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Swiss Cheese Plant and other house plants

H. corymbosa tends to adapt to emersed growth really well. It can be a target for spider mites in summer though, so keep an eye on it.
I grow it out of all of my tanks, and gets damn tall, but is a very beautiful plant.

Here's some of mine after it had flowered:
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Some of the leaves are slightly burned, but that's just due to heat and light from the T5s.
 
The next plants cuttings I am rooting are (if goggled right):
-Nephthytis, White-veined arrowhead vine
-Parlour palm, Chamaedorea Elegans
-Dumb Cane, Dieffenbachia
-Chain of hearts
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Some Nephthytis species are also toxic. From a search : "Nephthytis can cause irritation to skin and be toxic if ingested by pets and humans. Keep the plant out of children's reach."

Dumb Cane-contains toxic oxalates salts- " Produce mucous membrane irritation and pain
and/or swelling of mouth, lips, tongue, esophagus and stomach"
 
Sciencefiction & Henry thanks for your input guys.

The hydrophila looks really nice, and the others too (but its too many names to learn to type so quick 😕 I think I must make a dictionary with photos and plants, back to school ...)

I really like it here on this forum its so much better then I imagined I think I will learn a lot here from every one.
Since yesterday I realized I know nothing about no plants and will Google all the plants i have at home regarding which is poisonous as I have a little son (he is 11 months old) who hopefully learn to walk soon so good idea to get rid of some plants i think...
 
So just a quick update on my Swiss cheese plant. the first picture was take in the middle of January (if i can believe the right click properties) but that sound about right as I needed to make the photo to another forum to show it to someone at around the same day.
So here is the picture I took today morning:
 
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In your opinion is it a good growth rate if you compare the two picture and the time (approx. 4 months) since the first was taken?
 
Also I have a sad picture🙁 from the tank I want to make my new project.

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please forgive the picture it looks worse then it really is but I used the "good old" mobile phone for the photo.
as you see it is pretty bare with just some wood cave stone and two bristle nose pleco's

As I plant to do it open top “Amazon style” tank, is approx. 90 -100 L tank. I will try to do it "Walstad method" style low tech, bought already soil to go in but have awful difficulties with the plants.
Most shops-sellers don't even answer on my e-mails (wont say names yet as still hoping for answer or trying to make a deal) but some who answered where not too keen to help so kind of disappointed but have now written to couple of new ones and also oversees shops and wait for answers
(any way when i get my plants will write a brand new post for this subject).

These are the plants I was looking for:
Cyperus (poss. C. helferi), Echinodorus grandiflorus, E. macrophyllus, E. amazonicus, also floating plants, such as Eichhornis crassipes, Pistia stratoides, Azolla sp., Salvinia natans (or other Salvinia), Sagittaria sp.

So either back to the drawing board (plant wise) or will get some luck. But once will have a plant supplier and date for plants will start my journal.

The soil i have is Westland aquatic soil and plant to cover it with some play sand.

The fish will be a pair of bristle nose plec. cardinal tetras, kuhlie loach, i got two upside down catfishes, plant to get some small corydoras and shrimp(cherry or some other nice critters).
Also I have a big male blue gourami 3+ inches which i currently testing with feeding shrimp but if he is showing aggression i might re-home him.
I know that big fish with small things are not really compatible (if it fits in the mouth it will get eaten) but so far he did not show any interest and it is over two week now that they are in the same tank.

The other part is lighting. I don't know if i should stay with the good old conventional tubes or should i change for the new (at least for me new) LED craze?
Definitely will get some night light to see my fish in a "moon light way"
But need some ideas as i plant to have it open top.

In the meantime please have some suggestions for the tank I'm open for Ideas...
 
I loved the giant emergent Echinodorus I used to have in the big tank. If doing an open topped South American themed tank I would definitely have a stand of several different varieties, all emergent. Most of them are in emergent form anyway when you buy them, so it would just be a case of starting them off in planters/caddies and lowering them slowly into the water as they grew taller, to prevent them switching to submerged growth.
 
That looks really nice foxfish if it not too much top ask would you include how you did it and what you used (meaning the system fitted around your tank)
 
I'm definitely will go for Echinodorus some type (whatever i can get) especially after seeing your Tom definitely will get some
(by the way don't you plan a trip to London soon? you could do my tank and bring half yours with you as a present 😉 )
 
It could be quite simple as long as the plant container is slightly higher than the main tank so the water can overflow back into the tank!
In my case... I have an unusual design as the tank has a sump & the water overflows into the overflow!
The clay balls also offer lots of biological filtration as well so the water going back into the tank is well filtered, it is a bit like a large hang on the back filtration unit!
 
I don't have a sump, but i think i could use some plastic flower pot like container to go on the back or just to go to a local glass "worker" if i can not DIY it myself at home. Also where did you get the clay balls if you don't mind me picking your brain ?
 
What other stuff do you guys use besides the hydroton clay balls? I've put my peace lillies in clay balls as I read they like lots of circulation around the roots and that's the best way but what about other house plants? I bought a few more house plants today and not sure in what substrate to plant them?
Also, can I use hydroton clay balls in my trickle filter instead of media, and plant the plants directly? Will they disintegrate and cloud the water?
 
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