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Please excuse this thread if the subject has been treated before, but with so many pages and posts it is simply not possible for me to spend the time on a hunt. Here's my question:
As I was looking at Mr. Amano's 2nd book for the umpteenth time just now, it occurred to me that you all might know the answer to yet another question I've had ever since the first time I saw his little tanks in the front of the book.
Mr. Amano says, in describing his two small 1 liter and 3 liter tanks, that the plants are not growing in a substrate, but rather in "wall mats". No further explanations. He must think his readers will know what he means! Do you all have any idea what Mr. Amano means by "wall mats"?
I have seen the various inventive ways that he and others have used to grow Riccia, so having it in the little aquaria is not so puzzling to me. But how he grows such things as Ludwigia arcuata and Microanthemum micranthoides without substrate, in a "wall mat", is outside of my ability to figure out. He mentions that these two species are with the Riccia in the little tanks.
Thanks in advance for helping me yet again, gasteriaphile
As I was looking at Mr. Amano's 2nd book for the umpteenth time just now, it occurred to me that you all might know the answer to yet another question I've had ever since the first time I saw his little tanks in the front of the book.
Mr. Amano says, in describing his two small 1 liter and 3 liter tanks, that the plants are not growing in a substrate, but rather in "wall mats". No further explanations. He must think his readers will know what he means! Do you all have any idea what Mr. Amano means by "wall mats"?
I have seen the various inventive ways that he and others have used to grow Riccia, so having it in the little aquaria is not so puzzling to me. But how he grows such things as Ludwigia arcuata and Microanthemum micranthoides without substrate, in a "wall mat", is outside of my ability to figure out. He mentions that these two species are with the Riccia in the little tanks.
Thanks in advance for helping me yet again, gasteriaphile