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Thanks Rusty! Thanks Goliad!

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If you missed our April meeting, you missed some great fish and a great talk from speaker Rusty Wessel.

Goliad Fish Farms is a business owned by Charles Clapsaddle who is a board member of the American Livebearer Association. Charles was nice enough to donate two boxes of fish to our club including several types of rare wild mollies, plants and cherry shrimp.

Our speaker, Rusty Wessel, not only delivered a great talk, but he also brought several types of wild Mexican swordtails and other fish. It's very challenging to find these fish in the hobby!

Our club is up to 27 members and due to the donations from Rusty and Goliad Fish Farms, our treasury is in great shape.

Picking up fish at Midway Airport Cargo

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Notes and a Pic from the GCCA Swap Meet

CLS had a table at GCCA's December 4th swap meet. This was our second time at this event and these swaps are a key method we can use to generate income for the club. We raised over $100 for the club!

I put together a display board (see pic below) and we sold livebearers and items donated by manufacturers. My good friend Bruce brought several bags of wild-type Endlers Livebearers and CLS Treasurer Jason Libasci donated some cichlids. Thanks, guys!



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Tule Perch - Hysterocarpus traski

My son Sam called me and said "Dad, I heard about a cool livebearer we should try to get ahold of . . . the Tule Perch."

I said, "What, the Pool Perch?".

After much back and forth, it was established the fish he was thinking about was the Tule Perch, a fish native to inland waters of California that is little known in the hobby. 

The Tule Perch has been the subject of research studies and it appears to have been bred in aquariums. I found an old reference to the Tule Perch in a NANFA article from 1982. 

Anyway, the Tule Perch is directly related to many Surf Perch-- a marine species and it may be the only freshwater version. This is a vivaporous (livebearing fish), so of course it is of interest to me. 

The University of California Fish Website has some good pictures of the species and I couldn't resist adding one of the fish below.

These aren't easy to come by and may be illegal to obtain. We are going to see if there are any captive bred specimens available.

From what I can tell, the fish need cool, moving water. More to come if I find it!

Tule Perch



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Forum is Open!

Our forum is now open for business! You can click the Forum link in the main menu to get to it. After you register for the site, you will need to enter the same credentials into our forum the first time you try it.

We've posted a number of "starting" topics. For one, tell us about your stock list!

In order to run a forum, you need a forum administrator. We turned to veteran forum admin Chris Karnuth (nuthman on many forums). He's active on GCCA's forum and on Monster Fishkeepers and others.

We're lucky to have him.

We are still setting up categories . . . if you have some suggestions, let us know!



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