jellybean
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Any of it! How did you build up the “bank?” Is it stone? Wood? Foam?
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Journal The Green Dream _ My Cryptocoryne infested riparium
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All of it would be great to see, especially the waterfall build!
Fantastic tank incidentally!
Thanks for the appreciation! The 'land part' is basically purfoam with a thick coloured epoxy resin.
Thanks Wookii! Apreciated!
The riparium has 4 waterfalls and 3 have internal tubings.
Here are a few building pics. Will upload more soon 😉
Looking forward to seeing them.
Is this just expanding foam that you have carved to shape? What did you use to carve it?
Yes it is Wookii. Plain expanding foam. Then i carved it just with a plain sharp potato knife and broke some pieces of it.
Some people use a small torch but thats stupid since the foambubbles still contains gas sometimes...
Then i covered it with 5/6 layers of epoxy resin.
First pics i have from the tank with my old one next to it.
Some people use a small torch but thats stupid since the foambubbles still contains gas sometimes...
Then i covered it with 5/6 layers of epoxy resin.
First pics i have from the tank with my old one next to it.
So today i got a bunch of new crypts and they are looking good.
The plants are grown emersed so this will be cool to see the new emersed leaves poppin' up in due time.
Species i got:
C. Parva
C. Wendtii 'tropica'
C. Costata
C. Purpurea
C. Petchi 'pink'
The left one with the veigns is the Petchi 'pink' and just to the right of it the costata which is slightly pinkish. Behind that one are several other costatas who are green. Its always a gamble what colour the costata will become. Yellow/orange-ish/brown or green. Also the patterns of the leaves can be different. Cool plant.
From the top the petchii looks really pale. Hoping to see some nice colour in a few weeks 🙂
On the right side i have a new c. Purpurea. Leaves are wavy at the moment and i hope the will get that particular hammered pattern like the one i had 5 years ago in this tank.
New one:
Old one:
And finally i planted a small field of the c. Wendtii 'tropica'.
Hope this one will look hammered and wrinkled in due time. I also hope it will flatten out on the ground but i don't think i have enough light for that. We will see 😉
Atm it looks nothing really special hehe...
The parva's are scattered all over the tank to fill things up.
Tomorrow ill make for the new ones some special ferts 🙂
The plants are grown emersed so this will be cool to see the new emersed leaves poppin' up in due time.
Species i got:
C. Parva
C. Wendtii 'tropica'
C. Costata
C. Purpurea
C. Petchi 'pink'
The left one with the veigns is the Petchi 'pink' and just to the right of it the costata which is slightly pinkish. Behind that one are several other costatas who are green. Its always a gamble what colour the costata will become. Yellow/orange-ish/brown or green. Also the patterns of the leaves can be different. Cool plant.
From the top the petchii looks really pale. Hoping to see some nice colour in a few weeks 🙂
On the right side i have a new c. Purpurea. Leaves are wavy at the moment and i hope the will get that particular hammered pattern like the one i had 5 years ago in this tank.
New one:
Old one:
And finally i planted a small field of the c. Wendtii 'tropica'.
Hope this one will look hammered and wrinkled in due time. I also hope it will flatten out on the ground but i don't think i have enough light for that. We will see 😉
Atm it looks nothing really special hehe...
The parva's are scattered all over the tank to fill things up.
Tomorrow ill make for the new ones some special ferts 🙂
Its been only a few days but already some things are noticeable with the new plants. The petchii pink is lowering more and more its leaves and the costata is getting more colour and patterns on its leaves.
The wendtii tropica is also getting more darker patterns on its leaves with a massive red veign in the middle. The stem are also getting more red.
The fields of parva ... mwa. It seems like a magnesium/iron deficiency. But they already looked like this when i got them.
I added some extra osmocote by the roots as well some clay with dtpa iron.
Lets see how it goes from here since they are also notorious for having a setback when just planted. Had them couple of years ago but it didnt go well.
Tweaked my fertz regime over the years so lets see what is going to happen now.
The wendtii tropica is also getting more darker patterns on its leaves with a massive red veign in the middle. The stem are also getting more red.
The fields of parva ... mwa. It seems like a magnesium/iron deficiency. But they already looked like this when i got them.
I added some extra osmocote by the roots as well some clay with dtpa iron.
Lets see how it goes from here since they are also notorious for having a setback when just planted. Had them couple of years ago but it didnt go well.
Tweaked my fertz regime over the years so lets see what is going to happen now.
So here a global update regarding the stuff that is going on.
Very pleased with the new reactor. It dissolves the co2 bubbles completely so no more 'fog' in the tank and ofcourse much more effective.
Im pretty sure the new waterfall is also the cause for degassing the co2 from my water lolz. The waterfall is aprox 65cm high so the co2 has a nice time to get out of the water as well lolz. But you know, you can't have it all.
The reactor makes sure my ph is at a steady 7 with a nice dark lime colour on the co2 indicator.
The coming week im going to tweak my co2 reactor a bit more because it making a little bit of bubbly noise. I can live with it but lets see if i can make it silent.
Fish and plants are doing great and the waterfall is an nice addition.
The new crypts are doing fine and also the spiralus 'tiger' is still poppin' out new red leaves with a solid pattern.
The green leaves there are from a cryptocoryne 'balansae' and 'caudigera' for the contrast.
Regarding the small tuffs of bba and the small amounts of gsa and gda i had 2 months ago since the new twinstar gline.... Well those problems disappeared when i increased my micro and po4 dosages a bit.
All in all things go well 🙂
Very pleased with the new reactor. It dissolves the co2 bubbles completely so no more 'fog' in the tank and ofcourse much more effective.
Im pretty sure the new waterfall is also the cause for degassing the co2 from my water lolz. The waterfall is aprox 65cm high so the co2 has a nice time to get out of the water as well lolz. But you know, you can't have it all.
The reactor makes sure my ph is at a steady 7 with a nice dark lime colour on the co2 indicator.
The coming week im going to tweak my co2 reactor a bit more because it making a little bit of bubbly noise. I can live with it but lets see if i can make it silent.
Fish and plants are doing great and the waterfall is an nice addition.
The new crypts are doing fine and also the spiralus 'tiger' is still poppin' out new red leaves with a solid pattern.
The green leaves there are from a cryptocoryne 'balansae' and 'caudigera' for the contrast.
Regarding the small tuffs of bba and the small amounts of gsa and gda i had 2 months ago since the new twinstar gline.... Well those problems disappeared when i increased my micro and po4 dosages a bit.
All in all things go well 🙂
Its hammertime!
The new wendtii tropica leaf is getting more and more bumps and dents.
Seeing also bits of new leafs at the other two tropicas. Cool!
In other news, i took my reactor and put the blue foam higher in the cannister and filled it up with water to the roof.
No more gurgling sound
Everybody happy. Me, reactor, plants and my dear fish.
Rearanging some crypts result:
Hole in a cryptocoryne nevelli leaf...
Nothing big, but something to keep an eye on. This is the second most isolated crypt to the most right in the tank.
Its surrounded by multiple balansae doing just fine.
15cm to the left from the nevelli:
To the right a wendtii green going mental. To the left a 'green gecko' showing of some inner red.
Few leaves left below are from a c. Amicorum.
Mmm... what would the red/brown leaf be? Any bets?
Hole in a cryptocoryne nevelli leaf...
Nothing big, but something to keep an eye on. This is the second most isolated crypt to the most right in the tank.
Its surrounded by multiple balansae doing just fine.
15cm to the left from the nevelli:
To the right a wendtii green going mental. To the left a 'green gecko' showing of some inner red.
Few leaves left below are from a c. Amicorum.
Mmm... what would the red/brown leaf be? Any bets?
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No gamblers here ey ☺️
The red abaxis is from mine wendtii green! In fact this one has 3 different leave versions!
Olive colour with red abaxis, fresh green en olive/green with dark pattern. Every leaf is different, so cool.
The leaf with the red stains and red vain is from a c. Wendtii 'green gecko' behind it btw...
The red abaxis is from mine wendtii green! In fact this one has 3 different leave versions!
Olive colour with red abaxis, fresh green en olive/green with dark pattern. Every leaf is different, so cool.
The leaf with the red stains and red vain is from a c. Wendtii 'green gecko' behind it btw...
Hey @Sarpijk.
Think the most rare i have are the c. Veinghera and the c. Spiralis caudigera.
Glad you are enoying the journal
Think the most rare i have are the c. Veinghera and the c. Spiralis caudigera.
Glad you are enoying the journal
