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Thanks. I didnt know plants can be registered. Is there perhaps an similar EU registation? Nope. Tropica didnt take it. 😔

Done. They didnt take it. H

I got this very beautiful mutated plant one year ago in my own emersed plant bucket, and over the winther I have pruned it and replanted, and it seems to be stable as I can see. The mutation gives the plant slower growth, than original, but there is some spots with no green pigmentation, naturly...

Thanks all. When looking at pictures of Spirodela polyrhiza, I am quite confident to say this is it. Very nice to have you all here. Cheers H

I found this floating plant in an pond in Thailand and brought it home. It is bigger than Lemna minor and very similar, but smaller than salvina natans but not the same leaf structure or surface. Slightly red or purple on the downside and green upperside. Any guess on the name?

Thanks A. Yes, It has been propagated for some times now, and this one is an third time propagation from shootings. My first submerged. So I belive it is somehowe stable. But you say it will be more or less stable if the cuttings are taken from furher up or down the plant? please elaborate...

Yes! And propagatet it will. We are on it. H

Thanks dude.

An update of my beauty. How do you fancy this?

Hygrophila corymbosa ´compact´ it must be when I look around the net. Thanks all H

I have this plant grown emersed, but I forgot the name. Possible something ..... compact, because it is quite dense even submerged H

Very nice coloration I´d say. Slightly pinkish. Anyone seen this mutation before? Or can this be first time? Then I´d like to name it... H

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Thanks. I will let it grow a bit longer to see what hapens and then moove it to a tank perhaps. More photos to come... H

One plant in my emersed setup has turned in to pinkish color Is this an variegated mutation? Will it be stable? H

Pogostemon stellata ”Vortex”

Yes It is possible. Can you see it is an Pogostemon stellata. (Look at the growthpattern of the leafs)

And what shall we call this rare beauty?

Yes, due to too high high humidity, this may be why some plants has melted, and I am now ventilating much more than the first half of first week. H

Thanks mick, this is interesting. I was suspecting the spraying was an problem, and perhaps that strong lamps would burn the leafs due to water drops effects- or soething else. So I guess that humiditiy is a key factor in front of "rainforest"

Thanks progen, thats good info, this is exactly opposite to my tank. It is full of dry sand from the hardscapings. Theres probably less than five liters of water in the whole tank. great info.

The sand is really thick in the background and also very dry besides when i am spraying it like three to six times a day. The tank is not extra tempered so always over 22C Two T5 54w bulbs. One white one red No ferts jet. But i am thinking of giving some with the spray this week. Any PMDD...

More pics As yuo see, some are triving and some are not

Now after one week since planting. My HC is mostly looking good but in some spots it has melted down totaly due to what? I am water spraying it many times dayli to keep moist. But can it be too much or not enough? What causes this meltdown in just some plants? H

Yes thanks. I will do an standard dose of pmdd and fil up with water 3x more, so I can fill up with 10ml once every week. cheers

Yes. it is very intense and bright light. I ran it on an 54 liter tank with ok results. I think it is an 20watt LED lamp from here http://www.co2art.co.uk/collections/lighting/products/professional-hi-power-30w-led-for-planted-tank-aquarium-6500k What i really think the problem was from start...

Yes thanks, i am doing the roll on a stick thing. Works nicely but it still keeps comming back.l The bba's i can scrape with my nails. Thats OK. Do you mean you spray glutaraldehyde under water or when you do water changes and it exposes to air? Light is on from 12 to 21. But the light is very...

But the happy kitchen thing is struggeling now Full frontal view. Closeupp in center. Right upper corner Left side. HC and Bolbitis are pearling nicely, but so is the algeas too. I think i gave a litle bit too much of everything due the size of the tank. Any maintanence...

The tops of my fontinalis is starting to look better now. That must have been some kind of cyano, but just on the top. Been having some green spot algeas on the glass this weekend. But now everything is bubbling again. Perhaps the plantmass was too massive lately. H.

Yeah lifeskills it is. And she is the best! Thanks guys. H.

So, last weekend I set up an new tank in the kitchen. Very well planned I must admit. Let me tell you how to make an "happy kitchen tank" without asking the wife " can we have", but rather giving her the pleassent surprise of getting at home on the friday afternoon and "finding out..."...

Thanks guys for helping me out in this issue. I will try to get some few more pics later on, sadly this computer has no sd card reader anymore so it is not easy anymore to show pics. H.

Hi, and thanks for reply. Interresting this thing with spore capsules, but does the plant produce spore capsules when it is submersed? But i really dont think it is spores. There is something inside that looks lika algea. Because when i pull it out with an neeadle it is something slimy that...

Hello again As always in CO2 tanks the plant mass gets massive, and offcourse the nutrition comsumption goes up, and perhaps some nutrients were all eaten. I dont know for sure what has happend with my Fontinalis antipyretica (the same plant as in the very first picturets), but there is...

Hey there Guess whos SD card reader crached?! Yes, the computers SD card reader is badly hurt due to an accident. So the inload of pics to the main houshould computer from the camera is absolutley set to an end. Baaaad for me, daaaamned. But I do have an extra set of IT in reserve luckely...

When I look at the tank from distance it is really Bright an flawless. But with the macrolens you get a new dimension with green spot algea and black brush algeas and so on... plenty of algeas to eat The tiny new ancistrus with green spot algea to Clean up, just need to grow out the belly...

Lets take a new look on the blyxa, but one week later. I got some new algea workers in the tank! They are some few days old, because I saw the feemales belly "empty" some three-five days ago. But i havent seen them until today, no wonder, because the size is soooooooo tiny. It is incredibe...

Hi all photo lovers no great bubbling on the blyxa japinica, but some really great growth for some time now, sadly I havent taken the "Before" Pictures earlyer. the plant was really pitty looking just some week ago and dying. but it have grown up to be an really good lookig young steam plant...

jeapp, its an otto. I was surprised its teeth was red, something i cant see with bare eyes. Great lenz. H.

Thanks greenfingers, appreciated! H. heres another one, ill keep bombing with pics...

Cleaning maid nr3. And she seems to have som new employees to the tank within some days. Tiny small new crystal PRL shrimps on the way.

Cleaning mate nr 2 on the blyxa japinoca

I got some happy livestock too.

Microsorum trident growing with transparent leaftips.

Thanks all for the sweet feedback. Yeah, Bolbitis heudeliti it is Heres an interesting thing. Pogostemon stellata has been cut of and is now giving several new steems, but it seems to be struggling, thoug it has been deeply red for some days. still red but not so intense anymore: Here the...

Why do we like to do underwatergardening? One of the reasons must be the submerged photosynthesis thing. I just cant get enough of these pearling plants. Bubbels! They confirm my good maintainance in the tv sofa. guessed what plant?

Thanks Martin and Aaron. Hope you like bubbles just like me. Hers another one. An cryptocoryne. Wendtii I think, notice those small white spots (not the bubbles) very similar to those seen on closeup photos of some bucephalandras. H.

An even closer look at the Bacopa caroliana. Sharp. H.

An closer look at the Bacopa caroliana. If you zoom in and look close on the part of the photo that has good focus, then you will be able to see an hinch of the individual cells that the leaf i built up. Pretty good to be an 90mm macro lenz, and not an microscope. H.

Fontinalis antipyretica Good bubbling in the evenings Actually a really nice moss, very big leaves and it sways lovely in the flow when it grows taller. CO2 around 30ppm NO3 20ppm/week PO4 1,5ppm/week Fe 0,1ppm/week

Hi again! It has been almost one year ago and i did not skipp the microsorums totaly, but changed positions. Now my microsorum is still not doing well in the first tank. Even my M.windelöv has become in very bad shape. The deffection of carbon that was suggested earlier in the thread was not...

Whatever there is carbonates in the water or not i do not know, but i do waterchanges regulaly every 15-20 Days, and PMDD every time. This my other tank, which is going on straight with its good balance and great growth is why i am sceptical to the carbon thing. There is not much difference...

I just have to throw in some pics from another tank of mine, also 500 liter and the same plants, and aproximetly the same treatment as the one i am having problems with. There are some BBA also in this tank, but only on the wood nowdays H.

Thanks Iain for your comment, but the flow around the plant is really good due the outflow fron an FX6, and it is really flowing good around the plants leafs. (the outflow is actualy pointing towards the plant, opposite of what the Picture on top of the thread is showing, due to maintainance)...

also provided with nitrate and micro nutrients together with P H.

Update january 2014 I have ferting with KH2PO4 some time now, and all im gaining is Black beard algea (BBA) om the microsorum pteropus. Growth is OK in the aquarium for the cryptocoryne balansae and wendtii, vallisneria gigatea, microsorum windelöv and nymphoides sp Taiwan. The sagittaria...

I have ferting with P now and the BBA is comming back really hard this time, measured the P to more than 1,8 ppm. The microsorum is not looking better. I have been giving quite much K for some time, kan it be that microsorum dont like overfeeding with K? H.

I am thinking of planting more Microsorum windelöv to the right instead of these Microsorum The windelöv plants to the left looks pretty good The second issue is just some black beard algea on some stones and plants, but they might are disapearing slowly now. H.

well, it is powered by fluvl fx6, and the outflow is normaly directed to the right back corner of the tank, oposite what the Pictures show due to service. I have thinned out it recently because the plant is so ugly. But new leafs comes out in really bad shape. H.

This is an matured tank, please read te first lines. The leaves come out brand new with deffects H.

Hi again ceg 108wats per 500 liters, 40 cm down from Surface, is that too much light for an microsorum? i am not much for abbrevations due to non brittish, please explain wpl. H.

Anyone else like to submit their comments on deficiencies H.

Ehhh, no. no extra co2, why chould i have that in such poor light? 0,2 watt per liter. OK, so what you mean is that fish poo does not give any or poor P to the water? I did not think it mattered, but it makes some sense ofcourse. H.

I have made som experiments with the dry nutrients with time, but the dosings above are at least the latest two months

The aquarium is 500 liters and luminated with 2 * 54Watt T5 There are plenty of fish in the aquarium. Plant life is relatively good in all plants, Cryptocoryne, vaisneria gigantea microsorium Windeløv, Echinodorus rubin. But Microsorium pteropus keep getting defective blades, there is no...

I just cut them off and threw them in the trash! blahblahblahblah them for now in the 54 liter can. They are thriving in another tank so I can try them later, and in the top of that tank the PAR must be even more than in this tank, ehh!?!? I am lack off power to do more with them for now, even if I love...

I hawe been thinking hard for som weeks, but it stroke me just now that, what if temperature has something to do with my problems. It has been quite warm some days (mostly) due to that the ligtings generate high temperature, mostly over 28 dgrs C, and cooling down during the night and again...

Well as you can see on the above pictures, the PP is melting again. Im so saad that it does not thrive although I tryed to do what ive been requested. All other plants are thriving and bubbling. Ive killed probably ten amanos in co2, phosphate and/or nitrate intoxicity. what else can i do...

An uppdate on the palustris. H.

I use this calculator by the way heeke\'s blogg

you are right about the spraybar, it isnt an spraybar, it is just an outlet and its pointing towards the diffusor and makes the bubbles circulate better than when it was shorter. The cannister filter is capabel of 2000 liters / hour, but is turned down to at least the half capacity. I still have...

Here im pointing out the same plants from the earlier picture to make it more visible

As you can see the plant is not behind the rock. all 3 groups are very nearly together. H.

Here is the setup from above And it is filtered with unimax 500, slightly overkill. aproximtly 25 liter filtercannister. together with the aquarium it will be aprox 75 liters of water, all calculations are made to 75 liters of water, but it is still an 54 liter tank. Iwould say that the...

This is latest news today, 07FEB. the PP in the circle is what I have been taking photos of. And it is now melting again. The one in the square are looking just the same. But the ones in the middle looking perfect!!! ???

I was in to the redfield ratio thing before, but as I said later, I left the ratio thing and I am ferting 20ppm N, 3ppm P, and 30 ppm K, now. I thought this war enough and more than enough. Water changes on weekends and daily dosing. I dont use test kits to measure N ore P anymore, I just did it...

Am I calculating wrong here? this is what I dose 1 week (4 week, or 28 doses) Nitrate (NO3) 20ppm per week, KNO3 --- 1,85ml (7,4 ml) Phosphate (PO4) 3ppm per week KH2PO4 --- 0,3 (1,2 ml) Potassium (K) 30ppm per week, K2SO4 --- 1,87 (7,48 ml) Magnesium (Mg) 10ppm per week, MgSO4 --- 2,35 (9,4...

But I made an mix according to listing below on a weekly base, but fertilizing daily a seventh of the drypowder. Dosing micro tvice a week. N 20 ppm P 3 ppm K 30 ppm Magnesium 4 ppm, 4:1 ratio to Ca Fe 0.1 ppm Is this not what estimative index reccomend? H.

I have started to get cyano in some spots in the tank... H.

What about K and Mg, the same as i have now or null? H.

Great I have one follower! I took this picture on 02 february. And the plant has good structure in its leaves, wich was the goal. But they look pale, and more green than red. I would like to have more of the copperred coloration on its leaves, but im not confidet of giving it much more light if...

Anyone interested to hear /see how the scape is develloping? H.

Thanks Ady, I have made light adjustments, (reduction to nearly the half). But I was having an buildup of PO4 also in the tank, whatever it came from I dont know. (five waterchanges of more than 50% untill i got down to 1,0ppm. Would that possibly make an PO4 concentration of 32ppm?) I was in...

Here is mine, from this sunday. I think it has developed fine this time. I have lowered the light intencity to 48 watts 10 hours, and only 1 hour in the middle it is lighted with 96watts. I must have two different timers on two separate lights because the big root will throw an shadow down to...

Thank you, I will look forward to it. H.

Do you have an picture on it? H.

This is what it looks now, thursday 24th. It has split in to thre new shoots on the top and it seems to grow. how good we wil see in some days. I have made some water changes now, and got PO4 at 1,0ppm. Tonight im gonna figure out how much of the KNO3 i am gonna put in to it. H.

And lighting?

I have made some big waterchanges now, and I still cant get PO4 down below 1,8. (not so far) Lights are reduced and CO2 is kept the same or slightly increased. Im not ferting any extra K but what commes from KNO3. Aiming on N= 5ppm, that should give K= 3,3 and some extra Mg. More waterchages...

You teaser macek.g! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr Amazing color, How did you get that color? H.

Yeah! I actually have 6*24watt in the ramp but i dont have them all on. (anymore) H.

The HC on the top is doing great. bubbling like champagne! also the HC at the bottom is doing great. I have some Starogyne repens and ranunculus inundatis and a red Hygriphilia araguaia. They all do very well in the tank. but not PP. H.

It is an 54 liter tank, with 4*24watt T5 aquatic florocent lighting

That is some beautiful looking pp viktorlantos, congrats! Im not so good in english abbrevations.--- what is ATI? My two pictures are from different tanks. the upper is hightech and the lower is an lowlight aquarium. I will try for a week to obtain 5ppm NO3 and 16:1 ratio in NO3 : PO4 I will...

Woow, that was some writing! This will take me the whole day to read and understand (since my english is not exellent, im scandinavian) all the technical terms. Thank you very much and I will consider CO2 lack or even taking away some light. H.

NH4--- under 0,1ppm. No3 --- 1,0 ppm Po4 --- more than 3ppm I took some tests tonight to find out where it is going: NH4 is low as expected, i have only amanos in there NO3 was verylow indeed And PO4 was unexpectevly high. H.

And I was thinking of giving more K to the plants... H.

I dose per week 10ml of these ingredients from an 500 ml bottle 40ml KN03 8 ml KH2PO4 5 ml K2S04 25ml MiPlus And an extra 3ml dry powder of MGSO4 with every waterchange. to make Ca/Mg ratio 4:1 H

The droppchecker is from light yellow to light green depending on time of day. I am dosing 24/7 with Co2. explain to me please. H.