Aquatic Plants

Oliver Knott built this amazing planted piece using readily available materials.  We would like to thank him for the time to photograph and explain the process and show off some of his amazing talent and techniques. The first step is to install a mount to the bottom of the glass to anchor …

Ive shown the photos of the agar gelled tissue culture vessels that line the shelves in our makeshift laboratory.  Many people have contacted us asking what happens to them next.  Most often times they are deflasked and planted into an aquarium, wabi sabi, or terrarium if they aren’t traded off.  …

Growing aquatic plants in your aquarium doesn’t have to be extremely difficult or require expensive tools.  Of course they will help and as you become more experienced you may begin to utilize them to your advantage.  For the average beginner this can be overwhelming and expensive.  There are a multitude …

I ordered some plants and as an extra special surprise of unknown certainty I obtained some plants without knowing what I was to get. Usually I like to know what I’m getting, or at least how to take care of it.  There was one plant wrapped in a paper towel …

I found this cryptocoryne pontederifolia to be a rather nice large plant.  The form ‘merah besar’ as it was labeled when I got it means big red, which fits this one.  The picture doesn’t really bring out the best of the colors on my phone camera but its a nice …

  I grow my hudoroi without much peat and prefer to use topsoil or even no organic material in the mix.   My understanding and limited information research suggests that its from primarily a limestone stream biotope that has little or limited nutrients compared to the blackwater peat streams that …

The cryptocoryne is a great aquarium and terrarium plant that can be grown well emersed or submerged.  Emersed grown plants tend to grow faster than those underwater submerged plants do but don’t color up as brightly as their underwater counterparts do. The versatility of the cryptocoryne allows it to be …

We all know that a good quarantine program for fish, especially marine fish, is an excellent bio security measure when we add a new fish to our aquarium.  We seldom think of this extra safety net when adding plants however.  Plants are a source of all sorts of bad freshwater …

We all have problems with algae in our tanks as some point in time.  When we have adjusted our parameters to combat the algal growth we can take steps to remove unwanted algae from our plants.  Other times they are plants we have obtained from another source and we want …

Many of the plants we keep and enjoy in our aquariums will grow well in both submerged and emersed above water.  Most of them need a humid environment to do so, but once adapted they will grow quickly.  In fact many plants we keep in our aquariums are actually not …