{"id":284,"date":"2005-12-10T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?p=284"},"modified":"2017-05-08T08:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:02:28","slug":"december-2005-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/december-2005-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2005 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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--><\/p>\n<p>We also heard from new LFS store owner, Andrew Blumhagen, about the upcoming opening of his store, \t\t\t  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalestfw.com\/\">Scales<\/a>, in Silver Spring, MD. GWAPA \t\t\t  hopes to aquascape two 46G tanks in his shop.<\/p>\n<p>Following the business of the day, Ghazanfar gave a brief talk, describing how his tank was               plumbed into the house plumbing, as well as, the problems\/solutions he encountered when setting               up metal halide lights over his tank.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, with so many people there, the auction this month was huge!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jay L for the pictures below!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_0a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Full view of Ghazanfar&#8217;s tank.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_0b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Yes, Ghazanfar has a reef tank too. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_0c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Notice the golden variety of anubias on the right. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ghazanfar provided some hot (spicy) chili and appetizers. Good stuff!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Hanging out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Hanging out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Who needs a TV with that tank?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Listening to Aaron talk about elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ghazanfar and Sean<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ghazanfar honoring a few plant requests. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Hey, that&#8217;s not a planted tank!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t look at the light!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Is that HC creeping out the back of the tank?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ali and Ivo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Lots of shoes = lots of people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Aaron P, Sean, Nathan, Erin, Aaron T.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Robert, Rodney, Kris, Ali, Susan, Francine, Aaron P.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/december2005\/images\/gwapa05_15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Anubias barteri var. nana<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We broke attendance records at our December 2005 meeting. 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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, [&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-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}