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QLDFAS convention last weekend


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Back from Brisbane and the QLDFAS convention 

great day of talks from some excellent speakers and truly nice people

I highly recommend you consider attending one of these when they come up

Speakers were

Leo O'Reilly from Toowoomba on Rhadinocentrus rainbows 

Matt McGee from Monash University via California on feed techniques in fish and one on shrimps

Spencer Jack from Canada on Fish Farms and one on being a Cichlidiot

I've seen Spencer speak on 5 occasions and it's always a great presentation

Jim Cumming from Canada first time in Australia and has a facebook page that makes you go oooooohhhh

He spoke on Madagascan cichlids and one on South Americans

this was the first time Jim has been to Australia but I don't think it will be his only time

Many thanks to the people that put this together and so good to see my old mates up there that are still pushing the hobby

NSW we represented great to see the NSWCS Sydney and Illawarra people making up a large portion of the audience

 

Stay tuned for 2019 NSWCS meetings as we are looking to have

Matt McGee speak on a topic and date to be confirmed 

Matt did his post-doctoral work with Dr Ole Seehausen on Victorian cichlids and I'm told his Lake Victoria Cichlids: Speciation, Extinction

and Recovery is not to be missed

Pencil in November 2019 because we will be working on Jim Cumming returning to Australia for a full night with 2 talks 

 

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I was just looking at his page and read something amusing.

He says he has 30 fry from fish sourced in OZ...... Marbled Vieja fenestrata........Did he fly home with them in his luggage?

 

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Not every country is anal with import laws......

I once brought back Rainbows from PNG in my luggage.....declared them and given all clear

That was about 40 years ago.....long before current restrictions 

It would be illegal now....they would be confiscated and destroyed

 

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1 hour ago, Rod54 said:

Not every country is anal with import laws......

I once brought back Rainbows from PNG in my luggage.....declared them and given all clear

That was about 40 years ago.....long before current restrictions 

It would be illegal now....they would be confiscated and destroyed

 

Australia is also pretty anal when it comes to exporting animals, he wouldn't have been allowed to export them without a permit if it was a native species.

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