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Featured Articles

05-2007 1.2M
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • My Ongoing War with Snails
  • Cichlid Ramblings
03-2007 1.6M
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • On The Move: Disaster Prevention
  • Breeding Geophagus sp. Tapajos “Orange Head”
  • The African Rift Lakes Part 1
    Lake Victoria: Troubled Waters
  • Cichlid Ramblings
January 2007 01-2007 1.1M
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Aggression Defined – A Cichlid with Many Names
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Lake Malawi: Darwin’s Playground
Nov 06 Cover 11-2006 1.2M
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Are you a hoser?
  • End of Summer Picnic
09-2006 1.1M
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Blair Witch Project
  • ACA Demographic Map
  • Web Resources
  • Show Winners from ACA 2006
  • Cichlid Ramblings
07-2006 1.08M
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Frontosa Keeping My Way
  • TFH ACA All-Stars On-Line Chat
  • Trivia Time
  • Cichlid Ramblings
05-2006 1.05M
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Things I Have Learned in the Past Five Years as an Active Hobbyist
  • Foods and Feeding
  • Cichlid Ramblings
03-2006 875K
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Holiday Party Snapshots
  • Bring them Outside with You
  • Cichlid Ramblings
January 2006 Cover
01-2006 719K
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Cichlidiom
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Suggestion for Revised BAP Rule: Points for Populations/Morphs
November 2005 Cover
11-2005 613K
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Cichlidiom
  • BAP Wrap-up for 2005
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Husbandry and captive reproduction of a recent import from the Peruvian Amazon
  • News, Notes and Nonsense for MMVI
09-2005 642K
  • Presidents Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Meeting Minutes
  • FAAS Publications Awards
  • Cichlidiom
  • Psuedothropheus Elongatus “Chewere”
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Haplochromis sp ‘blue fire fin’–Blue Fire Fin Breeder Report
07-2005 541K
  • President’s Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • New Members
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Bowl Show
  • Mr. Fish Man
  • Cichlidiom
  • Classic Auction Re-Cap
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • 2005 Greater Chicago Classic Cichlid Classic Results
05-2005 1.7MB
  • President’s Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Membership Report
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Bowl Show Results
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • DNA Analysis of Cichlids from the Lake Victoria Area
  • CICHLIDIOM
03-2005 1MB
  • President’s Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Bowl Show
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Archocentrus sp “Honduran Red Point” A Convict, Or Not?
  • CICHLIDIOM
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Fishroom Photos
January 2005 Chatter 01-2005 782K
  • President’s Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • December Board Meeting Minutes
  • Correspondence from the Secretary
  • November 2004 Bowl Show Results
  • Spawning Thoricthys meeki—The Firemouth Cichlid
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Fish Room Poetry
  • Holiday Party Award Photos
  • Editor's Message
November 2004 Chatter 11-2004 845 K
  • Membership Report
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Bowl Show Results
  • President’s Message
  • Correspondence from the Secretary Editor’s Message
  • Breeding Neolamprologus Caudopunctatus “Red Fin”
  • Successfully Raising Sciaenochromis Fryeri - Finally
  • Cichlid Ramblings My Life As a Fish Wife!
  • 2004 ACA ConventionMembership Report
September 2004 Chatter 09-2004 1.4 MB
  • Membership Report
  • Board Meeting Minutes
  • General Meeting Minutes
  • Bowl Show Editor’s Message
  • What’s New & News in West Africa
  • Breeding Hemichromis letourneauxi
  • Correspondence from the Secretary
  • Cichlid Tidbit
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Breeding Neolamprologus “Gold” Ocellatus
  • Photos from the Shedd AquariumMeeting Minutes
July 2004 Chatter 07-2004 1.0 MB
  • Membership Report
  • May/June Bowl Show Results
  • President’s Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Spawning Parachromis Motaguensis
  • Cichlid Classic Speaker Review
  • Cichlid Ramblings 2004 GCCA
  • Cichlid Classic Show Awards
  • GCCA 2004 Cichlid Classic PhotosBowl Show Results
05-2004 1.1 MB
  • Husbandry of Julidochromis marlieri
  • Spawning Hypselecara temporalis
  • The Growth of the Swap Meet
  • Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus, a Rainbow Eartheater Breeder Report
  • Pikeology: A Hobbyist’s Guide To Some Technical Terms
  • Florida Fish Farm Fun
  • Cichlid Classic 2004
  • The Fish of the GCCA BAP Program
  • Seconding the “First BAP”
  • Cichlid RamblingsCichlid Ramblings
March 2004 Cichlid Chatter Cover 03-2004 1.1 MB
  • Cyprichromis leptosoma & Paracyprichromis nigripinnis
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • The People of BAP from 1999 to 2003
  • Techniques for Aquarium Photography
  • How Does It Work?DNA Analysis of Cichlids from the Lake Victoria Area
January 2004 Chatter

01-2004

1.1MB

  • How To Have A Great Auction
  • Donating Sponsors
  • African Shell dwellers: A Tough Nut to Crack
  • Cichlasoma istlanum
  • The Breeding and Maintenance of Aulonocara sp. "Tangerine"
  • A Case for Mini’s
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Writing ArticlesCICHLIDIOM
November 2003 Chatter

11-2003

716K

  • A Diamond In The Rough
  • Oreochromis Tanganyikae
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • The Care and Feeding of Your Aquarium Club
  • Power Usage in the Fish Room
September 2003 Chatter

09-2003

1021K

  • President’s Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Apistogramma pertensis
  • Living Art
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Wrapping It Up
July 2003 Chatter thumbnail

07-2003

708K

  • 2003 Speaker Program
  • Club News
  • President’s Message
  • Editor’s Message
  • Breeding Whatever-ya-call-Estherae
  • A Trip to Germany
May 03 Chatter thumbnail

05-2003

866K

  • Editor’s Message
  • Captain Dow’s, Most Handsome, Rainbow-Bass-Like, Wolf Cichlid
  • A Visit With Lee Newman
  • Dimidiochromis compressiceps
  • Lamprologus similis
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • The Classic Chairman’s Corner
  • Bowl Show Results
March 03 Chatter thumbanil

03-2003

656K

  • Club News
  • Spawning Cardiopharynx shoutedeni
  • Bowl Show Results for 2002
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Chicago Area Shop Hop
  • Cichlid Exchange
January 03 Cichlid Chatter

01-2003

1.0 MB

  • 2003 Speaker Program
  • Club News
  • Lamprologus multifasciatus
  • Fish Keeping
  • Holiday Party Pictures
  • BAP 2002 Update
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Retro Chatter
November 2002 Cichlid Chatter

11-2002

621K

  • Parapetenia Salvini
  • Breeding Altolamprologus calvus
  • Amphilophus Labiatum or Citrinellum
  • Cichlid Care & Breeding (My Way!)
  • Adding by Dividing
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Why Hobbyists Should Write For Their Club Publication
  • Christmas Time at the Old Fish Farm
  • Retro Chatter
  • African Mouthbrooders for the Begining Aquarist
Chatter September 02 Pic

09-2002

820K

  • Diary of a New Cichlidaholic
  • Amphilophus citrinellus — Red Devil
  • He Said She Said
  • Petrotilapia sp Nkhata Bay "Small Blue?
  • Copora nicaraguense Nicaragua Cichlid?
  • Magnetic Linear Piston Pumps
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Retro Cichlid Chatter
  • Spawning Lamprologus tetracanthus- II
  • It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask
July 2002 Cover Pic

07-2002

803K

  • Cichlid Classic 2002 Show Winners
  • First Place Winners
  • Classic Photo Montage
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Retro Cichlid Chatter
  • Spawning Trohpheus duboisi
  • Milwaukee Shop Hop
May 2002 Ciclid Chatter

05-2002

291K

  • New Hybrid Cichlid - Flower Horn
  • Pelviachromis subocellatus
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • GBAS Fish Show and Auction
  • BAP Mid-Year Update
  • Cichld Exchange
March 2002 Cichlid Chatter

03-2002

302K

  • The GCCAs Parrot Cichlid Award
  • Second Class Citizens?
  • CCCC Report
  • Club News
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Otopharynx sp. "Blue Otter"
  • Whats Up Fish Doc
  • Tangianyikan Talk
  • ACA 2001: ACichlid Odyssey Part Two
  • Thorichthys aureus "Blue"
January 2002 Cichlid Chatter Picture

01-2002

305K

  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Cichlosoma dovii
  • Neolamprologous gracilis
  • Breeding Julidichromis
  • BAP 2001
  • GCCA Awards 2001
November 2001 Chatter Picture

11-2001

314K

  • Exchange Column
  • Cichlid Ramblings
  • Discus Breeding for the Beginner
  • Cichlid Exchange
  • Sponsor Thanks
  • BAP Update
Click for September 2001 Cichlid Chatter PDF

09-2001

896K

  • Cichlid Classic Sponsors!
  • Cichlid Sightings
  • Exchange Column
  • Breeding Enantiopus melanogenys
  • Discus Breeding for the Beginner
  • My Favorite Cichlid Book
  • Cichlid Exchange
  • Breeding C. nigrofasciatum
  • ACA 2001: Cichlid Odyssey
  • Cichld Classic 2001 Review
Click for July 2001 Cichlid Chatter PDF

07-2001

1.20 MB

  • Cichlid Sightings
  • Wet/Dry Filter Alternatives
  • GCCA Sponsors
  • Aulonocara maisoni
  • Breeding Cyprichromis leptosoma
  • 2001 Cichlid Classic Pictorial
  • My Biggest Fishroom Screw-up
Click for May 2001 Cichlid Chatter PDF

05-2001

1.30 MB

  • Ultimate Shell Dweller Tank
  • Humble Experiment, Part 2
  • Getting into Hot Water
  • Central American Cichlidom
March 2001 Cichlid Chatter

03-2001

1.20 MB

  • Exochromis anagenys
  • Fishy Floridians- catching cichlids in Florida
  • Aquaricare Interview
  • Discus Study Group Interview
  • Spawning Protomelas similis
  • Central American Cichlidom Nandopsis hatiensis
  • Tanganyikan Talk
January 2001 Cover Picture

01-2001

1.45 MB

  • Breeding Cichlasoma nicaraguense
  • Tanganyikan Talk: Cyprichromis
  • The Robustus Bass
  • Spawning P. insignus
  • The Most Difficult Cichlids GCCA Members Discuss the most problematic fish
November 2000 Cover Picture

11-2000

1.78 MB

  • A Trip to Two Florida Aquariums
  • Don't Know What You Got Until it's Gone
  • How I Make Sponge Filters
  • Why does my fish swim funny?
  • Where have all the fishes gone?
  • A Humble Experiment
  • Spawning Lamprologus ocellatus "gold"
  • A Water Changing Aid
September 2000 Cover Picture

09-2000

1.4MB

  • Tanganyikan Talk: How to ship fish
  • Cichlids of Lake Tanganyika
  • Interview with Ad Konings
  • Throw out Your Cichlids (into a pond)
  • How to Speed Up Water Changes: Utility Pump Review
July 2000 Chatter Cover Picture

07-2000

1.7MB

  • Breeding L. meleagris
  • Throwing the Discus
  • The Planted Tank,Part III
  • Raising Discus
  • Breeding Mesonautus festivum
  • How to Keep Fish
  • Healthy Fish
  • Book Excerpts from Terry Fairchild
  • Cichlid Classic 2000 Pictorial
May 2000 Chatter Cover Picture

05-2000

1.4MB

  • The Man Who Wrote Notes
  • Breeding Pseudotropheus demasoni
  • Six Hours to a Little Haven
  • The Planted Tank, Part II
  • Breeding Cichlasoma citrinellum
  • Success with Sword Plants
March 2000 Chatter Cover Picture

03-2000

1.1 MB

  • Breeding Melanochromis johanni
  • My Favorite Tank
  • Tanganyikan Talk
  • The Planted Tank
  • Cichlids á la Gian
  • Corey s Travelogue
January 2000 Chatter Cover Picture

01-2000

867K

  • Replacing Baby Brine Shrimp with Cyclop-Eeze
  • BIO-Wheel Product Reviews
  • Breeding Neolamprologus multifaciatus
  • Breeding Labidochromis perlmutt
  • The Texas Cichlid
  • The Creeping Bungee!
November 1999 Chatter Cover Picture

11-1999

820K

  • ACA Convention Diary
  • Tanganyikan Talk
  • Breeding the Red Spot Cichlid
  • Breeding Petrotilapia nkhata "small blue"
  • Tough Kid on the Block
  • Rock Cichlids
September 1999 Chatter Cover Picture

09-1999

812K

  • Cichlid Sightings
  • Fluidized Bed Filtration
  • Tanks and the Hobby
  • ACA Convention Diary
  • Tanganyikan Talk
  • Hunt for Telmatochromis brichardi: II
July 1999 Chatter Cover Picture

07-1999

1.3MB

  • Breeding Neolamprologus gracilus
  • Tanganyikan Talk
  • A Far East Discus Tour
  • Cichlid Classic Round Up
  • The Hunt for Telmatochromis brichardi I
May 1999 Chatter Cover Picture

05-1999

1.4MB

  • Shop Hop Report
  • Supplementing Artemia
  • Mundane Fishroom Help
  • A Fish Named Psycho
  • Cichlasoma bifasciatum
March 1999 Chatter

03-1999

946K

  • Newbies Observations
  • Breeding the Red Bay Snook
  • Inexpensive Tank Covers
  • Breeding Nelamprologus multifasciatus
  • Six Questions with Ad Konings
  • Breeding Cichlasoma trifasicatus
January 1999 Chatter Cover Picture

01-1999

875K

  • Selection and Use of a Microscope for Aquarists
  • Breeding Labidochromis sp.perlmutt
  • Lake Alberts Haplochromis Sp. Yellow Belly
  • I Love Mulm
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