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fishorama said:
I had a baby "jacobsenii pink" until my plant grow out tank had a melt down (sniffle, not sure why). It looked pretty much like your "pink" but I've also seen it look entirely uniformly pink, no hash marks or shading. I have some?? C. nurii variations. Not sure what they are or what their ancestry is...maybe "mutated" or (possibly) something else...I'm not the worst in my club keeping up with names.

Now you have to say why I might be sad...I'm betting I can't grow your green & white striped crypt...is that it? It's spectacular!

Since I don't do co2 (& I think maybe you don't either? I forget) many plants look different sometimes. (shrug) as long as they look good to me I'm happy...
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I think the entire pink plant is crypt flamingo - no clue if it is related to jacboansii. Well currently all are growing in a low tech tank - the 40B they were in did have co2; but i moved sept 15 so no co2 since then and they seem to be growing quite fine; having said that i do have very expensive strong light on them and i think that helps even though they have no co2. I was kind of thinking about it and you know our lights are nothing like the sun but then again i dont' really have a good understanding when algae kick in and in some of my aquariums i do get algae but no algae in that aquarium yet. I don't consider 2 1/2 months really long enough to consider it 'stablized' but if it keeps at this pace another 4 months i definitely won't be adding co2.

I talked to someone who sells the plant with white line since mine hasn't propagated (yet?) and he said it usually takes 8 to 14 months and propagation is very very slow. I've had that one for about 18 months but it was heavily abused in the 40B completely buried by other plants (very little light) and i'm kind of amazed it was still alive - in this new aquarium i made it a priority to put it somewhere where it wouldn't be covered since it is such a lovely plant and it has shown good growth the past 2 months so i have high hopes for it overall.

Oh i have no problem sending you some pink jacboansii if you want some just have to wait till it warms up and you have to remind me. For better or worse that plant is worse plant i have in terms of over growing (a kind of way of saying it spreads like a weed).
 
Thanks for all the crypt info, I think it's my favorite plant genus! It looks like your & green & white stripe has new growth so maybe just a matter of time for it to send out runners. What ferts do you use? I use Jobe's palm & fern mostly.

Thank you for the kind offer of jac pink, I may take you up on that when your temps warm up & before mine get too very hot. My club friend I got it from was very excited to have a tiny little offset to share & I was at his house for rehoming fish. He's since moved away...So I won't tell him yours is a weed, lol.

I may have mentioned I tried a crypt grow out tank for a while. I tested different substrates & ferts but my results were not diffintive in any way. My nurii was the winner as far as health & reproduction, lol. Metallic red a close second (even though I didn't know it was in there then). I really wanted a carpet of c. parva but it was the most enigmatic of all. Each trial area had some nice bushy growth & some melt...

Please keep up the pics of your fish & plants, you always have such interesting things in your tanks! & now with giant tanks, whee!
 
fishorama said:
Thanks for all the crypt info, I think it's my favorite plant genus! It looks like your & green & white stripe has new growth so maybe just a matter of time for it to send out runners. What ferts do you use? I use Jobe's palm & fern mostly.

Thank you for the kind offer of jac pink, I may take you up on that when your temps warm up & before mine get too very hot. My club friend I got it from was very excited to have a tiny little offset to share & I was at his house for rehoming fish. He's since moved away...So I won't tell him yours is a weed, lol.

I may have mentioned I tried a crypt grow out tank for a while. I tested different substrates & ferts but my results were not diffintive in any way. My nurii was the winner as far as health & reproduction, lol. Metallic red a close second (even though I didn't know it was in there then). I really wanted a carpet of c. parva but it was the most enigmatic of all. Each trial area had some nice bushy growth & some melt...

Please keep up the pics of your fish & plants, you always have such interesting things in your tanks! & now with giant tanks, whee!
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The only fert i use are fishes and a few thrive root tabs.
 
TY, I don't think I looked at Thrive root tabs but have seen their liquid ferts. My "big" tank (5ft 110g) doesn't have fish yet (so no poo) & I'm not good with water column ferts. It did a big melt, I think sometimes my water co. flushes lines or something, it's happened a couple times here. Do you have city water? In MA we had what I'd call summer & winter water from different sources. Here we have similar but different seasonal parameters (dought & rainy). I'm not the best tester either & don't test for "everything" when I do.

I like the Jobe's sticks so I can break off pieces based on plant size or group size. I can also in a small way encourage them to spread where I'd like more of that variety. That may be a subjective hope, lol. Like I'm sure you've seen, some are good spreaders, some nice clump formers...& some are neither for me. They grow new leaves slowly but don't grow runners, long or short. My c. crispatula "red" is like that & a few others. Do you have crypts like that?

I hope you don't think this is derailing your thread too much. I often just act like we're having a conversation about our tanks & experiences "near" your topic.
 
fishorama said:
TY, I don't think I looked at Thrive root tabs but have seen their liquid ferts. My "big" tank (5ft 110g) doesn't have fish yet (so no poo) & I'm not good with water column ferts. It did a big melt, I think sometimes my water co. flushes lines or something, it's happened a couple times here. Do you have city water? In MA we had what I'd call summer & winter water from different sources. Here we have similar but different seasonal parameters (dought & rainy). I'm not the best tester either & don't test for "everything" when I do.

I like the Jobe's sticks so I can break off pieces based on plant size or group size. I can also in a small way encourage them to spread where I'd like more of that variety. That may be a subjective hope, lol. Like I'm sure you've seen, some are good spreaders, some nice clump formers...& some are neither for me. They grow new leaves slowly but don't grow runners, long or short. My c. crispatula "red" is like that & a few others. Do you have crypts like that?

I hope you don't think this is derailing your thread too much. I often just act like we're having a conversation about our tanks & experiences "near" your topic.
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I lived in boston for 19 years but now i'm down in nashville or i shoudl say back in nashville since i grew up there. I attribute my plant success to good tap water and frequent water changes - i think generally speaking people use too much fertlizers. I thought you were in wy land but if you are near boston you should have excellent water. (in case you are wondering i prefer to be in boston and not having a car to nashville but sometime things just don't have to be the way you prefer; but i think often of moving back to boulder (co) region because i love the mountains and thin air.

Anyway maybe i'm just lucky - i don't use a lot of root tabs just an occasional one here and there when i remember. I primarily focus on just doing regular weekly water changes (if there are are fishes in the aquarium). Plants seem to grow equally well in dense fish aquarium as ones with only a few so maybe i'm just lucky. I typically run lights at 60 ish % from 9am till 4pm - technically 8am till 5pm but i have an hour ramp up/down so quite dim at least initially. My primary light is now the freshwater aquarium blade of appropriate length (that will give you an idea of the intensity level if you do all the math and the power setting is actually linear).

The tank in question (the recent pictures) is a shallower aquarium at 16 inches height (one of my favorite height - tall enough for dwarf cichild and top level schoolers to sep but low enough that i can easily reach the bottom).
 
We lived in Westborough, MA for 10+ years. ~15+ miles from Boston down "the pike", quite a bit snowier. My husband worked in Cambridge, yucky commute. We liked it there: good music, food, fish water, etc. But he was offered a job in CA so we took it for a change. We like it here but it may not be our "forever home" now we're retired. You've lived lots of places too, it's been kinda fun.

The depth of my "big girl" tank is 24 or 5 inches...when I could reach the bottom. & I think I've shrunk an inch or so since our MA friend made a custom stand for this tank. So I can appreciate your more shallow tank. I'm still good with 20" depth of my other tanks (so far). It was supposed to be a discus tank...back in MA 13+ years ago. Things change & that's often a fun part of life...or that's what we tell ourselves, lol. Our families are in Michigan, we may end up there, with rock hard water...like we had in DE.

I did a quick Google but "aquarium blade" lighting got me algae scrapers...I'm medium light at most. I may be the worst fertilizer ever! But there's a guy in my plant club that claims the title, lol. It's our lame bonding thing.
 
fishorama said:
We lived in Westborough, MA for 10+ years. ~15+ miles from Boston down "the pike", quite a bit snowier. My husband worked in Cambridge, yucky commute. We liked it there: good music, food, fish water, etc. But he was offered a job in CA so we took it for a change. We like it here but it may not be our "forever home" now we're retired. You've lived lots of places too, it's been kinda fun.

The depth of my "big girl" tank is 24 or 5 inches...when I could reach the bottom. & I think I've shrunk an inch or so since our MA friend made a custom stand for this tank. So I can appreciate your more shallow tank. I'm still good with 20" depth of my other tanks (so far). It was supposed to be a discus tank...back in MA 13+ years ago. Things change & that's often a fun part of life...or that's what we tell ourselves, lol. Our families are in Michigan, we may end up there, with rock hard water...like we had in DE.

I did a quick Google but "aquarium blade" lighting got me algae scrapers...I'm medium light at most. I may be the worst fertilizer ever! But there's a guy in my plant club that claims the title, lol. It's our lame bonding thing.
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These are the lights:

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(the one gap is 36 iinch size which is kind of lacking though i suppose 2 12 inch ones could be used going across the 16 inch width); on the bright side are the longer models no one else make).

They make a very large number of different lengths up to 66 inch which is good for a 72 inch aquarium.

I lived in california for a year - never again - i was up in san mateo (20 minutes from sf); and i have friends in san diego; san diego was nice but even they are suffering from population explosion.

I liked boston for the architecture and ease of getting aroudn via foot. Every day i walked it it was always a new adventure - but i lived in a 350 sqft condo across from the harbor - so i got to walk through quincy market and the park on my way over long fellow bridge to cambridge.

Colorado i liked the nature and weather - but the last few years have been harsh out there between wild fires last year and flooding a couple of years earlier - both of these events were lfie changing for folks who lived there - 3 feet in 36 hours does a huge amount of damage to a small town like boulder. The daughter of a friend was trapped because of the wildfires last year when she was returning from the airport; she was ok but it scared the heck out of her. Anyway times are changing and one day memories might be all that is left.

I will say that i'm in nashville because i grew up here not because i particularly like it - just the sort of home thing. There are worse places and there are better places but home is home.
 
Those lights look nice, sleek! I like all the mounting options & the extra lengths available. Thanks for the link.

We used to say never California! We ODed on snow, its pretty only for a while but worse than MI. I had had good shoveling muscles but the last year we got 7 feet & It never melted in between storms. Our snow thrower couldn't throw high enough. Our long driveway kept getting skinnier. Sometimes I just shoveled the end of the driveway & a path to the house. Almost everyone had ice dams & water damage, not fun trying to sell 6 mo. later. Probably not what you had close to the water.
 
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