[AGA-Member] AGA at ACA

[Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>]

Thanks to everyone who helped to make the table at ACA this past weekend 
 such a great success. We had lots of great plants from the AGA and 
Dallas-Ft. Worth Aquatic Plant Club. Big kudos to DFWAPC for providing 
plants and devoted workers.

Harold LaRoux, May Lorfing, and David Lim from DFWAPC, and Ann 
Viverette, Scott Hieber, and myself (AGA) worked the table, patiently 
answering the same questions for hours. Larry Lampert was working the 
convention for TCA, but dropped by when he could and also brought great 
plants. The table was right at the entrance to all the action, so no one 
could come in or out of the talks without passing the table. Great exposure!

I made a tri-fold poster with AGA on one side, DFWAPC on the other, and 
cichlids in the middle. Ann Viverette brought a laptop and Erik Olson 
set up a planted tank slide show. We even had a noise machine set up 
behind it that sounded like a babbling brook.

Mega-thanks to AGA Member Rich Green who sent a huge box of plants. I 
had just opened the box at the table and pulled out a grapefruit-sized 
chunk of Java Fern Windelov, when Dr. Abe Schwartz (another AGA member 
who had come from Puerto Rico for the convention) leaned over the table, 
plucked it out of my hands and said, "How much?"

We sold a couple of AGA memberships, but maybe more will join because a 
some people told me they would look us up on the web later. Each plant 
had a card stapled to it with AGA info on one side and DFWAPC info on 
the other. Well, we ran out of cards late Saturday but MOST of them had 
cards. :-)

Erik, Scott and I printed an article to hand out at the table: "The 
Basics" by Ben Belton. It was a smash hit. We printed about 150 and 
there were only a few left by the end of the weekend.

So AGA did a great service this past weekend. Many cichlids are 
celebrating this week because they have plants in their tanks!

Cheryl
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