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Adult Fish Show 6th May 2018
Yet again, we had a good lot of members and potential new members come along for our annual Adult Fish Table Show, that also included the Bluest and Prettiest fish awards. The Adult Fish Show was judged to Nationwide Standards. The BEST IN SHOW award went to Andrew Barton with his owner bred Lionhead. Â …
OVERCROWDING – Paying the price
Many experienced breeders have been guilty of overcrowding in the past and paid the price, with fish not developing and losing condition, or worse dying. Goldfish need a lot more space than tropical fish! Brian Bates has written a short article, aimed at those who are inspired to breed their own exhibition quality goldfish for…
March meeting with talk by Tony Roberts
Apparently our meeting was booked on Mothering Sunday this year – a mistake not to be repeated! Tony’s talk was about his general experiences and enecdotes on a long lifetime of fish keeping. Topics covered included; Beginning Fishkeeping, Potential dangers of daphnia collection and cultivation and getting ready for spawning. Contemporaneous notes of the meeting,…
Preparations for early spawning
Brian Bates has very kindly written up some very informative notes, mainly directed at newer members with limited experience, who wish to breed from their fish for the first time. Brian states that early spawning is an option but he prefers to spawn his fish late April or early May. Full notes in our January…
BAS Open Show 3rd September 2017
This year the show was held at the new venue in Hengrove Community Centre, where we were not to be dissapointed. It was a well set out venue with plenty of room for everyone, plenty of parking, spacious kitchen and show hall and even an annexe where the auction was held. The show was well…
AMGK Baby Fish Show 13.8.17
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Chairman’s Open House Day 23rd July 2017
It had been a few years since we had an open day at the Chairman’s home in Telford, Shropshire, largely due to periodic water trouble causing heavy losses of young and older fish alike. Fortunately, 2017 proved to be one of the better years so the open day happened in glorious sunshine by the time…
NEGS Open Show 16th July 2017
BEST IN SHOW BEST OWNER BRED EXHIBIT BEST MEMBERS EXHIBIT Won by Alan Race with a splendid Tosakin Full results and photos in our JULY 2017 Newsletter
