The Aquatic Gardener Archive

Ever since the last Black & White issue of TAG went out of print a few years ago, we've been deluged by literally ...umm... at least a dozen requests for this material to be available again. Now's your chance! On one disk, get the entire archive of TAG starting from the "never-before-available" Volume 1, all the way through Volume 17 (all no longer in print). Issues, subjects and authors are all cross-referenced just as you see here. The difference is, you get the actual articles! And as there's a ton of space on a DVD-ROM, we threw in high-resolution printable PDFs of everything to boot. We've sold out of our paper copies through Volume 17, so they are now included in the archive.

Note: This disk contains only the out-of-print issues of TAG. Newer issues not available on the disk can be purchased through our back issue sales.

Convention DVDs

DVD's are now available of all of our conventions! We're selling most everything as 2-disk sets now, combining older years into "combo" packs. Each set comes in a slimline DVD case with a printed cover. Membership note: Due to an arrangement with our convention speakers, DVDs are only available to AGA Members. If you are not a member, you must join before purchasing a convention DVD.

All presentations feature the speakers miked directly into the camera. Everything from 2001 on features some extra editing in an endevour to make things a little more enjoyable: The talks originally using computers (most everything from 2002 on) have had the slides digitally inserted into the video -- no yucky "shoot the screen" crud here. Various pauses for accidental backwards slides and such have been removed. In the case of Mr. Amano's work, we've overlayed Tomoko Schum's amazing translation directly over his talking. Live demonstrations are 3-camera edits. It's not perfect, sometimes the mic didn't work right, sometimes the slides don't look that great (especially that first year when the crack A/V team left the house lights on), sometimes the third camera was "whatever someone in the audience had brought"... but we're still pretty proud of them.

Our 2008 convention (2-disk set) is now shipping! On disk 1 you'll get all the lectures (Dr. Morin on Iron Uptake, Dr. Kane on tissue culture, Dr. Tan on mosses, Dr. Amano and Dr. Senske on aquascaping, and Dr. Randall on collecting in Thailand). On disk two are the two "live" events: the Iron Aquascaper, the Amano aquascaping demo, both 3-camera edits. We've also tucked in the Aquascaping Contest awards -- in total, over nine hours of stuff to watch! And not only is this the first year we're producing widescreen DVD's, this is also an opportunity to get the convention video on Blu-Ray High Def for only a few bucks more (it helps on those slides where you can barely read all the words).

The 2006 Convention (2-disk set): Ole Pedersen (aquascapes in nature), Troels Andersen (acclimation of plants to underwater life), Eric Do (shrimp and other invertebrates), Dorothy Reimer (growing it old-skool!), George Batten (Chemistry), Ricky Cain (Inspiration), and Jeff Senske (aquascape photography). Plus the traditional aquascaping contest awards, and the first-ever Iron Aquascaper Competition, filmed with three cameras and edited to 45 minutes.

The 2004 Convention includes Jan Bastmeijer (Crypts in Nature, and Emersed Culture), Takashi Amano, Diana Walstad, and Mike Senske. The disk also includes Mr. Amano's late-night aquascape demo, edited down from two hours of three cameras to a blazingly-quick 45 minutes. And we barely crammed in the aquascaping awards. The other two workshops had very poor sound, and are included only as low-bandwidth computer-playable AVI's.

The 2003 Convention (2-disk set): On disk 1 you get the main talks (Christel Kasselmann, Shaun Winterton, Roger Miller, George and Karla Booth, and Karen Randall), and on disk 2 another five hours of focus groups, banquet and miscellaneous talks, plus a bonus "behind the scenes" featurette that we challenge you to actually find!

The 2002 Convention has two presentations by Claus Christensen (including a collecting trip in Brazil), talks by Jeff Senske ("Commercial Aquascaping"), Chuck Gadd ("Plants: Nature's Test Kit"), Erik Olson ("Photography and the Planted Aquarium"), and Don Kingore ("Kent Botanica"). Also includes the (last ever?) traditional panel discussion.

The 2001 Convention includes Takashi Amano's Nature Aquarium talk and live aquascaping workshop, Wim van Drongelen speaking on the Dutch aquascaping style, Greg Morin of Seachem, Tom Barr, and Todd Stailey (photography). There's also a panel-audience question and answer session.

The 2000 Convention features talks by Neil Frank, Paul Krombholz, David Lass (lighting), Charlene Nash on Public Aquarium Planted Displays, and Karen Randall (plus the entire AGA membership in attendence) on Plant Nutrition. We crammed a few convention photos and program notes into the DVD-ROM portion of the disk, and there's another little featurette hidden somewhere as well.

2009 Aquascaping Contest DVD-ROM

If you've been having trouble accessing the site, have a slow link, or just want a physical disk to view our aquascaping contests, we've got just the deal for you. This DVD-ROM contains the results of all TEN years of aquascaping contests, including slightly higher resolution photos than you can see on the website.

Note: If you are expecting the live aquascaping demos or the Iron Aquascaper, this is not the disk you are looking for. This is a DVD-ROM archive of our online aquascaping contests. Take a look at the convention archives above.

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