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Editor's Message
We are delighted to welcome the return of Kirk Bean to San Diego. Kirk is past president of SDTFS, but has been out of the area for quite some time. He will lead the discussion at this month's meeting. See below. That discussion is the idea of David Huie, a man with more ideas than anyone else I know. Thanks for the thought David. Charles Pratt |
September 11, 2011 - The Power Outage, Tell Your Story - A discussion to be led by Kirk Bean. This will be a participatory event, where you will have a chance to tell us about your own fish, your setup, and how the power outage affected you. Did you lose fish, if not how did you avoid loss? Tell us what you did to save your fish and help us all avoid future calamity.
See "The First Power Outage Story" by Karen Kees below.
October 9, 2011 - David Huie will present a program to prepare us all for the November show. (See the next item in this listing.) He will talk about transporting fish and equipment, setting up the tank and how to be a winner in the show.
November 4, 5, and 6, 2011 - Daylight Saving Time Ends on Sunday. Annual Show in Balboa Park, Floral Building room 101. November 4th Friday set up for the show. You are invited to enter your own tank and this is the day to set it up. Show opens for visitors on Saturday the 5th 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Phone Norman Brown, Show Chairman at (619) 334-4712 for more information. We do need entries and your support. There are classes in which to enter just about any type of tank you wish. Most entries are put into a class based on the type of fish you enter. Winners receive ribbons, plaques or other awards. The club has a few tanks that can be borrowed to display your own fish. Phone Norm in advance to reserve one of those tanks.
November 13, 2011 - Fall Auction. You can begin entering items for sale at 5:00 p.m. Click here for more information.
December 11, 2011 - Potluck, Room 101 (Our normal meeting room) If attending alone bring one hot item, if two people, bring one hot and one cold. Awards for the November Auction will be given. Elections for officers for 2011 will be held. The dinner will begin at 6:00 p.m. There will be no auction this month
The First Power Outage Story By Karen Kees My first thought when the power
fails: How will my fish survive? I keep 850 gallons of fish tanks; hundreds of
fish in peril. New in San Diego Fish Stores now These are a few fish you can find locally now. *************************
No power, no aquarium filters. No filters, no fish.
Electric power filters are aquarium fishes' life support. Without continuous
water circulation and cleansing, fish
can suffocate and/or be poisoned by build up of toxic wastes.
Mike to the rescue!
Our gigantic Southern California power outage happened while Mike was riding the
bus home from work. Fortunately, he was only a few minutes away. And NOT on the
freeway.
The minute he arrived home, he jumped into his van and came back with a rented
generator. Within an hour, the huge machine was chugging away. The noisy monster
was running all my fish tanks' filters via a multitude of extension cords.
Our power was off for over eight hours. Thankfully, due to Mikes quick action,
zero fish were lost.
It's good being married to a genius. Especially one that's been employed as an
electronics engineer for forty years. Doesn't hurt that he's Mr. Fix-it, either.
Mike can fix anything.
Thank you Mike for saving my fish.
Karen
Daisys
Rice Fish, Oryzias Woworae
Blue
Dolphine morii
Labidochromis
mbamba
