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Re: [AGA-mcm] New Web site article?
When good tanks go bad -and when they don't - great article
there.
sh
--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> 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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> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Erik Olson
> >>>>> erik at thekrib dot com
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