{"id":16,"date":"2008-07-25T07:12:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T11:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-09-06T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T01:27:52","slug":"july-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/july-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2008 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Navarro flew in from Houston, TX to demonstrate how to aquascape                a planted aquarium. Luis scaped Francine Bethea&#8217;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: <em>Marsilea                minuta, Anubias barteri var. &#8220;nana&#8221;, Cryptocoryne crispatula                var. balansae, and Vallisneria nana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We had another great turn out, particularly for a beautiful summer                day in July, with over 30 members showing up for Luis&#8217; presentation.                With all of those members, came over 90 bags of plants for our auction.                We also got to meet a few new members &#8212; welcome to those folks!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Luis Navarro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Luis Navarro talks about the hardscape he prepared prior to the                meeting. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Luis adds water to the tank to begin planting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Some members watched the demonstration on the TV.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Marsilea minuta on a tray for easy planting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ghazanfar and Kris helping Luis plant the Marsilea minuta.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The aquascape, partially complete, with Marsilea minuta and anubias                planted. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The auction table.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/articles\/july2008\/images\/tank.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Luis&#8217; finished aquascape.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Navarro flew in from Houston, TX to demonstrate how to aquascape a planted aquarium. Luis scaped Francine Bethea&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}