July Meeting
Luis Navarro will be presenting and aquascaping Francine Bethea's 120G tank at our July 26th meeting in Beltsville, MD.
A reknowned aquascaper, Luis has successfully competed in many aquascaping competitions, including winning Best of Show in the Aquatic Gardener Association's 2002 contest.
Details & directions...
June Meeting
Bob Bock, author of the "Meet the Hobbyist" column in Tropical
Fish Hobbyist and Past President of the North American Native Fishes Association
presented at our June meeting. Bob compared local sunfish with cichlids, and discussed which are appropriate for a planted aquarium.
Meeting synopsis
May Meeting
Nancy Rybicki from the US Geological Survey spoke at our May meeting about the ecology, diversity,
history, and distribution of aquatic plants in the Potomac region.
April Meeting
Ghazanfar Ghori hosted our April meeting, and presented his follow up session about about plant selection & maintenance. Meeting Synopsis.
Mineralized Soil Substrate
Aaron Talbot has written a "how-to" article about using mineralized top-soil as the base for
your planted aquarium's substrate. Often regarded as a difficult thing to implement successfully,
Aaron documents a proven step-by-step method to having a low-cost, but productive, soil substrate.
More...
Featured GWAPA Member Tank
Lorena Rodriguez's 2.5G tank
2x13W PC lighting
ADA Amazonia Aquasoil substrate
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