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...aquatics, most can but might fail because we can't provide sufficient air humidity. For inspiration look in the General Forums section "Wabi Kusa", "Emersed Growing" and "Paludarium, Terrariums and Vivariums". The wabi kusa section might be of particular interest regarding how to transition...

I have seen Takashi Amano using wabikusa in his tanks and it sounds like a plan in my new scape. has anyone attempted such wabikusa balls for their aquariums. Please share

Wabi Kusa is commonly referred to growing aquatic plants emerged in the west. In Japanese, Wabi’ denotes something aesthetic, imperfectly beautiful and natural. ‘Kusa’ means ‘grass’ or sometimes ‘plant’. Therefore ‘Wabi-kusa’ does not literally mean that they must be aquatic plants, but...

Hi all, No, it is a succulent and won't enjoy wet. You could grow it a "Bonsai". We have a few wabi-kusa threads <"DIY Wabi Kusa Spaghnum">. A Marsilea sp. has done well with benign neglect (it is @megwattscreative 's really) for me. cheers Darrel

Is the portulacaria afra plant possible to become wabi-kusa?🥲I need to do my wabi-kusa assignment and I bought portulacaria afra plant as my choice. Is it possible to make it become wabi-kusa? or i did a mistake? I need some professor to answer it.

...airing the tank more? Any advice welcome. I'm also not entirely sure what all the plants are (some from @dw1305, some from @Sid.scapes ' wabi kusa workshop at roots & shoots with @Courtneybst + @shangman!). Any corrected ids welcome :) So fair I think I have: RHIZOMATOUS PLANTS...

He definitely has me rethinking my upcoming Wabi Kusa ! In fact he has stalled me completely…..along with the tank not available in the shops as yet! What’s your ancestry with a name like O’Reilly?

Thanks Jamie!

this Ikea three vase set is inexpensive and has wabi kusa -friendly sizes

Hi Everyone I'm a returning member from July 2011! I gave up my planted tank in 2015 following the birth of my child. I am considering restarting with a Wabi-Kusa. I need some advice on and where to purchase the following handwear from: Tank, bowl: square 20x20cm or circular 20 cm, height 10...

That’s so impressive…I’ll go check them out

My Echinodorus varieties all grow their offspring below the surface. I’ve tried extending the shoots/runners above the surface but never had flowers. Way too dry. Never had luck with any emersed growth, either. I live at 6,500ft/2000m and the humidity in the room my tank is in is rarely above...

Hi all, The're on the flowering scapes, sometimes after the plant has flowered, but some times just as plantlets, rather than flowers. Have a look at @zozo (Marcel's) posts in the thread <"Does anyone have experience growing, Echinodorus 'Small bear' and Echinodorus 'Yellow Sun'">...

...a tad of unintentional luck. For some it works for others it doesn't and there are no rules written in stone. I would say hop into the Wabi Kusa hobby and use these techniques to learn to slowly transition plants to grow emersed in lower air humidity conditions. Learn and see what plants do...

Ah I agreed strongly with that - recently I am thinking more and more about getting a closed tank for my next vivarium/riparium project (permanent home for my turtles ha). From my experience (My Turtle Vivarium with Buce (98L), i should make an update on that soon...), it is not even a big tank...

...+90% air humidity and ample light. There are very few that transition very well to sudden lesser conditions, then you need to take the Wabi Kusa approach and slowly transition the plant to an environment with less air humidity. For example, put it in a jar with a closed lid open it daily for...

...a gorgeous nostalgic picturesque street, I would love to have grown up there... What I love the most are the old houses with the little Wabi Kusa chimneys. And the one with the straw roofing is exceptionally beautiful. The street I currently live used to look like this, an old cobblestone...

Your idea is already very effectively proven in the Organic Pool/Pond building but then realised with a UG filter driven by an Airlift pump. Airlift has the advantage of no submerged mechanical parts and therefore relatively maintenance-free, it can't really clog. But it requires a different...

...tank, and wabi-kusa has me really tempted. So what I thought of was getting a glass cylinder, sticking it in the aquarium, placing a wabi kusa ball in the middle of it and using the rest of it as a sort of UG filter/weird internal canister thing. I'm not sure whether this is clear enough so...

...You could try a small planted critter free nano tank to keep the interest, a small planted barrell or even bowl in the garden, maybe a wabi kusa bowl or small terrarium indoors. All of us go through this l am sure,so a hobby becomes a chore change it around a bit bring back...

...Only look and spray it now and then with demi water, put the lid back on and for the rest, I leave it to its own devices. (See the brown Java fern roots creep up on the container wall.) It's still waiting for me to get some crazy Wabi Kusa idea, dunno yet, time doesn't seem to be the issue.

...compacted in a small round patch maybe 2 to 3 mm thick with a velvet-like feel to it. Transferred it onto a wet clay bases substrate in a Wabi Kusa. In a few week's time it went from dark green to light green and erected growing longer stems and tiny leaves. And then for other mysterious...

...Velda Lily soil... :) https://www.velda.com/pond-products/bottom-plants/plant-substrates/lelite/ I've used it in the past in several aquariums as base soil... It's very rich in clay, loam, peat and sand and is sticky and malleable... Also used it as Wabi Kusa soil and plants grow nice...

Tia's workshop had finished and George's would soon be starting, so I popped my head into the wabi kusa workshop next door to see what was happening and got drawn into making one myself. What an unexpected bonus. But I had only 19 minutes start to finish before George's workshop and, as this was...

ADA are smart, in all the tank set-up videos from the ADA gallery that I've watched, I've never seen them use in-vitro plantlets, they often seem to use plants that appear to be a) matured, and b) already transitioned to their submerged form. Frequently they even use pre-made and actively...

This is right after setup. Wabi kusa ball is made from spare Tropica soil.

Journal for my chihiors Glass Air terrarium. This has been sitting around for a while so I decided to make a quick nymphea wabi-kusa. I am not sure if this is practical but time will tell

I was the guy next to you as we made over-wet soil soup for our wabi kusa

...around, not to mention the pond! I'll definitely try to show up to any future aquatic events in London, I'm hooked now. My only regret is that I missed the Wabi Kusa workshops because I got hungry :dead: I didn't bring a camera with me so I'm very much looking forward to seeing everyone's photos!

...informative. It was the first time I seen demonstrations in person and was good to get insight into the thought process in creating the layouts. I also had a ball at the wabi kusa workshop. It was good to talk to a few of you. I was the baldy Chinese guy 😊. Here's a few very badly taken photos.

Thanks for coming @jamiepearson ! And I hope you get the Wabi Kusa back safely. I'm loving seeing all the photos of the gallery and the day filtering through, I didn't get to take any photos!!

Impressive how you set up the displays, I enjoyed them. I came from Edinburgh, and have to get a wabi kusa made in the workshop back on the flight.

It indeed is a sexy plant, what I love the most is it growing emerged too on damp substrates if given the change. The Wabi Kusa potential. But according to my current Azolla index that now and then thinning out is once a week. Never seen a plant grow this fast and I thought duckweed was a pain...

...as a sneak-in a few years back, just 4 or 5 leaves with ordering some water lilies and now it stacks and stacks like mad... It has some Wabi Kusa potential because also creeps into the mosses on some DW out of the water... And it even doesn't mind a bit growing to the glass... What a...

Hi all, I think your only hope is via a fellow hobbiest, all commercially supplied plants will have been grown emersed. We have a thread (now linked) that suggests the <"Echinodorus grisebachii bleherae ("Bleheri")"> is one that needs the highest humidity values grown emersed, so might be...

...Bruielly of the British Herpetological Society will be doing a talk on the Wonder of Frogs. Across the site, there's also pond dipping, a wabi kusa-building workshop, a children's art workshop, storytelling and more. Stalls will be selling arts, crafts, accessories, jewellery, ceramics and...

Hi all, Welcome to UKAPS. Same for me, but I have some concerns. Sticklebacks may be all right, and we have a few <"Stickleback tanks">. <"Asellus and Crangonyx are both fine in warm water">. Willow (Salix spp.) are <"easy as cuttings at this time of year"> and Alder (Alnus glutinosa) is...

...dampening the wave energy. There are some pretty cool ways that this could be combined with living aquaecapes. Here's a few more ideas: Wabi Kusa, with a few lave stones in front and around the sides to disperse wave energy. Syringodium, Ruppia or other Seagrasses to represent a sandy...

Thank you both Is that the one at the front right (As in pictures 4/5) ? There is another back left (Pictures 2/3) I think they were from Tropica but were transferred from my old tank so 2-3 years old my record keeping is sporadic and my memory fades after days though ;)

Hi all, I agree with @hypnogogia it looks like Echinodorus (grisbachii) "Bleheri". It is the old-fashioned favourite and remains submerged in nearly all circumstances. It needs <"much more humid conditions"> than a lot of Echinodorus spp., which is why Tropica etc aren't keen on it, it...

I went down the ball path (... oh this sounds funny) in the past and it was interesting, but I think it's overrated. In any case I didn't have enough for even one small ball this time :)

What about turning it to mud and making Wabi-kusa balls out of that?

See below! substitute gravel for the stone, should allow better root penetration! https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/diy-wabi-kusa-spaghnum.61037/

I do like the DOOA tanks, especially the H36 i think? But the price is insane. It's more cause i like to make up the wabi kusa balls, and this would be an ideal nursery

I remember them, good idea in principle but I'm not sure how well they worked in practice. Have you thought about one of these instead. https://www.horizonaquatics.co.uk/products/dooa-system-terra-30?variant=40391155875897 Since the divorce I don't think they ship to the UK any more, which is...

Wabi Kusa fever has me again, does anyone remember this (now sadly discontinued) tank? I've reached out to ND aquatics who sadly won't entertain the notion of building something akin to this, but will probably keep trying lol. If anyone has one of these relics, let me know ;)

...this morning! I will leave it until tomorrow or Thursday to transfer some more. I don't actually want to break down the pond tank yet as I'd like to use some emersed growth for wabi kusa, so getting them out is going to be a bit of a nightmare lol. It might end up being a more gradual process...

...more important for me to have fun with it than make it a biotope. Honestly, it looks nothing like a pond or a biotope, it's definitely more wabi kusa vibes, it reminds me of flower arranging with my mum when I was a kid. I'm really enjoying thinking up kinda weird hybrid tanks like this! I...

...pond I added Thalia dealbata which adds a great tropical feel and some much needed height to it. I'm also planning to make some hanging wabi kusa with garden wire and aquasoil-filled mesh bags over the edge and plant it with Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea' so it spills over like a country...

Hi all, They are used a bit in phytoremediation of waste water, in regions with cold winters: <"Biomass Production and Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus from Processed Municipal Wastewater by Salix schwerinii: A Field Trial"> Salix spp. also had a bit of a vogue as a riparium plant. You can...

...said earlier with a layer of glue and sand and roots and things over the top first. So I think this tank is more like a fantasy garden wabi kusa aquarium pond. I think the Sticklebacks would look great amongst some carpet plants and grasses and things that I just can't get with normal pond...

...v droopy. Definitely need some more plants too, but that's always the case 👀 I want the whole structure I built to be covered like a proper wabi kusa, which is kinda difficult as I'm going for all pond plants, there aren't really any carpeting plants (that I can tell) that work as good cover...

...the hessian as that's the vulnerable bit for soil falling out. The hessian is really usual for tucking in stem plants like I would in a wabi kusa. In my other lowtechs I've had great success with just shoving stems in crevices where they grow out and up towards the light like this. Oh yes...

I think personally, I’d wrap it with nylon mesh and call it a day. Having used hessian to make “real” wabi kusa balls, it didn’t last that long before it started shedding fibre all over the place. It was pretty much a sad rotten mess within 6 months.

...soil in if the hessian rots, but as the tank front be up for longer than 6 months I think it'll be fine anyway. It's basically a giant wabi kusa, the structures are open at the top for emergent plants, and on the sides I'll put plants in the small holes to grow out from there. Quite...

Intrigued to see how you get on. I went through the same brainstorming some time back: https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/how-to-create-a-muddied-river-bank.63869/ I never got around to trying some techniques out, but the plan was basically to construct if from brown lava rock set together...

...wire and hessian to see if I can make up a nice base shape to work as hardscape. I'm currently thinking of this tank as basically a giant wabi kusa and growing all my plants on 2 wabi kusa "islands", so it's pretty much just soil (probably a few bags of lava rock for volume), contained within...

Hi all, No, we definitely don't have two pigeon holes "Aquatic" & "Non-Aquatic", what we have a continuum from <"xerophytes to hydrophytes"> and there are plenty of plants in the semi-aquatic category. Because plant producers (Tropica etc) want to grow their <"plants emersed">, they are...

It is, and if Picasso would have made it, it would be worth millions... In its own right, it is actually a stunning and exciting little object. It has a kind of organic look to it. :thumbup: And once scaped and planted it will soften the edges it will look even better... Wabi-Kusa, comes from...

I’m trying to find a very slim tank or glass box for a window sill for wabi kusa/emersed growth. The absolute max depth of the window sill is only 14 cm, but realistically that’ll mean something only about 10 cm front to back. I’ve plenty of width and height to play with. Can anyone suggest...

...it spreads and competes. We're barely starting and already trimmed 80% away and it's still all over the place. Even my little outdoor Wabi Kusa survived ready to roll... It's a piece of DW that grew some moss and I did put some Cyprus seeds in it last year, the Hydrocotyl attached to it on...

https://www.scapednature.com/collections/wabi-kusa-glass/products/dooa-glass-pot-shizuku

Skip through this thread... :) https://www.flowgrow.de/threads/das-echinodorus-jahr.47155/ All tho it's the German language, you could use google translate if interested in the text but I guess looking pics and filter out the names with it already gets you a long way. It's all about growing...

Hi all, I don't think it is <"E. bleherae"> (E. "bleheri"), it normally doesn't grow many leaves out of the tank and they need <"high humidity if they aren't to crisp">. Marcel (@zozo) might have <"some suggestions">, his E. "Kleiner Bär" (below) is a <"frequent flowerer">. cheers Darrel

Hi everyone, After reading a suggestion made by @dean in an old thread by @Tim Harrison , I thought I'd kick things off. This thread aims to be a collection of photos of flowering aquatic plants that we often keep in aquaria. Please feel free to contribute with photos of your aquatic plant...

I’ve had this Dooa Shizuku setup for 3 months now, and I’m very pleased with how the plants are growing in. I attached some anubias to the substrate ball, and planted some Hydrocotyle into it. The Hydrocotyle is slowly starting to grow around the substrate ball, which is what I was hoping for!

...pain in the neck to clean. This makes spraying fertilizer a nono. Only spray with rainwater or demi water. Doing it all in one such as the Wabi Kusa is presented I learned the hard way that it ain't really a long term concept if the plants are not carefully selected regarding the same...

I'm interested to know what people use for their wabi kusas. Currently I only use the Dooa mist. but im wondering if any of you kind people have a recipe that has the simalar composition as the dooa? Personally I'm quite intrested it having my own book of recipes that i can rely on rather...

Hi there. I am a woman in her 60s who has been retired for just over 3 years now and getting somewhat bored with my life with the amount of time I spend watching YouTube videos on gardening and house plant care & propagation and not doing half enough creativity other than having a kitchen...

Hi Guys. New to the forum but not new to planted tanks/ aquascaping in general. Ive just started a new Wabi Kusa project after acquiring a gorgeous bowl over Xmas. So far, I have a nice piece of bog wood and some Fluval Stratum aqua soil. I now need some recommendations for plants. I’m thinking...

thanks and no sorry not yet but i dont ship the terrariums at all collection only as they would not survive the flipping couriers

Very inspiring! I've been wanting to try out the Wabi Kusa bowl thing for a while now. Do you guys ship to the US btw. (its not that far :-) ) ? Cheers, Michael

They’re just the little AquaLighter Pico lights you get with wabi kusa bowls @arcturus They don’t grow much, but this cube catches some afternoon light to make up for that.

I’m not sure what to class this as terrarium, wabi-Kusa? etc but I’m happy how it’s growing in. Been growing since the early summer from a selection of plants in my carnivorous plant collection I’d lost labels for or propagated. I gave it a 8 week cold period to give a little dormancy and it’s...

Thanks! I will add those that aren't already up.

...me if a little scruffy by their nature. All the tropica produced hygrophila will happily grow this way and is a good way to get stems for wabi kusa. P prospinca “mermaid weed” gets real tall Hair grass. Mini Christmas moss I use any clear box with a lid I can find and leave it on the...

...slow but healthy growth and a good transition from 1-2grow pot to emersed growth. I misted every day for a couple of weeks with the dooa wabi kusa mist, and then the frequency reduced and now I mist maybe once every 4-5 days. The lid was fully closed during the first few weeks but now is open...

...They are some kind of harmless insect. Thus, even if there is high humidity in the aquarium, it will not mold. I also recommend Dooa Wabi Kusa Mist as a nutritional supplement. Finally, make sure to ventilate the aquarium thoroughly at least once a day. I hope you have a great aquarium...

Yeah, same. Shrimp seem to end up in all my water, in side filters, in buckets, jars you dump plants in to convert to emersed, your wabi Kusa bowl… I once found one in the saucer of one of my house plants happily going about it’s business. They seem to fall into two camps, either look at them...

Very nice setup. I like using smaller tanks to have a "gallery", how is the middle one growing in?

I've done it you just have to place it behind some plants to hide it and I tywraped it on a screw from a light holder. But my initial thought was to put it on a stick that could put into the soil.

Not really got a clear cut answer @Tim Lee A friend has her house at pretty much the same temp and relative humidity as this place without issues growing emersed. Have tried spraying emersed growth with RO water in a spray bottle, but the leaves become tatty and prone to mould. You can get...

Hi all. I have been super keen on Wabi-Kusas lately and took the oportunity to make some while trimming my slowtech scape. I was unable to find a satisfactory guide on making clay media, so I wrapped sphagnum moss into a ball, coated it in whatever weedy moss I have in my tank and added some...

Wow, that's a beauty too, love the free space in that one

looks like you're in to wabikusa territory, I've always liked this one Wabi kusa island

I'm just amazed to read this history. it's really so much informatics.

Another lil update on the Mossy Spider... The hydrocotyle in the wabi kusa got completely overrun with green fly, and the ludiwigia, while growing great, was taking over under water and getting very long, so I've pruned them back to the balls. I'm going to replant them soon, and I'd like to...

This SB invigorator, do you have any idea what is in it? It sounds like a great option for my vase project-fly issue that I'm having atm. Looks great again :) green jungles like this just have this vibrant alive look that I can never get enough of.

...Once that was done, it was time to give it a great clean, so we took out the main wood (all one piece and comes out easy), and the back wabi kusa wood "pond-edge", put the amanos in a bucket and siphoned out all the sand and everything. Gave the glass a big clean so it was good as new and...

...I think some of these use the hooks, though they don't show how: https://dooa.jp/en/style/03/# <this tank by @zozo> doesn't use wabi kusa, but I think you could get a similar effect with hanging wabi kusa balls on the side, even attaching them to some wood if you wanted. This tank was my...

Just found this, quite a nice example: https://www.studioaquatica.com/blog/2019/11/4/integrating-wabi-kusa-into-the-aquascape

Thanks for all the tips. I have been trying to find some examples of planted aquariums using wabi kusa hangers but haven’t found any some how! Obviously there are different methods - walls, hangers, or just mounting up substrate at the back. I’m deciding between the last two, so would be good to...

I have the tank in the shed (100lx40dx30h), and the wood, and the plans for plants & stocking (100% rainwater, blackwater, wabi kusa emergents etc)... but things have been complicated by the flat downstairs from us (we're the top flat in a 2-flat maisonette) suddenly became potentially available...

Hi folks, I added springtail and ordered Dooa Wabi Kusa to prevent mold from forming in an aquarium set up with the Dry Start method. If I spray Dooa Wabi Kusa into the aquarium, will it damage the springtails?

...(mine grows great emergent) eleocharis (the tall one looks great), even epiphytes like buce and anubias, etc. See a full list here: WABI KUSA TUTORIAL (this has a different technique which is beautiful but not so good for adding to the aquarium) some stainless steel or plastic-covered wire...

I’m TOTALLY making one of these (out of a bicycle spoke) - that’s such a good idea!

...lovely pads with big fronds that stick out of the water, I think it's much nicer like this than when it's rooted down. If you research wabi kusa, that's a great place to look because all those plants grow emersed. I personally also used wabi kusa hung on the side of the glass (using wire)...

...going to keep up with my penchant for buying more and more plants anyway... Brief details of current setup: (photos coming) ADA 60H with Wabi Kusa mist wall (essentially, a vertical wall extending ~ 12" above the back edge of the tank, with continuous water flow to support growth of a moss...

...or difficult plants in it though so maybe that's why! Here are some photos of the Mossy Spider right now, I'm really happy with it, the wabi kusa plants have really started to take over and it looks much more natural and dynamic, especially with the combo of pink and green. The shrimps don't...

100% wabi kusa, they are GREAT - so easy to make, easy to take care for, and if you have them over the side of the aquarium at the top they make beautiful emersed rafts. My new favourite thing!