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| January, 2009 |
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Editor's Message
The three Southern California Guppy Associations Pan Pacific, San Diego, and San Fernando Valley are cooperating on an IFGA Guppy show to be held April 25th & 26th, 2009 in the Los Angeles area. A group of members from all three associations are working as a committee to make this happen. Ben Ivy, Clyde Quinn, Mariam Scadeng, Charles Pratt and others from SDTFS are involved. If you would like more information, or to volunteer to help out contact Charles Pratt at prattc@adminoff.com or Ben Ivy at bcivy@cox.net Charles Pratt |
Upcoming Events at SDTFS
January 10, 2009: Installation Dinner begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. The Club will subsidize part of the cost so Members will pay only $8 for dinner at the Boll Weevil in Imperial Beach. Non-members $14. There will be appetizers, steak, chicken, shrimp, vegetarian, salad, potatoes, soft drinks. Beer and Shakes are extra to be paid for by the attendee. It will be Buffet style. Games and Installation of new officers. The Boll Weevil is in the shopping center at the intersection of Palm Avenue and Saturn Blvd, just off Hwy 5 in Imperial Beach.
January 11, 2009: January membership meeting, Room 101, Floral Building, Balboa Park. We are delighted to have a presentation from long time aquarist and fish collector Jim Herman who will describe his adventures in Collecting Tropical Fish in Mexico.
February 8, 2009: February membership meeting, Room 101, Floral Building, Balboa Park. This month's presentation is on "Water Quality - How to make it work for you" and
we are delighted to have as our speaker the President of DrTim's Aquatics, Dr.
Timothy A. Hovanec who started DrTim's Aquatics, a new aquarium products manufacturing company, after 17 years as the Chief Science Officer of Aquaria Inc.,
the parent company of Marineland Aquarium Products, Aquarium Systems (Instant Ocean)
and Perfecto Manufacturing.
Dr. Hovanec studied limnology at Uppsala University in Sweden, then graduated from
San Diego State University with a B.S. in Biology and a M.S. in Biology.
Dr. Hovanec earned his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, where he investigated the phylogenetics of
nitrifying bacteria in aquaria and Mono Lake, California. Dr. Hovanec was the first
to demonstrate that bacteria of the phylum Nitrospira were the active
nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in aquatic systems such as aquaria. His work on
nitrifying bacteria has lead to the discovery of many new species of nitrifying
bacteria in freshwater and saltwater systems and the granting of several U.S. and
foreign patents, with additional patents pending. He has also conducted much
research on topics such as ammonia excretion and toxicity in aquatic organisms,
bio-filtration systems design, and fish feed formulations.
At Marineland, Dr. Hovanec was in charge of the biology, chemistry and microbial
ecology laboratories that comprise Marineland Labs. He was also responsible for overseeing the quality control of such products as Instant OceanŽ sea salt and
BioSpiraŽ nitrifying bacteria.
Dr. Hovanec is one of the most knowledgable people in the world on Aquarium water
quality and this may be one of our best programs of 2009!
