A personal blog about Cryptocorynes, waterplants and fishkeeping.
Another recent addition to my slowly growing collection. In comparison to the C. auriculata, It was in emersed form, but It was smaller. It is growing much faster and right now It would have 6-7 leaves.
It was labeled as “Golden ring” ´Bukit Ibam´, but I found out that the other websites rather use the name “Yellow ring”.
Again, substrate is a mix of beech leaves and Seramis. So far seems fine to me.
I got this Cryptocoryne in March/April. It was in submersed condition and had a nice pattern – Tiger stripes as the label said. Soon after it converted to emersed form it lost these stripes. But I am still waiting when the plant grows larger, so who knows.
Substrate is a mix of beech leaves and Seramis.
It was my first blackwater Cryptocoryne. Although I’ve read it was easy to grow, I was a little bit worried. I got in a submersed form but It converted quite fast. Now It fills one pot (approx. 8cm in diameter) and in another one it is starting to thrive too. As I wrote in previous post, I have it in a pH about 4,5 and EC approx. 350 μS/cm and substrate – beech leaves.
Sorry for a dirty pot. I have realized how the pot is dirty after taking a photo and during editing the images.
Due to a long business trips I had no time to update my site. I have written some posts in Czech… and now for something completely different – English update..
So… here it is.
Plants are growing just fine. I am trying to do a regular changes of water and from time I measure water parameters. As I wrote before, some new species are making me happy. But more on that topic later in a new post. I have uncovered my glass cover a bit more to lower humidity and for better air circulation. Some of my plants really resemble submersed condition. It is time to toughen up!
Oh, and I nearly forgot… My C. wendtii ‘Green Gecko‘ got nice reddish pattern on leaves also in an emersed form.
