‘Pangolino’ from Dennerle is thought to be the anubias with the smallest leaves and thereby very suitable for nanotanks. I’ve been looking for this plant for a long time but it has been consistently unavailable until very recently when I noticed some in stock at Horizon Aquatics. As a bonus Horizon is also a sponsor […]
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The goal is to get epiphytes such as Anubias or Bucephalandra to grow emersed in the open-topped Shrimphaus exposed to normal room humidity. There is a lot of internet opinion, most of which says “forget it”, but some people have managed to make a go of it. My first try was Anubias nana ‘Coin’ which […]
Read more →The initial concept for the aquaduct of the Shrimphaus was for water flowing over slate with epiphytic plants and mosses clinging to the slate under the water with leaves growing up out of the water. That didn’t work out very well. The underwater rhizome of the Anubias nana ‘Coin’ slowly rotted away, killing the plant. […]
Read more →Golden creeping Jenny in an aquarium Also known as ‘moneywort’, the golden form of creeping Jenny came up in the weekly sales email from Aqua Essentials and even though I know impulse buying isn’t a good way to go with a planted aquarium, I was looking for a plant that gets to around 30 cm […]
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 →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 […]
Read more →Time lapse of Ludwigia palustris mini ‘Super Red’ growth (the red plant in the back behind the green foreground Lobelia cardinalis wavy ) I am really happy with this plant! Purchased from Aqua Essentials on 15-Oct-2020 and produced by AquaFleur in the Netherlands, Ludwigia palustris comes in (at least) three flavours: green, red, and mini […]
Read more →Time lapse of alternanthera reineckii ‘rot’ ‘Rot’ is German for ‘red’; this plant was grown by Dennerle and purchased from Pro Shrimp. I’m not sure if it’s the same as ‘alternanthera reineckii’ without the ‘red’ qualifier on the end. It’s the red plant at the back left. The plant was shipped on 1-Jun-2020 and arrived […]
Read more →If you are looking for a completely bomb-proof stem plant that grows under maximally abusive conditions, hygrophila polysperma might be your best pick. I picked this up from Maidenhead Aquatics without knowing anything about it other than it looked pretty in the store. I wound up planting it in a mix of Aquasoil overlayed on […]
Read more →Littorella uniflora comes as a tissue culture clone from Tropica, and I purchased several pots from Aqua Essentials. I thought the look of this plant resembled terrestrial grass and if you’re supposed to have your garden landscaped in grass (right?) then why not landscape your aquarium in grass as well? In retrospect that doesn’t make […]
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