HOTEL
RESERVATIONS
The official
hotel of the GPASI 2005 Fish Spectacular and Auction is the Comfort
Inn East (800) 230-8982, 699 Rodi Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15235. If you reserve a room before March 1, request the GPASI rate
of $65.99 (plus tax and fees). After March 1, regular room rates
will apply. www.comfortinnpittsburgh.com
For directions,
visit
the Comfort Inn "Find Us" page.
SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS AND SPEAKERS
Friday,
March 11
10 am Set up: table layout, main air lines, vendors, etc.
6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Registration of entries
7 p.m. GPASI Monthly Meeting at Comfort Inn East
Speaker: Pam Chin on Cichlids. Everyone welcome!
Saturday, March 12
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration of Entries
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fish Room Open to Public
12:30 Speaker: Steve Rybicki on Angelfish, Genetics, and
Breeding
2:00 Speaker: Pam Chin on Cichlids
4:00 Fish Room Closed for Judging
4:00 Speaker: Tullio Dell Aquila on Lighting
5:00 Speaker: Bill Shenefelt on Killies
7:00 Awards Banquet with speaker Pam Chin: A Trip to Lake
Tanganyika
Sunday, March 13
9 a.m. Buyer and Seller Auction Registration
9 a.m. Fish Room Open to Public
11 a.m. to finish Huge Auction
4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Show entries may be removed
BANQUET
Cash prizes and trophies
will be awarded at the awards banquet at the Comfort Inn Saturday
evening at 7:00.
The dinner will be $25.00
per person. Dinner includes buffet, dessert, coffee & soft drinks.
Please let us know if you plan to attend the awards banquet by sending
your name, address, city, state, zip, and number of dinners to Jim
Davidson, GPASI Treasurer.
Send check for total number of dinners ordered at $25.00 each. Make
check payable to GPASI. Mail to GPASI, c/o Jim Davidson, 1453 Woodbine
Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201.
Seating is limited, so
reserve your place soon.
SPEAKER
BIOS
Pam Chin
loves cichlids! She has been a tropical fish enthusiast for many
years and cichlids are her passion. In their fish house, Pam and
her husband Gary currently maintain over 200 aquariums filled with
cichlids from Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi and Central America.
Pam is an Honorary Life Member of the Pacific Coast Cichlid Association
(PCCA) and currently the editor of the PCCA's award winning publication,
Cichlidae Communique. Pam has been a long time member of the American
Cichlid Association and in the past has served as Secretary and
Chairman for Board of Trustees. In July 2001 she received the inaugural
honor of the “Ida Mellen National Leadership Award For Women
Aquarists.” As a true hobbyist, Pam is also a member of many
regional cichlid clubs as well as the Sacramento Aquarium Society
and the San Francisco Aquarium Society. She is a founding member
of “Babes In The Cichlid Hobby” where they try to make
a difference in cichlid keeping, by raising money for cichlid research
and cichlid conservation. She has traveled to collect and observe
cichlids in their natural habitats in Mexico and Africa. Pam's day
job is working as a purchasing agent for a large mechanical contractor
in Sacramento, CA. You can read Pam's articles at www.cichlidae.com.
Tullio Dell Aquila is head of new product development
and founding partner of Aquatic Research and Development located
in Utica, New York. ARAD is a manufacturer and developer of aquarium
products specializing in advanced high power solid state lighting
systems. Tullio has spent over a decade focusing on the importance
of proper lighting techniques for aquariums and developing much
of the technology they are now producing today. Tullio has been
an avid reef aquarium hobbyist for over fifteen years. With an extensive
technical background, he initially started out researching, testing,
and developing products for various companies in our industry. After
years of testing and helping to develop products for other companies
he partnered with Joe Cattadoris and Andy Cleary, both highly accredited
in the manufacturing industries, to form Aquatic Research and Development.
Today Tullio spends most of his time developing and testing new
lighting formats for various industries as well as designing lighting
systems and other related products for some top companies in our
own industry. Among his numerous accomplishments is the 2001 Northeast
Council of Aquarium Societies' award for both best article on his
super bacteria theory and best column "Today's Reef Aquarium"
in the publication Aquatica. He will lecture on LED lighting technologies
for the aquarium industry and how these techniques can benefit any
type of aquarium. He will also be discussing some of the new lighting
formats we can look forward to in the future. You can visit his
company's website:
www.aquaticresearchanddevelopment.com.
Steve Rybicki has been breeding angelfish professionally—full-time,
for a living, 14 hours a day for the past 16 years. His business
is called Angels Plus. For 16 years before he went into full-time
business, he was breeding angelfish as a serious hobbyist, so he
brings more than 30 years of experience to his presentations. You
can visit Steve's website at www.angelsplus.com.
Bill Shenefelt is a member of GPASI, a dedicated
killie breeder, and a wonderful fish photographer. Shene will provide
an introduction to killifish keeping for the general aquarist. He'll
talk about getting started with killies, keeping them, and breeding
them, with an emphasis on non-annual species. He'll teach us about
water, foods, tanks, and other needs for killies and will show fishroom
photos, tank photos, and fish photos. Shene started keeping killies
when he was in grade school in the early 1950's, and re-entered
the killie hobby twice, once in the late 60's lasting through early
70's and then again in 1999. He refilled his 30 tanks from the 70's,
and his operation grew to about 230 tanks and 65 to 70 species at
present. He ships fish all over the US and eggs all over the world.
You can visit Shene's website at www.sheneskillies.com.
For more information
about the 2005 Fish Spectacular, visit these pages:
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Rules
Auction
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