PVAS meeting
Potomac Valley Aquarium Society had their monthly meeting on Monday night and I bought some small koi angelfish. They eat everything from the infusoria on frogbit to picking at plants and they eat claudo algae. wow!
Friday, September 14, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Suitland Bog-not blog : ))
Eight members of GWAPA went to the Suitland bog in Suitland, MD. on Saturday, Sept. 1.
Very interesting, remote bog protected by the Park Service and surrounded by housing all around. One has to be determined to get there because it is tucked away beside the Suitland Parkway, and it has been totally developed all around it.
Northern Pitcher-Plants (Sarracenia purpurea) plants love it. A bog is a marshy area fed by a stream, and a fen is fed by ground water or a spring, so this is properly called a fen.
Pitcher plants
GWAPA members
Kris taking pictures:
thanks to Kris of Guitarfish for this next picture of a carniversous Sundew plant
Another picture of Sundew by Aaron
The ranger said he is working with Howard University to study the pitcher plants water. As you know, water collects in the pitcher plants, and insects are trapped and the insects provide nutrients for the plants. There are two insects which live in the Pitcher plant water: and they live in water which kills other insects. The ranger said algae does not grow in the plants water; which he attributes to the combined effect of the two bugs which inhabit the plant water!
