August 2008 Meeting
Rob Peterson, of Sterling, VA, hosted our August 23rd meeting. Jeff Ucciardo talked about fertilization in the planted aquarium. More »
July 2008 Meeting
Luis Navarro flew in from Houston, TX to demonstrate how to aquascape a planted aquarium. Luis scaped Francine Bethea’s 120G aquarium, creating a wonderful rock garden aquascape. The hardscape was created using the porous mossy rock that GWAPA ordered from California last year. While many of us are tempted to use a large variety of plants in our planted aquariums, Luis only needed four species: Marsilea minuta, Anubias barteri var. “nana”, Cryptocoryne crispatula var. balansae, and Vallisneria nana.
June 2008 Meeting
GWAPA invited past president of NANFA, Bob Bock, to speak about native sunfish at our June 2008 meeting in Silver Spring, MD. While this does not sound like a plant topic, it meshes well with our two part native habitat theme for the May and June meetings. In May, Nancy Rybicki of the US Geological Survey talked about native plants, and in June Bob Bock filled the gap by speaking about native fish. Bob did a good job recommending which native fish are suitable for a planted aquarium.
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.
