Kamphol at the Catfish Convention!

[mickthefish]

hi all
i took heaps of pics yesterday at the convention, it was great to meet the loachy people again, at the mo i'm working on the pics i took of the talk and will post them later today cos at the moment i have one almighty hangover, me heads like cottonwool.
so stay tuned and i'll do my best to put the pics up later today.
i don't know what the others thought of the talk but personally i thought it was brilliant and to meet and talk to the great man himself was an experience i won't forget.
so laters, get ready for a load of pics.

mick
ps, Kamphol is THE man.

[mickthefish]

Right i'll start with the crew to begin with.
mark having his first pint.

Helen looking glamorous

Graeme & Emma.

some of the crew with Kamphol.

i'll post alot of pics of the fish that Kamphol was talking about in a wee while.

mick

[mickthefish]

these pics were taken of the screen while Kamphol was giving the info on them.
first are the Pangio's






every loach keepers dream of owning/keeping.

more to come later.

mick

[Mike Ophir]

looks great so far!

Mike

[mickthefish]

Cheers Mike, here's some more of the good stuff.








more to come in a wee while.

mick

[Mike Ophir]

Thats interesting, I wonder if that slide of Y. caudipunctata is a juvenile due to the vertical barring. I picked my 3 up when they were around 2-2.5 inches and they didnt display that kind of patterning on their bodies. Although as adults they do have a couple of them now (they are at 5 inches now).

Mike

[Jim Powers]

Boy, you folks must feel like crap today. No one else has been online all day to update us on the Convention.

[Emma Turner]

Not long back from the catfish convention, had a fantastic time and will post my pics in a bit. Due to the fact that me, Graeme, Hels & Mark did not go to bed until 3:50am this morning, we are all feeling a bit the worse for wear!

Emma

[helen nightingale]

i have just got home. i am surprised how not worse for wear i am feeling

we had a great time at the convention, and we went to visit a couple of fish shops before we came home.

Ian Fuller did a great job of organising the convention

[Matt]

I just can't believe you guys out-drunk Mick!

[Emma Turner]

Our hero Kamphol, surrounded by the British loachaholics:



Graeme winning his raffle prize! (that's Ian Fuller standing between Graeme & I):



Kamphol's presentation. Here he is showing the beautiful collection location of Botia udomritthiruji:



And a spectacular large adult B. udomritthiruji:



Back at the bar. Mark (Mad Duff), me, someone-who-shall-not-be-named-but-who-usually-graces-our-presence-here-at-LOL-wearing-a-long-cloak-and-carrying-a-scythe, and Andy Rushworth (piggy4):



This one was taken this morning, after we presented Kamphol with a Loach Association of Great Britain baseball cap:



Kamphol, if you do see this thread, once again thank you so much for your incredible presentation.

Emma

[mickthefish]

Matt, they did'nt i had to go at 11 pm as my lift wanted to go home
mind i had nearly 12 hours drinking time mate. haha

mick

[Matt]

Hehehe good stuff mate and really enjoyed all the pics. Is Andy drinking Blue WKD?

[helen nightingale]

yes, you see right Matt

[Keith Wolcott]

Thanks Mick and Emma for posting all of the pictures. It looks like it was quite a good time.