ts168

Hi Tom, welcome you to asia...
Do not feel too jealeous, as it might not be good to your health.
Relax...

There not many LFS here selling new crypt here also. Most crypt are those more common one...

And in SG i think not many crypt collector.
One reason could be the lack of space for many of us.

I like this forum as it teach me alot of things here..

Cheers.
TS

budak

here's the deal Tom.... come here and spill your secrets and we'll spill ours.... :P

Pyokorin

Its so hard to explain all of my way at web communication.
For peat swamper crypts, I use fibrous peat and R/O water.

http://home.s01.itscom.net/oasis/ibox/2005103002b.jpg


Both of crypts are fantastic...

First one is resemble to one of mine.
That was shipped from Malay Peninsula few years ago.
http://home.s01.itscom.net/oasis/cry...ction/jacb.htm

Ill send a mail to you.

Ben Belton

Pyokorin, your crypts are beautiful. Everyone likes the flowers, but I think the foliage on some of yours is amazing.

Have you been to Aqua Forest in Tokyo? They have emersed Crypts for sale.

Ben

DelawareJim

Pyokorin;

Your Crypts are beautiful!

Unfortunately my machine won't translate Japanese. How are you growing yours?

Cheers.
Jim

opiesilver

You guys are killing me with these crypts. I've got to find an excuse to go and visit.

plantbrain

Deal!

Just let me loose, I'm good with hillbillies with guns, crocs, mosuitos and other related verimin.

Hey, they won't hang me for smuggling crypts out of there will they? haha

I might be coming to Thailand and then on the Nepal to do some mountaineering near Everest this spring and summer. I'll see if I can arrange a layover on my way back.
Regards,
Tom Barr

www.BarrReport.com

budak

If you are going to Thailand, try to meet up with Nonn Panitvong of www.siamensis.org (check out his trip reports and underwater pictures of Thai habitats! e.g. http://siamensis.org/survey/s049e.asp, http://siamensis.org/survey/s049e.asp, http://siamensis.org/survey/s045.asp). Let me know and I will try to connect you both.

The only vermin you'll likely encounter are leeches, and the odd snake or two. Peat swamps are not mosquito friendly.

Even a day's stopover in Singapore will be more than enough to sample a couple of crypt localities on the island, while the habitats in Johor are 2-3 hours drive away.

mozesyap

Is it possible to even bring plants / fishes into USA?
Any procedures I need to take note of? Want to bring some over next time I go back to Singapore

budak

Part 3 of the outing is here.

The peat swamp pools in this location are plantless, although mosses and liverworts can be found growing on fallen branches. However, it's proximity to the Gunong Panti reserve means that interesting aquatic macrophytes could be found further upstream, but the jungle is very hard to penetrate without a machete. Downstream from where we were, the stream is degraded (and the surrounding land denuded of trees, leaving only weeds and wasteland) and I could only see Blyxa aubertii.

I have sent my specimens of the unknown crypt (cf. or X griffithi?) to Jan and have no more available at the moment. To those of you who pm-ed or emailed me, thanks for your interest. I don't intend to pursue commercial dealings, however, although exchanges for personal research and cultivation are welcome. Unfortunately, these will have to wait for a subsequent trip, perhaps in the coming holiday week. Thanks!