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If you’re a conservationist, you are probably aware of the Red List of threatened species that is produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). I have posted about it numerous times. You can search the blog for those posts. Just enter IUCN in either search tool.
When it comes to cichlids, Lake Victoria and its satellite waters have a story to tell. A fantastic website just launched that helps tell it.
If you have never read Cichlid News, consider subscribing. I have posted about the magazine several times. Though not a large serial in the normal sense – 4 issues per year and usually 6-7 articles per issue – it is high quality. It contains some of the most informative articles about cichlids I have ever read.
If you keep Lake Victoria cichlids, there is a new research initiative that could use your help. Called the CARES Fin Clip Genomic Study, the purpose of the effort (among other things) is to more accurately identify Lake Victoria cichlid species kept by hobbyists.
This past July at the annual American Cichlid Association (ACA) convention in Cincinnati, OH, I was introduced to Craig Storms. He is a bit of an outlier in the fish keeping hobby because he is the only long-time fish keeper I know who maintained multiple tanks before he was 10 years old. Since that time, he has mostly focused on cichlids, primarily Tanganyikans.
In July of this year, I attended the annual American Cichlid Association (ACA) Convention, which was held in Cincinnati, Ohio. As with every ACA convention, there is ample opportunity to meet fellow cichlid keepers and to even acquire fish. Registered attendees can sell fish at the convention and, historically, have done so out of their hotel room at the convention hotel. Yes, the sight of numerous tanks set up in hotel rooms is very interesting, to say the least.
At this year’s annual ACA convention in Cincinnati, I was able to meet many well-known cichlid keepers who I have not met. Never passing up an opportunity to score some new interviews, I eagerly searched out a few folks who I knew were attending.