Sat, Jan 6 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 4 pm
Monthly meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:30 pm Feature Presentation: Kevin Wilson"Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Biotope Aquarium: Dream tank realized"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
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Sat, Feb 3 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 4 pm
Monthly meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:45 pm Feature Presentation: Chris Teem "Discus"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
Sat, Mar 2 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 4 pm
Monthly meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:45 pm Feature Presentation: Christopher Scharpf "Adventures in Etymology"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
*** Sunday ***, Apr 7 | Green Acres Center | 10 am - 5 pm
Spring All-Day Auction
8:30 am Set-up
10:00 am Registration opens
10:30 am Tag sale opens
10:45 am Auction opens
4:00 pm Bidding winds down
5:00 pm Take-down
Sat, May 4 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 4 pm
Monthly meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:45 pm Feature Presentation: Placeholder"Placeholder"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
Sat, Jun 1 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 4 pm
Monthly Meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:45 pm Feature Presentation: Placeholder"Placeholder"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
Bowl Show & Indoor Picnic
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Register fish and set out hospitality buffet
1:30 pm Eat
2:00 pm Judging and admiring fish, voting for People's Choice
3:00 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Awards
4:30 pm More mini-auction and take-down
Sat, Jul 13 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 5 pm
Monthly meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:45 pm Feature Presentation: Placeholder"Placeholder"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
Sat, Aug 3 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 4 pm
Monthly meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:30 pm Presentation: Shelby Stensrud "Placeholder"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
Sat, Sep 7 | Green Acres Center | 1 - 4 pm
*** SATURDAY ***, Sep 21 | Green Acres Center | 10 am - 6 pm
Fall All-Day Auction
8:30 am Set-up
10:00 am Registration opens
10:30 am Tag Sale begins
11:00 am Auction opens
1:00 pm First raffle
3:00 pm Second raffle
5:00 pm Take-down
Annual Meeting
12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:25 Elections
1:45 pm Presentation: Placeholder "Placeholder"
3:00 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
Sat, Nov 2 | Green Acres Center | 12 - 5 pm
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Kevin Wilson
Kevin began fishkeeping at the age of 13. After Graduating High School, he worked his first job at the Barrier Reef Aquarium in Rockville, where he was introduced to the saltwater side of the hobby. It was then after purchasing his first blenny that he fell in love with the blennies, a genus of coastal fishes with interesting behaviors. While in college, he caught his first local blenny and became fascinated with a grad student’s experiment on striped blennies. This fascination led to his current dream, to keep local blennies in a setting close to their natural environment and resulted in his efforts to build a simulated oyster reef in a home aquarium. He’s also kept local native freshwater fish species in home aquariums for 43 years and is a member of the North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA).
Chris Teem
Chris Teem joined Capital Exotic Fish as its general manager. Over the past 20-plus years, Chris cultivated an intense passion for fish and aquarium development, service, and maintenance. His mentor, Dr. Robert J. Goldstein, taught Chris everything he knows about how to breed fish. Through Chris’ travels overseas, studying fish in their natural environments, and working for zoological societies, Chris has developed extensive aquarist knowledge and insights. Discus are his favorite fish and loves sharing his experience on what he has learned.
Christopher Scharpf
Since 2009, Christopher Scharpf has been working on The ETYFish Project (etyfish.org), the first and only reference to explain the derivations and meanings of the generic and specific names of all the fishes of the world. He also serves on the Committee on Names of Fishes, a joint committee of the American Fisheries Society and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; the Committee’s goals are to achieve uniform use of common names and avoid confusion in scientific names for all fishes from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Formerly, Chris was editor of American Currents, the quarterly publication of the North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA), from 1996 through 2008. He has also served on NANFA’s Board of Directors and as Membership Coordinator. Chris was named a NANFA Fellow in 2004. His articles, papers and book reviews have appeared in Tropical Fish Hobbyist, Aquarium Fish, Fishes of Sahul, Zootaxa, Fisheries, and Ichthyology & Herpetology.