Rick & Mary Dotson hosted the February 2008 meeting at their home in Vienna, VA. This month, president Kris Weinhold gave a presentation about Algae in the Planted Aquarium. This talk covered 10 of the most commonly seen types of algae in the planted aquarium, along with their descriptions, causes, and cures. With 39 people showing up for this meeting, plenty of folks wanted to solve an algae problem with their tank. Rick also described his automatic water changing system.
Dave Williams hosted the January 2008 meeting at his home in Mount Airy, MD. Dave had been preparing a 180G aquarium in his basement, which we aquascaped at this meeting. Prior to aquascaping, Dave described his aquarium setup, and gave a brief talk about the Golden Ratio, an ancient principle that defines the proper porportions used to appeal to the eye. More »
Viktor Gyorffy hosted the Nov/Dec 2007 meeting at his home in Montgomery Village, MD. Nearly two dozen members showed up, bringing food items and plants for our potluck and auction. Without an official meeting topic for our holiday party, we discussed the successful year GWAPA had in 2007, and talked a bit about the future. More »
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.
