Keeping Mini-Bolbitis

[frothhelmet]

It is available here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Bolbitis-Live- ... 19bac01b2a

This plants looks awesome. Does anyone know if this is really Bolbitis, if it is really an aquatic plant, and if so what water parameters are necessary to keep it? I can't find any of this info on the net.

Many Thanks if anyone has had experience with it.

 

[frothhelmet]

A Japanese website I was looking at says this plant grows excruciatingly slow and stunted underwater. Apparently it is not an aquatic. The guy selling it says it grows fine with CO2 and Med light. I trust the guy as he resent me a large order of plants when it never arrived with no questions asked, but I am not going to chance it.

 

[Steve Smith]

That looks nice The Bolbitis "diformis" might be an option though?

 

[frothhelmet]

Interesting question. The website also talked about Bolbitis Difformus and said that it did not really grow underwater either, just putting up a few small leaves but generally wasting away. I talked to Graeme at TGM about B. Difformis in one of the display tanks (small one with the amano filter and halide next to the ADA magazine rack) and he said that it puts up new leaves, but that the old ones tend to die quickly, so it does just O K in water...Do you have a better experience with it?