Bacopa caroliniana is a super easy stem plant that does very well in the Fireplace Aquarium. Grown by Tropica and purchased from Pro Shrimp in May 2023, the bacopa transitioned smoothly to submersed growth. Attractive branching stem plant I like the bacopa vs. for example ludwigia because the bacopa fills out laterally rather than just […]
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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 →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 →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 →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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