Plant Tissue Culture: A Home-Based Guide (How to Practice Plant Tissue Culture on a Budget) Buy a copy of the book now and get more in-depth explanations about making media, growing, cleaning explant material, and more. Safety is a very important part of plant tissue culture. Potential safety issues have …
Read More »What is Plant Tissue Culture
Plant tissue culture is the practice of propagating plants in a sterile environment. Take plant material that is suitable for initiation and sterilize it. This plant material is known as an explant. The explant is put into a sterile jar of media with nutrients and plant growth regulators which helps …
Read More »Introduction to Plant Tissue Culture
Plant Tissue Culture: A Home-Based Guide (How to Practice Plant Tissue Culture on a Budget) Using plant tissue culture it is possible to grow thousands of plants a month in a small room or area. Easily start practicing plant tissue culture at the hobby level with tremendous success. Tens of …
Read More »Emergency Fish Care For Power Outages and Natural Disasters
Some parts of the country are prone to power outages, especially where hurricanes and tornadoes are more frequent. Other areas are more prone to wildfires, floods, and earthquakes. Scheduled and impromptu power supply interruptions are also common in the workings of the power infrastructure. Fishkeepers must be prepared, or at least …
Read More »Mer Bleue Sphagnum Bog in Ottawa Canada
The Mer Bleue Conservation area is a sphagnum bog near Ottawa Ontario, Canada with acidic water. Black spruce, tamarack, bog rosemary, blueberry, and cottongrass make up the majority of plants in this highly unique environment. Beavers, birds, snakes, and frogs are abundant as well. The rare Spotted turtle also makes …
Read More »What Dreams May Come Planted Scape Build
Years ago I found this beautiful movie: What Dreams May Come. It was not only the idea about an afterlife but the way it was shown. Great scape, great colors, a place made by yourself and for yourself. And then I saw the house. That was the moment when I started to …
Read More »Igapó Rio Negro Amazon Biotope Aquarium
Aquatic plants, fish, substrate, and hardscape. Technical description: Blackwater Rio Negro shallow water aquarium biotope. Tank Dimensions: 24″ * 12″ * 12″ (l*d*h) Lighting: Finnex FugeRay Planted+ Aquarium LED Light Plus Moonlights Tannin stained dark water is not easy for light to penetrate the water column. To get enough light to grow …
Read More »Sandy Sedimentary Bottom Area in Ndole bay, Zambia Lake Tanganyika
by Walter Vázquez Aquatic plants, fish, substrate, and hardscape. Technical description: A biotope aquarium thought to be maintained over time can have a constant evolution from its initial planning because the more we investigate about the chosen biotope the more we want to approach the visual aesthetics and its naturalness. …
Read More »What Does Biotope One Mean?
What does Biotope One mean? B1 A true biotope. In the hobby it’s an aquarium or display with fish and plants that occur in the same area or body of water, where they share a specific habitat. B2 A watersystem. This is a little more broad. It contains fish and …
Read More »Breeding Rare Badis Assamensis of India
Badis Assamensis was originally thought to be only endemic to the river Brahmaputra in Assam, India from its 1937 discovery. Later it was found in another location in the northern region of West Bengal. This species of aquarium fish comes from slow-moving stained water with sand substrate. Water lilies and …
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