Aquariums

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 …

Leif ‘Apisto’ Johansen has quite a fishroom with around 30 tanks making up the collection.  Among his holdings are what most would deem a very nice collection of Apistogrammas, a dwarf cichlid from South America.  You wouldn’t at first think that a dedicated hobbyist living in Norway would have such a thriving interest. “I guess …

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 …

One of the first plants that I put into tissue culture was cryptocorynes. Plant tissue culture is a great way to multiply plants that multiply slowly naturally. Many people think that plants simply explode and grow to overtake your culture vessels instantly. This is not the case and it is …

I am moving some plants around and need to make a little bit of room so I’m going to get rid of a few excess plant I’m not going to use.   Available: Echinodorus opacus rataj emersed cryptocoryne beckettii emersed crypt hudoroi emersed If you are interested send me an …

Today I bought a couple bags of Turface at my local landscape supply house. I have bought Turface before and it was always the large white chips of kilndried clay. Today I was surprised when I opened the bag and it is a bit lighter than Flora Max.   Ill see …