junglemike

Hi all, sharing some pictures taken last week.

A river near Sarawak-Kalimantan border:




Cryptocoryne striolata:





Close-up (shoot it near water surface):



Crypt striolata is a species of aquatic aroid only found in Borneo island:





Beautiful water plants in the stream!





more pix of Crypt. striolata




Barclaya motleyi (hill stream form) - close-related to water lily also found here:

Cavan Allen

Thanks for sharing! Those are some great pictures. I wish I could be there!

Have you any experience with the C. striolata or Barclaya in aquariums?

Tex Gal

After joining this forum, I never look at another fresh water pond, lake, stream, etc the way I used to .....

junglemike

Yup, they are easy to grow in the aquarium.

Yoong

Mike
Nice pictures.

I tried growing strolata submerge but failed. Don't find them easy to keep submerge aquarium. Don't mine sharing your secret.

Keeping emerge on the other hand is quite easy.

Yoong

rs79

I've heard the "secret" of growing striolata submersed is good water movemet. Looking at the terra typica here that seems to make sense.

CO2 would probably help a lot, too. Or flourish excel.

Cavan Allen

Can you tell us anything about the water chemistry and so on, Mike?

Kai Witte

Hello Mike,

Thanks a lot for the continuing stream of all your nice pics!

Have you ever seen a flower of Barclaya inhabiting hillstreams? I'd love to see more Barclaya populations and their habitats!

Kai Witte

Hello Cavan,

This crypt usually inhabits smaller hillstreams: In Sarawak their water chemistry is most often pretty much indentical with pure rainwater: 10 uS/cm is a quite typical figure - spit in a bucket of distilled water and you're ready to go!

However, a few striolata populations have also been found in water with low but measurable hardness and slightly alkaline pH. For submersed culture make sure that there is a little of CO2 available and some current also helps in my experience. Still, this is a slowly growing species and you need to keep growth of algae at bay for success in submersed culture!

junglemike

Emersed one is doing better than submerged one. Key is it like water movement..