Biotope One A Study of Flora and Fauna

I ran across small terrariums when I was trying to keep specimen plants inside.  I had so many plants and so little room to keep them.  Keeping terrariums is fun, especially when you keep larger enclosures, but often times smaller containers are overlooked. With an overabundance of cryptocorynes and some …

Here are some of the cryptocorynes that I am working on for the plant library for Biotope One.  So far there are about 8 to 10 crypt varieties in some form of cultuivation or another.  Some are easier to start than others, and some grow faster than others.  Some plants …

We are looking for biotope pictures of natural environments that our favorite plants come from.  From cryptocorynes, anubias, and carnivorous plants to sword plants, stem plants, and jewel orchids – we need them all.  In order to try to assimilate information about where some of these plants come from we need …

Being positioned in the great Pacific Northwest we are in a great place to grow live long fiber sphagnum moss.  Our moss is grown in a open floor greenhouse in trays.  The steadily moist and raining environment here is home to one of the best deciduous rainforests in the world.  …

We have some common and not so common cryptocoryne species, like c. hudoroi, c. Wendtii “flamingo”, “green”, and “Florida Sunset”.  There are about 55 cryptocorynes and we are working on building our collection the best we can.  We have them submersed and emersed grown depending on the species while some are growing …

Whether you keep a planted aquarium, a terrarium, paludarium, or vivarium there’s something for you here.  Plants, materials, and techniques will prove that this resource is a valuable tool in maintaining your fish, frogs, insects, or whatever your tank inhabitants might be.