Sat, Nov 15
|Thompson Park Community Center
AAAA November Meeting & BOD Elections
Join us at the Thompson Park Community Center for Eric Thomas' talk on Corydoras Neurotoxins followed by a small auction of fish & plants.
Time & Location
Nov 15, 2025, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Thompson Park Community Center, 555 Nickajack Rd, Mableton, GA 30126, USA
About the event
Eric Thomas started keeping fish around 1970, at about 8 years old. With his older brother Bill, Eric kept and bred mouth-brooding cichlids (Geophagus and several Lake Malawi mbuna including Labeotropheus trewavasae, Maylandia zebra and Melanochromis auratus), along with Steatocraneus casuarius… and convict cichlids (who doesn’t start with convicts?).
Eric and Bill were members of the now-defunct Tri-City Aquarium Society of Southern California. In college, Eric studied captive husbandry of vertebrates; with his mentor Professor Rudolfo Ruibal at UC Riverside, in 1978 Eric was the first person to breed the Budgett's frog Lepidobatrachus laevis in captivity. In Dr. Ruibal’s lab, Eric learned about and began studying skin glands and their function. Eric went on to earn a Ph.D. under Dr. Paul Licht at UC Berkeley, studying reproductive endocrinology and the influence of sex hormones on frog skin glands. Currently, Eric is an associate professor of Biology, co-chair and director of…