Sooo.... Who all is making it for sure? I just posted a thread Here about donating fish for the auction to benefit PC. Anyone else planning any donations so people can be sure to take along every dime they have? I'm planning to bring my laptop and my camera for more fish Id's, definitely! Anyone know if Hospitality Too will be serving food this year or are they just going to drop off a cooler of beer and hope we are ok? I guess that DID work last time though!
I'm really looking forward to my fish geek vacation. Who else is already having dreams about what they forgot to take?
I know of three of us from Alberta that are going, everything is fully booked for me...of course every time a person wants to take off even for a few days that is when you seem to get the busiest but too bad I am going anyway.
Have not really thought about taking fish with me or bringing some back will have to put some thought into that, I was thinking of donating to PC but it will probably be a more boring cash donation.
It will be great to put a face to many names I am familiar with.
I'll be there not withstanding the early arrival of our baby who is due November 17th.
I am making plans to hook up with Dinyar & Mark in NY - we're travelling down Thursday I believe - and am really looking forward to it although I know with these things they're just an endless rush.
Barbie wrote:Sooo.... Who all is making it for sure?
I'm really looking forward to my fish geek vacation. Who else is already having dreams about what they forgot to take?
Barbie
I cant wait... we are leaving from Toronto on thursday morning to drive down.. Pain bringing fish in from Canada though , but I'll hopefully be bringing lots home.
See you all there.
Rich
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Dinyar and Jools are coming to my house on Wednesday. I will pick out some Syno's to donate to the auction for PC. We will be leaving for the convention early Thursday morning. I look forward to seeing everyone in Maryland.
Glad to hear you'll make it this time Amanda! I can't guarantee much usually, but I feel totally confident saying we can make sure you have a good time at the convention ;).
Awesome Mark! Are you bringing tanks with you for housing anything? I can try to round up some tank space for a few things, I think *looks to see if Julie's standing behind her with the shoe horn*.
Just another little suggestion. If anyone wants to bring along a few catfish pictures on CD/DVD or memory stick, I'd be happy to sit down with you and look at any that might be suitable for the cat-elog, maybe give a few tips on what we're looking for etc.
Also, if anyone wants to sit down with me and my laptop and edit in some data on a particular species that you have experience of, happy to do that also. I can update the live database from my laptop, so anything adding in these session will go straight out to the world.
I'll be coming in from California and arriving late Friday. This will be my first catfish convention and I am looking so forward to it. Just a novice when it comes to catfish so I'l be asking a lot of questions and listening intently. I belong to several clubs in the Bay Area but I find it difficult to find "experts" here that have raised and breed catfish.
That was the first thing I thought of this morning! "Dang, I have to email her and find out what sort of a bribe is entailed now that I've waited til the last minute or I'm going to be paying a fortune to some taxi driver!"
Oh there will be bribery . Southwest Airlines is making my life miserable on the fish shipping front, but I'll get that figured out also ;). Beer is mandatory and I heard a rumor of tequila and margarita mix in our futures, hehe. It's going to be so much fun!
Barbie wrote:Glad to hear you'll make it this time Amanda! I can't guarantee much usually, but I feel totally confident saying we can make sure you have a good time at the convention ;).
Awesome Mark! Are you bringing tanks with you for housing anything? I can try to round up some tank space for a few things, I think *looks to see if Julie's standing behind her with the shoe horn*.
Hope you all have a great time, I know I sure did 2 years ago, (many thanks Everyone at PVAS).
I was hoping to be there myself, but recent health issues made the insurance I would have to pay unaffordable. . maybe another time..
like I said HAVE A GREAT TIME>>
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As a follow up to the auction, here is an itemized list of the fantastic donations we received to benefit Planet Catfish. I can't thank you all enough for stepping up to help with the site like you did. It is greatly appreciated by all of us here! All in all we raised $1120 to help pay for PC's costs for the next year or so. Definitely a great effort!
For any of the items with missing purchasing information, I would love to hear from you to add you to the list!
Syno. ct. ebornersis: $18.00 (Donated by Corybreed, purchased by ...... ) Hemi. Syno membranoeus 10.00 Hemi. Syno membranoeus 26.00
Monster Aquaria Network 7.00 (Donated by Neoprodigy, purchased by ..... )
PVAS 2.00 (Donated by the PVAS club, purchased by ...... ) PVAS 26.00
Hypancistrus zebra 275.00 (Donated by TwoTankAmin, purchased by ...... ) Hypancistrus zebra 250.00
Peckoltia sp. L134 80.00 (Donated by Me, and all 3 lots were purchased by DaveW Thank you again Dave and please bug me about your fish, they come with a lifetime customer support line, when it isn't busy, hehe) Ancistrus sp. L184 180.00 Ancistrus sp. L184 100.00
Hypancistrus sp. L333 80.00 (Donated by FantasticFins, purchased by ...... )
Candiru 12.00 (Donated by Dave Rinaldo *I think you donated them all, didn't you Dave?* purchased by..... ) Back to Nature 26.00 Okie Noodling 4.00 Audobon North American 4.00 A - Candiru 20.00
Again, I can't thank you all enough. I'm deeply honored to be a member of such a great community. You guys rock, or is that suck? That's a good thing here, right? I get so confused!
When is the 2009 convention going to be? I WILL make it this time around!
Taking my mom to the belugas this year took priority....
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I will be unique in all the world..... You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thanks for the breakdown, I think I now have all the numbers correctly allocated! I always have a bit of trouble moving between the real and cyber worlds. What remains is for me to say a big thank you to all donors and those who bought fish and books etc from them. As Barbie said, and I can do no better, you guys rock.
I'm planning to bring my laptop and my camera for more fish Id's, definitely! Anyone know if Hospitality Too will be serving food this year or are they just going to drop off a cooler of beer and hope we are ok? I guess that DID work last time though!
, but I'll hopefully be bringing lots home.
