Re: [AGA-mcm] New Web site article?

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Seriously, when this the smoke clears a little I *may* actually write 
something about the experience.  As you might expect, of course, the tanks 
that are faring the absolute BEST are the ones with CO2 (even in low 
light) or floating Salvinia cover (if we remember to thin it out every few 
weeks).  June Olberding got out of the hobby a little over a year back, 
and sold off all her stuff at the time, so I added about 8 buckets of used 
Flourite to various tanks that are now doing amazing on their own.  Most 
notably, a tank of crypts is now thriving being left alone with the 
flourite.  We also have one Rift Lake tank with Julidochromis that's 
growing a nice crop of grazable algae on the rocks and seems very stable 
(it's also a 75-gallon tank with the fishload of a breeder's 20).

The only aquaria that aren't doing so well are the sand-bottom 
shell-dweller tanks & one 45 with Altolamprologus compressiceps, which 
build up major BGA.  Big surprise there, no plants!  And the Alto tank 
surprises me because it's very similar in composition to the Julie tank, 
except that it's a bit smaller and I think they're not grazers the same 
way... so perhaps the wrong kind of algae builds up there.

  - Erik

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Karen Randall wrote:

> Ahhh... You are doing experiments in low-maintenance planted tanks.  I smell 
> an article in there somewhere! (or is that BGA?)<g>
>
> Karen
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] New Web site article?
>
>
> > I've sunk to a new low... so busy that I haven't taken in my CO2 for refill 
> > even though it's been empty for a month.  On the plus side, I got around to 
> > cleaning the tanks last weekend.  It's become quarterly.  I try to beat my 
> > copy of TAG arriving.
> >
> >   - Erik
> >
> > On Fri, 27 May 2005, S. Hieber wrote:
> >
> > > Also, aren't Erik & Kathy setting up a planted tank that
> > > Erik was planning to photograph anyway? ;-)
> > >
> > > sh
> > > --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> > > > We could try that with Luis' tank now, if he still has
> > > > it.  Knowing Luis, I
> > > > think he'd get a kick out of it.
> > > >
> > > > Karen
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
> > > > To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> > > > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:41 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] New Web site article?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hey, on a tangent of that... was thinking of good web
> > > > content beyond
> > > > > reprinting articles to entice members.  I notice how
> > > > TV, Radio and
> > > > > magazines (like National Geo) are now including "web
> > > > exclusives" that
> > > > > expand on the printed/spoken/etc content.  I really
> > > > liked how Cheryl put
> > > > > up the expanded Elatine article last year.  Maybe next
> > > > time we have an
> > > > > aquascape article like Luis', we could do a "See how
> > > > this aquascape
> > > > > progresses on our WEB EXCLUSIVE
> > > > > http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/xxxxx.html"; where we
> > > > track the tank over
> > > > > time.  Arrange with the author in advance.  This is
> > > > especially cool for
> > > > > aquascapes as that is what they're always asking about.
> > > > >
> > > > >   - Erik
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 26 May 2005, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > What do y'all think about Richard Goodkind's article
> > > > going on the web
> > > > > > site? I have a three-day weekend coming up....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheryl
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