The convention thread

Post by **Silurus** » 13 Oct 2004, 16:34

A few more hours and the convention starts for me (I'm getting on the plane to Baltimore).
Might as well start the thread early, eh?

Dave Rinaldo · Post by **Dave Rinaldo** » 13 Oct 2004, 18:04

My flight departs at 6:05 AM, 18 hours from now. Just have to make sure I can get some sleep!!

Post by **Coryman** » 13 Oct 2004, 18:12

I am due to leave the UK at 10.15 am gmt (4.15am est). See you guys soon.

Ian

Post by **corybreed** » 13 Oct 2004, 21:26

I am picking up Ian tomorrow at Newark Airport at 1:00 See you guys later.

Mark

kwalker · Post by **kwalker** » 14 Oct 2004, 05:30

paul and i are bagging fish at 7 am and departing cleveland ohio by 9 am, arriving just in time for HH's talk at 4pm.

ken

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 14 Oct 2004, 06:37

Hi!

Well I wish I could join you guys... but it won't be for this year!
Have a great time there... I want to hear about it once you get back...

Cheers
Yann

PlecoCrazy · Post by **PlecoCrazy** » 14 Oct 2004, 07:35

I am pretty excited. Been to plenty of cichlid conventions but never one for catfish, its a wish come true! See you guys there!

Post by **Silurus** » 14 Oct 2004, 13:31

Well, we (Shane and I) made it to the hotel. We're hitting the fish stores in Baltimore today.

Post by **Shane** » 14 Oct 2004, 15:20

HH and I stayed up talking fish until 2:30 this morning!
Off to the fish stores and Aquarium with Steve Pritchard, HH, and Dave Snell. Should be fun.
-Shane

Post by **Silurus** » 14 Oct 2004, 20:21

We're back from fish shopping. Steve picked up some fish accessories and I got myself some fish!

kwalker · Post by **kwalker** » 14 Oct 2004, 20:49

HH

What kind of fish might that be?

ken

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 15 Oct 2004, 00:31

Shane wrote:Off to the fish stores and Aquarium with Steve Pritchard, HH, and Dave Snell. Should be fun.

Tell Steve I'm going to really bad-mouth him at the BCA AGM this weekend!
Ask him if he's taken a copy of the video yet also (he'll know what it means...)

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 15 Oct 2004, 00:32

corybreed wrote:I am picking up Ian tomorrow at Newark Airport at 1:00 See you guys later.

I see you drew the short straw then

Picklefish · Post by **Picklefish** » 15 Oct 2004, 02:05

Got the alarm set for 5AM. Be on the road ten minutes later. Woo Hoo I am pumped.

pturley · Post by **pturley** » 15 Oct 2004, 03:03

Well it's ten o'clock here, I am behind schedule as usual!

We'll see you there!

Post by **Silurus** » 15 Oct 2004, 04:31

KWALKER wrote:HH

What kind of fish might that be?

ken

A bunch of Hisontous leucofrenatus (couldn't resist at $1.99 a pop), a juvenile Brachyrhamdia that was a contaminant in a tank of otos (I'll grow this up to see what species it is), and an ugly ol' contaminant Astyanax.
Saw some Batasio havmolleri (which included a very gravid female), and was sorely tempted to pick them up. But then, Ingo's supposed to be bringing me some from Achim...

kwalker · Post by **kwalker** » 15 Oct 2004, 13:45

Pauly is on his way we are leaving in a half hour. see you folks by the time your talk starts HH.

Ken Walker

kwalker · Post by **kwalker** » 16 Oct 2004, 02:12

the convention is great. wish everyone was here.

ken walker

kwalker · Post by **kwalker** » 16 Oct 2004, 06:00

its 1 am here and i'm hanging out with shane, silurus, ian,
troy,and the gang. having and absolute blast. you should be here if your with in driving distance.

ken walker

WhitePine · Post by **WhitePine** » 16 Oct 2004, 08:15

Make sure you offer Linder a Guinness... for me and the rest of the people who could not attend!

Post by **Silurus** » 16 Oct 2004, 13:28

What a great time we had last night...up until past 2 in the morning talking catfishes.
Don't forget the PC get-together at 6 this evening.

longstocking · Post by **longstocking** » 16 Oct 2004, 15:59

Hey guys..

Just wondering who all is staying for sunday?

For any of you wanting to check out a pretty nice LFS with a pretty good assorment of cats... you might want to go up to Exotic Aquatics....just thought I'd let you all lnow since I'm a local.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 16 Oct 2004, 22:10

Hi All~

Ian has just finished his talk on Corydoradinae and Ingo's just about to start on Ancistrinae. Not a moment to waste! Just dumped some pix on Rusty's laptop (wireless is GREAT!) of some madtoms we collected and also of the gang _late_ last night...

Wish you were ALL here.

Jools

PS Hey, Rusty, gonna post some pics?

davidkozak · Post by **davidkozak** » 16 Oct 2004, 23:40

Pictures Please

Post by **Rusty** » 17 Oct 2004, 03:21

Collecting madtoms:
<a href="http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&im ... ecting.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img97.exs.cx/img97/273/shanejool ... ing.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Collecting" /></a> <a href="http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&image=madtom.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img97.exs.cx/img97/3244/madtom.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>

Lee Finley:
<a href="http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&im ... finley.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img97.exs.cx/img97/3876/lee-finley.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>
Shane, Andrew and Jools:
<a href="http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&im ... djools.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img97.exs.cx/img97/2598/shaneandjools.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>

And the whole (most of it anyway) gang:
<a href="http://img97.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img97&image=catcon.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img97.exs.cx/img97/3243/catcon.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>
Going clockwise starting from the top left, Don Kinyon, Dave Snell, Dinyar, Dave Rinaldo, me, Ingo Seidel, Ryan, Lee Finley, Jools, HH, Shane and Mark Soberman.

Rusty

Picklefish · Post by **Picklefish** » 17 Oct 2004, 07:05

It's just about time for bed for me. Close to 2 AM. I guess I cannot hang like I used too. Just wanted to say that it was great meeting everyone and I have truly had a wonderful time. Just make sure that you are not bidding against me in tomorrows auction.

Post by **Shane** » 17 Oct 2004, 20:14

It is already Sunday (can you believe it!) and I think no one has slept more than 5 hours a night since Wednesday. Jools, HH, Ingo, Stephen Tanner and I hit a pet store today so Ingo could pick up some Batasio havmolleri (yes, I was jealous). The convention is now coming to close with today's auction. I saw HH off to the airport and it was sad. Before the convention I had not seen him in 6 years. I hope we do not wait this long again.
Lots of talk around about doing this again... I hope some group follows through. Whitepine, Jools brought me Guinness directly from Scotland.
-Shane

Post by **medaka** » 17 Oct 2004, 22:59

hi shane
hi all

hope you all get belly ache from all that booze

only joking.

jools tut tut

Jools brought me Guinness directly from Scotland

whats wrong with mcewan's export ! or tartan !!
i mean if you have to take ale over and couldn't get mcewan's export you should have taken him Newcastle brown..

have fun ya-all

adrian

Post by **corybreed** » 18 Oct 2004, 01:11

Just got home a couple of hours ago. What a great weekend. I wish everyone form PC could have attended. I hope this becomes an annual event. All the guys were up late into the evening talking catfishes. PC was well represented at the convention. Have to put my new acquisitions into their tanks. Meeting Ian in Brooklyn tomorrow for dinner.

Mark

Post by **Silurus** » 18 Oct 2004, 02:17

I am now back in Ann Arbor, and all I can say is I had a real blast. It was great meeting everyone from Planet Catfish.
I am already looking forward to the next one (Ian has invited me to the 2006 CSG meeting, but I hope I don't have to wait that long).