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November 8, 2025

NOTE: Alternate location across the street at:

Glenallan Elementary School - All Purpose Room

12520 Heurich Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20902

Dave Schumacher of Dave's Rare Fish

Dave will be joining us in November to share his expertise with Cyprichromis and Paracyprichromis and other rare fish! (Food and refreshments will be available for purchase.)

  • Meeting from 1:00-4:30 PM
  • Setup from 12:30-1:00
  • Socializing 1:00-1:30 pm
  • Speaker at 1:30-2:30 pm
  • Break at 2:30-2:45 pm
  • Mini Auction at 2:45
  • Join us for an early dinner with Dave afterwards
Dave Schumacher

Dave Schumacher has been passionate about cichlids since the age of 16, with decades of hands-on experience in keeping, breeding,and sharing his knowledge of these remarkable fish. After working for several fish importers and retailers, he launched Dave's Rare Aquarium Fish in 2006, specializing in African cichlids. A founding member of the Hill Country Cichlid Club and now serving his fourth term on the board of the American Cichlid Association, Dave is a respected voice in the cichlid community, known for his expertise, dedication, and advocacy for responsible fishkeeping.

Dave is extending a fantastic Group Buy opportunity for our club! If you're interested in participating, send Dave an email at daves@davesfish.com and let him know your order is for the "CCA Group Buy" no later than Thursday, November 6, 2025. (Members Only).

If you're not a member Join Now and your membership will extend until the end of 2026! Note that the club will cover shipping costs for this group buy!

The following weekend, November 15, 2025 - STORE HOP!

Join us for an epic ride to three fantastic stores with your favorite aquarist friends for good conversation and an opportunity to see and buy cool fish!

We will meet at our usual meeting place:
John F. Kennedy High School - 1901 Randolph Rd, Wheaton, MD 20902, early Saturday November 15, 2025

  • We will visit three stores:
  • Fish and Friends in Hanover PA (enjoy a discount on your purchase and submit any fish requests on their Facebook page before November 3!)
  • Appalachian Reptiles and Aquatics in Hagerstown MD
  • Rick's Fish and Pet Supply in Frederick MD
  • Sign up for the hop on the November Hop Thread page by Wednesday November 12, 2025

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Tanks for the taking

Greetings,

I am hastily emptying my walkout basement for construction (origin story: a water change gone wrong many years ago! Lol) and need to move some tanks asap. I’ve already moved the fish.

- 90-gal.
- 120-gal. (2’ x 4’ footprint)
- 75-gal
- 29-gal.

(There’s also an Oceanic 135, if anyone is that brave . . . so heavy.)

The larger ones all have stands of some sort (one metal, one purchased, one constructed).

Also, a bit of rock (some purchased, some collected), fwiw.

I’m off Montrose Road (exit 4 on 270) in Rockville. Looking at a Sunday-Tuesday a.m. timeframe.

Thanks,
Steve

60g Aquarium

I have a 60g Aquarium 48in W, 24in H and 12in D that I recently cleaned out and available for pickup in Gaithersburg MD. One can have it for free, have a couple of Eheim canister filters too.
Please text me in case you need to see pics and I will post them.

Thanks
Tony

Tell me about Pelvicachromis kribensis

For anyone in the market, Londontowne has a ton of WC P. kribensis dehane and P. taeniatus(?) right now. I got myself a pair of the former. I overheard Andrew talking about them at the October meeting but I wasn't sure of his tag on here/didn't want to DM the wrong Andrew by accident. That aside, I have a general idea of their care but just want to hear from other people to make sure I'm doing it right + get tips on how to be more successful with breeding them. I've had kribs before but I'm a inherently more cautious with these since they're WC. They weren't too colored up at the store but behaviorally they were fine at 7.5-7.8 pH so that eases my anxiety a bit.

Looking for some air pump

would love to get 3-5 used air pump for my new tank

WTB feeders

Hi,

I'm mainly looking for guppy and endler culls to resupply my feeder fish colony. Will consider other fish that you don't mind becoming food.

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