June Monthly Meeting

12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:30 pm Feature Presentation: Scott Seronello
"Tanganyikan Community Tanks; Big and Small, How to Maintain Balance"
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down

Speaker Bio:Dr. Scott Seronello has kept and bred African cichlids for 22 years starting with Lake Malawi mbuna and haps after graduating from college, quickly branching out to Lake Tanganyikan cichlids. He learned about setting up tanks and properly keeping cichlids from Kenneth Armke (sold his business to Dave Schumacher in 2006) before he retired. Scott also got involved with conservation efforts and learning about cichlids in the wild, including meeting Ad Konings, until graduate school got in the way. Scott got his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Virology working on Hepatitis C Virus models. After graduate school, he continued to keep shell dwellers even during his service in the US Army as a clinical microbiologist for 10 years. After medically retiring as a Major in 2021, Scott became more heavily involved in fishkeeping again, breeding and selling cichlids and plecos, as well as helping people set up African cichlid tanks, in particular Tanganyikan Community tanks.

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