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How to drown this Java Kingdom

JOKOwin

JOKOwin

Seedling
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Location
Wonosobo, Centra Java, Indonesia
Hi all... Once I surfed through the network and get lost, drowned into this great forum. I saw stunning planted tanks here (and fall in love with @Fiktorlantos' tanks) and interesting discussions about aquascaping.

I have an empty 50 l DIY tank and will be a miracle if I can grow those beautiful plantations inside. But when I browse the prices, it broke my heart. I will never have the budget needs to make even a very simple aquascape.

As a fisherman I go to the river near my village (somewhere in the heart of JAVA Island, Central Java Province, INDONESIA) almost everyday to catch fish. Suddenly I realize there are so many plantations you guys talking about in this forum. Here are they lies beside one of my favorite fishing spot, I took the pictures today:

Java Fern.jpg
JAVA FERN

Anubias Heterophyla.jpg
ANUBIAS HETEROPHYLA

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RICCARDIA C.folia

Java Moss.jpg
JAVA MOSS

Pellia.jpg
PELLIA (?)

Fisident.jpg
FISIDENT (?)

Fisident x.jpg
I don't know what is this but they look so beautiful

I found all of them in a single spot. They have common names but I tried to write their "tongue breaker names" I read in this forum. Did I write them correctly? Can anyone tell me how to grow them underwater inside my tank?

PS: next I'll try to upload stones and driftwoods... they are wasted almost everywhere by the river.

Thanks.
 
Hi and a warm welcome to the forum. Thanks for posting your pics, they offer a great insight in to the growth habit of a few of our popular aquascaping plants😉
 
Hi Jokowin
Nice to have you on-board!
Great pictures as Tim stated!
Mother Nature doing her own emersed creation 🙂:thumbup:
Lots of information on low tech set-ups in the forum...or slow growing tanks!
hoggie
 
Hi Jokowin, welcome.. And thanks for the pictures.. Realy nice.. 🙂 I didn't know Anubias was growing in Asia in nature as well.. I always read it's native to Afrika.. Is it a rarety to find it, or common? I wonder is it introduced by aquarium keepers?

But it realy makes my day, because my low tech was intended as an Asian theme tank (not realy a biotope but just a theme) with all Asian fish and plants.. But my budget prevented me to use bucephalandras on the wood, so kinda sadly made a compromise with Anubias. Thought it would spoil the theme..

But now i see this plant growing in Asia in the wild as well makes me smile from ear to ear again when looking into my tank. And like to make a little dance of joy... :clap:
 
Humble welcome, thank's guys...

ZOZO: Yes, anubias grow in my country. Heterophyla is another variety of Anubias like her famous brother Anubias barteri from Africa (Amazon?). I put some of them in my tank and found some differences habit compare to barteri. Heterophyla produces new leaves very very fast (I only need a week to see new leave), tolerance to high light, and amazingly they bloom flowers inside my tank like they have in nature. Yes, just like Java Fern and Moss, it is a very friendly to low tech, to a newbie like me.

Is it common plant? or hard to find? Oh, you need a dump truck to bring them home if you spend a day hunting by the Serayu River 🙂. And so the other plant on my pictures.
 
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For a moment I thought I had gone to heaven....you are a lucky duck to live in the tropics where you can see these growing in the wild!!
 
Tank is looking good.. 🙂 Nothing awfull about it.. :thumbup:

Everything i can find about A. heterophyla they write it originates from west Africa.. But i can imagine since it such a popular plant that it somehow escaped captivity and wandered off in the malaysian jungle.. But it's indeed a nice looking plant.. A bit to big for my setup, only have a few smaller cultivars of the barteri and a few unknown variaties. 🙂. It surpriced to see it growing in the wild Indonesia..
 
I injected CO2, DIY for sure. Sacaromizess bacteria not only produce CO2, they also produce ethanol during fermentation process. So, I mixed 1 kg rich glutine rice powder and 1 kg sugar with 6 lt spring water. Glucose I need to feed the bacteria not only come from sugar 'cause sacaromizes change carbohydrat from rice powder to glucose as well. This trick keep the bacteria live longer and so CO2 production. And in the end of fermentation process (it last to 40 days) I had a very nice bonus: 5 liters golden liquid call Nigori Sake, the traditional Japanese wine contains about 18% alcohol.
 
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