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This is more like kokedama instead of epiphyte mount. I was in the shop cleaning up and headed to the greenhouse that’s now cooling down and saw this plant growing happily.  It is hardy and attractive so I grabbed my fly tying bobbin and made it up with potting mix …

Orchid keepers often mount orchids on special mounts that hang on the wall.  After creating a few of these orchid mounts I thought maybe it would be nice to be able to this with regular terrestrial plants.  After some research and designs were put on paper a simple protype was …

Here’s a prototype I’m trying out.

The rare and endangered goby was thought to live only in a small endemic area of natural artesian springs.  However while out surveying local waters Dr Adam Kerezsy found them in a man made artesian bore drain. “It is endangered for a reason, and that’s because it has got such …

Around the world illegal and unregulated logging threatens the jungles and forests.  Unfortunately unmitigated logging destroys that which will never return to its former existence.  Often it is overlooked by government agencies, however this time it looks like the indigenous people took matters into their own hands and doled out a good ol …

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 …