Friday, Oct. 18

Hello All!

It’s time for our club to wake up from summer hibernation. This is a great time to break down outside tubs and get ready to bring fish to our meeting auction.

This year is our second full year since the club reactivated. We had a great first year and worked out most of the kinks. Now I want to make this year even better. The board has been working on shirts, bags, and other paraphernalia with our new logo. I will unveil our new logo at the meeting and hopefully, we’ll have shirts ready.

We won’t have a speaker at this first meeting, but we’ll have a mingle meeting. We will have the usual Fish Show, Raffle, Fish Auction and of course Refreshments. I will talk about how the next year will be laid out. We always need help and if you are willing to volunteer even for one meeting it is greatly appreciated. Member dues will start to be collected for the year. The dues help to pay for the venue and other fun things for the club. As the club grows, I hope to do events outside of the usual meetings.

Also, please take pictures of some or just one of your fish so we can do a great calendar this year!

So please join us on Friday, September 20^th. I would love to see a big Fish Show and Fish Auction. You can show off the fish that you have been raising all summer. For the auction, bring in the tub fish and any other extras so you’ll have room to pick up something new at our auction.

The Meeting will start at the usual time around 7:30-8, but always appreciate the people that get there at 7:00 to help me set up.

Tomfish4@hotmail.com

Tom Keegan
President

Link to the Fish Show Rules

Here’s a Google link to the location:
https://goo.gl/maps/R1mvrKVPFGJeYzDj7

Hello All!

It’s August already.  We are always trying to cram beach, pool and barbeque into three months, but in the end many of us cannot wait for fall and winter.  That is when we start up with our indoor fish that we neglected somewhat during the summer, and we return to our club meetings.  Many of us have ponds or tub gardens outside that we are having fun with right now. 

I know it’s been a while since our last farewell meeting for the summer.  Had lots of personal stuff I had to deal with.  What a great meeting with Food, People and of course Fish!  My friend from Nino’s, the hero place in Smithtown really hooked us up with the heroes. The owner and the two guys that work with him all went to my store for many years and may join us when we start up again. They took their tanks down a few years after I closed my store, losing interest.

Our club keeps growing and at the last meeting I was able to talk to more of the members, both old and new, and got to know them.  I think many of the members also were able to meet and talk to people that they did not before. I like having presentations and parties, but I think the meetings where we have nothing planned also work. We learn from each other more sometimes than in a presentation. I am going to keep mixing it up with some things planned and sometimes just a mingle meeting.

As far as fish go, I am very happy with our fish auctions.  We have some amazing breeders in our club that are always bringing fish to the auction, and I thank them very much.  If you have even one fish, it’s fun to see what you get for the fish and who buys it.  Equally fun is bidding on fish to see what you win it for.  It is not, however, fun to bid against the president LOL. 

We have also had some great fish shows and members should bring a fish.  You never know if you are going to win. Our last fish show winners were me with First and Third, and Ray sandwiched between with Second. Our regular raffle and special can raffle were also a great success with many members winning filters and lighting for their tanks.

Our next meeting will be Friday, September 20.  Have a good rest of the summer!

Tom Keegan, President

To see photos from this meeting and past meetings, click here.

Hello All,

This letter will not only announce our last meeting of the year before the summer break, but also highlight the last meeting. I consider this our first full year after reactivation – going from September to June. In the past year our membership has doubled, and we are a strong and growing club.

What better reason to have another hero party to celebrate!!

At the last meeting Harry Faustmann, who is one of our members and is also the president of Nassau County Aquarium Society, gave a presentation on live foods. He showed us that there are many live foods we can easily raise ourselves to help get fish fry started. I have started using vinegar eels which are not hard at all. If anyone wants a starter culture, I am sure we can get you one. After the presentation we had our door prize, raffle, and fish show. The winners of the fish show were me taking third, Ray taking second and Buzz with another first! We had a lot of fish dry goods in the fish auction. I thank everyone who brings in fish for our auction. The auction sales contribute to the funding of the club, so when members bring in boxes full of fish, it’s great!

I also thank Ed who picks up fish that Aqua Hut donates to our club. When you go there, please thank Don, the Aqua Hut owner, for the donations to our club.

Our next meeting will be a social event with heroes and deserts. We will still have our door prize, raffle, fish auction and show. There will also be a can raffle with four or five larger items. Being the last meeting for the summer break I would like the auction to be big, so bring in a fish or plant, even if it’s just one item. Also please bring in a fish for the show. Someone out there must have the “Buzzer Beater” so to speak. Our club is going in the right direction where we all know each other and talk even after the meeting. Many members have contacted me for fish keeping advice, or for the phone numbers of other members. Do not hesitate to do so.

Please RSVP me for the next meeting if you are coming or bringing a guest. Guests will be five dollars. You can’t even buy a happy meal for that!! I want to have enough food for all. I hope everyone can make it. Please email me. Tomfish4@hotmail.com

Tom Keegan
President

Link to the Fish Show Rules

Here’s a Google link to the location:
https://goo.gl/maps/R1mvrKVPFGJeYzDj7