Steve Poland here,
And last weekend I had the pleasure of attending my second cichlid conference of the year,
the Ohio Cichlid Association Extravaganza.
The OCA is regional but their event is one of the best in the nation and in my opinion
was even better than the ACA event I attended back in July.
It's always cool for a fish geek to enter a hotel lobby and see a bunch of display tanks.
They were part of a silent auction and really well done.
As expected, there was a large vendor room with a bunch of great people sharing their
knowledge and products.
Like Swiss Tropicals,
And these guys who had a lot of equipment for sale at great prices.
And this traveling fish bookstore is always worth a look.
There are tons of people selling fish out of their rooms,
and that's where I did most of my shopping,
but there were fish for sale in the vendor room as well,
including some really nice angels and discus.
I can't imagine trying to transport those to a show but they did it.
Imperial Tropicals was also on hand with some really nice african cichlids
but also some other stuff like these dojo loaches and tetras.
But I think you can guess what I spent the most time looking at.
Also in the vendor room were all of the fish that had been entered into competition.
Getting to see these fish was one of the highlights for me
so I'll stop talking for a minute and let you see as many of them as I was able to shoot.
Sorry about the glare.
There was a huge auction on Sunday but by that time I had already bought a bunch of
fish.
They all made it home safe and I'll be showing them to you in detail in an upcoming video.
Until next time, thanks so much for watching and please be sure to subscribe.
Have a good one!