** PLEASE NOTE THE NEW "DOORS OPEN" & "START TIME"
The July meeting for James River Aquarium Society will be held on Wednesday July 24, 2024.
Doors open @ 6:30 pm
Club meeting starts at 7:00 pm
Meeting place is Logo Advantage at 8007A Mechanicsville Turnpike, Mechanicsville, VA 23111
Our July meeting will host Shane R Lindner from Planet Catfish, Shane's World. He will be speaking on Collecting Uganda: The Pearl of Africa!
Collecting Uganda: The Pearl of Africa
Catfish expert and naturalist Shane Linder is the “Shane” behind Planetcatfish.com‘s Shane World. Shane’s World houses well over 150 articles by various catfish experts making it the largest such resource known to exist. Shane is also a frequent contributor to several US and international aquarium periodicals and has been a guest speaker at numerous fish conventions in the US and Europe. From 2000-2020 Shane lived and collected fishes extensively in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and Nigeria. He has made additional collecting expeditions into Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
There will also be a mini auction at the end of the lecture, so please bring your fish, plants, and supplies for our auction.
For those wanting to meet up before the meeting, some club members will be having dinner at the Mexico Restaurant in Mechanicsville. Most folks usually get there by 5:00 pm
I wanted to say thank you to Lee for giving an awesome presentation on Discus 101!
LAST MINUTE CHANGE
We wanted to give everyone a quick update on our speaker tomorrow. Shane Lindner has tested positive for Covid. So he will not be coming down to speak at our July club meeting. We will hopefully work him back in the speaker schedule in the near future.
We have scheduled another presentation in his place. Thanks for understanding!
Lee Shadbolt, will give the presentation “Discus 101.” Lee is a longtime member of JRAS and currently serving as past president and a longtime hobbyist and breeder of the magnificent discus fish. The presentation will provide a brief history of the development of the discus hobby, guidelines for keeping discus fish and “Lessons Learned” along the way. It should be informative enough for those already keeping discus and basic enough for those considering discus as a hobby.
Bio for Lee Shadbolt
Lee Shadbolt is a lifetime aquarist and has maintained fish from a very early age. He began by cleaning filters and washing tanks for his father, who was an angel fish breeder. Later, he worked for his grandfather’s tropical fish wholesale store. Lee began keeping wild discus in the early 1970’s and started breeding discus in the mid 1990’s. He currently maintains several tanks and a koi pond. Lee is currenty serving as past-president to JRAS. He has an extensive knowledge of and has attended lectures and visited numerous discus breeders/importers including: Jack Whattley, Bing Seto, Gill Curtin, Peter Thode (Gwynnbrook Farms), Discus Hans, and Joe Szelesi. Lee is the president of Commonwealth Architects.