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Q U E S T  Newsletter of the Madison Aquatic Gardeners Club, 2/18/03
From: John Glaeser 233-5182 [email protected]

NEXT MEETING: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 03 6:30 – 9:00, Science House, 1645 Linden Drive on the UW Campus

Algae is the source of over half of oxygen released into the atmosphere.
“Three cheers for algae!” Except in our planted aquaria, many would agree. Be honest, how many times have you heard the quizzical musing of an egalitarian naturalist exclaiming the inextricable beauty of diverse photosynthetic communities, high and low, big and small sharing space in an aquaria?

Bring in your algae samples for identification. Science House now has a really cool high end microscope, connected to a monitor. Close at hand is the excellent algae reference: Freshwater Algae; Their Microscopic World Explored, by Lund.

Paul Williams and Dirk Krueger can share with us the results of their attempts to ID algae found in the 8TX project. Dirk has a list a mile long and includes:

Oscillatoria sp. (Cyanobacteria) MOST
Eudorina cf. (green algae)
undetermied needle-like diatoms (Synedra-like)
Spyrogyra (green algae)
decayed plant material
encysted algae
Anabaena (Cyanobacteria)
Cosmarium (green algae)
Chlorella (green algae)
Cosmarium
Ulothrix cf? (green algae) MOST
Ulothrix cf? MOST
Eudorina cf.
Chlorella cf.
Chamaesiphon cf. (Cyanobactera)

Need your tank water tested? Bring in a jelly jar sized container of water and I’ll develop a profile and include relevant comments.

Have water loaded with phosphate that is provoking a revolting algae bloom? (Sorry algae species, some folks don’t like you). Check with Mark Adams. He added iron to phosphate rich water and found that…..well, ask him when we have our round table story telling time and Q&A session. Please share your aquaria stories. We haven’t done this extensively, for a while. About time. This phase of the meeting will be first on the agenda, along with pizza.

Enjoy a Science House update from Paul Williams, including the basement tour. Among several fast plant experiments, we’ll check out the nursery tanks consisting of small sized aquaria plants and aqua critters and fish. Four tanks have become a bank of live specimens supporting workshops sponsored by Science House.

As we have time, we’ll top things off by doing a quick highlight review of the video tape of year 2002 AGA (Aquatic Gardeners Association) Houston Convention.

Can’t tell you how busy I am. The outreach commitment to Edgewood College is gaining momentum. Hopefully by early April, I will have collaborated with staff and students to create a 125 gallon planted aquaria. Guess who is going to wash the substrate gravel for this project? Kindergarteners…….lots of one gallon buckets with kids wearing socks on their hands, (don’t think I can find rubber gloves small enough for them).

Thanks to club member Mark Wagler for suggesting this nice link:

See some of you at the meeting……………………………..John

CORRECTIONS ADDED:

Hello Friends,

The recent newsletter has some errors. When I "copied and pasted" some reference website address links, I thought they were patched into the document I sent out. For technical reasons I do not understand, when the document was sent out, the address links dropped out.


At the end of the newsletter we have:
Thanks to club member Mark Wagler for suggesting this nice link:

Since the address didn't transfer, I'll type it in directly.

http://my.execpc.com/~cgcheese/page7.html

This site shows a "Living Machine" used by a cheese factory to filter waste water using aquatic plants. Sort of interesting. This should work using Google search.

....................
The first sentence in the newsletter reads:
(Algae is the source of over half of oxygen released into the atmosphere.) The reference web address didn't show. When I tried to access this I didn't get the original page, but something related. Maybe the below note might explain this: ?
G o o g l e 's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.

Though I don't have time now to search for the connection, I'll give it a try later.

If this doesn't work, I just don't know. Again, apologies for these errors.......John