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nice looking crypt tank bud!
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The Buce Crypt Mountain Tank Breakdown see last post
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Thanks man! I really do love crypts. They are very slow, but are much more managable than stems in my opinion. I'm actually looking to phase out the Hygro brown I have and replace them with larger Bucehphalandra varieties. I have a big portion of some mystery Buces coming in this week, along with a few other goodies for my rescape. So I'm pretty pumped. My goal is going to eventually be to have a tank like those Indonesians!!! One day!!!! One day....I have always wanted to make a crypt tank.
Wonderful tank there
nice looking crypt tank bud!
Thanks Chad,
Its coming along quite nicely. I can't wait to get all of my hardscape situated this week so that I can start filling in the gaps with more Buces haha. I'm thinking equal portions crypt and Buce.
So on a side note,
I have 2 portions of Fissidens coming in this week, as well as some Anubias Micro/Petite. And also Buce "green Lamandau", and then the aforementioned big portion of a mystery Buce from Wwh2694. I'll probably be rescaping tomorrow, and then adding to it throughout the week as plants get here.
Thanks for looking guys!
Joshua
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The suspense is horrible! lol. We want an update already! ;p
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Hey man,
They are great fish! I'm currently trying to breed them in my 10 gallon quarantine tank. But they are doing fine. I feed them a mixture of hikari sinking mini pellets, frozen brine shrimp, and also freezedried blood worms. I plan on trying to add some special flake food later as well. They are shy right now, being that I have 28 fish in a 10 gallon for quarantine, but the male seems pretty sociable, so I don't forsee any problems. Very tiny though. About the size of a dwarf cory.
So now time for that update!
After alot of pondering and thinking for several weeks, I've finally finished a scape that I really like and plan on enjoying for the next several years. So without further ado, here's the pics.
This C. Balansae has leaves that are like 1 inch across! Crazy right?
This little guy enjoys the new wood!
Updated C. Affinis 'Metallic Red" patch
Sold my bigger C. Nurii "pahang mutated" but still have 2 nice plantlets growing!
New mystery buces that came in today. Still trying to track down an ID for them.
Buce purple Lamandau
So overall I really like this scape, I finally got a good angle with the substrate for a deeper hilly sort of effect. I think that I got a good driftwood setup without it being too "busy". And I tried my hardest to place the buces in a more natural, "nature just took over" kind of fashion. Mainly I didn't want to distort the beautiful look of the driftwood. So Essentially I placed them over about an hour and a half period trying to keep the main line of the driftwood visible so that the buces don't really stick out, but more flow. In a 20 gallon tank though, this was quite hard, as just about anything you stick in the tank sticks out, but I did my best.
My buce "golden Bell" is doing very very well and has about 7 babies branching off of the main shoot. I plan on allowing those babies to get a bit bigger and then cutting them when they are large enough. Thats why its leaning against the driftwood at the bottom right. I also plan on finding a better location for that Buce. Bukit betung. I'm not a huge fan of its location, but I want to let it grow out a little more before finding it a permanent home.
I can't express enough though, how excited I am that I got that sloped substrate look going on. I plan on vacuuming out even more of the front glass sand to give an even bigger slope impression.
I have the fissidens and anubias micro and a buce lamandau green coming in tomorrow, so I hope to tastefully apply some of the fissidens to the branch tips in particular the far right and far left ones. I ended up using super glue to attach the buces and it seems to be holding well so I think that I will continue using that method for really sticking the buces to the well... sticks
Cheers!
Joshua
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Very nice! It looks nice and natural, but not messy. I like it a lot
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Very natural looking! good job
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Thanks man! I ended up finding a bunch of Rosanervig from another fella! But if they don't work out. I'll hit you up haha!
Thanks synaethetic! Its still very much a work in progress, but overall i'm really pumped about the hardscape.
Small update:
Added Fissidens to a bunch of branches. Also added Buce Green Lamandau and Anubias "Micro" (AKA super tiny variety of nana petite).
I've also ordered a few Crypt cordata rosanervigs to fill in that gap on the left side of the tank between the balansae and the driftwood. I'll post pics later this week once the Rosanervig gets in.
Thanks for looking!
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Hey man,
I've been getting them from all over. I got several from AzFishKid. He probably has the most extensive collection in the US that I'm aware of. I also got a few from random for sale adds on the swap and shop. I also got 1 from H4n here too. Unfortunately they aren't cheap, be prepared to shell out alot more than other plants. I saw it as an investment, because now my tank has a pretty self sustaining budget where I can trade or sell some of my expensive plants as they reproduce in order to acquire other plant species.
Will do sir! I'm diggin that fissidens man, It looks sick! As soon as I get a chance to snap a few you will be the first to know. Hows the purple lamandau and the metallic red recovering?
Thanks OVT! I think progress for now is going to just continue on for a while and allow things to grow in and reproduce. Eventually I want my buce to TAKE OVER THE WORLD.... I mean take over my tank... yeah thats it.
I still have your Hygro bee tee dubs, just chopped it really short to make it more manageable during the big rescape. They are gonna look real good once they get some height.
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