The Cichlid Room Companion

Ohio Cichlid Association Virtual Extravaganza 2020: Registration now open! The OCA will be holding an online version of the Extravaganza for 2020, on the traditional Extravaganza weekend. There may be some additions to this plan, such as a possible online Rare Fish Auction. For now, here’s a bullet...

OCA BAP Submissions during COVID! - Temporary Procedure! To keep members engaged with the club we would like to offer the ability to virtually submit spawns for the Breeder Awards Program. During this unprecedented time we would like to give hobbyists the ability to get credit for the proliferation ...

Hi, Dee! As you can see from the index, no-one has used this forum for a year, so we didn't think of posting anything here. As Sherry said, we voted to cancel the in-person event at our board meeting Saturday evening...things are going in the wrong direction, I'm afraid. We are kicking around ideas ...

Are you a member of the Ohio Cichlid Association? To access the Buy/Sell/Trade subforum, you can join on line or at our next meeting. https://www.ohiocichlid.com/shop/membership-9489 Meeting info: Friday, October 4 Middleburg Hts. Community Center 16000 Bagley Rd. Middleburg Hts, OH 44130 We meet on...

Thank you. We became aware of that problem during the swap. There will definitely be some changes made to next year's Swap Meet.

WE'RE on it.

Extravaganza 2018 Charley Grimes , who is an Extravaganza veteran (both as a speaker and an attendee), has been keeping fish for over 50 years. He maintains a fishroom of over 100 aquariums, filled mostly with cichlids and killies. His words: The mix of fish becomes more eccentric and eclectic as ti...

If you're not registered yet, now's a good time. T-Shirts and discount packages will not be available after Wednesday, October 31.

https://www.ohiocichlid.com/shop/2018-extravaganza-9488

Lawrence Kent Submitted Lawrence Kent works for a charitable foundation fighting hunger and poverty in the developing world. He hails from New Jersey, lives in Seattle, and travels frequently, for his job, to Africa and Asia. Lawrence takes advantage of his travels to look for interesting tropical ...

Hi, Zenin!

If there's a button to purchase, it's still available. If it's not there, it's sold.

Steve Grant photo.jpg Steven Grant Submitted Steven Grant is a UK aquarist who specializes in catfish and loaches. Steve has kept fish for 30 years, and the first fish he bought was an albino Corydoras aeneus. Ever since that moment he has been fascinated with the identity, taxonomy and nomenclatur...

Program Preview September, 2018 Mark Henry Sabaj Submitted Sabaj photo.jpg Raised in Brookfield, Illinois, Mark Henry Sabaj has a B.S. (1990) and M.S. (1992) from the University of Richmond, Virginia, and a Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His career in ichthyology beg...

OCA Extravaganza 2018 Schedule Friday, November 16 2:00 PM Registration, Show Room, Vendor Room open. 6:00 PM Willem Heijns : “Nicaragua: Searching for Cichlids” * 7:15 PM Charley Grimes : “Catfish, the Grimes Way”* 8:45 PM Steven Grant : “Catfishes of the Madre de Dios Region, Peru” * 10:00 PM Reg...

Extravaganza 2018 Friday, November16 6:00 PM Willem Heijns: “Nicaragua: Searching for Cichlids” 7:15 PM Charley Grimes: “Catfish, the Grimes Way” 8:45 PM Steven Grant: “Catfishes of the Madre de Dios Region, Peru” 10:15 PM Charley Grimes: “Dead Fish” (adults only) Saturday, November 17 9:00 AM Steve...

Birger Kamprath Submitted Birger Kamprath has been keeping fish of one form or another since the age of ten. Fifty years later this childhood hobby persists as strong as ever, and you will find many aquariums in his home. Most are dedicated to the Mochokid catfishes of Africa (which include Synodon...

Great list, Josh. I may be interested in a couple of those!

Newman Photo.jpg Lee Newma n, of Vancouver, Canada, has been keeping freshwater fish for over 40 years, and for many of those years has been working with Neotropical cichlids. Specifically, he spent many years studying the husbandry of cichlids of the genus Satanoperca. He has collected cichlids in...

OCA Program Preview May, 2018 Submitted Mueller photo cropped.jpg Charlie Mueller has been keeping fish for over 20 years now, and lives in the Pittsburgh area. Specializing almost exclusively on South American fish over the years, he has recently narrowed down his focus to catfish with sucker mouth...

Not this year. He did promise he'd be back next year, though.

We have finalized the roster of speakers for the 2018 Extravaganza! The specific topics of some of the talks, and the times of the individual presentations, are not yet determined. Willem photo.jpg Willem Heijns , an Extravaganza veteran from The Netherlands, has made it his mission to learn all he ...

There is now! Thanks for the nudge, Jim.