Northwest Aquaria Sample Articles

The original articles available here are samples from some really old newsletters (OK, ones I edited, since I have the original source). These articles retain the copyright of their original authors. If you wish to reprint any of these in another club publication, please contact either the author or the club on behalf of the author.

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1998 -1999 Season

• "Against All Odds" contest articles:
  • Dave Sanford (Betta down the drain) -- second place
  • Dave Hodge (Eel down the drain)
  • David Walburger (Spawning guppies)
  • Elizabeth Lee (new fish owners) -- third place
  • Heather Candelaria (Ancistrus on ice)
  • Scott Cartwright (spawning shelldwellers)
  • Steve Ward (Jaguar Cichlid Jumps) -- first place winner
  • Victoria Cartwright (new fish owner)
• 1998 ACA Convention Report
• Board Meeting Notes and Photos
• Ask Dr. Ghoti -- Fish Questions and Answers
• Placidochromis milomo
• Spawning the Algae Eating Shrimp (1)
• Spawning the Algae Eating Shrimp (2)
• The Soothing Aquarium
• Apistogramma steindachneri
• Spawning the T-Bar Apisto (Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis)
• Fish Ethics
• Euthanasia
• To Serve Fish
• Yet Another Livebearer (Poeciliopsis gracilis)
• Gadget Corner: Fishroom

1997-1998 Season

• A possible breeding tank for Pelvicachromis subocellatus
• Epiplatys dageti, a Cool Killifish
• Mysterious Cryptocoryne seeds.
• Aponogeton Seeds
• White Cloud Mountain Minnows (fish-of-the-month, how to spawn)
• From the President (Natural Beach Sand, Julidichromis transcriptus)
• Julidochromis transcriptus
• What Kind of Fish Are You? (fish astrology)
• Sometime in 1997... (A Bar gets a Fish Tank)
• Spawning the Black Phantom Tetra
• Apistogramma sp. "Breitbinden"
• Dwarf African Clawed Frogs
• The Tank of Death
• Ask. Dr. Ghoti
• Euthanasia
• Fish Myths (overcrowding and water changes)
• New Opportunities with a Move
• Heterandria formosa
• How to Move your Fish Cross-Country
• Neolamprologus ocellatus
• From the President (Nifty New Plants)
• On Seattle Water Chemistry
• Size Myths
• Store Review: Village Tropical (Houston)
• My First Fish Contest (Nine Articles!)

1996-1997 Season

• Spawning the Panda Apisto
• The Texas Connection (Apistogramma sp. "Pandurini")
• Mystery Apistogramma
• Pelvicachromis taeniatus "Nigerian Green": Easy Come, Easy Go
• Those Killer Kienke's (Pelvicachromis taeniatus "Kienke")
• Wow, that ain't no Krib! (Pelvicachromis taeniatus "Moliwe")
• Nannacara anomala
• Lake Tanganyika Gold (Neolamprologus ocellatus)
• A Cichlid Summer
• Stripping: My First Experience
• Ameca splendens, the butterfly gooeded
• Characodon lateralis, the "Red Flash" livebearer
• That Darn Plant Tank (6-part series)
• Experiences with a 10-gallon [Planted] Tank
• Another Plant Tank Story
• Microworms
• Tubifex worms
• Children's Aquaria
• Ask Dr. Ghoti (Algae, Nomenclature, New Tank Syndrome)
• The Psychic Fish
• From The President (Big Planted Tank, Working with Glass)
• From the President (Flowering Amazon Swords, Dangerous Gravel)

1995-1996 Season

• Tales from the Krib
• Dear Dr. Ghoti, February/March 1996
• From the President, May 1996 (the travelling aquarist)
• Apistogramma cacatuoides, June 1996
• Neolamprologus multifasciatus, June 1996

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