Show me your Crypts :)

[DaFishMan]

Hi :)

I'm a cryptoholic and I'm at the wrong meeting, Just wondering if any of you have particularly nice species of crypts either natural or cultivar varieties and if so can you pls post a nice clear pic of it thanks :)

[Slipstream]

Ill show u mine, if you show me yours.

Haha.. sorry, couldnt resist that one.

[DaFishMan]

Well I would if I didn't lose most of my adult crypts to a massive moss glacier over the last year :(

My undulata 'copper' and wendtii 'bronze' are the only 2 adult crypts I have left.
The undulata was the nicest but no longer in boasting condition I'm afraid.

I had these before,
11 Cryptocorynes species
x willisii,
willisii X lucens,
Wendtti varieties Green, Brown, Bronze, and my fave 'Mi-Oya'
crispulata var. balansae,
lutea (walkeri),
becketti,
undulata ‘copper’
& an unknown.

I did get a nice Lucens today, about 10 inches tall and alot of leaves, good healthy roots. Will get a pic of it soon :)

[Soggybottom]

Dang, I've never heard of moss glaciers before, sounds nasty!

I have a forest of wendtii green and brown, and a big retrospiralis that recently pupped a bunch of littluns, but unfortunately I cannot post pics either, until Dec 21 :(

It was neat, the retrospiralis grew for two years and eventually got too big so I cropped it. Only then did it start producing offshoots...

[WaterPond]

I'm a tad short on crypts right now. I have kept:

Cryptocoryne parva
Cryptocoryne x willisii
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Tropica'
Cryptocoryne undulata

Right now i keep

Cryptocoryne beckettii ''petchii''
Cryptocoryne wendtii ''green''
Cryptocoryne wendtii ''brown''

Here is the tank they are in:
50gallon, 50% eco-complete substrate 50% PFS
2x80w flourecent tube fixtures. Two plant gro bulbs, two daylight bulbs

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l117/WaterPond/fishtank-281107006-1.jpg

big Cryptocoryne wendtii ''green'' in front and a group of Cryptocoryne beckettii ''petchii'' in the back
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l117/WaterPond/fishtank-281107002.jpg

wendtii's
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l117/WaterPond/fishtank-281107003.jpg

brown
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l117/WaterPond/fishtank-281107001.jpg

Hope that statisfies the crypt fiend in you.:laugh:

[Soggybottom]

Nice tank!

What is PFS?

[grumpystiltskin]

Pool filter sand, i use that mixed with gravel as well :smile:

[Soggybottom]

Looks nice :yes:

[Melody]

You sure do grow a nice tank young man!

[DaFishMan]

Very nice crypts there ! I like the petchii :)

[BC Mosaic]

Your horse faced loach doesn't mind the coarseness of your gravel? Cool. I think they're freakish enough to be cute.
Nice tank and plants.
I'll set a link to a photo of my tank with a Crypt Balansae.

[BC Mosaic]

http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd295/BC_Mosaic/

This is one of my tanks with the C. Balansae.
I got the mother plant as a juvie and there was no roon in the back and i didn't really know what to expect in its growing habit and now the front should be the back and vice versa. Oh well. I don't really want to disturb this cluster
The mother plant is in the center and the rest are all pups. I've already seperated 4 pups and it's still growing strong and red. I must be doing something right! LOL
Cheers

[Melody]

I rather like it in the middle actually. The leaves being thin and well spaced allows the plants behind to be seen too. I had no idea that they get that tall.

As for loaches, I've always had mine on coarse gravel. Both they and Cory's would prefer sand I'm sure, but I've never seen any barbel damage. Even the wormies do fine (aka Khuli Loaches).

[DaFishMan]

The color of that Ballansae is awesome !!!
You wouldn't happen to be in the neighborhood would you ? Any small ones you'd like to part with ?

[BC Mosaic]

I could part but would rather trade for.........?
Where are you located? I'm east Van.

[BC Mosaic]

I rather like it in the middle actually. The leaves being thin and well spaced allows the plants behind to be seen too. I had no idea that they get that tall.

As for loaches, I've always had mine on coarse gravel. Both they and Cory's would prefer sand I'm sure, but I've never seen any barbel damage. Even the wormies do fine (aka Khuli Loaches).

Actually, it's not in the middle but wayyyy up front. But, yes, they do impress. Their colour is grand as well.

I had cories in that tank and their barbules (sp?) took a beating and they croaked. The turface is more sharper than aquarium gravel. There is so much mulm in that tank and I think that is the reason my Balansae is so red. Usually they are green.... I think.

[DaFishMan]

I'm right near Toronto.

Need any moss ? I bought it as weeping moss but it MIGHT be regular java. Very nice and healthy tho.

[BC Mosaic]

Toronto!!!!
I know diddly squat about shipping anything live! Picking anything else up on this side of "Ad Mare Usque Ad Mare" that then we may collaboerate on?
Cheers
Cheers
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: (i JUST LUV THESE GUYS!)

[WaterPond]

I just got a couple plants os balansae. I will keep you in mind once it grows upa b little bit.