A visit to my crypt-forest... - Cryptocorynes

Xema · 01-24-2007, 04:55 PM

I took some pictures of my plants and set up for sharing with you...

the Crypt-Dome for neutral-likes plants...

The Swamp, Here my black water plants are growing ...

Some of the plants...

Flowering C. wendtii 'Green Gecko'

The broad leaves C. yujii

C. sp. 'Kota Tinggi', an unknown hybrid & detail of the leaf

My brownish C. longicauda

more coming soon...

nswhite · 01-25-2007, 06:15 AM

wow some really good pics. and the tank looks great.

Xema · 01-25-2007, 06:46 AM

nswhite, thanks for your comment...

A few more pictures....

A right side view of the Crypto-Dome...

A left top view of the Crypto-Dome...

A C. cordata var. zonata from Sungai Koru, before named (due to a mistake) C. x purpurea nothovar. borneoensis...

And deatil of the leaf from the same plant...

A giant leaf of C. coronata in my hand to compare...

A green C. longicauda...

And finaly C. minima from Bukit Merah.

Greetings from Spain

nellis · 01-25-2007, 07:49 AM

How does your setup work? Are the pots just sitting in a shallow pool and water themselves by wicking? Also, is that flourite they're planted in? Do you mist or just keep the lid very tight?

-Nate

Kai Witte · 01-26-2007, 12:41 AM

Congrats, Xema, those are really nice plants!

Is the brownish longicauda your old strain without locality data?

Xema · 01-26-2007, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kai Witte

Congrats, Xema, those are really nice plants!

Is the brownish longicauda your old strain without locality data?

Thanks Kai....

Brownish longiacauda was coming from Green Chapter, but It was allways green, only before moved it to ADA amazonia soil, leaves are becoming brownish...

hanico · 01-26-2007, 02:01 AM

its nice plant

SCMurphy · 01-26-2007, 07:16 AM

Nice looking plants Xema, that C. coronata is something else. How warm do you keep the plants?

By the way, thanks for the mention on your website, I saw the link to my travelog.

Xema · 01-26-2007, 07:25 AM

Hi Sean,

I keep them on winter around 18/20ºC into the neutral set up, for swamp plants 24ºC. On summer Temperature can get up over 30ºC...

This early morning temp of water into the neutral set up was 15ºC (we are inmerse in a cold wave in Spain, 3 or 4ºC... is not ussual here)

ruki · 01-28-2007, 10:01 AM

That looks so nice!

I'm having an insect problem with my emersed tank. What do you do to control insects? To a lesser extent, I have some mold issues, but those arent' too bad.