Our November/December meeting had a great turnout with over twenty some folks showing up to Francine’s lovely home in Beltsville, MD. Francine showed us around her fishroom, which is something most of the members dream about setting up. She has a number of different species setup, including dwarf pikes, apistogramma, various catfish, and some altum angelfish. Of course, she had a few planted tanks in the room as well. More »
We had good turnout at our October 2006 meeting. About 10-15 folks came out to Leesburg, Va for the meeting at Ali Kahn’s house. Ali showed off his tanks, which include a tank with an automatic water-change system. He also demonstrated how to grow H.C. emersed, much more quickly and cleaner than submersed. We accepted nominations for next year’s board, discussed a few possible events for next year, and held an open-discussion about a number of aquatic-plant related topics. As usually, we held our regular mini-auction, auctioning off things such as rare anubias barterii var. narrow leaf, beautiful branched manzanita wood, and cherry shrimp. More »
We had another great turnout at our January 2006 meeting. About 20 people filled Sean’s house on a gorgeous, spring-like, day. Sean had his tanks looking in tip-top shape for everything to examine. Our speaker, Michael Szesze, brought a variety of different carnivorous plants from his nursery to show and sell. After an excellent slideshow presentation and Q&A by Mr. Szesze, we held another “not-so-mini” auction. 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.
