third book becomes a library book, or may be recycled if it's already in the library.

What books would you like to see in the raffle? Extremely expensive multi-volume sets are out unless a deal can be worked. Here are some possibilities that are already on hand.

Which three of these books would you prefer?

Allen's Damselfishes of the World, a large format "coffee table" book that contains both reef habitat and aquarium needs data on each species photographed.

Moe's Breeding the Orchid Dottyback,by one of the hobby's elder statemen, this book logs the breeding of the title species in a room the size of an unfinished bathroom. Holds some great and sometimes unorthodox and funny tips.

Dr. Chris Andrews's Hobbyist Guide to Marine Fish & Invertebrates, contains wide ranging chapters on aspects of the topic, but it's not a field guide or compilation of species.

Fatheree's Getting Into Mini-Reefs, it covers the basics and has plenty of text, somthing sometimes crowded out of fish books by all the great pictures. This book has both.

and even,

Theil's original edition of The Marine Fish and Invert Reef Aquarium. Published in Feb. '88, this was one of the books racing to be the earliest comprehensive reef book. A collector's item, it shows how far we've come, and also some the things that really haven't changed much.