Please join us on October, 26th at Najib Adi’s house for our next meeting. Rebecca Goldring will share her knowledge and experience with Dicrosus in the planted aquarium.

Rebecca Goldring is social scientist and lifelong aquarium hobbyist. Rebecca currently maintains about 30 aquariums ranging in size from 5 to 300 gallons and keeps a variety of freshwater fish, aquatic plants, and invertebrates, as well as a few outdoor ponds. She’s bred a wide variety of fish, including South American Bumblebee Cats, Checkerboard Cichlids, Freshwater Pipefish, and many species of tetra.

Rebecca’s talk, “Dabbling in Dicrossus,” covers topics on general care, sexing, spawning, and rearing both Dicrossus maculatus and Dicrossus filamentosus. It includes detailed experiential information with both species and will have some new material on best practices for artificial rearing.

October 26th at 1:00pm
15814 Spyglass Hill Loop
Gainesville, VA 20155
This is a gated community. Please say “GWAPA at the Adi’s” at the gate.

About a dozen people visited Laurel for the September GWAPA meeting. Nick gave a talk about trimming plants in a planted aquarium. He showed off his aquascaping tools and explained the advantages and disadvantages of each of them. After describing his trimming process, which included cutting off every damaged or algae infested leaf and trimming the stems very close to the ground to enable them to create bushes, he trimmed the host’s 75 gallon tank. Once the plants were trimmed, Nick put a polishing filter in the tank to be used for about an hour only. Then he used a razor blade and melamine foam to clean the glass while intentionally stirring up the detritus for the filter to catch the particles.

Over a dozen people showed up at the May GWAPA meeting. After enjoying some pizza and drinks, we watched Freshwater Illustrated’s new film, Hidden Rivers. This feature film explored the rivers and streams of the Southern Appalachian region, North America’s most biologically rich waters. The film followed the work of conservation biologists and explorers throughout the region, and revealed both the beauty and vulnerability of these ecosystems.