Hi all!
After some small rearrangements
250-l looks like this. Its just a poor start, but The Plan is strong and believe me, I have a vision! At the end of April I will order some small orchid species from here
Startseite Bens Jungle Onlineshop. I already have
Leptotes bicolor and
Bulpophyllym variegatum growing there along two
Nepenthes-species,
Peperomia prostrata and some (hopefully) emersed and submersed aquatic plants. Im planning to order
Isabelia pulcella, Ostradella centadenia, Pleurothalis sp. maybe some
Angraecum and
Tillandsia but some of these are going to be grown 600-l. The water is tealike because of new bogwoods. I also should buy some more cork, it was a totally new thing to me but seems to do well as a background (can`t be seen in a pic thou). On the left side I try to put some bigger species, there is plenty of room for them available as you can see. Some moss, but wich, is also under construction....??? I got some unknown climbing tiny fern at the same time with orchids from Mr. Falck also. I really must thank Daniel of his great and gratuitous help with sooo many things!! I hope I wont kill his plants!
Most of the plants seems to be doing fine after three weeks, but the other
Nepenthes doesn`t look very happy thou its still making new leaves. Inhabitants: Sakura and Bumble-Bee shrimps, 6 Leopard cories and 20 Celestial Pearl Danios wich seems to love their new woody and shady enviroment! Submersed plants are lowlights: anubias, java ferns, java and willow moss and cryptos. Oh man, its really hard take photos of this tank with my photographer skills ("skills")! IRL it looks a bit more lushious! Some plants are hiding behind that tall wood on the right, sorry for it.
600-l is ready to receive some orchids and other epiphytes too:
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plus the existing third wood with
Hydrocotyle tripartita (see earlier pics above), wich is doing great BTW!!
Acorus gramineus looks fine and is pushing new leaves, but we`ll see. A friend of mine has have a great succes with it this way, so Im hopefull. I just bought couple of days ago
Cyperus helferi for emersed trying, now its growing just on the wood wich is supposed to be OK...? Iv seen it growing that way too...The colour of the plant is still poor, so light. Unfortunately the light of my Leds seems to be a bit strong at the surface level, hopefully not too for it?!
This tank also got, FINALLY, a new HMF
Nice colour, isn`t it. Happily it will turn black sooooon?!!
My son was so exited about this emersed culture mess with other tanks that he started his own minimersed with his
45-l: He is planning to plant some small orchid there too, maybe
Pleurothalis would work when lifted up enough from water level?
300-l is doing pretty fine but still under progress with stem plants after Big Pruning:
Dam plecos has eaten young growth of Bacopas but then I started to give them more veggiefood and I think they have left Bacopas alone now. In 600-l Water wisteria has been left alone by plecos but Im still missing my beautiful Giants wich I throw away couple of weeks ago when I received Ww.
Iv spent hours of watching different palundariums and vivariums, oh man there is some soooooo awsome ones not to mention some purely emersed culture tanks!! T-h-a-t is what I call inspiring!