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Welcome to March everyone. The month where mother nature can never make up her mind. We have been lucky so far in previous months and have had a very mild winter, but this March seems to be coming in like a lion with a few more winter storms sneaking in as spring is trying to poke its nose into the weather as well. Pretty soon it will be beautiful out and many of our members will be anxious to get outside and get our ponds back up and running.
If you’re not a pond person and prefer working in your fish room, this months speaker Udo Rohmann may be just the presentation your looking for. Udo will be joining us from the Durham Region Aquarium Society to give us a talk on how to build and design a fish room in your house. He will discuss all the ins and outs of how to properly construct or renovate your current fish room.
For the month of March our Jar Show continues with the fish of the month category being Swords, Platys and Mollies and the open categories for junior and adult members are also available to try out. We encourage all members to participate in this fun competition between each other. So don’t forget to bring your fish in to possibly win a ribbon and earn points that tally up at the end of the year to see who has shown the nicest fish for the year.
Don’t forget that our newsletter editor is continually looking for articles or photos from members to publish in the SCAT. If you have anything that you would like to contribute to our newsletter, please contact Pat Shriner with your submissions. All content may be sent to pshriner17@gmail.com .
Anyone wishing to join our BAP and HAP programs are more than welcome. If interested, rules and application forms will be available at the meetings. These programs are a fun way to earn certificates for breeding or plant cultivation as well as being known across Canada and the United States through CAOAC for your accomplishments.
Remember we now run a small canteen at each meeting. So skip the run to Tim Hortons as we have pop, coffee and multiple types of tea as well as some small bags of chips for a purchase. All proceeds from our canteen, go directly to the club to help support the cost of speakers and events. With every item purchased from the canteen, you will receive a ballot to win a small prize at the end of each meeting. All ballots that have been filled out throughout the year, will be kept until the end of the year meeting for a larger prize to thank you for supporting our canteen.
One last announcement is that we are no longer in the same room at the Lions Club. Since our club is growing in membership size we have had to get a bigger room to accommodate everyone. We will now be in the larger hall in the same building. So, instead of entering on the right side of the building, where we usually do, we ask you to enter on the left side of the building to access the larger hall where we had previously held our fall auction. I look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting on Monday, March 13. Please remember doors open at 7:00 PM and our meeting commences at 7:30 PM.
The club's monthly newsletter is called the "SCAT". It contains a myriad of information including: meeting highlights, articles written by members about breeding fish, growing plants, etc..., information about our sponsors and so much more!
An afternoon would be well-spent looking over past editions and members greatly look forward to receiving the monthly copy via e-mail.
If you enjoy writing, please consider contributing to the newsletter. Articles about fish that you have kept or bred, funny or interesting aquatic experiences or related topics are great for the "SCAT". Likewise, if you enjoy drawing, please consider submitting a cartoon or illustrations of plants or fish; it's great fodder for the newsletter and will be appreciated by our editor and enjoyed by many readers. If you would like to contribute to The SCAT contact Pat Shriner VIA our contact section.
Did you know that "SCAT" is not an acronym for anything, but rather pays homage to the Scatophagus fish, which is on the club's emblem. This fish is also known as the "scat". just a bit of club trivia!
To view current and past newsletters, please click below
Feel free to bring any of your fish to show as there will be The Fish Of The Month, Adult Open and Junior Open classes to compete in. Good Luck
Every month we hold a mini auction at the end of each of our general meetings. Also we hold semi annual fall and spring public auctions. To learn more click below.
732 Niagara St. St. Catharines Ont
Meeting
Presentation
- Anes Hotic
How To Design And Build A Paludarium.
Jar Show
- Fish Of The Month Is Antibantids
(Including Gouramis & Be...
732 Niagara St. St. Catharines Ont
732 Niagara St. St. Catharines Ont
Meeting
Presentation
-Oscar Virgilio
“Brackish Water Fish & Aquariums”
Jar Show
- Fish Of The Month Is Guppies
Raffles
- Door Prize
- 50/50
- Prize...
732 Niagara St. St. Catharines Ont
732 Niagara St. St. Catharines Ont
Meeting
Election
Presentation
Teresa Hunter
- Aqueon Product Showcase
Jar Show
- Fish Of The Month Is Corys, Catfish & Plecos
Raffles
- Door Prize
-...
732 Niagara St. St. Catharines Ont
In the children’s reading section at the downtown library location the society takes care of a tank for the children. Many thanks to Phil and Cindy for taking care of this so that the children may have enjoyment seeing the fish.
Each and every year around Christmas time the club gathers up money from the club and it’s members for community care and makes a yearly donation to the organization. If you wish to make a donation please click the link below to learn how you can help.
Click below to access links to our sponsors websites and Facebook pages
Meetings are held the 2ND Monday of every month at 7:00pm September to June. (Meetings that fall on a holiday will be rescheduled to the 3RD Monday of that month.)
732 Niagara Street, St. Catharines, Ontario L2M 7W7, Canada
St. Catharines and Area Aquarium Society
732 Niagara Street, St. Catharines, Ontario L2M 7W7, Canada
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