Hello, after looking for plants that would do in my "hot" blackwater tank with a pH around 4, durng a while, it seemed to me that unless I could find the
Cabomba aquatica var schwartzii the best choice would be the unfindable
pallidinerva cryptocoryne, or the schlulzei. So really glad to find this forum and this thread (with some other threads) to list the blackwater sp. of
Cryptocoryne.
here is the list I found here:
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...er-crypts.html
By the name of the jpg. file, the one photographed on the first page of the present thread, would be
longicauda
If I welle understood, after looking for information about the current crypts in the hobby, all the crypts sold in my local petshop are hard water species. I'm trying a common
wendtii crypt (I imagine, I don't have a clue about the determination but it's growing in our local aquarist club) in the tank, it doesn't die but it seems to me that it grows only when the pH rise upon 5, when the pH goes down it freezes.
I used this site to get the descriptions of my local store sp.:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/cry...y/min/min.html
Which would be the more suited cryptos for a acid pH around 4 AND a high temperature around 29°C, and the lowest TDS I can obtain for my
Dicrossus filamentosus.
Which
Cryptocoryne species are the most suited for submersed culture?
It seems that the
longicauda would, but can it handle high temperature?
http://aquaworld.netfirms.com/Labyri...4cae361b0517d6
And last but not least...
Because to start the submersed culture of blackwater crypts it way be another difficulty...
How may I have a chance to find these Cryptocorynes???
hope it can be easier than getting
Paedocypris !?!