Upcoming Meetings & Events Schedule:

• Oct 3 (Thursday - 7:30 Vet School): Thomas Narten. “Growing Plants- it can be easy” NOTE: no auction at this meeting, bring your stuff to the Sunday Fall Auction 3 days later!!! <span style="color:red">cardinals</span>

• Oct 6 (Sunday 10AM-5PM - Holiday Inn): Fall Auction at the Raleigh Holiday Inn.

• Nov 7 (Thursday - 7:30 Vet School): 2 short talks: Grace Romano on Fragging and TBD.

• Dec 2 (Thursday - 7PM Vet School): Holiday Party (bring dish to share), HAP and BAP awards presentations.

Past Events (2019):

• New Date: Sept 12 (Thursday 7PM - Vet School): Catered Social + Discussion Centers (Grace Romano on Reef tanks and Richard Mullinax on summer tubbing) + Wet Spot Group Buy pickup. Note: Meeting date moved one week due to Hurricane Dorian.

• Aug 3 (Saturday 10AM - Sertoma Park): Annual RAS Picnic + stream cleanup. Mark Denaro will do an aquascaping demo at 10am. After the demo, Michael Maieli will heat up the grill and serve lunch!

• Aug 2 (Friday): Local collecting trip, led by Gerald.

• Aug 1 (Thursday 7:30PM - Vet School): “Into the Labrynth,” by Mark Denaro. Mark will cover a wide range of anabantoids and related fish.

• July 31 (Wednesday at Hibernian Pub): “Nano Aquariums 101”, by Mark Denaro. Mark will cover freshwater nano aquariums including appropriate inhabitants.

• July 11 (Thursday 7:30PM - Vet School): “Commercial Aquaculture in the US,” by Jay Levine (Note: 2nd Thursday of month to avoid conflict with July 4)

• June 23 (Sunday 9AM-3PM - Holiday Inn): 2nd Annual Tag sale. Setup (sellers) 9-11, open to public 11-3.

• June 6( Thursday 7:30PM - Vet School): Chris Smith on “Fertilization in Planted Aquaria”, plus regular mini-auction.

• June 7 (Friday all day): “Local aquatic plant and fish Collecting Field Trip” led by Gerald Pottern

• June 8 (Saturday 1PM - Vet School): “How to to ID Aquarium Plants”, by  Gerald Pottern. Saturday session will also feature a mini-auction with focus on plants.  Participants can gather at NC CVM at 12:30pm.  Location of 11:30am lunch with speaker will be announced later. (Unfortunately the previously planned talk by Cavan Allan on “Identification of Native and Nursery Grown Aquatic Plants” will not take place; we hope to bring it at a future date.)

• May 2 (Thursday 7PM - Vet School): Catered Social + Discussion Centers + Wet Spot Order Pickup, "Water Quality Parameters" (Mark D Domanowski), “Aquarium Gadgets” (Thomas Narten) -NOTE: 7PM time

• April 4 (Thursday - Vet School): Mini-talks: "Native Collecting Trip Review" (Gerald Pottern), "Growing and Flowering Crypts Emersed" (Steve Perkins), “Raising shrimp, ” (Richard Mullinax), “Using Liquid Carbon,” (Makeila Cox)

• March 1-3, 2019: Annual Workshop/Auction @ Holiday Inn

• March 7 (Thursday - Vet School): Bob Schraedley on “Killifish - The Chromas & Kathetys”

• Jan 27 (Sunday - Holiday Inn) : RAS Tag Sale

• Feb 7 (Thursday - Vet School): “A Look at RAS Members’ Aquaria” (various)

• Jan 10 (Thursday - Vet School): Diana Walstad on “Small-Scale Guppy Breeding”

Past Events (2018):

• Dec 6 (Thursday - Vet School): Holiday Party (bring dish to share)

• Nov 1 (Thursday - Vet School): Three Mini Talks: Diana Walstad on “Raising Brine Shrimp”, Jamie Carr on “3-d Printing of Aquarium Parts” and Gabe Alrcon on “Marine Macroalgae: The Planted Reef”

• Oct 28 (Sunday 10AM-5PM - Holiday Inn): Fall Auction

• Oct 4 (Thursday - Vet School): Social with Sub Sandwiches + SIGs (Thomas Narten on “Inexpensive LED Lights”, Jon Hamm on “Breeding and Raising Baby Fish”, Gerald Pottern on “Catching and Keeping American Native Fish”)

• Sept 23 (for October delivery): Wet Spot Group Buy

• Sept 5 (Wednesday - Hibernian Pub): Ken Davis on How he has Kept and Bred over 1,000 Species. Have dinner and drinks at the Hibernian while we get together to talk fish. Ken’s presentation will be a Q&A discussion format for us to pick his brain on spawning and raising fry. He will also dazzle us with photos and interesting stories. It will be a fun evening!!

• Sept 6 (Thursday - Vet School): Ken Davis on His fish collecting adventures in South and Central America

• Sept 7 (Friday 10AM): Local Collecting Trip with Gerald Pottern

• August 2 (Thursday - Vet School): Dave Herlong on Malawi Cichlids

• August 4 (Saturday 11AM-3PM - Sertoma Park): Annual picnic (RAS supplies everything, bring dish to share)

• July 5 (Thursday - Vet School): Alex Scharnberg on West African Cichlids

• June 6 (Wednesday - Hibernian Pub): Special Guest Ted Judy speaks on "La Confluencia - the confluence of 3 important river systems in Columbia." Socializing/gathering @ 6:30, talk begins @ 7:30.

• June 7 (Thursday - Vet School): Special Guest: Ted Judy speaks on "Pretty Places - inspirations for beautiful aquascapes."

• May 3 (Thursday - Vet School 7PM): Pizza Social + Special Interest Group:

  • Note: Early start time of 7PM!!

  • David Herlong on African Cichlids

  • Richard Mullinax on Keeping Shrimp

  • Ticia Antinori on Beginning Plant Keeping

• May 5 (Saturday, noon - Shelley Lake Park): Leadmine Creek Cleanup (Adopt A Stream)

• April 4 (Wednesday - Hibernian Pub): Michael Barber on The Ultimate Fish Room

• April 5 (Thursday - Vet School): Michael Barber on Collecting in Peru

• April 6 (Friday - location TBD): Local Collecting Trip with Gerald Pottern

• March 24 (Saturday): Michael Maieli hosts RAS table at NCSU Vet School Open House

• March 1-5: 2018 Workshop & Auction

• Feb 1 (Thursday): Arielle Wright & Chris Sotherden on What's so Fancy About Goldfish?

• Jan 4 (Thursday): Mini presentations: Mark Domanowski on Breeding Black Worms, Allan Bryant on Water Treatment in NC: How it may Affect Aquariums, and Doug Brown on 2017 Spawnings by RAS Breeder of the Year