JRAS JULY CLUB MEETING, WEDNESDAY JULY 24

**  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