Several updates - Cryptocorynes

Ghazanfar Ghori · 04-20-2009, 07:21 PM

I've got several updates on my blog...and more to follow in the next day or two.

C. longicauda spathe

C. elliptica spathe

L. thwaitesii spathe

..and a few more due in the next day or two and several more in the following week. Its active season for crypts!

http://kryptokoryne.aquaticscape.com/

HoustonFishFanatic · 04-20-2009, 07:39 PM

Good updates Ghazanfar! The C.longicauda spathe looks pretty robust. Keep up the good work.

Bhushan

Jdinh04 · 04-20-2009, 07:52 PM

Ghazanfar, nice crypts man! Do you have any of these plants submersed?

Seattle_Aquarist · 04-22-2009, 01:21 PM

Hi Ghazanfar,

Looking good! Keep up the good work!

Ghazanfar Ghori · 04-22-2009, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jdinh04

Ghazanfar, nice crypts man! Do you have any of these plants submersed?

A few - but not as many as I'd like.

rs79 · 04-23-2009, 12:14 AM

You've been busy! Nice job.

web 2.5. everyone makes their site look like a mac

AaronT · 04-23-2009, 04:24 AM

Which longicauda is it? My one from Pudingbesar is throwing up a spathe now too.

Nice to see the thwaitsii settled in right away for ya.

Ghazanfar Ghori · 04-23-2009, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by AaronT

Which longicauda is it? My one from Pudingbesar is throwing up a spathe now too.

Nice to see the thwaitsii settled in right away for ya.

Its the Pudingbesar one. Since it so damned dark, its difficult to take a good picture of it. Next time I'll try a black background.

looking4roselines · 04-23-2009, 11:30 AM

Mr. G.

What type of substrate are you using?

I am currently using some leaf litter (mixed with aquasoil and a few clumps of red clay) I dug up from a hiking trail and they stink like fart! Is this normal? I am not sure which type of tree it came from but so far, the crypts are fine.

Ghazanfar Ghori · 04-23-2009, 11:55 AM

Depends on the crypt.
But in general they're a mix of one or more of the following:
Aquasoil Amazonia, Aquasoil Malaya, Flourite Sand, Plain Sand, Leaf compost, Laterite, Orchid bark and toad juice.

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Originally Posted by looking4roselines

Mr. G.

What type of substrate are you using?

I am currently using some leaf litter (mixed with aquasoil and a few clumps of red clay) I dug up from a hiking trail and they stink like fart! Is this normal? I am not sure which type of tree it came from but so far, the crypts are fine.