{"id":317,"date":"2008-10-26T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T22:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-10-26T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T22:43:37","slug":"25g-aquascaping-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/25g-aquascaping-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5G Aquascaping Contest Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GWAPA had another very successful 2.5G aquascaping contest in 2008. We would like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/seachem.com\/\">Seachem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redseafish.com\/\">Red Sea<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/catalinaaquarium.com\/\">Catalina Aquarium<\/a> for generously sponsoring the contest. To recap how our contest worked,<!--more--> in the spring, GWAPA issued nano setups which included a 2.5G aquarium, a Catalina Aquarium 26W light, Seachem fertilizers, and enough ADA Amazonia to fill the tank. We also raffled off a CO2 set from Red Sea for one lucky member to use in their tank. On October 1st, participants submitted a photo of their tank. We then allowed all of our members to vote for the top two tanks in the beginner and advanced categories.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2008 contest, we&#8217;re pleased to announce the following winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beginner Category:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1st Place: Eugen Leontie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/eugen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-322\" title=\"2008 Contest - Beginner 1st Place - Eugen Leontie\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/eugen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/eugen.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/eugen-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2nd Place: Francisco Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/francisco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-323\" title=\"2008 Contest - Beginner 2nd Place - Francisco Rodriguez\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/francisco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/francisco.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/francisco-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advanced Category:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1st Place: Judi Hammet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/judi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"2008 Contest - Advanced 1st Place - Judi Hammet\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/judi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/judi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/judi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2nd Place: Aaron Talbot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/aaron_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-318\" title=\"2008 Contest - Advanced 2nd Place - Aaron Talbot\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/aaron_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/aaron_t.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/aaron_t-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of the winners! Thank you to all participants for making this years&#8217; contest another success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GWAPA had another very successful 2.5G aquascaping contest in 2008. We would like to thank Seachem, Red Sea, and Catalina Aquarium for generously sponsoring the contest. To recap how our contest worked,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquascaping-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}