Next Meeting:

"Photo Shoot"

Tuesday, May 20th

7:00 pm

2285 south 200 east #5

 

5/1/8

As some of you may remember, I offered a challenge to all the members to compete in the 2008 International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest. Well, the contest entry deadline is soon approaching (May 31st) and many of you may be wondering how to best take pictures of your tank.

Aquatic photos are an interesting challenge, and planted tank photo shoots can be quite involved. So, for May's meeting see how to do a competition photo shoot on a planted tank.

 

4/1/8

Hooray!!! We've made it one year! Thank you to all the people who have attended meetings and supported the budding of our little plant club, NACU. So far we've been very happy with the turnout and community that we've managed to put together.

Since we're so excited to be almost one year old, April will be as big of an event as possible. I've already talked to local fish stores about sponsoring the event with good results so far. Beyond the LFS, we will have lots of plants available to purchase at prices lower than you will find anywhere else. We might even have shrimp.

The topic for April's big meeting will be "Dreaded Algae: How do I get my tank from green soup to sparkling wonder?" I know the title is a bit cheesy, but we always try to prevent the meetings from being too boring and dry.

Along with a great topic and plenty of free stuff we are officially kicking off our new, one year memberships for $20. Until recently, only six month memberships were available, but now we feel as though we have plenty to offer our members.

I look forward to seeing you there and meeting the new people that show up!

ERiK

 

2/1/8

January's meeting, presented by Bryce Miller, was a great success! Bryce showed deep knowledge on the subject of plants and plants in huge aquariums. He inspired many of us to try new plants, and hopefully get into high-tech planted setups.

February's meeting we have decided to talk about plant fertilizing. Dosing is a huge subject, so we are focusing on the Estimative Index, or EI. Click here for more info on EI In addition, we will talk about how to use an EI method on a low-tech tank, aka low light and little to no CO2.

I would also like to extend a challenge I've brought to the NACU presidency: I would like to challenge you to compete in 2008's International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest by ADA. I believe this is a great way to inspire us to create the best looking aquascapes we can make! For more information please talk to me at the next NACU meeting.

ERiK

 

1/8/8

Happy New Year! We hope you had a good holiday season, and are ready to get back to aquascaping.

We are really excited for January's meeting. We are in for a special treat with guest speaker Bryce Millar coming to us from Idaho. Bryce is an experienced aquascaper and moderator on APC. Bryce, aka guaiac_boy, also maintains a 180 gallon high tech planted tank. For more information on Bryce and his extremely cool tank, click here.

As usual we will have a mini auction; this one should be good since Bryce will be bringing some plants, and ERiK is taking down his 13" cube.

In other news, ERiK's little 13" cube was chosen as December 2007 tank of the month on APC. Details can be found here: 13" cube tank. The tank will still be up for January's meeting, so see it while you can!