I would like to announce a Plantaholics get together for Saturday, February 25 at my place. We usually run from 2 in the afternoon 'till 7ish. Refreshments will be provided. Please pm me if you are coming. I need to know how much food and drink is necessary, and at that time will provide location details. Cheers.
Guys , this is a great opportunity to meet fellow hobbyist with the same interest as you,develop a great network,learn and share with others.
...and it's a great chance to see a 330 gallon high tech planted tank, probably the largest high tech planted tank in the city. You won't be disappointed.
:)
I was just there yesterday (picked up a nice plant - thanks Greg!)...
and yes, the 330 gallon was breathtaking. And the other tanks and overall set-up was not too shabby either!
I'll likely be at this get-together but waiting to confirm closer to the date - both my kids celebrate birthdays around that date, so trying to squeeze this in!
Cheers Plantaholics!
(and kudos to Greg for offering to host)
Happy Friday everyone!! :P
I'll be there!
I'd love to come, could use some tips. I'll have to check closer to the date to confirm. East, west or central part of the city?
Quote from: Kelly on January 14, 2017, 10:38:06 AM
I'd love to come, could use some tips. I'll have to check closer to the date to confirm. East, west or central part of the city?
Kanata north.
Hello Wolfiewill!
Thanks for the invite to my first plantaholics get together. I would love to go so many questions to ask. :)
Not to good to drive in city but i would love to try lol on that note can you give me your full address with postal code so i can enter it in my G.P.S.
Is there a cover charge to help off set the cost for the drinks and food if so just let me know.
Looking forward to it and i heard about the 330 gallon planted aquarium. (WOW) cant wait.
Thanks again for the invite nemo14
As you know I will be there, now you need twice the food!
k
Looks like my business travel isn't happening so I'll be there!
I'll be coming from Orleans if anyone in my vicinity needs a ride.
Mike
Quote from: zolta on February 02, 2017, 08:59:29 PM
As you know I will be there, now you need twice the food!
Pizza! What do you like on it? I'm working on barbequed meat balls and sweet onion.
It's now less than two weeks 'till the Plantaholics get together and I would like to get an idea as to how many are coming. I need to get the ingredients for snacks, drinks and the like. So who's coming? Please pm me if there are details you wish to discuss - address, phone or email etc.
Also, are there any discussions people would like to bring up specifically. One discussion we need discuss is how we are going to host the Montreal people. We owe them a visit, and I for one am looking forward to rekindling the relationships we started/continued from our visit last year. Cheers. G
If they are interested in a tour of sorts maybe we can meet up at Le Buffet des continents or Chenoys Deli for early lunch. Then we head over to La Niche, Critter Jungle and BA's east and then they can head back home. Or go backwards, BA's, CJ, LaNiche and then dinner in Gatineau.
Quote from: wolfiewill on February 12, 2017, 11:42:59 AM
It's now less than two weeks 'till the Plantaholics get together and I would like to get an idea as to how many are coming. I need to get the ingredients for snacks, drinks and the like. So who's coming? Please pm me if there are details you wish to discuss - address, phone or email etc.
Also, are there any discussions people would like to bring up specifically. One discussion we need discuss is how we are going to host the Montreal people. We owe them a visit, and I for one am looking forward to rekindling the relationships we started/continued from our visit last year. Cheers. G
Apart from hosting the Montreal folks , perhaps we can consider discussing the next Plantaholics.
@ Brian , Greg is hosting the gathering.
Quote from: charlie on February 12, 2017, 12:54:30 PM
@ Brian , Greg is hosting the gathering.
My previous reply was a suggestion on how we can host the Montreal folk.
Quote from: lucius on February 12, 2017, 01:53:32 PM
My previous reply was a suggestion on how we can host the Montreal folk.
AHH , my bad
I'll be there for my first plantahilics
Ok, so we have 15 confirmed at the moment. I will be sending a group pm with details very early this week to everyone who's coming. Cheers.
Awesome!! , looking forward to seeing everyone and the host tanks, been a while.
see you all soon.
Ok, so I've sent a pm to everyone who has indicated they are coming. If you haven't received it let me know. I could only send a pm to 10 at once and there are 20ish, so I've broken the mailing into three in order to get everyone, and I may have missed some. Cheers.
If anyone is interested, I have the following plants available and can bring them to Greg's this Saturday. Let me know.
All trimmed and bagged. Got your PM Charlie.
I'll take some weeping moss please! Would look great on the the cave scape I just posted...
Thanks,
Going to try to attend this one, but probably have to work on Sat. If I can swing it, I will try.
Quote from: lucius on February 22, 2017, 08:37:36 PM
If anyone is interested, I have the following plants available and can bring them to Greg's this Saturday. Let me know.
Blyxa Japonica
Christmas Moss
Dwarf Sag
Hygrophila Corymbosa 'Compacta'
Hygrophila Difformis
Hygrophila Polysperma
Java Moss
Limnophila Aromitica
Potamogeton Gayi
Salvinia
Weeping Moss
Hi Brian, I'd love to try Potamogeton Gayi. Thanks for the offer.
Hi, im going to the plantoholics metting I would like some Hygrophila Polysperma if you have any you could spare please and thanks!?
Wasn't sure if you got my PM, but would like some dwarf sag.
Thanks!!
I'm looking for mini pellia and fissidense fontanus if anyone has it coming to the meeting I would be willing to buy some off them
Quote from: ajm1961 on February 24, 2017, 05:21:43 AM
Wasn't sure if you got my PM, but would like some dwarf sag.
Thanks!!
Yep, I did. I have more dwarf sag then the other plants so that's why I didn't cross it off.
Oops! Sorry for the mass pm, didn't notice the forum posts in time. I think trying out a new plant type would be fun, but don't know which kinds would be best suited for my setup. I'll bring paper for notes and a bag for any potential planty donations (as long as it isn't java moss. that stuff has made too many shrimp disappear...).
I will bring some Pogostomon Erectus
I've trimmed my other Bucie and so have lots - I hope. I haven't inspected it yet, but I'm sure there will be some for lots of you. Please do some research online to make sure you can grow it, and if so we'll divy it up for those who want to give it a try. It's been growing in very high light, high CO2, moderate levels of macros and temperatures of 76 to 78 degrees F. Cheers
Quote from: wolfiewill on February 24, 2017, 07:30:54 PM
I've trimmed my other Bucie and so have lots - I hope. I haven't inspected it yet, but I'm sure there will be some for lots of you. Please do some research online to make sure you can grow it, and if so we'll divy it up for those who want to give it a try. It's been growing in very high light, high CO2, moderate levels of macros and temperatures of 76 to 78 degrees F. Cheers
What is a "Bucie"? Google was unable to enlighten me, so I'm assuming this is hobby slang?
Quote from: wolfiewill on February 24, 2017, 07:30:54 PM
I've trimmed my other Bucie and so have lots - I hope. I haven't inspected it yet, but I'm sure there will be some for lots of you. Please do some research online to make sure you can grow it, and if so we'll divy it up for those who want to give it a try. It's been growing in very high light, high CO2, moderate levels of macros and temperatures of 76 to 78 degrees F. Cheers
me me me ;D
Quote from: poisson on February 24, 2017, 07:40:48 PM
What is a "Bucie"? Google was unable to enlighten me, so I'm assuming this is hobby slang?
Oh! Is it Bucephalandra? It looks gorgeous. If you have enough to spare, I'll put in a request as well. The Aquatic Plant Society website lists the difficulty as "easy" and the lighting requirement as "medium", so I think it should be okay with my setup. Once I get a walstad tank set up, it should do even better.
Quote from: poisson on February 24, 2017, 07:40:48 PM
What is a "Bucie"? Google was unable to enlighten me, so I'm assuming this is hobby slang?
Bucephalandra is the genus name. There are apparently no species identified yet, assuming there are individual species. Here's a web site I just got a link to from PlanteTank.net. I haven't read it but it should prove as a start for anyone doing a little research.
http://www.petguide.com/blog/fish/planted-tank-trend-meet-the-bucephelandra/
I'll take a buce if you still have any.
Is it Xmas morning? ;D
Dang i feel like a kid on Xmas morning :P ;D
Assuming I can make it, I too would love to try my hand at a buce plant.
I can easily bring some Rotala rotundifolia and Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini', and maybe some monte carlo... have it emersed, but it may have been overtaken by other plants... need to check.
I might not be able to get there until a little later (closer to 5:00), so if it ends early, could someone post or PM me?
Thanks
Lol i'd like some of that new Buce too if its not already the one I got from you Greg! Peter, if you can spare some monte carlo, that'd be awesome too!
Is it toonlate to attend? Ive got an empty dry 90g waiting to be filled with plants. Fake ones just dont...work.
Im on my way up soon GPS is plugged in and ready to go lol 1 1/2 hour drive looking forward to the meeting as it's my very first meeting on aquarium plants .
What an awesome day!, Big thanks to Greg for hosting,and he cooks a mean Pizza too ;), tanks are looking awesome as usual.
It was a pleasure meeting the old and new, i think i can speak for all 15-18 hobbyist in saying fun was had by all, was nice seeing the old and meeting the new, thank you all for making the day a well spent one.
Regards Errol
Had an amazing time today meeting everyone! Lets hash out plans for hosting the montreal crew and lets see all the plants in their new homes!
Thanks Greg,
Wonderful host as always, another informative afternoon with a great exchange of thoughts and ideas. Looking forward to the Montreal host event and of course the next Plantaholics.
k
Yes, thanks for hosting! It was nice to attach some faces to names and to see such lovely plant tanks.
It was an enjoyable get-together. Echoing other comments made: great pizza, beautiful tanks, new and old faces.
Thanks to Greg for hosting!
Look forward to the next one - in the meantime, I gotta get my plants growing!!
Absolutely want to add my thanks to Greg for hosting Plantaholics 2.0 , even if I always leave his place with a serious case of plant envy ... gives me a target to shoot for in my own tanks ;D
Good to see every one, old and new, and some interesting, lively and informative discussions + very good pizza's made for an awesome afternoon.
Looking forward to getting the Montreal crew up for a visit in a couple of month's ...
Thanks to Greg for being such a hospitable host and the rare buce, and thanks to Brian for the other plants. It was really nice to see the old crew and a bunch of new faces too. Can't wait for the next one.
Yes a big thank-you to our excellent host and another big thank-you for all that attended! Great to get together with others that have similar interests and to have the opportunity to learn from everyone's collective trials and tribulations!
Thanks Greg!
Quote from: ksj on February 25, 2017, 11:31:01 AM
Is it toonlate to attend? Ive got an empty dry 90g waiting to be filled with plants. Fake ones just dont...work.
I just read this post and don't remember you being here. However, I've got lots of stuff at one time or another. Describe what you are trying to do and I'll see if I can contribute some plants. I'm between major cuttings at the moment but will let you know before I do next if you pm me.
Quote from: Gilbotron on February 27, 2017, 12:24:04 PM
Great to get together with others that have similar interests and to have the opportunity to learn from everyone's collective trials and tribulations!
I just want to add that this last Plantaholics was fantastic, and all because just about everyone attended, all except the Honeymooner of course!!!! We had old faces, new faces and the regular faces. At one point I looked around and there were five serious 'Planatholic' discussions going on at the same time. Everyone seemed to get into it. Glad everyone liked the pizza. I made 12 altogether that day, and, could you believe it - the pizza plate broke as I was finishing the very last one - karma was good all day.
I'd like to thank charlie, exv152, daworldisblack, zolta, tanksalot, lucius and Vic666 for sharing your expertises. Lucius was very kind to bring plants, terrific, thanks Brian. Glad to see ajm1961 back in the fold again, and that pm is still with us as well. Gilbotron was here for the first time and is a very welcome addition to the fold. And the new people: Kalemn and Ayden.h - the second two youngest newbies I've seen in the hobby so far, your enthusiasm is contagious; Pokki who drove in from Gatineau; poisson and friend who should never blush in public when someone mentions being embarrassed about their tanks (we all are at one time or another); barefoot_golfer who lives nearby and shouldn't be a stranger in my house. And a special comment to nemo14 who has a terrific knowledge of planted tanks and came all the way from Hawksbury to attend: I'm thrilled to have another PPS devotee with which to discuss that stuff. So, thank you, everyone who came and made this Plantaholics Get Together one to remember. Cheers to all. If I've left anyone out, I apologize, the house was very full and I tried to write down all the names before people left but I fear I may have missed some. See you all next time.
Oh, I forgot one thing: The name of the Bucephalandra variety everyone got is 'Arrogant Blue'. If you got one from my other tank before the Plantaholics it's called 'Monteyana brown red silver powder'. And you must all realize that this plant is still being researched; they don't know if these are different species or just variants of the same species. So at the present time they are being called 'variants' until their lineage can be determined. Also, the most local expert with this plant, I would think, is Jason at Critter Jungle.
No problem on the plants. Hope they are doing well for everyone.
The Arrogant Blue buce is still adapting in my 90 gallon. It has grown one leaf so far.
Quote from: wolfiewill on March 13, 2017, 03:01:46 PM
Also, the most local expert with this plant, I would think, is Jason at Critter Jungle.
No Greg, you're the buce expert in this city. ;)
Mine little sprig is doing so good it started blooming.
I'm disappointed that I missed this one, however it was for good reason! I was away in Africa on my Honeymoon. I am very eager to take part in the next get together and would very much like to have our friends from Montreal down.
While I was away on Honeymoon Wolfiewill not only looked after my tanks, but did an overhaul on my planted 90 gallon tank. It was horribly overgrown and in desperate need of some TLC. With the wedding and a new job recently I had been neglecting it. Thanks for taking on the challenge! Next time I head out of town I will absolutely hire you to look after my tank!
Quote from: exv152 on March 15, 2017, 10:24:47 AM
No Greg, you're the buce expert in this city. Mine little sprig is doing so good it started blooming.
No, really. I'm just passing on the knowledge I gained from the web and Jason.... and mostly Jason.
Quote from: Dxpert on March 17, 2017, 04:47:14 AM
I'm disappointed that I missed this one, however it was for good reason! I was away in Africa on my Honeymoon. I am very eager to take part in the next get together and would very much like to have our friends from Montreal down.
I'm in full agreement. Hey, we should start a separate posting for this event.... charlie?
Quote from: Dxpert on March 17, 2017, 04:47:14 AM
While I was away on Honeymoon Wolfiewill not only looked after my tanks, but did an overhaul on my planted 90 gallon tank. It was horribly overgrown and in desperate need of some TLC. With the wedding and a new job recently I had been neglecting it. Thanks for taking on the challenge! Next time I head out of town I will absolutely hire you to look after my tank!
Hey, most of the troubleshooting was blind luck. But wait 'till you hear the story. I thought I'd shorted out the entire neighbourhood by unplugging one thing! But I didn't. A power outage happened 1 second after I unplugged it!!! Totally random event. I lost years off my life in the panic that followed. EVERYTHING WENT QUIET......WTF.