Awhile back, I set aside a 25g aquarium for the culture of Marimo Balls,
no fish in it. All the data I have read on them call them slow growing,
and this may be true--in their natural habitat.

But, as necessary, a few drops of Shultz Liquid Fertilizer (10-15-10 and
NO copper), a bit of lime, calcium sulfate, magnesium sulfate,
micro-nutrients (NO copper) and warm water--78-80f, fairly frequent
water changes and they pearl (throw off oxygen bubbles) and grow like
crazy. I tossed some Elodea into the tank and get an inch or two growth
on each strand a day! It is the biggest, stoutest, most beautiful and
healthy looking Elodea I have ever seen ...

Now I am thinking about cultivating the Marimo Balls in a 350g aquarium
and supplying stores in my area. As, only two have them and they $10.00
a piece, for small ones!

Regards,
JS

While the local library has a lot of books about microalgae and
surface bound macroalgae, planktonic macroalgae/plants are – if at
all – only mentioned in foot notes.

I'm looking for plant(including algae) species that are at least 0.4mm
large and tolerate the following habitat:

- free-floating, completely submerged
- 10-30 °C (usually: 16-23 °C)
- 5-8 pH (usually: 6.5-7.5 pH)

Salinity (in-)toleration isn't an issue.

Thanks for any hints/ideas.

Kio Boskden

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Please join us this Saturday for another great meeting of the Silicon
Valley Aquarium Society. Our originally scheduled speaker, Art North,
has had a family emergency and will not be speaking. Our thoughts are
with him during a difficult time. We wish him and his family well.

We are very happy to have Max Gillis speaking to us with a brand new
world premiere presentation. He will present "The Magnificent
Sharpshooting Archerfish". He will show us how to set up and maintain
a habitat for the 2 most common archerfish species. If you've never
seen an archer shoot a cricket from a vine, you're in for a treat! I
really hope there's some video of that. I can't wait to see it.

Max was introduced to the aquarium hobby when his older brother gave
him a 10 gallon starter kit for his 10th birthday. He started with
common fish like tiger barbs, but soon moved on to cichlids and
killifish. A Red Texas cichlid spurred his interest in more unusual
fish. His search for more and more unique oddballs led him to his most
recent project, a 55-gallon archerfish tank.

As usual our speaker will start at 7:30. Come early to check-in for
the auction and bowl show, and to order food. We meet at the Round
Table Pizza 4400 Stevens Creek Blvd. in San Jose.

John Smith wrote:

I am just waking up to a lot of changes I have somehow been blind
to--well, they have been right in front of me--I just didn't pay
attention until now ...

I went into walmart and closely inspected the tanks and fish. In one
tank there was a Jack Dempsey Cichlid with an obvious and advanced state
of Columnaris disease. Various other tanks had fish with white spots,
fin rot, fungus, etc. At least one-in-ten fish seemed to display signs
of one disease or another, I found this alarming.

I am looking for additional mechanical filtration. Anyone happened to
have an old Marineland magnum 350?

Do you scour the web and your local fish stores for weird or rare
fish? Are you and your local fish store manager on a first name basis
because you order fish the store doesn't stock whenever you have
pocket money? Are you just interested in the unusual? Well this month
we have the speaker for you. Steve Ehrlich will talk about weird and
oddball fish as well as his experiences in the fish industry. This
should be a talk we'll all remember for a long time.

As usual our speaker will start at 7:30. Come early to order food,
and check in for the Bowl Show and Auction. The bowl show is open to
all kinds of fish. A raffle will follow the auction. We meet at the
Round Table Pizza 4400 Stevens Creek Blvd in San Jose.

Please remember that no outside food or drink (except food for babies)
is allowed. The last time I attended a meeting I found an empty beer
bottle and had to take it outside to dispose of it. If the restaurant
catches us with outside food we could lose our reservation
permanently. If an inspector catches us with outside liquor the
restaurant could lose its license. Please be good citizens.

Celebrate the weird with us on Saturday!

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This month our own Diana Heideman will speak about Freshwater Snails.
This talk will be all you ever wanted to know about keeping, breeding
and enjoying some fascinating snails. The bowl show will be open to
all fish. Come on everyone, give Leo some competition for the bowl
show championship.

We'll be meeting as usual at the Round Table Pizza, 4400 Stevens Creek
Blvd. in San Jose. Our speaker will start at 7:30 with the auction and
raffle to follow. Come early to socialize, order food, and check in
for the auction.

If you didn't renew your membership last month, don't forget to do it
this month. You can renew by paypal by visiting the website (listed
below) and following the membership links.

We welcome anyone interested in fishkeeping and aquariums to attend
our monthly meetings. For a list of upcoming speakers and more
information about our club visit our website: www dot svas dot info.

Happy Fishkeeping,
Helen Holzgrafe - Publicity
Silicon Valley Aquarium Society