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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Aquatic plants, either submersed or emersed: species notes, growth, trimming, planting, algae/plant interactions, and care.
The ludwigia had reached well beyond the height of the tank casting a considerable overshadow so it was time for a trim. I had just received a new set of ADA pinsettes and was looking forward to trying them out for replanting the trimmed tops*. It was also time for a water change and I’m […]
Read more →Plant layers add vertical interest Aquatic plants for aquaria are commonly classed by how tall they can be expected to grow, with the idea that it is sensible to grow the shortest plants at the front of the tank, middle-sized plants somewhat further back behind the shortest plants, and the tallest plants at the very […]
Read more →Anubias nana ‘Snow White’ – one month update It’s been a little over five weeks since I planted anubias nana ‘snow white’ in the aquarium. I wedged it into the various crevices on “the mountain” which is a biOrb Amazonas Root ornament sculpture. There has been some discussion around the impossibility of actually being ‘real […]
Read more →Today I got in two pots of Cryptocoryne lutea ‘Hobbit’ from Aqua Essentials as grown by Dennerle. The idea is to fill in some of the space in front of the lobelia and to hide the bare stems and adventitious roots that make up the lobelia understory. As usual (always?) the plants arrived in prime […]
Read more →How tall do submerged aquarium plants grow? Figures are approximate, as they say. When planning a planted aquarium (and there should be some type of plan!) it’s important to consider the expected maximum height of plants in the layout. I went wrong previously planting echinodorus radicans, a fine plant but much too large for this […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →I like the look of the Marsilea and it’s the first carpeting plant I’ve had success with. I’m pretty sure most of what’s here is the hirsuta species which is reputedly both slightly larger and a little more robust than the crenata species. I mistakenly ordered the crenata first, planted that, then ordered the hirsuta […]
Read more →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 →Echinodorus radicans time lapse I was looking for a nice foreground/midground plant and so we went to our local Maidenhead Aquatics centre and looked at what was available. I liked this echindorus because it had pretty rounded oval leaves, was a nice colour and was pretty small – the pot shown in the image is […]
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