HeyPK

If we create a crypt resource, here, on APC, What would you like it to have?
(1) Taxonomy section, with lots of pictures of submersed plants?
(2) How-to-grow section with articles?
(3) Distribution section, where people trade, sell or give away crypts?
(4) Others?

Sir_BlackhOle

YES ALL of it!

tanVincent

1, 2 , 3 and 4 please...

Cheers
Vincent

trenac

All, but 1 & 2 appeal to me more.

HeyPK

I want specific suggestions-----How these proposed sections ought to be-----Ideas for other sections.

(1) my idea for the taxonomy section is not to try to repeat all the work on Jan's Crypt pages, where he has mostly emersed growth and flower pictures, but to get a collection of submersed growth pictures. See "Call for crypt pictures" on the forum. So far, I have made a commitment to try to get pictures of all the wendtii varieties I can get together. I am looking for some others to work on getting group pictures of similar crypts growing submerse. How about those long-leaved varieties, crispatula, retrospiralis, and spiralis?

(2) How-to-grow section. Perhaps we could have here a collection of posts, culled from various places, the way Eric Olson does it on the Krib. More comprehensive articles would be welcome!

(3) Distribution section is necessarily going to have to be different from the way trading, etc is done for other aquarium plants because of the snail's pace at which crypts grow and the fact that you can't just trim them and get useful cuttings the way you can with stem plants. Without a whole lot of thinking about it, I think that people can go on the distribution section and say that they have such and such species and will be willing to distribute when these species reach the point (if they ever do!) where it is time to bust them up and replant. This may be a year or more later. Others can line up for receiving plants. Distributors should be able to post updates on availability, how they are growing or not growing, etc. perhaps even with pictures showing how their plants are doing. I can imagine cases where someone has species X, announces that he will distribute it when it multiplies, and then a year goes by without it multiplying. People on the waiting list will just have to be patient or look for other sources. If they find another source, they should take their names off the waiting list. The notices of wanting to give and wanting to receive should remain on the list until all deals are closed or canceled. If it isn't public, people will forget. I am guilty of having done that, and I am not the only one, I am sure!

These are preliminary ideas. I want feedback, better ideas, new ideas.

tsunami

I think this is a little redundant. Aren't we already trying to make the Plant Finder contain a decent subsection devoted to the genus Cryptocoryne?

Carlos

HeyPK

The plant finder format is for single species and even single varieties. I want to try to get group pictures of related crypts. all growing under the same conditions. That way, the differences in appearance are more likely to be due to actual genetic differences.

Sir_BlackhOle

I'm liking it so far, especially the how-to-grow section!

JLudwig

Hi Paul...

With respect to #3, a database much like the killifish collection code database would be very helpful, that way in trades you can trace your plants back to where they can from vegetatively, and have a good basis for comparing geographical variations.

Also, I'm going to be getting my feet wet with emersed crypts soon, and would like to stick to harder to find species, especially ones that don't do as well submerged. So a "rare in the US" species list would be helpful. I'm pretty ignorant in the crypt area as I have been persuing bright red plants "high-tech" for a while now, but thats starting to fade a bit as time becomes more and more scarce

Jeff

HeyPK

Jeff,

Can you tell me how the Killifish collection code database is maintained? Is it their Fish and Egg listing that they publish in their Business Newsletter?

Thanks,