June's Super Big Meeting @ Fish 4 U - Dueling Aquascapers

First, thank you to all who showed up to May's meeting despite the beautiful weather. I know it's hard to think about your aquarium when it's so nice outside!

Anyways, we are very excited about June's meeting - I know I say that a lot, but this one is going to be particularly good.

During Kevin and my trip to San Francisco we bought a 60-p ADA tank for Fish 4 U. This is the first ADA tank in a Utah fish store, and to celebrate Fish 4 U has asked NACU to set it up.

During NACU's June meeting Kevin and I will be setting up both the 60-p and a PASS Iron Chef style. That's right, dueling aquascapers face off in a planted tank frenzy. The 60-p will be set up with all the best hardware - glass pipes, excellent lighting, powerful filtration, pressurized CO2, etc. The PASS will have a few extras it normally doesn't have to allow easier maintenance for Fish 4 U.

This is our first meeting at a LFS, and Fish 4 U plans to have a large plant order correlate with our meeting. I've also been pushing hard to have lots of other plant related materials there too - like substrates, dosing stuff (Pfertz), lighting, and who knows - maybe an ADA tank for sale. Hopefully, when Fish 4 U sees how strong the planted tank community is they will be bolstered to support it better.

I hope to see all of you there to support NACU and Fish 4 U in this first big step in creating a true Utah nature aquarium community.

ERiK

June's meeting:

"Dueling Aquascapers"

June 24th, 7:00 pm

Fish 4 U
4010 s. Highland Drive
Salt Lake City

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.

May's meeting information
"Photo Shoot"
Tuesday, May 20th, 7:00 pm
2285 south 200 east #5
Extra: Hear about Kevin and ERiK's San Fran trip and see all the new tanks ERiK has setup. Plus, we have plenty of hardware to auction off - tanks, filters, etc.