Houston Area Aquatic Plant Society has just been formed! We plan on picking back up and would like anyone interested in planted aquaculture to join us in helping to make this new club grow. We are looking to having our first meeting on 2-26-11. Details of this meeting will be forthcoming as they develop
Definitely, if you are anywhere close to Houston (I'm in Liberty and consider myself to be "in the area" ) and don't already have plans the 26th, plan on coming to our first official meeting.
Well, I'm in Giddings, which a few hours away, but I might be able to make the meeting, depending on whether Melinda is feeling okay or not (the baby will have arrived by then). If so, I can bring Ryan with me and he can join us as well.
Maybe a pygmy banded sunfish / moss / et etera swap is on the agenda???
For anyone coming to the meeting, I collected some samples today while in Nacogdoches. If they survive until the meeting I will bring them for whomever wants to give them a shot (I have absolutely no room in my tank right now...I'd LOVE to keep the Ludwigia, but I don't have enough filtration to drive enough CO2 diffusion to allow me enough light to keep them).
A word of caution, L. pilosa and Gratiola sp. are not easy plants. They need CO2 and high light. Here is a link to what I found:
Oh, and please don't ask me to reserve any particular plant...just wait till the meeting and we'll see what lives or not. OOH! OR, we could auction them off...like our very first fund raiser!
True dat, Kev! Yeah, it might be better in the long-run if we get him those plants to grow out so they can reproduce instead of just having the few stems that might not make it.
Is College Station close enough? I thought about driving to the Dallas club but 4 hours one way eats up a day. If I wasn't looking at a new appartment tomorrow I would make the drive to Houston. Are there going to be monthly meetings going forward?
Thank you to those who showed up today. Looks like we have a good start to HAAPS. we got a lot of the details worked out today, got to see some friends and had a good time. The new ADG facility is coming along very well and Mike may have talked me into some new led lights.
Membership was discussed and we agreed upon for $10 per year per person. Membership does have benefits up to and including a discount from ADG
We will have our next meeting on March 26. Topic location and time will be posted later.
Please note that the April meeting will probably be a field excursion for collecting to be discussed at the March meeting
Roujin, that's good. Keep us posted onhow it does and I'll do the same on what I kept here.
Doubleott05, the first meeting was good. We got lots of stuff hashed out on the direction the club will take and when meetings will be.
As Kevin posted, membership will be $10 and ADG is sponsoring the club via discounts and a place to meet. THANK YOU, Mike Senske and ADG!!
We also discussed future presentations/workshops and field trips.
Meetings are tentatively scheduled on the 4th Saturday of the month, but are subject to change.
I will be (and hopefully someone else will step up to take this role over) recording meeting minutes so that if we later to decide to apply for Not-For-Profit status with the State and Fed, we'll have those documents to submit.
Sorry I missed out on the first meeting; I'll see if Ryan and I can make it to the next one on the 26th.
I look forward to discussing field sites for the April meeting. I am looking for some shallow waters, which is one thing I really miss about Deep East Texas.
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