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Old 08-05-2008, 05:27 AM   #21
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Beautiful auriculata and nice pictures. You grow you your crypts in sand and clay too?

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90% sand mixed with 5% clay + 5% peat soil/leaf litter for this hill stream Crypt.

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Old 08-05-2008, 07:28 PM   #22
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90% sand mixed with 5% clay + 5% peat soil/leaf litter for this hill stream Crypt.
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Thanks for sharing. Look forward to see you next post.

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Old 08-07-2008, 06:54 AM   #23
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Thanks all for the comments. Still got a few more pictures to share....maybe I'll post it next week.
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That's fantastic...when you have time, keep the pictures coming. One of these days I'll have to actually go outside and see some of the plants I've been keeping for so long in their native habitats...

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Oops, I forgot I still got some pictures which I forgot to share with everyone.

On the last day before going home to Kuching, I went to the peat swamp forest of Seri Aman to search for Crypt. pallidinervia. Unfortunately, I failed to find it in the very disturbed peat swamp. Most of the big trees in the swamp are already gone because of logging activity since long time ago. The natural habitat has been destroyed!

A (farmer's) storage hut at the peat swamp of Seri Aman.







Found a clump of Crypt ciliata at the brackish water stream:







About 1 hour of driving distance from Seri Aman, I went to check a freshwater swamp:




Found thousands of Crypt longicauda growing in the flooded swamp:








2 hours later, I went off road to revisit the habitat of Crypt striolata & I was shocked to find out that the jungle has been gone since 3 or 4 years ago & now it became an oil palm estate. Crypt striolata can not adapt to the changes of environment (direct sunlight) and the whole colony wiped out!!!





More destruction of habitat is expected to be happened in the near future......
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Great story and pics!

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More destruction of habitat is expected to be happened in the near future......
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Great pics Michael. I just wish it wasn't more bad news.
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Great pics Michael. I just wish it wasn't more bad news.

Thanks for viewing.

More humans = more development = more destruction of natural hanitat.
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Hello Mike,

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No water sample.
I'd respectfully suggest that you invest in getting a little equipment for taking measurements! Temperature, conductivity, and pH are IMHO a good start and don't take much time.

Critters and plants may often not require exactly the same conditions as in nature to survive, thrive, and even reproduce/propagate. However, with a little bit of data you can already learn a lot about the habitat, the soil and underlying geology, etc.!
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I'd respectfully suggest that you invest in getting a little equipment for taking measurements! Temperature, conductivity, and pH are IMHO a good start and don't take much time.

Critters and plants may often not require exactly the same conditions as in nature to survive, thrive, and even reproduce/propagate. However, with a little bit of data you can already learn a lot about the habitat, the soil and underlying geology, etc.!
Very hard to get this equipment in my hometown.
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