{"id":2812,"date":"2016-04-24T19:51:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2016-04-24T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T00:16:11","slug":"april-2016-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/april-2016-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2016 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The April 2016 meeting was hosted by Damian Davila in Burke, Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0 Some photos of the meeting are posted below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The speaker at the meeting was Mark Denaro, who is well known in the aquarium world.\u00a0 He has spoken at over 40 aquarium societies.\u00a0 His talk to GWAPA was a practical guide to water gardens\u2014how many hours of sunlight they need, the shapes you could use, the depth of water for different types of gardens, what types of plants are recommended, given the proposed use of the garden, etc.<\/p>\n<p>GWAPA meetings are great places to get the supplies you need for a planted tank, and at very reasonable prices.\u00a0 For example, the auction at this meeting had about 40 species of plants (in addition to some fish and shrimp). \u00a0Auction prices range from a dollar or two for common items, to the twenties for less common and \/or\u00a0 more desirable plants. (The highest price paid in this auction was $20.) There was also a selection of wood and rocks for sale by GWAPA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are two photos of one of Damian\u2019s aquariums:<a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2813\" rel=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2813\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-1-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2814\" rel=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2814\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-2-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-2-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is Mark Denaro giving his talk on water gardens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2815\" rel=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2815\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-3-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-3-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-3-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An item being auctioned off:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2816\" rel=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2816\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-4-419x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-4-419x500.jpg 419w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-4-768x917.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-4-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/photo-4.jpg 1889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April 2016 meeting was hosted by Damian Davila in Burke, Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0 Some photos of the meeting are posted below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}