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Thanks! Does it need to be tied to stone/wood, or should be tucked in the substrate? Does it have rhizome issues like Anubias? Yes I gathered that much.. How big/small the leaves and stems go?? I use Stauro as a FG to MG plant. Many thanks indeed.

Hello Everyone I got hold of the following from a new lfs. All plants are from Italian company Anubias, and are invitro cultures except one. Has anyone tried/have these, and what are their recomendations regarding growing and aquascaping... 1. Bucephalandra Motteyana sp. Sintang (very...

Hi you could also try ergia densa, bacopa, cabomba caroliniana..

Hi guess can you increase CO2 even more that DC is yellowish at the start of light ON? C isnt exactly a good measure due to delayed response etc, but leaves getting mushy is surely a CO2 issue. Also check if you have enough N in your macro fert.

How about "hemianthus micranthemoides"? This is a easy plant that when prunned & planted carefully can make a foreground carpet... -niru

Hi tovtm :) . This one grows fast enough, but in a good EI, CO2 regime, mine was rotting and uprooting quite a bit. Plus its so easy to break and makes mess. I finally got rid of it, though I guess this one has a good scaping potential. But its a weed for sure!

I think its a Water Sprite (Ceratopteris) species. I had this in my tank. The stems are quite brittle and break easily. Its also difficult to hold in the substrate as it easily uproots.

Hi I too had a similar experience with A coffeefolia few months back. BTW, I have 4 different Anubias all habitating nicely in my tank: nana, barteri, augustifolia, and caladiifolia. Had coffeefolia as well, but it rotted quite suddenly and all leaves were floating.. similar to the OP...

Will try this weekend or so!

Hello after the reco by Tom and Darrel, I got this grass.. Its has rooted nicely, and have send out some shoots already within 3 weeks.. Being a edge plant, I have kept it in foreground where the full force of the filter outlet pipe is hitting water unhindered. The blades are dancing...

I saw "Littorella Uniflora" and "Alternanthera Versicolor Red" in my local LFS. Havent found much info on them on google. Anyone tried these and feedbacks? The littorella looks like a small grass version, and google says its slow to grow, might be difficult.. but no idea of any parameters...

Hi my French is as good as my Swahili, and google babelfish doesnt do much justice :D Any idea how fast it grows? I dont want to end up mowing it every week, nor do I want to see 1 new shoot every 6 months! Its supposed to be verging close to endangered or so in wild..... -niru

Hello has anyone any experience on this? Its a wort; googling said its kind of fernlike (?!?), looks more like a grass.... How fats does it grow, and what are its needs etc? Thanks niru

How did you compute this probability level (& at what confidence??) :shifty: :geek: :mrgreen:

Thanks ghostsword! With my year old tubes @ 2WPG this should be OK then as a background plant? And no need to alter the doing then..

Hi All the new stock in my lfs has Polygonum Sao Paulo. I havent found much info on the web on this except for its red colors. I would like to get this, but have no idea of its needs. In my 180 litre tank I have EI, good CO2 (40+ppm) and flow. Lights are 90W T5HO with reflectors, but are...

Thanks guys! I will keep Koralia 24/7.. Perhaps increase CO2 further.. maybe 4-5 bps?? I have Platys, Corys, Tetras and Amano shrimps. Hope they wont mind :) -niru

Thanks Dfish! my temp is always near 24-26 range which I monitored over the weekend every 1/2 hour or so.. The Koralia is turned ON at 10:00 in morning till 11:30 night, so flow is also OK (I hope). I checked on some forums that Anubias could start rot if rizhome is incorrectly cut (which was...

Hi a few days back I got Anubias Heterophylia (big leaf) & tied it to a wood block. Now I observe that some rizhomes are rotting for no apparent reason. Moreover, some other plants (hygrophilia species) have started getting the rot at their stem base, slowly moving upwards. Ferts are EI and CO2...

I guess flow/circulation is more of a problem than water filtration... But as Bob says, it could also be Aqua Soil related ammonia.. However, you dont mention ammonia related algae etc.. its more of sloppy plants holding their life to a thread scenario. So more than algal issues, the plants...

I guess you need more of a flow/circulation, some kinda water movement. In general the boundary between plant leaves and water is static (i.e. no water movement). The frictional effects and boundary layer issues between the two mediums always end up like this. (Ever wondered why there is too...

I guess the cubic relationship holds true for "animals" who have full-bodied volumes. The "rounder" the animal, the better the relation since the size^3 comes is essentially the volume of the animal. The "a" in the relation is a fudge factor that accounts for, amongst loads of other bio-activity...

Hey whats this?? What is this about light that you want to change? I am eager to know.. -niru

This could come only because "I could do only what I could since I am already standing on the shoulders of giants" :wink: if you know what I mean :mrgreen: Yes, thats very true.. though I tend to content myself by knowing that I have seen/heard/read about these people during my current...

Hi Ceg your reply is amazingly to the mark (when it hasnt been I wonder)!! During my total novice days, I had relatively high light, no CO2 etc.. the W. Brown had long lances always nearing the surface and relatively short leaf size. I never wondered, thinking thats perhaps natural for this...

Cabomba Caroliniana. Its classified as a weed and it DOES grow like crazy :)

Ceg, does this also implies that only those plants which manage to change their leaf internal wirings to suit the under water flooding can grow in the tank, and others will simply rot/decay? One never sees a rose garden in a tank?? Is this the sole/primary reason for this? And are there genetic...

So now we know why Mr. Anderson is THE Mr. Anderson, and only the chosen ones can crack the Matrix! Its 21st May tomorrow, so good that I read it all today! cheers

Limnophilia Aromatica??

Hi All would this help: The plant is in the south east asia section and the lfs gals swore that it came from one of their Thai contacts. They advertise it as non CO2 requiring modestly medium-easy difficult plant. They also said that its not a cultivar and comes from natural habitats from SE...

I too thought it's R. Macandra but the color and leaf shape of top leaves plus arrangement looked more like Nesea red. These are more pointed, narrow and looking upwards. Unlike H. Polysperma, there are no veins nor the redish tinge!

Don't the upper ones look delicate and have a coppery red? Also the pattern on stem and leaf shape doesn't match hygrophilia (unless emmersed ones change drastically). So kinda confused.

Hi All saw this plant in the lfs today... was wondering if its some kind of Rotala or a Nesea?? The upper and lower leaves look totally different There was no labeling as it came from some South East Asean dealer.. -niru

Hi YMC I said nitrates because the yellowing leaf is a classic NO3 e.g., but like many multiple entries, it could be something else. Do any leaves show small black spots etc? CO2 distribution because the amazon sword leaf has this big dark patch that slowly melts & gets bigger.. As Tom says...

Hi YMC guess these are Nitrogen (nitrate) deficiencies.. Expert might weigh in. Perhaps CO2 is also acting weak, and flow issues as ceg will surely come up with.. Of course (as always) I might be wrong :-) cheers niru

Hello a1Matt at risk of stealing this thread, I have a question: I have triangle moss growing in my tank (EI, CO2, HOT5), as well as a pad put in a jar sitting in the sun. Contrary to my expectation, the single pad is doing much better than the one in the tank. New growth is visibly fresh...

Thanks WBS!! Any idea how a Mauritiana var. ended as a Thailand wild variety in my LFS??? BTW, I was just browsing your 400 Juwel Rio aquascaping journal on another website! Great tank! -niru

Many thanks George and Matt!! Perhaps the emmersed height is too tall? Will have to wait & watch how & if it gains foothold in the tank. Cheers Niru

Guys I guess I got it! Is it Lilaeopsis Mauritiana by any change?? Can someone confirm/refute this? I have to wait a few weeks before seeing any growth in the tank. I hope theres not much meltdown of leaves..

Hi Darrel many thanks, will check! How about Shoreweed (Littorella Uniflora), though if its from Thailand is... I dont know?!

Thanks Matt. The grass is surely not a rossette type.. rhizomes with closely separated blades. BTW the blades break easily when folded.

Hi George the Tropica picture of L. Macloviana shows nodes on the grass, and it mentions Pampas South America as its place of origins. The LFS have a special SouthAsia Thailand sale from where I picked this up.

Hi Matt It's not l.b. Because I already had that and this doesn't look like it. it's about 4 inches tall. To me it seems to a wild variety ...

:-D I also thought so.... so tried in some salad... :wink: .... :sick: but didnt taste like one! Yuk :jawdrop

Hi Steve this is the grass I got: The lfs gal said its from Thailand. To me it looks similar to Eleocharis, but then it ought to be from Americas or Africa and not Southeast Asia, right? It had a lot of runners with closely stacked blades (rizhome like??). The blade is pretty hard, firm...

:D Cool! I also go this grass (right now with me in my office 8) ). But I have spent entire afternoon trying identifying it, but hasnt helped :( cheers! BTW, any good listing page for these?? I have tried the usual suspects.... all of them. None looks like the one I have. Its closer to...

Hello Everybody! my LFS is currently selling "Organic/Bio plants from Thailand" (as mentioned on their advertising board :? ), essentially uncultivated plants picked from Thai streams I guess. Amongst them is a great looking grass variety (no photo right now, but will get one). It looks like...

Hi I guess it does look like this (a bit darker though). I got this pad from Dennerle.

Hello have people been growing this moss (Cratonneuron filicinum) ? And whats a good way of using it in aquascaping? I bought 2 pad of this months back and simply kept it on the tank floor (The LFS guy told me thats how it should be and with time will make a carpet like stuff!!!). Of course...