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Click to Download	Date	Size	Featured Articles from the Issue
	07-2008	2.1M	President’s Message Editor’s Message In Remembrance Minutes Cichlid Ramblings Ich and How To Deal With It 2008 GCCA Ciclid Classic Photos
	05-2008	1.5M	President’s Message Editor’s Notes Meeting Minutes 2008 Milwaukee Shop Hop Electricity and Your Aquarium Cichlid Ramblings 2008 Cichlid Classic Schedule 2008 Cichlid Classic Show Classes & Info 2008 Cichlid Classic Auction Rules 2008 Cichlid Classic Show Rules
	03-2008	1.4M	President’s Message Editor’s Message Bowl Show Results Meeting Minutes Cichlid Ramblings BAP Summary Wrap-Up for 2007 2007 Holiday Party Gallery
	01-2008	1.1M	President’s Message Editor’s Message Bowl Show Results Meeting Minutes Chichlasoma Octofasciatum “Jack Dempsey” in a 10-Gallon Tank Cichlid Ramblings
	11-2007	1.4M	President’s Message Editor’s Message Bowl Show BAP Report Meeting Minutes My experience with Power Back Filters Cichlid Ramblings The Link between having a Fish Room and being Peculiar? GCCA – ACA CARES Program
	09-2007	1.4M	President’s Message Editor’s Message Bowl Show If You Know Them, Then Pressure Them to Return! Meeting Minutes Breeding Gambusia affinis GCCA – ACA CARES Program Cichlid Ramblings
	07-2007	850K	Editor’s Message Bowl Show Results Membership Report Meeting Minutes Auctions Cichlid Ramblings The Altolamprologus of Tanganyika Cichlid Classic 2007 Review
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	09-2003	1021K	President’s Message Editor’s Message Apistogramma pertensis Living Art Cichlid Ramblings Wrapping It Up
	07-2003	708K	2003 Speaker Program Club News President’s Message Editor’s Message Breeding Whatever-ya-call-Estherae A Trip to Germany
	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
	03-2003	656K	Club News Spawning Cardiopharynx shoutedeni Bowl Show Results for 2002 Cichlid Ramblings Chicago Area Shop Hop Cichlid Exchange
	01-2003	1.0 MB	2003 Speaker Program Club News Lamprologus multifasciatus Fish Keeping Holiday Party Pictures BAP 2002 Update Cichlid Ramblings Retro 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
	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
	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
	05-2002	291K	New Hybrid Cichlid - Flower Horn Pelviachromis subocellatus Cichlid Ramblings GBAS Fish Show and Auction BAP Mid-Year Update Cichld Exchange
	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"
	01-2002	305K	Cichlid Ramblings Cichlosoma dovii Neolamprologous gracilis Breeding Julidichromis BAP 2001 GCCA Awards 2001
	11-2001	314K	Exchange Column Cichlid Ramblings Discus Breeding for the Beginner Cichlid Exchange Sponsor Thanks BAP Update
	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
	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
	05-2001	1.30 MB	Ultimate Shell Dweller Tank Humble Experiment, Part 2 Getting into Hot Water Central American Cichlidom
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	03-2000	1.1 MB	Breeding Melanochromis johanni My Favorite Tank Tanganyikan Talk The Planted Tank Cichlids á la Gian Corey s Travelogue
	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!
	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
	09-1999	812K	Cichlid Sightings Fluidized Bed Filtration Tanks and the Hobby ACA Convention Diary Tanganyikan Talk Hunt for Telmatochromis brichardi: II
	07-1999	1.3MB	Breeding Neolamprologus gracilus Tanganyikan Talk A Far East Discus Tour Cichlid Classic Round Up The Hunt for Telmatochromis brichardi I
	05-1999	1.4MB	Shop Hop Report Supplementing Artemia Mundane Fishroom Help A Fish Named Psycho Cichlasoma bifasciatum
	03-1999	946K	Newbies Observations Breeding the Red Bay Snook Inexpensive Tank Covers Breeding Nelamprologus multifasciatus Six Questions with Ad Konings Breeding Cichlasoma trifasicatus
	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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