Plant ID at Gratiola

[kelloggs]

Hi all

Saw this beautiful zen rockscape set up at at the entrance of gratiola. Does anyone know the id of the foreground plant of this tank? Where can i get them?

[juggler]

You forgot to include the photo?
Anyway, I think Gratiola should be able to reply if he sees this message.

[hwchoy]

[quote:b8b01db92e="kelloggs"]Hi all

Saw this beautiful zen rockscape set up at at the entrance of gratiola. Does anyone know the id of the foreground plant of this tank? Where can i get them?[/quote:b8b01db92e]

you mean that tank with a BIG rock facing the door? it is Ranalisma rostrata.

[kelloggs]

Hi juggler and hwchoy, thanks for the prompt replies.

Yes it was the tank with this gigantic rock. The rock is so beautiful and i think it is hard to get it here.

Now at least i have a name to start with. I will visit them again to check out whether they can order this plant for me.

[moss_fanatic]

IIRC, they have the submersed form in their selling tank.. It is in the tank where u walk up the steps and first top one on the left...
should be able to see the name inside the tank too.. unless they sold out already.

[hwchoy]

they can harvest some from their display tank, but I think not cheap. rock also can buy from them

[|squee|]

Cool, has that lawn finally been completed?

[hwchoy]

[quote:2287709d36="|squee|"]Cool, has that lawn finally been completed?[/quote:2287709d36]

yah, grow damn fast.

[piffu]

if i am not mistaken, it costs ard $2 per stalk

[hwchoy]

[quote:a2338c5378="piffu"]if i am not mistaken, it costs ard $2 per stalk[/quote:a2338c5378]

its a creeping runner, not "stalk" one.

[dts_spawn]

Sounds really nice. Any one has a pic?

[learner]

foto taken from www.aquaticscape.com

quite a nice plant from the pictures.. haven't been to gratiola myself
would be keen to try some.

[|squee|]

There was another pic that I really loved, and because of that I bought it.



pics from http://www.aquabotanic.com/contest20..._7_Details.htm

Anyway, Ghazanfar grew them damn well. Give them higher light, and they'll become really small, like "micro e-tennellus" some websites online call them.

hwchoy, man, the tank must be really great now. The water has cleared up also? I have to go down one of these days but bloody school...

[hwchoy]

yah water clear liaoz. the rock also stopped bubbling

[kelloggs]

The rock and foreground plant in the display tank (can be seen from main entrance) is very zen.

I spoke with vic of gratiola and asked him whether he encountered algae issues with such a "bare" tank. He said yes. If i didn't hear it wrongly, he said he adjusted the height of the light and the algae problem solved. I'm really puzzled.

Worthwhile to take a look if you are keen to know what zenscaping is all about and you will be inspired.

[ranmasatome]

can this plant grow in a non co2 tank?

[|squee|]

It can. I have clippings of this plant that I dumped into a 1 feet tank that is known as my rubbish tank ( ie, everything unwanted goes there :P )

I didn't think the plant would survive, but it did! I left it floating on the water surface, there's no c02 addition in the water, and it receives a little bit of the 36W light on another tank beside it. Trace ferts weekly. Nothing else.

The ones floating on the surface have begun to put out emersed-form leaves. The lone plant that I pushed into the gravel to see if it started growing, amazingly did, abeit very slowly; it has only so far put out one single runner.

[ranmasatome]

SWEEEEEEEEEEET!!! found some plants to cover hariy legs of my stem plants in non co2 tank...lol!! think me go get some..

[|squee|]

Lol, don't get too happy man. non-c02 tanks and all that kind of low-tech whatever tech tanks are tricky.

What works for me may not work for you :P

[ranmasatome]

Aiyah...try try loh.... no harm.... if can all the better!!