hi at this point in time my spec are: 90cmx 350 x350 2x 39w t5 groulax and aqastar 10ure per day 1x15w t8 no name just for n moon-lite 30min before and after the at5 dozing dirks drippels and his DSD NPK mix and flourish exel just til i get my CO2 bottle sorted out got the regulator in the post today o ja and i must figer out how i want to get the CO2 in the tank i was thinking of DIY a small 300l/u pump. my 1.2 is in the pipe line so this will caver the getting of 1.2 and making this 90cm into that 1.2 plants ? i know i have watcilie and bocappa and hair gras that is not miking it. fish is 13 gloulite tettras 8 bleck neons 4 otos and same Corrys and a male briselnous that needs a female that i cant find ok now for the pic and then comments on my scape and pleace tel me wat plant is this looks like a umbrela thanxs
Re: wolf's dairies its a home made filter 12cmx12x30 and a powerhead 1000l/u that gous into a sprybar.
Re: wolf's dairies No idea what watcilie is but I guess the bocappa is Bacopa caroliniana. What you see there are the lovely emersed leaves. These will die but the new leaves will soon come out. It is a better background plant than foreground so prepare to move it. Hair grass can be picky about the substrate... Best invest in some more crypts for the fore ground or get some HM and trim it pretty tight to the substrate. If well trained it looks very good.
Re: wolf's dairies Hydrocotyle leucopetala Cham. et Schlecht. I have included the authors who described the plant as well! This is the real name - there is no such thing as H. "leucocephala".
Re: wolf's dairies Hydrocotyle leucocephala CHAMISSO & SCHLECTHTENDAHL, 1826 this site has them listed as separate plants... cephala = Hydrocotyle white petals (Fra) petala = Hydrocotyle yellow petals (Fra) weird hey?
Re: wolf's dairies Ah... No CO2, no grow... And they needs LOADs of light as well which means even more CO2... Your 270 W/m2 may do it but unless you get the CO2 up they will keep melting. I gave up. My little DIY yeast bottle couldn't meat their needs.
Re: wolf's dairies Very strange indeed! I have checked out a genus list and on-line some aquarium lists purport leucopetala to be a synonym of leucocephala which is strange as the authority I am using clearly staes the first name (which takes preference) to be leucopetala. Hmmmm two names for the same thing! Oh well as long as hobbyists understand that they are acquiring two separate entities but rather just synonyms of each other. Thanks WBS - well-researched!
Re: wolf's dairies my wallichii is going strong all those stems comes from one stem i had is it not that with CO2 the leafs grow longer and my Bacopa is like that in all my tanks and was planted there to hide the filter siting in the corner @ tyronegenade if same one can sponsor me the HM i will give it a try but first need to get my CO2 in thanks for all the comments
Re: wolf's dairies I am very envious for your wallichii success. I would like to try again... I could spare some HM in a few weeks. I need to get rid of my hair algae first---a new form of biological control is about to be tested.
Re: wolf's dairies ok its been a wile but here are same pic got my CO2 and reactor hoping to get my drop checker in the week. just have same algae that's in my tank only on the slow growers what can i do to get rid of it and im cutting my bacopa but i cant get my hair grass to grow the tank the reactor the algea so plz help me how do i get rid of this
Re: wolf's dairies Very nice looking tank you got there Wolf. Don't know how to help you with the algue but loosing that Blue Bulls flag as a background will be +1