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.

At the August 2007 meeting, Robert and his wife graced us with his wonderful hospitality and impressive fishroom. In addition, Robert gave a very informative talk about his experiences running his tanks as a circulating range. He has been kind enough to writeup his talk in the form of an article. More »

Cristy Keister held the July 2007 meeting at her house in Laurel, MD. She showed off her newly setup 75G tank (shown below), her lovely discus in their planted bowfront tank, and allowed Aaron to demonstrate how to build ADA-esque light stands from electrical conduit, and a few other accessories from the hardware store. More »