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Hygrophila polysperma: This plant is a very invasive weed and cannot be sold anywhere in the US as far as I know. Makes a good aquarium plant though. Grows fast and looks great.
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I tried to snap red Platy but I got this wispy side-effect instead. Thought it looked good anyway.
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Stumbled onto a good source of information for planted aquariums. Check out Rex's Planted Tank Guide, especially the page related to nutrients.
Rex's blog has good articles on lighting, water chemistry, CO2, nutrients, hardware, substrates and many other things related to freshwater planted aquariums.
Well...There's also a fruitcake recipe.
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A new bunch of Hydrocotyle leucocephala introduced yesterday evening. It's the plant in the middle mid-ground with the umbrella-like foliage. Click here to see more pictures of this plant.
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I received Hydrocotyle leucocephala from aquariumplants.com yesterday. So it took a week to arrive. Not bad.
The three bunches were all much larger than I expected. That's perfectly fine. They're healthy. I introduced the plants to a 20 gallon tank from which I had recently uprooted three large Amazon swords.
The picture in this article shows some of the new Hydrocotyle leucocephala planted in my 35 gallon tall aquarium. It makes a nice centerpiece as it stands almost 1.5 feet tall. Click picture for a larger view.
Roots appear on every node. Perhaps this plants prefers to creep along the bottom, but there isn't enough room for this at the moment.
The leucocephala is different in that the leaf stems are not as long as those found on pictures of Hydrocotyle verticillata. If you look closely at the leaf structure in the photograph, notice that the leaf stem between the leaf and the branch is very short. Compare this to verticillata.
In every photo, verticillata grows similar leaf structures but on longer stems. The branches are usually covered in the substrate, leaving interesting umbrella-like shapes floating on to of small stems. I'm not going to get that effect with leaucocephala at the moment, but I can't wait to see how the plant develops in my aquariums.
This was one of my first planted aquariums. I used straight tap water. The golden effect is probably coming partly from soft white compact fluorescent bulbs. I always enjoy the effect of Cabomba carolinia forests seen on left.
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I've just listed my first live plant auction on a web site called aquabid.com. I have three large Amazon Swords seen in the photo. They take way too much room in my small aquariums, so I decided to try and give them away to members of an aquarium gardening club, but no one replied to my offer.
This is my first listing on Aquabid, so I don't have first impressions of the bidding process yet. However, I can say this: Registration and auctioning on Aquabid is free. The listing process if fairly easy. It's not as complex as listing an item on eBay but it does not offer such tools as shipping calculators.
If you would like to get my three swords, click on the following link. Thanks for looking!
Just removed these three Amazon Sword plants from my 20 gallon wide tank. They have grown to just under a foot tall. They were taking too much room in the aquarium. I've decided to auction them off on Aquabid. If you would like to purchase them, the auction link will be valid until late Thursday, May 15 2008. Click here to bid.
<- Previous FOTDThe February 2008 Tank of the Month on Aquatic Plant Central is worth an eyeful. I'm making a special note of it. Jessica Leebelt's 125 US gallon aquarium looks fantastic. I'm hoping to come back to this link and explore the fish, plants and layouts she used to build this beautiful aquarium.
See Jessica's aquarium here: Linky.
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