On May 6, 3:19*pm, wrote:
On Apr 16, 6:16*pm, Dave Engle wrote:

g_k_o wrote:

Aquatic Plant Centralhttp://aquaticplantcentral.commightbe the best
site. *Another great place ishttp://plantedtank.net

Thanks, I'll check 'em out!

Dave! Where the hell have you been?! Aquatic Plant central is the
place to be. Much better than plantedtank.net
You are a blast from the past. Newsgroups went completly down the
toilet. I don't even know why they are st ill in existence. APD has
become pretty much a relic. *There is a dozen or so people who talk
amoungest themsleves. Nothing informative what so ever. Not even any
good spam wars any more. *Aquatic Plant central was started by Art
Giacosa a couple years after I started Wet Thumb. You remember Art?
The first American Amano distrbutor in the mid 90s. I eventually
closed my forum and archived all the posts at APC under an arrangement
I made with Art.. Art eventually sold APC to some corporation, which
quietly runs it. It has a very large amount of traffic and membership
now. Plant tank.net was started about the same time as APC by someone
named Kyle who nobody had ever heard of. It *has a sizeable following
as well. Many people go back and forth between the two.

Robert Paul Hudsonwww.aquabotanic.com

Oh here is some more news for you, Dave. AGA finally got a forum, but
nobody uses it. Tom Barr emerged as the dominate authoritive figure in
the online community. He finally started his own WEB site, but charges
a membership fee to participate in it! He partnered up with Greg
Watson. The old old timers rarely if ever post anywhere on the
internet any more, Karen Randall, George Booth, Erik Olson and all
that crowd are still involved in AGA, but little else. Scott Hieber
took over Karen Randalls column in AFI, (formerly AFM). About the only
old timer that I recognize is Paul Krombolholtz who posts on APC.
Several local AGA clubs sprung up. There is over a dozen now. The
national AGA convention is still going pretty strong. They have had
Amano as a speaker twice, and Kasselmann once. The "technolgy" you
missed out on most likely centers around Tom Barr. He comes up with
some new earthshaking methodology about every six to 12 months. Do a
search for "estimated index"