Klaus07

It looks like you are having lots of fun growing emersed stuff. I know I like to see mine grow and the flowers are something you dont see normally underwater. Keep up the good work.

neilshieh

Haven't updated this in a while... but everything has exploded in growth and I've got seeds from my persicaria kawagoenum and hygrophila lancea

Tex Gal

So how are you liking emersed? Do you miss your tanks? I can see how all the growth would be neat but I would miss the beauty of the submerged growth and color.

neilshieh

I do miss the aquascaping and such, but now that i'm almost a junior in high school, I'm super busy. Being able to leave my emersed tanks and have them grow by themselves with everything being automated seems much more of a better choice. Emersed tanks have a beauty in their own with flowering and I'm starting a seed bank! Since most of the time plants are vegetatively propagated, growing from seed is very exciting. The dirt in a box method allows nice emersed scapes though the colors are less vibrant. Overall emersed tanks are a nice subset of our hobby and i enjoy it just as much as submersed. (mainly because there's no algae LOL)

asukawashere

I'm not convinced that emersed tanks are less colorful. Sure, some species tend not to display the same reds as they do underwater (Persicaria spp. 'Sao Paolo' and 'Kawagoeanum' are good examples of this), but there are plenty of species that still show vibrant colors in emersed culture... For instance, Nesaea, Rotala, and Lysimachia species all look lovely in my tubs.

Neil, want to swap seeds sometime? I'd love to get my hands on some Hygro lancea. I have plenty of Limnophila rugosa and maybe some Staurogyne sp. 'Bihar' seed pods I can spare.

...The other wonderful thing about seeds is that they can usually be mailed for the cost of a stamp

954baby

I hear ya man! I work about 60 hours a week sometimes and I can barely spend a few hours with my plants without hearing it from my woman. Emersed is sometimes the way to go. Aquascaping is fun but it can be very time consuming and at least with emersed setups you get to see the plants flower on a regular basis. I'm in the process of trying to upgrade to a big 4x6 foot humidity dome, It will decrease my maintenance time by 10 fold. I'll do a write up on it when I start. Great looking stuff keep it up!

neilshieh

yup. with the school i go to, i'm lucky if i have time to change the water every two months.

neilshieh

just found out my lindernia sp. india had a bunch of seeds! but i didn't notice in time and everything sprouted
that brings seed plants to a total of 3! not much but it's something. i'm hoping my hygrophila araguaia will produce seeds because it's one of my favorite plants

neilshieh

just kidding, i harvested about 100+ seeds of lindernia sp. india.
though now i have a ton of sprouted seeds too...