Minnesota Aquarium Society


The online publication of the Minnesota Aquarium Society	Aquazine	Minnesota Aquarium Society since 1931

Table of Contents
Front Page Page 2 Non-Club Events List MNAquarium group MAS email list Club Info Who Are We Club Meetings Meeting Map Board Meeting Board Members Club Library BAP/HAP Programs Events Aquarium Show Rules Auction Rules Large Item Auction Form BAP News Rules Spawning Report Form Book Points Rules Bowl Show News Rules Entry Form HAP News Rules Propagation Report Form Library Listing			Galleries Paul Turley Photos Paul Turley Photos 2 More Flowers Movie - gobi.mpg MAS Show 2000 MAS Awards Live Food Talk Show 2001 (fish) Show 2001 pictures Jan 4, 02 at Ron Hanson's 2002 Darter Hunt August 2002 Events 2002 Show 2004 Show Pictures Page 1 2004 Show Pictures Page 2 2004 Show Pictures Page 3 2004 Show Pictures Page 4 2004 Show Pictures Page 5 2004 Show Pictures Page 6 2005 Show Pictures Page 1 2005 Show Pictures Page 2 Conversion Calculators Volume Linear Temperature Hardness Links MAS Member Sites Reviewed Sites Clubs and Societies Focus Groups Public Aquariums Library of Information Classified Ads List of Donors - Support the companies that help support MAS

Articles The Most Important Tip an Aquarist Can Take By Randy Carey Year-Round Care of Hardy Water Lilies By Heather M. Rosa How To Set The MAS Site As Your Home Page The Tadpole Madtom, Noturus gyrinus By Robin Engelking Reading Foreign Language Web Sites From the MAS E-Mail List Sexual Propagation of Crinum Americanum (Bog Lily) By Heather M. Rosa Hatching Rainbowfish Eggs By Gary Lange *Spawning Corydoras barbatus* By Ted Jolivette IN THE KILLIFISH HOBBY: "BIGGER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER" By Craig Rees We Don't Need No Stinkin' Map! By Willie Loh On Plants (Jan/Feb 1994) By Karl Schoeler Quiz 1 by Ken Ruzek, Jr. In Search Of The African Cryptocoryne By Karl Schoeler Collecting and Feeding Live Foods (Jan/Feb 1994) By Doris Sarslow** Characodon audax and the Goodeid Factory By Randy Carey 1996 Minnesota Aquarium Society's Collecting Trip by Kenneth V. Ruzek, Jr. Going, Going, GONE! By Barry Nab Dahl Fish Lip By Pete R. Zane Reproduction Method of the Glandulocaudins (a subfamily of the Tetras) By Randy Carey Cichlids of the New World Introduction and Part One -- Acaras. by Dean Hougen Just Add Salt (March/April 1998) By Barry Ardolf Cichlids of the New World An Unexpected Acara and Part II -- "High-bodied Acaras" By Dean Hougen Cichlids of the New World Part III -- Cichlids of North America (and Some Close Relatives) By Dean Hougen Cichlids of the New World Part IV -- Geophagines By Dean Hougen Cichlids of the New World Part V -- Miscellanious Genera and Conclusion By Dean Hougen Just Add Salt (May/June 1998) By Barry Ardolf Sturisomatichthys leightoni Dwarf Royal Farlowella By Barry Nab Dahl *Breeding Betta tussyae* By Ken Ruzek, Jr. Roseville Yeller Day By Sigrid Rademacher Three Darters Found in Minnesota Rivers By Doris Sarslow** Telmatochromis burgeoni (A Beautiful 2-inch Underwater Terror) By Ken Nordby Halfbeaks By Roger Fischer Plant Basics - Chemical Process By Anchor Sarslow Plant Basics - Plant Shapes and Types By Anchor Sarslow April 2000 Show Winners Automation in the Fishroom By Randy Carey Breeding Ancistrus sp.: Be careful what you ask for--you might get it. A BAP article By Robin Engelking Botia By Patty Marshik My Experiences Spawning Pelvicachromis Pulcher By Curt Brobst Is it Dead? By Stephanie Marshik Starting With Discus By Paul Methven Velvet Disease By Doris Haugsby Spawning Mops By Doris Haugsby Two Do-It-Yourself Filters By John Cavanaugh Eretmodus cyanostictus...A New Adventure By Diane Schreyer Experts and Other Fools By Roger Fischer Crenicichla regani: A Dwarf Pike Cichlid By Richard Smaciarz Spawning Cichlids in a Tanganyikan Bio-type By Chris Juvinall Nannostomus marginatus The Dwarf Pencilfish By Randy Carey Spawning Pseudocrenilabrus philander dispersus What Did I Do Right? By Jenny Kruckenberg Lotus Ponds By Heather M. Rosa Scientific Names By Anchor Sarslow See YOU at the Fish Show! Bring Your Fish - Have Some Fun By Chuck Mechtel First Time Show! By Robin Weber Live Food Cultures for Raising Fry By Anchor Sarslow Betta splendens By Anchor Sarslow April 2001 Show Winners *Keeping and Breeding Corydoras* Catfish and Their Relatives By Anchor Sarslow Fresh Water Mussels -- Better than a Rock By Robin Engelking Who's Ripping Me Off, and Why? By Barry Nab Dahl Going Native By Diana Roeder Tricks of the Trade By Willie Loh Raising Killifish Fry By Craig Rees** Tropheus moorii -- My Experiences By Robby Lucken *A Real 'Neet' Fish: Neetroplus nematopus* By Ken Nordby Collecting and Feeding Live Foods (Mar/Apr 1994) By Doris Sarslow Just add Salt (September/October 1998) By Barry Ardolf Memoirs of a Rip Van Winkle By Roger Fischer** A Quick Tip Mailing Fish By Jenny Kruckenberg A New Kind of Fish Store By Barry Nab Dahl Noturus Species of Minnesota By Robin Engelking On Plants (Mar/Apr 1994) By Karl Schoeler Artwork by Jenny Kruckenberg Rachoviscus crassiceps By Randy Carey Leaf Fish -- The Ultimate Camoflage Monocirrhus polyacanthus By Ken Nordby Not as Bad(is) as I Thought By Robin Engelking The "Ayes" Have it -- What a Fish Sees By Jenny Kruckenberg "P" is for Persistence A BAP arcticle By Brad Swanson Fish Learn from Their Mistakes, Too! By Doris Haugsby The Guppy Tank By Katie Levander Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow (What People Do Not Know About the Rosy Barb) By Pat Chowen *Breeding Dicrossus maculatus* The Spade-tail Checkerboard Cichlid By Randy Carey My First Year in Guppies By Mark Hauge Fish Suicide, or Mouth to Gill Resuscitation By Doris Sarslow Goodeids By Roger Fischer Writing a Business Plan (When the Hobby Gets Out of Hand) By Willie Loh Some of My Fish Room Blunders By Lenny Ancheta Good (and Bad) Beginner's Fish By Dean Hougen** Comparative Spawnings of Two Rasbora Species: R. trilineata and R. maculata By Randy Carey The Secrets of Discus - First of Three Parts By Willie Loh The Secrets of Discus - Second of Three Parts By Willie Loh The Secrets of Discus - Last of Three Parts By Willie Loh Mogurnda mogurnda - The Purple Spot Gudgeon By Doris Sarslow Xenotoca eiseni By Roger Fischer The Amazon Swordplant Origins, Identification and Care By Karl Schoeler *Spawnings of Pyrrhulina eleanorae* By Randy Carey** Nothobranchius guentheri Almost Guaranteed By Craig Rees Note from a New Member By S. Pritchard A Recipe to Success with Corydoras barbatus By Rich Smaciarz Shutting Down the Fishroom By Lenny Ancheta Life as an Embryo By Doris Sarslow A Book Review By Mike Evans To Bag, Or Not To Bag . . . Was That a Question? By Robin Engelking April 2004 Show Winners Newly Hatched Brine Shrimp for Killifish Breeders By Milo Squires Cyphotilapia frontosa By Bob Randall *Breeding Ancistrus temmincki* By Paul Overn My First MAS Experience Remembering January 1991 By Randy Carey Corydoras barbatus By Zach Wilson On Plants (May/June 1994) By Karl Schoeler Spawning Guianacara sp. "Red Cheek" By Anchor Sarslow A Routine for hatching and raising Nothobranchius fry By John N. Alegre Texas Cichlids By Bob Randall So You Need to Write a BAP Article? By Robin Engelking A Cardinal Shame? By Randy Carey** Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis: My Experiences with the Little Pucs By Zack Wilson On Plants (July/August 1994) By Karl Schoeler April 2005 Show Results So, Are You Just A Beginner? (Explaining some things in simple and often un-elegant terms) By Anchor Sarslow *Breeding Corydoras trilineatus* By Paul Garrity** Paretroplus dambabe: what is it? By Bob Randall A Fish by Any Other Name: Deciphering Scientific Names By Robin Engelking *Keeping and Spawning Neolebias trilineatus* By Randy Carey** Writing about Pencils.. .Where Do Pencils Come From?..Sharp Little Fish...Pencils Aren't Just for Writing.. .Playing with Pencils that Won't Poke Your Eyes Out...(Take Your Pick): Keeping and Breeding Nannostomus beckfordi By Zack Wilson *Care and Breeding of the Golden Lyretail Aphyosemion australe* By Troy Tjepkes A Fish Collecting Adventure-In Milwaukee By Mike Fries Collect and Feeding Live Foods (May/June 1994) By Doris Sarslow It's a Balancing Act By Paul Garrity Extravaganza By Bob Randall** Apistogramma borelli "The Blue Dwarf" By Ken Nordby *My Quest to Keep and Spawn the Barred Pencilfish Nannostomus espei* By Randy Carey Double the Lines, Double the Fun: Keeping and Breeding Apistogramma diplotaenia By Zack Wilson The Finer Points of Displaying Your Fish By John R. Berry Black Emperor Tetras Made Easy By Tim Rutz** Cryptocorynes - Give 'em a Chance By Anchor Sarslow *Spawning Uaru amphiacanthoides* By Cynthia Teague (and Dean Hougen) Cyphotilapia By Bob Randall "Minnesota Darter Hunt" By Jenny Kruckenberg** Copella nigrofasciata A "splash tetra" species By Randy Carey Tigers in Snail Shells . . . Oh my! By Zack Wilson Mylossoma duriventre By S. Pritchard "Betta Unimaculata" By Christopher Smith March 2006 Show Results *It Was a Dark and Stormy Night or How I spawned the Belontia signata. By Carter McAninch*