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amano shrimp eat it as well ...

looks good, iv done exactly the same in my alcove

im northwalsham, well just outside it

parva has been growing emersed, no sure if that would make a difference?

its also easier for things to fall into it, but open tops do look amazing

+1 for super glue, if where i want to put it is wet/ cant get it out easy i tie it with fishing line

thats ok thanks for the info

if its in the picture i had a feeling it wasent a crypt, any idea on the ID of the sword then?

the 3rd in the pic? or the 3rd picture?

iv been told these are, but a web search doesn't pull up any information on them, are they miss IDed? or hybrids? and light on the subject will help Crypto Amicorum C. legro this one i was told was parva, is that correct? it seems a little tall (it has been growing emersed) and...

day 1: of planting, no fish no heater no filter in yet, that comes tomorrow, well today seeing at its just hit 1:15 am here >.> please excuse the mess. ,

specs CO2: none ferts: none light: 1 T8 bulb, maybe 2 later on if plants are leggy substrate: john innes no.3 with a sand cap filter: fluval 105 flora: rotala sp. vietnam limnophila aromatica cryptocoryne wendtii "tropica". Cryptocoryne parva Cryptocoryne Balansae Taxiphyllum alternans...

this is going to be for my biotope (rough area being SE asia), the tanks going to have chilli rasboras in it i want second opinions on the hard scape the plant list is from. ( i might not use them all) rotala sp. vietnam limnophila aromatica cryptocoryne wendtii "tropica". Cryptocoryne parva...

argos play sand iv used i love it

that looks better!

it looks upside down to me...

its in the golden ratio as well, which is a little off putting as your eyes naturally drawn to it. i dont know what to suggest :L there's always 1 rock which is a pain and slightly off

personally i dont like the big rock on the right, but its a nice scape in my opinion cant wait to see it planted

i agree with michael, maybe bank the substrate a little as well and off centre the stones. it looks way better than my first attempt =]

i cant wait to see this, im only just getting into my biotopes

they might have been grown emersed and are melting into there submerged form?

use a sheet of card for stems to give support, plants like crypts/ other ones which easily break use take away tubs

thats what i thought to start off with, but then i found C. Lingua online and it looks similar, i got it as bargain surplus from plants alive , the only match i could find on there was onion plant

is this Cryptocoryne Lingua? if so any care advice, i dont seem to be able to find much

if it does come from a agricultural area, soak it and keep soaking it changing the water every 1-2 days for about a month or so, it should get rid of most of the chemicals

it never effected my Fissidens or weeping moss when i was dosing

iv only heard of it with vallis, no first hand experience on it

i know riccia does fine with normal dosing but if you double it then it dies off, iv heard vallis doesnt like it as well

how long do the leaves last?

change of plan, or an idea, i have naturally hard water high pH water, would it be a good idea to use a peat substrate to lower the pH (chillis are found in peat bogs), if so which one, is irish peat moss a good choice? it says dont use with lime hating plants wouldn't lime raise my pH more...

you'll probs get a bit with the plants im going to send you :P some are floating in with it :L (its abit leggy as well though)

how did you get rid of duck weed, i cant seem to shift it, riccia i find easy to rid myself of

riccia is a pain like that :L, i used 2.5 does of easy carbo and it killed mine off... although saying that the riccia outgrew the death, so never got rid of it fully

i can second that, it does work on other types of algae as well besides cyano, if you put 2X the does in (for other algae's) but it will also kill riccia BBA needs a higher conc. iv found.

that's a tough one HC cuba i think just wins, because i like small plants, also it likes my water

iv just joined 2 days ago but thanks =D >.>

i dont know if its okay to plonk it in... but i did... i was lazy and dident want to wait... turned out fine, it was waited down with slate burryed under the and though

thanks, i wasnt going to put leave in it, i was just going to chose plants/fish from the area thanks i'll have a look, you got a link?

iv got Vessicularia ferriei already and bit of F.font , and i know F font is my fav moss at the moment, but trying todo a SE asia biotope, or even just asian at a push thanks for your help =]

thanks i think ebay or somewhere might have the singapore one

ohh :( that sucks, wheres your info from, id like a read =]

thanks =]any clue where i can source some?

quick and easy question is there any types of Fissidens from SE asia?

welcome to the forum =] cant wait to see pics :P

its 16/22 for the 205 and 105, so i think it would be the same for the 206

wow stunning looking tank, way better than my first planted... -no ones seeing that one, ever :L-

welcome

thanks, i'll just use a sand cap then, its only going to be for crypts mainly

i found they do fine in the tank on there own. and they take about 2-3 weeks from what i remember with mine

id love to see some of them old photos

ok, its going to be a low tech tank ,which needs a long lasting substrate without extra dosing on a cheap scale, i was thinking of just using john innes no3 with a sand cap. its going to be a asian biotope my question is mainly, is there a better option? iv read that others use john innes no3...

im impressed, i'll have to take a trip over there >.> whats the law on importing plants/fish?

ooo plant shots, cant wait... next time you go over you'll have orders off us lot to bring back stuff >.> :L

we are =D or swimming >.>

just dont do what i did to collect it... bike... i ended up tieing like 10 3foot bits of wood to my bike and pushing it half a mile back home... after dragging the wood through the wood's near the stream for half a mile as well... was a fun day >.>

welcome to the forum. im new here as well =D but found it full of info on plants even more than the other forum im on

they might well do, i was just adding in on what i though i read awhile back on them... and when cutting one down it seemed hard but i might be wrong

i thought grape was quite dense... at least when i chopped it down it seemed it

i think they set fire to heather, to renew it... i remember seeing a program on it on tv awhile back

my prearents are the same... i think i own 8 tanks now (only 2 set up at the moment), and a propagator... which is in a greenhouse im using....>.> they always get annoyed when i buy another tank :L im new to this site as well, but i want more tanks, so many idea so little space to set them up...

wow, i want to move there, it seems so much cheaper... no wander most stuff from theres cheap online, the seemingly "little" profit to us they turn over is alot over there...

i know the feeling, at least with riccia you can does excell to get rid of it :L, iv got an infestation of duckweed in 1 of my tanks, hate the stuff with a passion, i have sold a little online though... god knows why people want it :L

i heard grape was good as well, but not had first hand experience on it. im sure theres other places you can collect besides the broads, thats just where i live :P im sure theres water just outside london :P

the tank its in is getting a rescape soon... i might just add riccia to compete with it, then kill that off with liquid carbon

i dont know of places around london, but where i collected mine (norfolk broads),theres a little stream, with drainage ditches runing into it. id say go to a flatish area, no hills as water wont collect unless its in the vallys (might be a good place to check) and then see if you find a little...

if only i could stick a goldfish in my tank for a few days to get rid of it :L +1 to riccia and frogbit

my 2 low techs at the moment .there not to good IMO, they haven't really changed since my second scapes well the larger one hasent http://i.imgur.com/FxsaAOL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LPV964j.jpg

wow stunning tanks looking forward to seeing this one evolve more :)

looking good =]

true it does depend where you collect it from, but if you look in boggy places near oak trees then your likely to find some.:), iv got a little stream by me, i took a walk up it and found a tree (dead of course) just an idea if your hunting, go to a place of water to find some

welcome to the forum, im also from Norfolk and new to this forum, although been keeping planted tanks for a few years now =D

i just always known about it really, since i got into fish keeping iv kept plants and being a member of other forums (TFF and aqcenter among others) i heard mention of it, and its the place to be for plant... i dont know why i never joined earlier

hogan, it depends on the wood you collect... i recently went and collected some dry dead oak and some bits from a boggy area, they have started to sink fine, and im going to use them about a 2 weeks after collecting. as for types of wood oak is good, and any none sappy hard wood, iv used apple...

thanks guys, i really dont know why i never joined this earlier...

thanks =] i cant wait to get them done when i rescape them i'll get some pics up quickely =] my old high tech is my DP =]

i see it as foe, its gotten into 1 of my tanks, and im determined not to let it spread to my others

hello, im michael, im from norwich, about to go study wild life conservation and animal behaviour at wolverhampton uni, im 19 and iv been keeping fish for about 2 and a half years now, and planted since day 1 at the moment im running a 105L tank, low tech. a 70L tank also low tech... i used to...