Aca Convention

mscichlid

mscichlid

Founder
Change of plans..flying straight there. Not showing fish and not participating in the photo show this year either.

Got the plan tickets, registered for the convention and hotel, doing the Shedd Tour. Yeah!

(As much as this software cost, are these the only smilies available? Where's the juggy jiggler?!)
 
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daniel4832

Guest
Francine,
I can understand you not taking fish, but why would you not enter photos :eek:
Thanks,
Daniel
 
mscichlid

mscichlid

Founder
Francine,
I can understand you not taking fish, but why would you not enter photos :eek:
Thanks,
Daniel
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I haven't taken anything new and probably won't attempt to. There'll be enough there, I'm sure. Besides, we have to let some of those other blokes win sometime! :D
 
fishfarm

fishfarm

Members
If Pats old, I'm in trouble. LOL, Your only as old as you think you are Pat,
Why not show a few fish and take them in your carry on or check a fish box as luggage. I check boxes all the time with Delta and when I came up to speak to y'all I had a very large pair of discus, and about a dozen other fish in my backpack as carry on. Screeners never look up. I checked the fish box too.
I'll be there Wendesday night, will have some or all of my kids and maybe the wife, she hasn't decided yet. I'll show about 20 fish and bring a bunch for sale. Ken
 
Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

CCA Member
Then your in trouble :p

If you have a CCA shirt. Please bring it.
I would like to see everyone wear it on the Saturday of the ACA
I would like people to know we are there. If they start walking around and seeing
10 - 15 shirts, they are going to start to wonder where they are.......
 
Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

CCA Member
Well, I am still trying to catch up on sleep after the convention.

It was the best one that I have been to so far. The show was huge and so was the vender room. I spent some money on a few things. I would guess the rental tank rooms had around 300 tanks in them.

I counted 13 CCA members in attendance at one point or another. Not bad.

The last two years I have been dissapointed in the side trips offered. This year I enjoyed both of them. The Shedd is great and Chicago is impressive.

The Babes auction Friday was big and a lot of fun. The Shedd aquarium donated hundreds of fish to that.

The auction on Sunday started at 9am with Kingfish doing dry goods. The fish auction started promptly at 10am and lasted until around 2am. I left at 1130 and there were hundreds of bags left. The rough est that I heard was 2000 bags of fish.

I picked up two types of fish in the auction and got them home with no problems.

Pictures will be around soon. I hope.

Pat
 
DeeCee

DeeCee

Members
I had a great time as well. I FINALLY was able to make it to an ACA convention & meet alot of people that I've been talking with for years online. Whew!
It was great to see some fish that I've never seen before also, and somehow, a few ended up in the tanks here...... Now how did THAT happen??? :unsure:

:D DeeCee
 
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AndyNarwhal

Members
Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

CCA Member
A few of my pictures from the convention.

Some fish
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The auction lasted forever.
It started with a friend of all clubs
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In the middle of the auction there was no rest for the weary.
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There were at least 2000 bags of fish. This was the first table out of like 10.
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The side trips were the best that I had participated in.
The first was a boat trip around the city. It was
raining but was still good.
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The second was to the Shedd.
We got some behind scene tours. Looking down from above the displays.
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And you though you made a lot of baby brine. I use 2 liter bottles. They think big.
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Found this flower growing out of a tank. I know, not a fish.
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Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

CCA Member
The rental tank room was actually 2 rooms. There had to be 400 tanks in there.
This shot shows 1/2 of one room.
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They gave away 6 or 7 tanks. This was the biggest.
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Hans was there with his set up.
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There were more vendors than I have seen in the past. Of course the main one was
Ray with his set up. You can see one of the Catfish convention posters in the back. There was another
one to the right that you can not see from this angle.
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Oh, here is the other one.
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And the Discus people gave out some awards after the ACA awards.
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Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

CCA Member
With all the pictures and everybody having a good time I did forget one thing. Daniel won class 16 Lamprologus with his Altolamprologus compressiceps. The picture is not good (sorry Daniel) It was a dark fish with a dark back ground and low lighting. excuses excuses. I know.
Congratulations Daniel!
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