Submerse and emerge plants in tropical pond

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Hello ukaps member,
I wanted to show you some pic of a friend pond where we have started a month or less to grow aquatic plants. This is a test but it s going on the good track. We plan to put every species we have, like that we can stock plant and give space to our tanks and still keeping these species alive.
So lets start :

Here is a part of the pond. This pond is full of mbuna from Malawi.

Some HC emerge form on the right thee is some hemianthus micranthemoid submerge form

Here is some fresh HM emerge form.
For these on we have just lay down some stems on the substrate and it has grown directly.

This is some Rotala rotundifolia sp red and it is growing quite far from the water

This one is growing just above the water.

On the right you can see a nymphaea pink flower that is close the next pic was taken two hours after

On the other box where you can see that it's empty we start growing :

Glossostigma
Hydrocolite
Lilaeopsis novae zeandiae.
Submerge we have also
Bacopa caro


Next to come :

Ludwigia arcuata
Rotala sp green
Microsorum pteroptus
Microsorum sp
Crypt wendtii green
Crypt undulata
Crypt mioya
And some Anubias

For the crypt I don't know how I will proceed to take a small portion out of the tank and plant them.
We will do it soon I will update it as soon as possible.
Sometimes it's nice to live in Congo, it s so easy to grow in outdoor. Lol

Hope you liked it

Cheers
Zanguli




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[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Can you guys tell me if you have full pictures or they are cut ??
Thanks


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[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Let me know like that i post again the pictures please

 

[ghostsword]

Lovely setup.. looks really nice..

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

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[zanguli-ya-zamba]

I just wanted to update a bit this thread

Last we change a bit the set up to have more space for the batch of plants, that we will plant next week !!

He a pic of backpack flower

To be continued !!!


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[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Bacopa flower sorry. The auto corrector of my iPhone make me going crazy between French and English lol


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[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Hi guys
Just a small update, I went to my friend house today here are some pic. The only problem with the new set up is that some plants are far to take pic.

Here is a shot of hemianthus micranthemoid

General view

Rotala sp red

A mix of Rotala and hemianthus micranthemoid. For this one we just throw A mix of stem in the pot, without planting it and it grows perfectly. We did the same with other pots and it s ok.

HC in the middle left HM right glosso + Congolese plant.

Rotala and HM

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

I have took a nice video but I don't know how to upload it with tapatalk

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Hi a small update of last Saturday.
We have plant :
Crypt wendii green
Crypt undulata
Rotala rotundifolia sp green
Hydrocolite
Microsorum pteroptus
Microsorum sp narow leaf
Anubia nana

I will took pic of the new batch on next week because now I am at Boma (470 km from Kinshasa). Like I am there I will try to get some mangrove roots for the new scape of my tank.

Here are pictures of plants I have not took last time because I had to cross the pond to take it.

This is ludwigia arcuata it was a stem of 3 cm now it's spreading nicely.

This is HC if you look to the last pic it has grow a lot and it is very very dense ! But I don't know why it's starting to get a bit yellow ??? But at least it's growing well and will fill the whole pot in 3 weeks I think !

The glosso after two weeks ! It was two stem and it s taking place nicely in the pot.

A Congolese plant that I had in my tank.

One of the two hydro

HM

Cheers guys

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Hi ,
Thanks for the like.
No reaction from other people.
Well I wanted to know if some one knows why the HC is getting yellow ??

Cheers

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Well I wanted to know if some one knows why the HC is getting yellow ??

As it is mainly the older leaves it could be a nutrient issue, again probably nitrogen.

cheers Darrel

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Hi Darrel
Thanks for your answer. Tell me , do you think I should make a batch of macros and watering them ? Should I follow EI dose or I do 1/2 EI because it s emerge form ?

Thanks for your explanation

Cheers
Zanguli

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Should I follow EI dose

Should be all right

Tell me , do you think I should make a batch of macros and watering them ?

yes.

cheers Darrel

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Hello
Just a small up date.
The all set up is doing very well !!!
The ludwigia arcuata if flowering now every two days we have like 5 flowers but they die after a day or so.
Here is a shot of a flower unfortunately I arrive a bit late to take the pic only one left ! I should go there the morning

If you compare to the last pic you can see that it growing very fast. And this is a 5 days pic so today I will take an other one like that you see the evolution.

The HC have almost fill the all pot ! I ll take a pic of it today

Lilaeopsis

The Congolese plant that I had in my tank first pic emerge form second submerge form

Now we want to order 20 species of plant ( 6 species of crypt, 3 other Rotala etc...)

I ll keep up date this thread

Cheers

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

Emerge form of Congolese plant

 

[zanguli-ya-zamba]

I just have take this picture of Rotala rotundifolia sp red flowers.
Unfortunately I had 1% of battery at this moment and that s the only shot I have for now ! Sorry for the quality but at least you have an idea of it

Cheers

 

[sciencefiction]

That's really nice. Thanks for updating.