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  1. Graeme Edwards

    Anubias melt !

    I maintain it is some kind of bacterial or fungal blight........ From were or why, who knows. Could be over breeding of the same plant, nursery techniques. Skilled terrestrial plant growers have problems with diseases and blights despite providing everything the plant requires, so its not far...
  2. Graeme Edwards

    Id please

    Hi, Looks like Heteranthera Zosterifolia. A rapid plant which needs a lot of trimming to keep it looking its best. Great for new set up to clear out excess nutrients. Cheers.
  3. Graeme Edwards

    Nymphea Stellata

    Yup, that's what I've done in the past. Don't go putting it 3ft down a hole, just enough so as to hold it in place. Cheers
  4. Graeme Edwards

    Nymphea Stellata

    Keep the crown just below the surface of the substrate, only a matter of millimeters. They like plenty of root food. Root tabs with N an P in work really well. Also in soil based substrates, or very old, mulm rich substrates work very well for this plant too. Prune to keep it bushy with...
  5. Graeme Edwards

    What is this plant?

    Who's the daddy? Lol
  6. Graeme Edwards

    What is this plant?

    Mr Amano uses a plant alot in his scapes that's native to Japan. I can't recall the exact first part of the name. You will find it in nature aquarium world, book 2. Something like Esoetes Japonica.
  7. Graeme Edwards

    Low Light plants for Iwagumi

    Welcome to the Forum rohitsingh_81 ( thats not an easy nick name to remember :lol: ) It is perfectly possible to do a great iwagumi in low light/low-tech. E.Parvula, Pogostemon Heferi, valis. You can even use moss as a fourgound/cover plant. Easy Carbo will help no end, and adding...
  8. Graeme Edwards

    Collect yor own

    There is no great harm in doing so. As long as you respect the area it comes from and not make a mess doing so, then it is fine. Its also fine to introduce them to your tank, though you might find a few critters hitch hiking into your tank. They are not dangerous, but some may say they look...
  9. Graeme Edwards

    Aquatic Lichen - any such thing?

    I took one pebble off him to see if we could get rid of it. Andy loves it, but it takes over and covers all his rocks. Just think how annoying it would be to have great looking rock turn red! Thats why I wanted to see if I could get rid of it. Cheers.
  10. Graeme Edwards

    Aquatic Lichen - any such thing?

    Actually I have seen an aquatic lichen. Its red and virtually flat. Andy at The Greenmachine has some in his tank. A friend of his passed it to him, and now he can never get rid of it. I took a sample in a jar and killed it with easy carbo, so it is disposable. From what Andy tells me, it gets...
  11. Graeme Edwards

    H.C QUESTION

    Remove all the growing media. If its 1,2 grow, wash the jelly away and cut into 1cm clumps and plant with tweezer... If in rock wool, cut the bottom 2/3rd off, then, leaving some rock wool for the roots to grip, cut this up, again into 1cm clumps and plant with tweezers. It will grow fine in...
  12. Graeme Edwards

    ID native stem

    Looks like wild water cress or something. Creeping jenny can look similar, but I would think it is too early for that yet. Cheers.
  13. Graeme Edwards

    Welsh Plant ID

    Sexy little plant. We have some lovely aquatic plants in the UK. The hardest thing is the temperatures for us. Perhaps a green house native set up would be cool to see. Love the enthusiasm Tom. Isn't nature just brilliant.
  14. Graeme Edwards

    strange plant....again. ID needed.

    Its strange that its flowering under the water. Ive seen many aquatic plants flowers, but all have been emerged apart from the likes of Anubias. Hydroctyl flowers are very unassuming, tiny bladder like fronds with the smallest amount of yellow you ever did see.It certainly looks like that to...
  15. Graeme Edwards

    Anubias melt !

    There is a bacteria that effects Anubias - Casuing it to rot and melt from the oldest end. Its seems a few people have had this problem recently. It could be the water at this time of year, maybe theres a bacteria present in the winter months. But my understanding is the plant is affected. Cut...
  16. Graeme Edwards

    Plant ID please

    Looks very much to me like Cardamine Lyrata - A very young shoot though, but im about 99% sure thats what it is. http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... 6%26um%3D1 Cheers.
  17. Graeme Edwards

    Crypt Wendetti

    How long have you had the plant in your tank? Was it from emerged or submersed? If its new to you and it has been an immersed plant. Then this is very normal. Nothing to panic about. Prune out the leaves that are effected. Over a short period, you will have removed all non aquatic leafs, in...
  18. Graeme Edwards

    Plant Indentification

    nana petite doesnt like direct light. Its also, very, very,very slow growing. You would need a fair bit to cover the same size patch, or patience of a saint. Good luck with it.
  19. Graeme Edwards

    growing rotala macrandra

    This in my experience is a slow to moderate grower. Clearly loves the strong intense light. Not a plant to self propagate fast enough for some growers. Give it what you've got and see how it does for you.
  20. Graeme Edwards

    Nuphar Japonicum (Red Spatterdock)

    It will be quite the feature....plant it up, it will look stunning 8)
  21. Graeme Edwards

    Nuphar Japonicum (Red Spatterdock)

    Not heard of the red, but I grow the green. This is the 1st time ive used it, and not many people I speak to have ever seen it, so info is sparse. Mine is in ADA Malaya, KH3 GH3, Co2, full hit. Its huge at around 60cm tall, with each leaf being the size of an A5 pad of paper. Stunning plant...
  22. Graeme Edwards

    To Prune or Not to Prune?

    The best option all round for your tank and plant is to remove the bad leaves in-situ. You risk algae blooms and further damage to the plant buy uprooting it. Prune the plant as low as you possibly can...dont be scared. Cheers.
  23. Graeme Edwards

    blyxa changing colour?flowering???

    Yup, looks like a happy helathy plant. The flowers a not much to look at and are underwater flowers. Ive found that when it flowers, the plant is usualy at optimum/full hight.
  24. Graeme Edwards

    ceratopteris thalictroides

    It isn't actually a stem plant, it growth like a rosette plant, but rolls its new leaves out like bracken or ferns. It also works well as a floating plant. One of my fav plants,great for low teck/lowlight tanks, but can look awesome in high ligh set ups. CHeers.
  25. Graeme Edwards

    Glossostigma elatinoides question

    Yup, 24th is cool, im working that day. Sorry for the hijack piece-of-fish! :wink:
  26. Graeme Edwards

    Glossostigma elatinoides question

    Bring your HD camcorder Andy, perhaps we could come up with a funky vid of bones of the earth ( Thats my aquatrium, not what some of you might be thinking :lol: ). The tank looks its best on fridays just afert a water change etc. Boh!
  27. Graeme Edwards

    Glossostigma elatinoides question

    If you look on this really helpful link, scroll down to the bottom of the page and there is a very good diagram to illustrate what needs to be done to help the plant grow properly. Hope this helps. http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... 0%26um%3D1 Cheers.
  28. Graeme Edwards

    Glossostigma elatinoides question

    Ive grown it under moderate light ( 78W over a 3 footer ( 2 T5's ) - 45 cm deep - still 2.5W per US gallon ) tank. It was growing flat and healthy even where it was over shadowed. I did hammer the Co2 in though. That was grown in Unipac Zambezi and Tropica substrate. You shouldn't have any...
  29. Graeme Edwards

    Blyxa Japonica Trimming

    Blyxa is one of those plants that just doesnt travel well. Ive planted it as ive received it and just syphoned of the melt and let it do its thing. When it comes down the the actual "trim", you have tp ull the plant out and cut the exsess off the bottom and plant the tops. Cheers.
  30. Graeme Edwards

    Aquatic plants in CA

    We have the same plant over here...Ive seen it many a time.....I forget the name though.... Im not sure if its endemic, but we do have it here...In fact we have some lovely aquatic plants here, some resembling many of what we might see in our aquariums, but obviously with differnet demands.
  31. Graeme Edwards

    Echinodorus osiris

    Your assupmtion would be right. If it gets to the surface you may see some nice white flowers, otherwise,you will have small Osiris plantlet along the length of the stem.
  32. Graeme Edwards

    Recovering Blyxa

    A serious amount of Co2 and lean dosing has worked for me.
  33. Graeme Edwards

    Hygrophila corymbosa `Siamensis` 53B.

    Hi dave, Ive dosed easy carbo in excess with this plant with no ill affects. Not sure what ells it could be mate. Cheers.
  34. Graeme Edwards

    Plant id, once again.

    Hello Murphy. The first plant is Cabomba caroliniana and the second is Ceratopteris thalictroides. Im not a fan of Cabomba, but i really like the Ceratopteris. It is very fern like when it beds in, with great green unfurling leaves. It does very well floating to, great for Killie fish and fry...
  35. Graeme Edwards

    Crypt Parva ??

    C,Willisii.
  36. Graeme Edwards

    Plant seen at Chester Zoo

    The leaves are not out of the water. The tank is much taller than the viewing window, so you don't get chance to see the full hight. Thats down to a prehistoric building unfortunately. Its far over due an update, and in the 7 years I was there it was always next year. So poor old Mike Crumpler...
  37. Graeme Edwards

    Plant seen at Chester Zoo

    Hi, Sorry you PMed me on TFF, totally forgot about that, my apologies. Its Anubias barteri var. barteri, I think, although can not be 100%, but looking at it, its hard to think its anything other than. Big old Anubius that, well over 10 years old if i remember, hence its size. Really sorry i...
  38. Graeme Edwards

    plant id and info

    Whipped off the Tropica website. Like quite a bit of light and Co2, quite slowing growing and benefits from a rich substrate. Not my cup of teas as it can look untied when it grows out, but nice when kept short. Pogostemon helferi No. 053H Family Lamiaceae...
  39. Graeme Edwards

    Pogostemon Helferi - New growth is white

    Did you? :lol:
  40. Graeme Edwards

    Pogostemon Helferi - New growth is white

    My understanding of white growth on what would be the new plant tips, is a micro defficiancy. Plants can access macros from other parts of its self with relative ease, where as with micro, it can only acces that as it grows from either the water colum or the substrate. So if the tips ( new...
  41. Graeme Edwards

    Pogostemon Helferi - New growth is white

    Try adding some Tropica nutrition, the normal stuff, the brown bottle. Trols form Tropica told me its hight in trace and Ion,this might help you out too! The scape looks pormicing Steve. Influanced by the latest ADA resaults? What substrate is in there? Is it the Lim Popo from Unicpac?
  42. Graeme Edwards

    Pogostemon Helferi - New growth is white

    Hi Steve, It sounds like a micro nutriant deficiancy. The new growth that is white and the rest being green sugests thats the problem IMO. Try adding some Tropica tablets under the PH or just alter your dosing. What are you using to firt your plants? Cheers.
  43. Graeme Edwards

    Ech tenellus changing colour!

    Thats very normal. Usualy means its getting plenty of light. Just look at the red sp of aquatic plants. The redish pigment is to protect the plant, but its a nice trade off for us!!! Enjoy it dude! 8)
  44. Graeme Edwards

    Bolbitis heudelotii

    I have some of this too. Its like your java ferns really. The really old leaves are not as efficient as the newer ones, they just get past it. Cut them off when they get like that. Your plant will thank you for it, being a stronger and fuller plant. Same applies for other fern sp. Cheers.
  45. Graeme Edwards

    Tropica's new plant is now on their website.

    Nice scape mate. That plant looks very fish freindly. I can think of a few scape ideas that it would fit into. Nice plant and nice work!
  46. Graeme Edwards

    plant ID request

    Looks very much like A.crispus to me.
  47. Graeme Edwards

    The Green Machine.

    Evening. Just a heads up for all the people who are getting quite excited about The Green Machine. Ive just be down there today and had a chat with the guys. They will be selling as from today the full range of Tropica fertilizers from the Nutrition+ to all the NPK capsules to the Tropica...
  48. Graeme Edwards

    The Green Machine.

    Jim and Mark said they were more than happy to have some posters up on the wall, so Dans on it as we speak. I did notice the Ukaps flyer up! :D Martain, i did notice a small glass diffuser they had. But no glass wear, lets hope its something they will concider selling. They do say, if they...
  49. Graeme Edwards

    The Green Machine.

    Evening all! Well Ive just got back from my short ( near 3 hour ) visit to Green Machine!! What can i say about this place, AWESOME,INSPIRATIONAL,PROFESSIONAL,! If your looking for a place thats doing it RIGHT, then this is the place. Don't be deceived by its location. As soon as you step...
  50. Graeme Edwards

    The Green Machine.

    Re: Greetings from The Green Machine... Hello and welcome! Its great to see such a local and inspirational shop! I hope that you set the standard for all the other aquarium shops to strive for. After all this is what Ukaps is all about. We want to see this hobby expand and advance in the UK to...
  51. Graeme Edwards

    The Green Machine.

    Yep agreed! I could put up about 5 peeps, so Geroge, Dan and Jeremy + 2 others, bit of room sharing if you can cope with that! Oh must add, thats if i havnt sold my house, Booooooo!!!!!
  52. Graeme Edwards

    The Green Machine.

    This has got me thinking of me hosting a UKaps meet. places to visit.... Chester zoo ( where i work ) blue planet, just round the corner, and green machine. Thats the saturday, then sunday all off into the mountains of north wales. Hmmmm, *rubs chin*. Im going to go down to green machine...
  53. Graeme Edwards

    The Green Machine.

    Jesus mate, what a bloody good find, i think a trip down there over the next few days is needed, cant wait, ill have to go and introduce my self. Graet find, and so local too! Big slap on the back for you. Do us a favour Dave and post it up in the were to buy section please! Cheers, Graeme...
  54. Graeme Edwards

    Plants that do well in well'ard water

    Well Simon, it looks like your after a high light tank then, thats the only when when you want to grow carpeting plants or plants like riccia submerged. Its not a big issue, its just a case of getting plenty of light and matching that with your Co2 and ferts. Of course we will help you with...
  55. Graeme Edwards

    Plants that do well in well'ard water

    Hi Simon, Both parts of avice are both as good as one another From Danne and Rayi. What i think you need to do, is decide on what method you want to go down, or even come to us with a style you wish to emulate, and then we can advice you on what route is best. So do you want, low maint, low...
  56. Graeme Edwards

    flowering plants for open topped aquaria

    I have lymnophila arimantica flowering, it very pink and tiny, you can see it in the gallery. Ive seen , nurpher japonica flower, its very nice, allmost like a small sun flower.
  57. Graeme Edwards

    African biotope

    Fantastic thread guys. Dave, could you post both links on the main web page in the links section. The biotope could be a great way of bringing a new spin on the planted tank. Cheers fellas.
  58. Graeme Edwards

    Monosolenium tenerum

    Its ok ulster it has arrived today....... looks abit pblurrrr but it may be ok.....i think itl be fine. Thanks Ulster there was loads. Cheers.
  59. Graeme Edwards

    Monosolenium tenerum

    The mini mono looks realy nice, i want some of that! Ulster the mono you kindly sent has never arrived, think its something to do with the bloody postal strike. Never mind.
  60. Graeme Edwards

    I need a plant but I'm not sure what...

    Yes, where are you hoping to position the plant in the picture above. First thing that come to my mind for your scape, perhaps not the right thing your after si, Blyxia Japonica, not exactly smaller than C.wenditti. I havnt had any experiance of it either. Or U.Grammifola ( how ever you spell it...
  61. Graeme Edwards

    Emersed Eleocharis acicularis

    Ive seen the same thing, thought excactly the same thing. I would proberbly do as Dave says, cut it right back and plant it in a well maintained tank, should be fine. Any dying back, remove it asap. Graeme.
  62. Graeme Edwards

    cambomba & elodia

    Theres alot that will grow under 26 C, Have a brows through the Tropica website. http://www.tropica.com/default.asp Plants such as Littorella uniflora, Lobelia cardinalis , Riccia fluitans , Vesicularia dubyana , Rotala sp. ''Green'', Ludwigia repens The only real thing you will notice in...
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