Ira Posted July 11, 2002 Report Share Posted July 11, 2002 And joined up. I also bought some Cabomba and some floaty...Ummm...Stuff, looks like little lily pads. All cost me $2, who cares if the fish eat it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 11, 2002 Report Share Posted July 11, 2002 floaty...ummm...stuff - the scientific name for cardamine perhaps? Good to hear you have joined the club Ira. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 "little lily pads" aka Lemna minor aka Duckweed For $2 I hope you got a big bag of it Ira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cees Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 For $2 I hope you got a big bag of it Ira You're kidding me right. Ira is the second person in UHAS who actually paid money for duck weed? Must have been an auction with the good old auctioneer (the other Derek) doing his tricks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 Yes Cees I was kidding. Well I think I was kidding, I had to leave before the auction so I have no idea what Ira paid good money for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 12, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 Nah, it's not duckweed. It's bigger stuff, doesn't look anything like duckweed. The lilypad like leaves are about 1inch-2inches across and they're attached by a small stem to a main trunk. Looks like cardamine might be right. Can't find any good pictures, but the horrible ones I've found look about right. Hmmm, from the pictures it looks like it's supposed to be planted, I thought I heard that it was supposed to float. No big deal. It was $1 for the floaty stuff, quite a big bag of it actually, and $1 for the cabomba. I also got 2 geophagus surinamensis and a pictus from Fee today. I'm kinda worried about one. I've got them floating in nets for a few days to let them adjust to the water without getting picked on by the other fish, and he's just sitting on the bottom of the net. He did eat some bloodworms earlier, so hopefully he'll come right. The other seems happy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 You plant cardamine but it grows roots at all the junctures of the stem. I let mine grow long and floaty then anchor down one or more of the aerial root sections otherwise it gets tangled up with the other plants. you can also keep chopping off bits and replanting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 12, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 Ok, thanks, Caryl. There we go. I just went and planted what was floating in my big tank. I think my severum was thinking, "WTF are you doing? It's too late to be stuffing around with the plants in here!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbroome Posted July 15, 2002 Report Share Posted July 15, 2002 Caryl said... > You plant cardamine but it grows roots at all the junctures of the stem. I grow this in my newt tank, both in and out of the water. It gets a bit rampant though and I have to clean it out every once and while. Eventually it climbs out of the tank and tries to make a break for it but with the judicious use of a machete and roundup I'm able to keep it mostly under control. Luckily there's a couple of doors between it and my bedroom ;-) It commonly flowers for me but they're un-inspiring little white fluffy balls. The newts like it though since they can wrap their eggs up in it. Andrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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