May Meeting
Kris Weinhold will host the May 22nd meeting at his home in Columbia, MD at 1:00pm. We will continue our Aquascaping series with a presentation by Ghazanfar Ghori on Maintaining and Trimming an Aquascape. More »
March 2010 Meeting
The Year of the Aquascape forged ahead this month, tackling the linchpin of aquascaping, the hardscape.
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February 2010 Meeting
Rick and Mary Dotson hosted February’s GWAPA extravaganza, which featured a talk about fertilizing by Cavan Allen., bookended by the usual socializing and yet another fine auction. With the tendency of GWAPA members to at least experiment with high tech aquarium set-ups, fertilizing, or the lack thereof, becomes a limiting factor to success. More »
Featured Tank – Francine Bethea
See Francine Bethea's winning aquascape in GWAPA's 2011 Dutch-style Aquascaping Contest. Judging was by popular vote.
Featured Tank – Lorena Rodriguez
Lorena Rodriguez's 2.5G Aquarium Winner of GWAPA's 2007 2.5G Aquascaping Contest (Beginner Category)
Featured Tank – Jeff Ucciardo
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
Featured Tank – Robert T Ricketts
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.
