What: The March 2012 OKC meeting featuring a virtual presentation on Pike Cichlids by Vin Kutty, pike cichlid expert and featured speaker at the 2011 American Cichlid Association Convention!
When: Saturday, March 10, 1:00 pm.
Where: OU Health Sciences Center Robert M. Bird Library auditorium (see map below).
Why: VirtualPresentation, chat, auction, raffle, and more!
Who: You! You do not need to be a member to attend or to participate in the auction. OKAA is the fish club for everyone!
Mark your calendars! The 2012 meeting schedule for OKAA is as follows:
Aquapaluza! This spring OKAA will host our first ever International Betta Congress show, complete with speakers and all day auction! To be held in OKC April 28 and 29.
April 28: Show and speakers.
April 29: All day auction.
OKC Meetings: 1:00 pm the second Saturday of every month except April at the OU Health Sciences Center Library in OKC. Every meeting features a speaker, auction, raffle, door prizes, chat, and more! This year we'll bring you live, interactive, virtual presentations with world class speakers including the following:
January: Mo Devlin on aquarium photography -- an internationally recognized photographer tells us how to take beautiful photos and how to make those photos look even better through editing!
February: Randy Carey on "Spawning the Scatterers" -- one of the most successful breeders of tetras, barbs, rasboras, pencilfish, and other egg scatters tell us how he does it!
March: Vin Kutty on pike cichlids -- one of the world's experts on pike cichlids will tell us about this beautiful and diverse group of fish, with 200 species ranging from dwarfs to monsters!
April: No monthly meeting -- we'll do Aquapaluza instead!
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Tulsa Meetings: The third Sunday of every month except April at the Tulsa Zoo. Each meeting will feature a rebroadcast of the OKC virtual presentation, plus auction, raffle, door prizes, chat, and more! See OKC meeting list for speaker lineup!
Special Stillwater Meeting @ OSU! Professor Michael Tobler of the Department of Zoology at Oklahoma State University has invited us to tour his fish room and lab and has volunteered to give us a presentation as well! Michi is an aquarist and an acadmic with expertise in livebearers and cichlids from Central America, not to mention a heck of a nice guy. This should be a great event! February 25 @ 1:00 pm.
OKAA -- the fish club for everyone! You do not need to be an OKAA member to attend OKAA events or participate in OKAA auctions.
What: The February 2012 OKC meeting featuring a virtual presentation Spawning the Scatterers by Randy Carey, aka "Randy Characin," TFH columnist and expert breeder!
When: Saturday, February 11, 1:00 pm.
Where: OU Health Sciences Center Robert M. Bird Library auditorium (see map below).
Why: VirtualPresentation, chat, auction, raffle, and more!
Who: You! You do not need to be a member to attend or to participate in the auction. OKAA is the fish club for everyone!
What: Special February 2012 Stillwater meeting featuring a fish room and lab tour and a presentation by Professor Michael Tobler, better known as "Michi," Expert on cichlids and livebearers from Central America.
When: Saturday, February 25, 1:00 pm.
Where: Michi's Lab -- Park in the parking lot across from Life Sciences West as shown in the following URL: http://g.co/maps/qu9t2 (or set your GPS to the corner of Drummon Lane and N Monroe Street). We'll go in the southwestern entrance of Life Sciences West.
Why: Tour, presentation, chat, auction, raffle, and more!
Who: You! You do not need to be a member to attend or to participate in the auction. OKAA is the fish club for everyone!
What: The January 2012 OKC meeting featuring a virtual presentation by Morrell "Mo" Devlin, aka "AquaMojo" -- internationally known photographer of aquarium fish!
When: Saturday, January 14, 1:00 pm.
Where: OU Health Sciences Center Robert M. Bird Library auditorium (see map below).
Why: VirtualPresentation, chat, auction, raffle, and more!
Who: You! You do not need to be a member to attend or to participate in the auction. OKAA is the fish club for everyone!