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 »
We broke attendance records at our December 2005 meeting. Ghazanfar graciously opened his home to some 30+ people, wowing all of them with his hospitality (and his tanks!) Aaron asked for any last-minute nominations for the board, and in the end, our new board consists of Aaron Talbot, president, Nathan Freedenberg, vice-president, Sean Murphy, treasurer, Cristy Keister, corresponding secretary, and Aaron Parker, recording secretary. More »
At the August 2005 meeting, Robert and his wife graced us with his wonderful hospitality and impressive fishroom. As usual, we had a ton of plants at our 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.
