{"id":179,"date":"2005-01-30T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2008-09-06T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T21:19:08","slug":"january-2005-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/january-2005-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2005 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The December meeting was held at the home of Mary and Rick Dotson &#8212;          the latter being our new GWAPA president. A descent sized crowd showed          up for the meeting. Rick showed off his hybrid aquarium\/paldarium and          gave us a tour of his fish room. Mary gave brief talk on building backgrounds          using silicon, moss, and other similar materials. Then we discussed the          upcoming year and, of course, had our auction.        <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>I. The Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Cube project &#8211; We&#8217;re going to order a few sheets of plexiglass                to build our own cubes. We will add 30watt DIY lighting at a subsequent                meeting. Hopefully, things will turn out well enough so that we                can hold a GWAPA aquascaping contest, and showcase them at our workshops.                5-6 people were interested to participate in this project. If anyone                else is, please speak up so we can order the proper amount of materials.                More info on cost to come.<\/li>\n<li>Workshops &#8211; We&#8217;re hoping to have 2-3 workshops this year. Preliminary                discussions have been had with an aquarium shop owner in Ashburn.                Two other stores are on our radar.<\/li>\n<li>Field Trips &#8211; Planting sea grass in the Bay &#8212; Rick will be gathering                and posting more information on the forum, as he receives it.\n<ul>\n<li>Huntley Meadows &#8211; they are seeking volunteers to ID plants,                    count animals, gauge water quality, etc. of some wetlands neat                    Alexandria and Mt. Vernon. Watch the forums for more info.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Membership Cards &#8211; we&#8217;re going to print these up, and hopefully                establish a relationship with several store owners to owner discounts                in exchange for traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Move Website\/Forum to new host &#8211; We&#8217;re going to switch ISPs because                our current ISP has been very unreliable. This will occur in mid-February.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><strong>2005 Agenda (in no particular order)<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p><strong>II. Plant Auction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>The mini-auction consisted of a number of items this week: sagittaria            subulata, ammannia gracilis, riccia fluitans, Crinum calamistratum,            and even a pair of mollies! Most plants went real cheap &#8211; as usual.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The December meeting was held at the home of Mary and Rick Dotson &#8212; the latter being our new GWAPA president. A descent sized crowd showed up for the meeting. Rick showed off his hybrid aquarium\/paldarium and gave us a tour of his fish room. Mary gave brief talk on building backgrounds using silicon, moss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}