Conventions / Meetings / Events

NASH - Meeting September 2006
Another friendly get together organized by good friends from Houston - Luis Navarro and Thanh. This time we had....

DVAGA - Jeff Senske presentation - April 2006
Another great event with live presentation.
Step by step explanation, product knowledge, aquascape knowledge combined with amazing ADA products = successful layout.....
 
TonyOrsoUSA - January 2006
NJAS organized saturday club trip to visit Tony Orso's fishroom in January, 2006. Tony specializes in importing and selling rare tetras, rasboras, west/east African cichlids and many other. I purchased....

GWAPA - Meeting December 2005
GWAPA broke attendance record at December 2005 meeting. Ghazanfar graciously opened his home to some 30+ people, wowing all of them with.....

New Jersey Aquarium - June 2005
I had a pleasure to photograph New Jersey Aquarium (*renamed to Aquarium Adventure) on June 18th, 2005. Although I got a private tour, we had to rush because morning "kitchen grease fire" caused delays and....

Houston Plant Fest - April 2005
Once again "Plant-Fest" organized by Luis Navarro and Senske Brothers was a success. I want to take this opportunity and thank Luis for his endless help for "out-of-towners" and thank Jeff and Mike Senske for their hospitality....

Aquatic Gardeners Association - November 2004
2004 Convention was a special one for me and in my opinion many others. I initially suggested and later encouraged GWAPA BOD to organize "special event" with top-of-the-line speakers. Personally, I have to say that mission was....

Aquatic Gardeners Association - November 2003
2003 Aquatic Gardeners Association Convention was hosted by The Dallas-Forth Worth Aquatic Plant Club or better knows as DFWAPC. This three year old society from Texas, full of knowledgeable plant keepers and great aquascapers, showed.....
   
GWAPA - Workshop October 2003
GWAPA organized its first aquatic plant workshop in Fairfax, VA. The workshop covered techniques on how to design an aquatic garden, choose equipment, control algae and.....
   
North Jersey Aquarium Society - September 2003
NJAS had its 50th Golden Anniversary Weekend on Sept 26-28, 2003 in Piscataway, New Jersey. We had the largest show ever attempted in our 50 year history.....
   
North Jersey Aquarium Society - August 2003
NJAS / JSAS societies did their second Fish Crawl - Baltimore Run in August, 2003. We visited few stores.....
   



Native Collecting

Native Collecting - Florida July 2003
Future plans on starting Tropica alike business in US, visiting Florida Aquatic Nurseries (FAN) and doing research on tissue culture for mass production of aquatic plants were few reasons why.....
 
Native Collecting - Houston April 2005
.....snorkeling in San Marcos River, looked at the biggest Fields of Hygrophila polysperma, found some Fissidens sp, Hydrocotyle sp, Sagittaria sp, fields of Cabomba, visited Wetlands Park / Spring Lake in San Marcos.....