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dw1305 said:
Hi all,I assumed it would be a Fig from the roots. I had to look this one up, and it is the <"Jamaican Cherry">.

cheers Darrel
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I had a chance to go back to where it grows on few days ago, and carefully looked at its leaves, roots. You're right about it. It's a fig. Sorry for my misleading

Finish my reading few weeks ago. It's a good read but leaves me more questions. Any suggestion about similar books for a dummy like me?

I go by this tree everyday. The magic thing about it is there are ripe fruits. So it must be pollen wasps somewhere

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Ah this is a photo update

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That looks like some kind of terrestrial fissidens...got some on my tank too
 
Moss must be number one plant for hardiness. I had a piece of root in my garage which must have been there bone dry for God knows how many years, definitely more than 5 anyway. It was a nice shape that fitted into my current scape so I gave it a good going over with a wire brush to remove a lot of the dead bark which brought up some nice looking grain underneath. Soaked for 48hrs before putting in my scape about 12 months ago and it's now starting to fill out with Moss. I didn't want any Moss so I spot dosed it with Excel which turned it grey for a while but now it's making a come back.
I've gave up on it, if it wants to stay that much who am I to argue with it :) looks like I'll have to incorporate it into the scape some how.

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AverageWhiteBloke said:
Moss must be number one plant for hardiness. I had a piece of root in my garage which must have been there bone dry for God knows how many years, definitely more than 5 anyway. It was a nice shape that fitted into my current scape so I gave it a good going over with a wire brush to remove a lot of the dead bark which brought up some nice looking grain underneath. Soaked for 48hrs before putting in my scape about 12 months ago and it's now starting to fill out with Moss. I didn't want any Moss so I spot dosed it with Excel which turned it grey for a while but now it's making a come back.
I've gave up on it, if it wants to stay that much who am I to argue with it :) looks like I'll have to incorporate it into the scape some how.

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Can you take a few shots of it and post here? I would love to see it
 
Sorry for the picture quality but I only have a phone. As you can hopefully see the moss which was greyed out is starting to green up again at the edges. I'm not a fan of moss really as it tends to clog up with debris and I'm always conscious that I may end up siphoning out any shrimp that might be grazing in there if I try and syphon the debris off so decided not to use any in this setup but sod it. I'll see where it goes. :)
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I trimmed off almost everything. This is season change, and summer is finally over. My plants will grow up and generate new leaves in next couples of month

Last week I took out one of my crypt to see how it adapts to aquarium environment (strong flow, less light and nutrition). Overall it has less curvy, more transparent and thinner leaves

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Yesterday I bought more shrimp from LFS. They are local shrimp. I am not sure if any expert has named it. This species has black trips along its white body. They are also perfect cleaning crew. They eat most of popular algae even Cyanobacteria. I can tell they clean brown diatom even better than otto
This is their picture during water acclamation
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Yup, that looks like tiger shrimps to me. Haha. It is quite expensive here and all of them I bought last time died.


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They are all wild caught and very cheap. I paid only nearly 20 pounds for 500 and fyi they are only for sales during summer
 
This is my tank after 3 day trimming. My trident ferns, on the right hand side, are growing back after trimming two months ago

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And here is a closeup of local shrimp. Their origins are from a mountainous area near Thanh Mai pagoda, Hai Duong province, Northern Vietnam

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Come visit Hanoi Aquarium and back home with little portion of terrestrial moss. We often call it star moss. This is tricky moss, few have successfully grow it submerged while other fail. Let’s hope the force be with me

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