David----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] New Web site article?
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 webcontent beyondreprinting articles to entice members. I notice howTV, Radio andmagazines (like National Geo) are now including "webexclusives" thatexpand on the printed/spoken/etc content. I reallyliked how Cheryl putup the expanded Elatine article last year. Maybe nexttime we have anaquascape article like Luis', we could do a "See howthis aquascapeprogresses on our WEB EXCLUSIVE http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/xxxxx.html"; where wetrack the tank overtime. Arrange with the author in advance. This isespecially cool foraquascapes 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 articlegoing on the website? I have a three-day weekend coming up.... Cheryl _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm-- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm_______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm_______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm-- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm_______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm-- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm
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