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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #63
Yes, Ste, I live in Queensland - and my guppies are still dropping like
nine-pins. But the guramis and rosy barbs appear to be doing well.
DenniusSOn Fri, 6
Oct 1995 Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com wrote:
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> Aquatic Plants Digest Friday, 6 October 1995 Volume 01 : Number 063
>
> In this issue:
>
> Hygrophila identification
> SAE article
> DIY CO2
> Lillaeopsis flowers, DIY UGH (fwd)
>
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> From: Plants FIDO-Gate <Plants.FIDO-Gate at f78_n480.z2.fidonet.org>
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 95 23:56:26 +0100
> Subject: Hygrophila identification
>
> Can someone help me out with identifying my Hygrophilas,
> please? I am trying to attach as full an explanation as I
> can of how they look like, I hope I can get some help...
>
> First of all, I have almost a plague of H. glabra. It grows
> HUGE roots and I have to cut it often to get small plants,
> but I like it, and I'm very glad that it grows that well.
>
> Then I have a H. which I could not identify up till now and
> I still can't. Here's the description. The leaf is very
> narrow and very long - it grows to up to almost 20 cm in
> length and only about 1 to 1.5 in width maximum. The leaves
> are placed as usual with a Hygrophila, opposite each other
> and then two above that in parallel to the other two, etc,
> and the distances between those joints range between about 1
> cm to up to about 2.5 cm. The stem is very delicate and does
> not seem to want to grow young plants too often to the
> sides, a bit similar to Glabra (which prefers to grow one or
> two young plants upwards when you cut it in the middle...).
> It grows quite slow compared to the other ones. BTW leaves
> are quite light, warm green.
>
> Another one I recently got is H. thailand (at least thats
> what they call it here...) - it's short and stocky, has also
> narrow leaves but they only get to up to 6 to 8 cm in length
> and grow in much thicker batches, like small trees,
> concentrating on the tip of the stem, not like the previous
> one which has leaves regularly and the closer to the top the
> wider the spacing. With this one the spacing is most dense
> at the tip and it does not grow too high, only a couple of
> centimeters. The leaves are a bit lighter than the previous
> species.
>
> Then I have something which looks very similar to H.glabra
> when it comes to the leaves, but the stem is very weird -
> much stronger than H.glabra, grows like a tree, it
> subdivides in to branches with joint-like central points. It
> has a tendency to grow in all directions and not only
> towards the top. The leaves are a bit darked than H.glabra,
> a bit more stocky and their tips are less sharp and the part
> between the stem and the leaf (I believe also called
> something with an s at the beginning) is longer.
>
> Recently I acquired a strange H. which is locally called
> "The lemon hazelnut". It has thick, very thick leaves, much
> larger than H. glabra, but the growth pattern is similar,
> and the submerged leaves (for which I am waiting as it was
> supposively grown emerged) are said to have a lemon colour.
>
> Oh, and of course I have a bunch of Synnema triflorum...
>
> And now the new ones.
>
> One is called a hazelnut, since its leaves look exactly like
> a hazelnut leaf, darker than H.glabra, the edge is not
> smooth, but the rest of the plant resembles H.glabra (glabra
> is often called here a false hazelnut).
>
> The next one is strange, as it s very thin and delicate, but
> it grows very long. Leaves are short and narrow (about 1 cm
> in width, up to about 3 in length maximum), colour is very
> light green, tips are a bit rounded, and similar to Synnema
> triflorum the plant likes to grow extra roots from the nodes
> where the leaves are.
>
> And the tstranges one I have has reddish leaves (not bright
> red, more like purplish red), the older leaves are dark
> green, shape similar to the plant described above but the
> leaves are sharp at the tip and grow to about 5 cm. I also
> suppose it is flowering right now. The shape of the flower
> is like that of a wine glass, but from the top it looks like
> this:
>
> A
> <O>
> V
>
> meaning a cicrcle with 4 triangular thingys at the top. They
> grow from the nodes where the leavess are (BTW please teach
> me some vocabulary when it comes to plants in English, I am
> quite terrible in explaining myself without it :( ). Oh, and
> the plant also spawns new roots from these nodes.
>
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> From: Plants FIDO-Gate <Plants.FIDO-Gate at f78_n480.z2.fidonet.org>
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 95 23:56:25 +0100
> Subject: SAE article
>
> Joanne!
>
> Big thanx for the article via mail, got it two days ago, and
> upon seeing it I decided to force my way through and found
> out I have a guy at work from whom I can ocassionally use
> netscape for a couple of minutes so I got the files myself,
> too! too bad I didn't realize that before you actually sent
> them, this would have saved you some work :(
>
> /
> ||/ -=< TONID >=-
> | /| |/ Tomasz Nidecki
> || |// tonid at falcon_mimuw.edu.pl (FWD to FIDO)
> ||//// Tomasz.Nidecki at f78_n480.z2.fidonet.org
> / /_
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> To: Joanne
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> From: Gary Alness <misman at mailhost_hooked.net>
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:46:01 -0700
> Subject: DIY CO2
>
> I'm Going to hope that this Question hasn't really been asked to reently
> but as I recnetly installed my new lighting and all that good stuff I was
> hopeing to start using Co2 now in anycase am I to assume that for the diy
> all I really need to do is get a 2 liter bottle dump in a cup of water a
> cup of sugar and a few table spoons of yeast and away it goes? Of course I
> know there is more to it than that like gang valve's and needle's and all
> that other stuff so if someone could point me in the right direction as to
> where I can get more info on this that would be great because I would hate
> to have my CO2 end up all over the wall's as I recall some other people
> saying at one time or another.
>
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> Gary Alness (misman at hooked_net)----------->
> San Jose CA ----------->
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> From: STEVEN R AMOR <n1036416 at student_fit.qut.edu.au>
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 13:33:52 +1000 (EST)
> Subject: Lillaeopsis flowers, DIY UGH (fwd)
>
> - ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 13:20:28 +1000 (EST)
> From: STEVEN R AMOR <n1036416 at student_fit.qut.edu.au>
> To: Aquatic_Plants at actwin_com
> Subject: Lillaeopsis flowers, DIY UGH
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have two questions, but first a suggestion. Most people probably have WWW
> access, so I would like to propse that more of us put pictures of out tanks
> for all to see. I don't mean a huge web page, but just a link, I find it
> much more interesting to see what other people are doing, and it gives
> everyone some idea of each others successes. ANyway, I'll be putting my
> web pages up soon, for all to visit!
>
>
> Question1:
>
> I bought 2 lillaeopsis (?) a few months back. One went in my
> heated 4 ft tank, where I add iron supplements every day. The other went
> into an unheated, only slightly fertilized tank.
>
> Last week, the plant in the unheated tank flowered! Well, the flowers
> were only really tiny, but they were yellow/greenish. The flowers were
> situated along the stem of the 'feeleres' I'll call them, that shoot out
> from the plant and spread outwards. My plant is in a small pot, and so
> as these 'feelers' grew they could not grow in the gravel, but instead
> started growing towards towards the bottom of the gravel-less tank.
> My question is, is it common for these plants to flower, and if not, then
> would the fact that the new shoots are hovering above the gravel have
> anyhting to do with it?
>
> Question2: I've almost finished building my DIY Under gravel heater..
> It's a lowish wattage, so I guess it will be staying on most of the
> time. I've built an electronic temperature controller, bnut I'm not sure
> what the literature says about how much hotter the gravel should be than
> the water itself. I presume it is only a small temperature increase, but
> does anyone have any suggestions? In theory, I can control the
> temperature to 0.1degree C, but what's theory and what actually works
> aren't necessarily equal!
>
>
> Steve Amor
> n1036416 at droid_fit.qut.edu.au
>
> PS, Is any one else in this group living in Queensland, Australia?
>
>
>
>
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