Anubias nana – ‘Snow White’ I was looking for an epiphyte to grow on the large sculpture in the aquarium which has lots of nooks and crannies that could be colonised. Such a plant has to be small and stay small. Narrowed down to either anubias or bucephalandra, one of the smallest is anubias “snow […]
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Today I gave the ludwigia palustris its first trim. A couple of the stems were just under the surface so I clipped off the three tallest. This ludwigia, in contrast to some reports, doesn’t have very many aerial roots but where there were a few part-way down the stem, I trimmed to just above the […]
Read more →Now that the plant is settled in and well-established (19-Dec-2020) it’s at 17 cm and while the tops are still attractive, it has an exposed bare understory layer with plentiful “aerial” roots – at least that’s what they’d be called if the plant weren’t underwater – that are somewhat unsightly. I’m not sure what to […]
Read more →It’s challenging with a small tank getting the CO2 flow to be both low and stable. I use 600g disposable CO2 cylinders with a single stage regulator that is ok, but not very useful for fine control. There are several downstream valves that further reduce the gas flow. The CO2 over the last month or […]
Read more →The Kessil LED light and LED lights that come as “point sources” rather than as strips of lights can have a feature called “shimmer” which is where they make ripples of light on the bottom of the tank. I’ve never really observed that with my set-up in the past, attributing that to not having the […]
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