u/Fishstery

Peep her monkey toes gripping onto the stem 😭

Showcasing my newly set up 40 gallon Bucephalandra collection tank, which houses 64 species with ID and about 10 rhizomes with no ID. I'd estimate to have 150-200 rhizomes currently in the tank. They are still recovering from the change in water parameters from my old farm setup, but the new leaves sprouting up are looking really good as far as desired color and leaf form go.

Setup details:

Landen 90p (44 gallon) 36"x18"x18"

Netlea AT5 ran for 8hrs a day

Netlea pro soil capped with Samurai Soil

2 Oase Biomaster 350s on either side of the tank

No water column dosing of ferts (fresh soil)

Co2 injection 35ppm ran 24/7

Colony of CRS

pH 6.2

gH 6

kH <1

TDS ~150s

I have quite an interesting collection, most are special "collectors" species, but I do have a handful of Indonesian species that I am transitioning to submerged form, and I only keep the most colorful varieties. I have spent an endless amount of time networking to curate species from all over Asia, including incredibly rare varieties that only come from China. The Chinese variants are the prized pieces of my collection, due to the difficulty sourcing them in the US.

I'm still working on balancing the tank, which can be quite difficult in a Bucep only setup. I'll definitely be posting more photos once more new leaves emerge and I trim away the old, green growth.

If anyone has any questions about what species I have or additional information on my setup, feel free to ask!

Upgrading my farm tank and need to sell these off as I don't have room for them. Included in the $40 bundle is everything shown in the first photo, 5 rhizomes of Stardust Mini Coin and 4 rhizomes of Nana Jade. These are grown submerged with low co2 injection. They are all very healthy portions with many leaves and long roots on each. Shipping is available via UPS or USPS for $8.

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Additionally, I have a lava rock the size of a fist covered in fissidens with some very nice bucephalandra brownie mini rhizomes buried in there somewhere, as well as a nutripad with some sort of java fern species on it (may be narrow, it may be the very rare orange narrow that I keep, I can't remember). $5 each. I also have fronds of Crepidomanes sp Grape Leaf II, $5 for a nickel sized portion.

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I have some random *tiny* bucephalandra rhizomes with one or two leaves on that broke off when I was moving my collection over, if interested I will throw them in as freebies, though I cannot guarantee the species. One may be brownie mini and the other possibly super mini blue coin.

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***Disclosure***

I keep ramshorn snails in the tank as a cleanup crew. While I will do my best to ensure I remove any snails or eggs that I see, I cannot guarantee none will arrive with the plants. Additionally, both the Fissidens and Java Fern have bits of Christmas moss mixed in.

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Thanks for looking! Feel free to comment or DM with questions 😊

I decided to try the newest version of Netlea soil, capped with Samurai Soil for my upgraded buce farm tank.

That being said, I'm a tad concerned about the pH. Going in, my tap has a pH of about 7.8, and the pH in the tank has been below 6 since startup. Even after doing a 50% WC to get the pH up enough to get the cycle moving a bit quicker, it immediately dropped below 6 overnight.

I used some cycled filter media, but ammonia has been testing about .25ppm every day now. I think the cycle is going incredibly slow due to how acidic the water is. I'm not horribly concerned yet, though I worry the pH is too low for my buce, and that it will get worse once I plant the tank and switch over to RO water.

Did anyone else get ridiculously low pH with this soil? It's *supposed* to buffer to the 6.5 region like other soils. How has your experience been with it? How long for the ammonia to finish dumping out? If you cycled with it from scratch, did you run into any issues?

I'm driving myself insane here. I have a BRS 75gpd unit and bought the 150gpd piggyback upgrade. This is my first time using an RODI unit, and installation has me very confused.

On the original unit, yellow tubing was wastewater. Black, not red, was used as the source water line. Blue is pure.

The 150gpd upgrade installation videos had me really confused, because the line colors for their units were different than mine for waste and source water. I must have had the unit hooked up wrong initially, because the water was bypassing all of my membranes. I watched another video, and now it seems I got it correct? The 2nd TDS meter is showing 0ppm in and 0ppm out. The pure water coming out is definitely way faster than before adding the upgrade, so I guess it's throwing me off and making me second guess myself that it's installed correctly.

Please see the photo and tell me if this looks right. I labeled some of the lines to avoid confusion, since the kit did not come with yellow tubing, I had to use black for a portion of the waste line.

EDITED TO ADD

This isn't a BRS unit, it's a Spectrapure 90gpd unit. That explains my confusion. BRS said that their upgrade could still be installed, but I need to reach out to spectrapure to plumb it in.

Rescaped my Landen 100p from a garden style to a jungle style, it's finally starting to mature at about 3 months old. Also included a pic of my favorite gem in the tank, Microsorum "Orange Narrow", a species of Java Fern that is very rare in the US.

Priced to sell! I'm removing most of the stems for my farm tank to make room for more buce. There's are fully ROOTED stems, not clippings. Each stem can be divided into 2-3 more trimmings if you'd like to double or triple them to fully plant a tank. They take up half of my 20g long densely, so these could easily start a small or medium size dutch tank. No algae, but some ramshorn or pond snails may come on them.

5-10 stems AT LEAST (some more than 10) of each species listed below,

Bacopa Colorata

Bacopa Salzmannii Purple

Ludwigia Super Red

Ludwigia Ovalis Pink

Cabomba Furcata

Cuphea Anagalloidea

Liminophila Aromatica Mini

Rotala Blood Red SG

Rotala Orange Juice

Rotala Walichii

Rotala Bonsai

Each group is $20, or $80 to take the entire lot as an easy sale deal. You can also bundle two groups for $30. Shipping is available, and the price will vary by package size and location.

6 left! $100 each, or I can cut a deal for the lot. Shipping available 🙂

Removing most of the stems from my farm tank and looking for a quick sale. My loss is your gain, this is a bargain! All stems are grown in BDBS, co2, and APT complete.

You will recieve 5-10 stems of EACH species. These are fully ROOTED stems, not trimmings. Each stem could be divided into at least 2-3 cuttings to propogate.

Species included:

Bacopa Colorata

Bacopa Salzmanii Purple

Ludwigia Super Red

Ludwigia Ovalis Pink

Cabomba Furcata

Liminophila Aromatica 'Mini'

Rotala Blood Red SG

Rotala Orange Juice

Rotala Bonsai

Rotala Walichii

Cuphea Anagalloidea

Shipping available for $20, no algae but may come with ramshorn or pond snails.

Selling my fully cycled 29 gallon paludarium. It's been running for a few months now and will be a drain and haul, meaning it will stay filled and running until pickup.

Included are the tank, cabinet, glass lid, twinstar light, and plants (utriculara sp, christmas moss, dwarf sag, string of frogs, riccia). It has a custom DIY 3D background I made out of foam and drylok, a slate waterfall, and filter chamber with false lid so that the water pump can be cleaned/serviced.

I have pre-morph Kaiser newt larvae for sale, $100 each and, $50 off if purchasing 6+. I haven't done a full head count yet, but I estimate to have anywhere from 5-15 still available after I send out my orders on Monday.

They were hatched in winter, so are a few months old and eating live blackworm. They all have their full coloring now, and are close to dropping their gills. Their parents were bought from the late Bob Mallioux, owner of now closed Sandfire Dragon Ranch. Bob and his partner Philippe had carefully maintained this line from one of the last legal Kaiseri imports from Iran in 2010/11, with Philippe assisting in the Segewick County Zoo's breeding program of the species. I suspect these to have lineage to that zoo stock as well.

Shipping to all of the continental US, which is averaging about $70-75 for UPS overnight air. Included in the pictures are some of the larvae available taken today, last year's holdback, and my breeding adults.

My toddler found this little one in our house, I love jumping spiders, so I got him under a cup with intentions of letting him outside. I noticed he/she is super lethargic, not really active, or even trying to jump away. He/she seems kind of drunk and unsteady, stumbling around. Their abdomen is very shrunken and shriveled. I decided to just put them in my paludarium for now, I flipped a piece of floating plant over and set them on top so that they could drink if they're dehydrated. My paludarium is nice and humid with an abundance of springtails, so I figured it was the best bet to help them.

Unfortunately I just noticed sugar ants have gotten in my enclosure though. The spider hasn't moved from the plant and isn't really responding much to me getting close for the pictures.

Does anyone have advice on what I should do?