125 Gallon River Tank *updated 8-7-09* Looking for opinions

[hydrophyte]

What a wild plant. I wonder if it will off-set for you.

[idontknow]

Originally Posted by hydrophyte

What a wild plant. I wonder if it will off-set for you.

What do you mean by off-set?

[hydrophyte]

Actually I'm not totally sure if that's the right term(?). Offsets might be what bulb plants, such as tulips, produce. What I mean are the little plantlets that arise from the crypt rhizome around the base of the mature plant.

[idontknow]

Originally Posted by hydrophyte

Actually I'm not totally sure if that's the right term(?). Offsets might be what bulb plants, such as tulips, produce. What I mean are the little plantlets that arise from the crypt rhizome around the base of the mature plant.

Gotcha......the plant she sold me was actually 2 plants, it did what I think your talking about cuz I split it because the root was to big to plant. Root was the size of a baseball.

[pinkertd]

The tank and plant look awesome! Perfect placement for it. Let it grow and fan out over the top from the corner. It will put new shoots up and probably quicker in your tank than in mine where space was limited. I grew that with standard hood lighting, 10,000k. And just flourish once in a while. Anyone who says you can't grow gorgeous plants in a very low light, low tech setting hasn't seen my crypts! I do change out about 80% of the water weekly in all my tanks. The tank this plant was in has my sidthimunki herd (42 of them) and some ember tetras and cories. The embers love to hang out under the draping leaves and the sids don't like a bright tank so the shade is good for them too. Enjoy that plant! If you ever need any sterbai cories or L144 long finned blue eyed bristlenose plecos.....that's what I'm currently raising. You can check them out over on aquariacentral.com, same user name.