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Q U E S T Newsletter of the Madison Aquarium Gardeners Club 9/19/03

NEXT MEETING: Thursday, September 25, 6:30 - 9:00 PM.
Science House, 1645 Linden Drive, UW Campus

A G E N D A:

6:30 Doors open. Chat with friends, welcome visitors, snack on pizza and some "low fat" alternatives including fresh fruit. Take a look at new library titles, view our summer collection of Wisconsin water plants, examine T5 lighting instruments on display.

7:15 Challenging Our Thinking: When you started out with planted aquariums, what opinions did you have about procedures and care routines? How have these notions and practices changed with you? Mark Adams will help us explore this theme. What a nice way of kicking off the new season.

8:30 Business Meeting: Topics for upcoming meetings. Special projects.

8:45 Wrap up. Check out library items, visit plant exchange table, clean up.

9:00 Time to call it a day.

Proposed Meeting Calendar after 9/25: 10/23, 11/20....1/29, 2/26, 3/25, 4/29, 5/20 and 6/24.
 

Have you seen growth tips of delicate plants fold in like this, as if in a sleep mode? I have some Myriophyllum simulans that does this. Near the end of a 15 hour light cycle, they close up. After about 8 or 9 hours of darkness, lights go on, and tips still are folded. It takes about an hour and a half for them to open up again.

In the morning leaves open to capture light to photosynthesize and later in the light period they close so they don't fry. At night they turn off their ion pumps and go into resting. Tom Barr says this process is called nyctinasty.

John