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Hi Guys!

I'm Bob Villanueva from the Philippines:)

I keep the following catfish:
RTC
TSN
Firewood Catfish
Ripsaw Catfish
Marble Catfish
Goonch Catfish (Yarelli)
Wallago Attu
Wallago Leerii
Paroon Shark
Mekong Shark (needs confirmation on both specimens i have)
Gibbiceps Pleco

Hi Bob, Welcome to PlanetCatfish. That's quite a variety of cats you keep. I can tell you like the big ones!

Cheers, Eric

Hello!

Hello, I am also a new member.

GreenPleco wrote:Hello, I am also a new member.

Hi GreenPleco. Welcome. Hey, I see that your Location is California. If you are in the Central or Northern part of California, I'd like to invite you to attend the Sacramento Aquarium Society's monthly meeting tomorrow night in Folsom, CA at 7pm. Nathan Lujan will be speaking about loricariids (mostly plecos, I imagine) from Brazil. It should be interesting. There's a post about it on this website, or you can private message me for more info.

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote:

GreenPleco wrote:Hello, I am also a new member.

Hi GreenPleco. Welcome. Hey, I see that your Location is California. If you are in the Central or Northern part of California, I'd like to invite you to attend the Sacramento Aquarium Society's monthly meeting tomorrow night in Folsom, CA at 7pm. Nathan Lujan will be speaking about loricariids (mostly plecos, I imagine) from Brazil. It should be interesting. There's a post about it on this website, or you can private message me for more info.

Cheers, Eric

Hi,

I am in the Los Angeles area. If I could I would go but its a far for me. Do they have any meets in the Los Angeles area?

GreenPleco wrote:I am in the Los Angeles area. If I could I would go but its a far for me. Do they have any meets in the Los Angeles area?

Hi GreenPleco,

I don't know how up-to-date this list is, but I just typed "aquarium society" and Los Angeles into Google and I found this website which lists various clubs.

Local Aquarium Club Directory

I suppose you can try contacting them and see if any are active and if so, when/where they meet.

Cheers, Eric

P.S., if you had asked me back in the late 1960's or early 1970's, I would have sent out to Riverside CA, where I used to live and where I attended the "Tri-City Aquarium Society." But I don't think that club exists anymore.

bekateen wrote:

GreenPleco wrote:I am in the Los Angeles area. If I could I would go but its a far for me. Do they have any meets in the Los Angeles area?

Hi GreenPleco,

I don't know how up-to-date this list is, but I just typed "aquarium society" and Los Angeles into Google and I found this website which lists various clubs.

Local Aquarium Club Directory

I suppose you can try contacting them and see if any are active and if so, when/where they meet.

Cheers, Eric

P.S., if you had asked me back in the late 1960's or early 1970's, I would have sent out to Riverside CA, where I used to live and where I attended the "Tri-City Aquarium Society." But I don't think that club exists anymore.

LOL

It would have to be any time after 1975. I could have gone as a new born baby.

GreenPleco wrote:It would have to be any time after 1975. I could have gone as a new born baby.

It might have been an option; I temporarily (~35 years) quit keeping aquaria starting in 1978. I don't think I was still attending the aquarium society at that time, but I might have been... I'm pretty sure I was still going to those meetings in 1976. The last year I can find a Google reference to the Tri-City Aquarium Society is 1977.

Here's a clipping from the Desert Sun newspaper of Palm Springs, CA, March 7,1968, about a "new breed of angelfish" created by one of our former members, a guy from San Bernardino: It was called a "marbled angelfish." Maybe you've heard of it? LOL

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote:

GreenPleco wrote:It would have to be any time after 1975. I could have gone as a new born baby.

It might have been an option; I temporarily (~35 years) quit keeping aquaria starting in 1978. I don't think I was still attending the aquarium society at that time, but I might have been... I'm pretty sure I was still going to those meetings in 1976. The last year I can find a Google reference to the Tri-City Aquarium Society is 1977.

Here's a clipping from the Desert Sun newspaper of Palm Springs, CA, March 7,1968, about a "new breed of angelfish" created by one of our former members, a guy from San Bernardino: It was called a "marbled angelfish." Maybe you've heard of it? LOL

Cheers, Eric

I have heard of the marble pleco.
I started keeping fish when I was in the 2 or 3rd grade. I am actually in Santa Clarita CA.