Our September meeting featured a presentation from master aquascaper Jeff Miotke. He took us on a journey from his first aquascape all the way to today, and showed us how his aquascaping style evolved over time. He also gave us some tips about how to make an “awesome” aquascape.
More »Linus Chen will host our next meeting on August 24th at 1:00pm in Oakton, VA. Guest speaker, Luis Navarro, will speak to us about curating the Aquarium Design Group gallery that he maintains. Luis is a fantastic aquascaper, and must use all of his experience to design and keep ADG’s aquascapes looking fantastic. Come learn some of the techniques he uses!
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We’re taking July off from meetings due to our members typically being focused on other things during the summer. We’ll see you in August at our meeting in Oakton, Virginia!
See Francine Bethea's winning aquascape in GWAPA's 2011 Dutch-style Aquascaping Contest. Judging was by popular vote.
Lorena Rodriguez's 2.5G Aquarium Winner of GWAPA's 2007 2.5G Aquascaping Contest (Beginner Category)
Jeff Ucciardo 29 Gallon Filter: Filstar XP1 Substrate: Eco-Complete Dosing: Daily dosing of KNO3, PO4, K, 2ml Flourish, 1 ml Flourish Iron Lighting: 65 watts PC 9 hours, with an additional dual Coralife T-5s for 7 hours in the middle total 101 watts CO2 diffusion: Glass diffusor CO2: Azoo regulator, 5lb. tank Fauna: Harlquin radboras, neons, ottos, cherry and bee shrimp, nerite snails
Robert T Ricketts 55 Gallon Low-Maintenance Tank Substrate: Plenum based with mixed Estes' Nutmeg and Flourite Filtration: Two internal Eheims for mechanical filtration, plus a prefiltered external Eheim 2213 for bio. Lighting: 1-Two-tube strip light, 1 single-strip light. 12 hours/day. Plants: Val, Crinum, Anubias nana and a couple of other small nana cultivars, A. nana petite, Marimo balls, and Java Moss Fauna: school of glass cats, a school of Debaui cats, Otos, one male cherry Barb, Amano and Red Cherry shrimp, ramshorn and common pond snails.
