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

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Sounds nice. But why are you holding back on the fish? ;-)

sh
--- David Lass <davidlass@villasunscape.com> wrote:

> Speaking of fluorite -- I have been going with the low
> maintenance point of 
> view, and have a 120 (4') that is growing plants nicely
> -- nothing special, 
> but good growth -- Karen has seen it. I attribute it to
> the fact that I have 
> about 3- 4" of fluorite, and the light is a standard 2
> lamp T5 ceiling 
> troffer, with 2 -- 54 watt t% lamps. Lots and lots of
> fish -- we're talking 
> well over 100 black ruby barsm lemon tetras, glow light
> twtras, black 
> phantoms, some pearl gouramis, many rams and lots of cory
> cats and kuhli 
> loaches. I find it a very pleasing tank.
> 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
> 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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