Time series of Lobelia cardinalis ‘Dwarf’ (bright green, left side, midground) and replanted tops of Ludwigia palustris mini ‘Super Red’ (dark red, left side, background) Lobelia cardinalis ‘Dwarf’ is very similar in appearance to Lobelia cardinalis ‘Wavy’ with round, bright green submerged-form leaves. The main difference is supposed to be in the maximum height of […]
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Aquatic plants, either submersed or emersed: species notes, growth, trimming, planting, algae/plant interactions, and care.
Unusual view* down into the Fireplace Aquarium during a major water change. On the top of the mountain on the right is Bucephalandra caterina, with newly installed Anubias barteri nana ‘Pinto’ further down. The flopped over red plant is Ludwigia palustris mini ‘Super Red’ with bright green Lobelia cardinalis ‘Dwarf’ just below it. The low […]
Read more →Planting Anubias barteri nana ‘Pinto’ Filed under “I know I’m going to regret this”, even though the Anubias nana ‘Snow White’ was a disaster, I’m still enamoured of the concept of a white(ish) plant adding some colour contrast. I’ve been kicking around the “only partially white” Anubias nana ‘Pinto’ option, and when I saw they […]
Read more →It’s been nearly seven weeks since the Bucephalandra caterina went into the Fireplace Aquarium as a replacement for the failed Anubias nana ‘Snow White’ so let’s check in and see how things have progressed… Bucephalandra caterina submerged growth Bucephalandra (or ‘Buce’) is a genus of several hundreds of species and poorly-defined sub-species originally found in […]
Read more →Refreshing the Ludwigia palustris mini ‘Super Red’ “Stem plants” are those that have leaves coming off a central stem and contrast with rosette plants with leaves sprouting from a central locus. Stem plants grow fast, and can get big so require some maintenance. The easiest method is to simply cut off and discard the tops […]
Read more →After spending some time thinking about how to deal with the top-heavy mature form of Lobelia cardinalis ‘Wavy’ even after a very aggressive trimming, I decided to pull it out and replace it with a (hopefully) smaller form: Lobelia cardinalis ‘Dwarf’. There are still challenges with aquatic plant supplies so when I got notified by […]
Read more →Time lapse sequence following major aquarium plant trim About a month ago I revised the layout of some of the aquarium plants. I didn’t like the look of all the stemmy/rooty bits of the Lobelia showing up against the front wall of the aquarium so I planted a row of dwarf Cryptocorynes in front to […]
Read more →Planting Bucephalandra caterina Looking for a replacement epiphyte for the failed Anubias nana ‘Snow White’, I’ve plumped for Bucephalandra caterina. There just isn’t much availability for aquatic plants in general in the United Kingdom recently, and the availability of Anubias and Bucephalandra varieties seems extraordinarily poor especially for the smaller size varietals. I managed to […]
Read more →I was looking for a small epiphytic plant to grow on the large biOrb Amazonas Root aquarium ornament. To look neat this is going to have to be a small plant of either Anubias or Bucephalandra genus and one of the smallest is an albino variant of Anubias barteri var. nana, which itself is a […]
Read more →It’s been seventeen weeks since the Cryptocoryne lutea ‘Hobbit’ was planted so it’s time to take a look at how the emersed growth form from the shop compares to the submerged growth form in the tank. Aquarium plants for commercial sale are, for economic reasons, almost exclusively grown “emersed” – the roots of the plant […]
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