Bucephalandra Club

[AQMS]

my new "scape"

Steady ah bro..... new tank for CNY... what is the bottom tier for?

[armageddon]

Bottom is stocked with buceps. All converting to submerged form. A few hundred stalks. Lol

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[yangqian]

Nice kudeng stainless steel t5 lights.

[yangqian]

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not sure how come link wrong. all showing penelope...

anyway, hope this liniks work :P

bucephalandra chilli



bucephalandra brownie ghost

I personally feel that you can tie the brownie ghost on the driftwood. Allow them to receive more light to achieve better coloration. (:

[armageddon]

I personally feel that you can tie the brownie ghost on the driftwood. Allow them to receive more light to achieve better coloration. (:

opps... haha... the picture doesn't show justice. this brownie ghost is exposed to full light. ^_^ 6 tubes of T5 infact... i worried of over exposure only... HAHA

[yangqian]

You can never get bored of them.

[yangqian]

opps... haha... the picture doesn't show justice. this brownie ghost is exposed to full light. ^_^ 6 tubes of T5 infact... i worried of over exposure only... HAHA

Haha yes. They look like they are being stuffed in the rocks. So sad!

[armageddon]

Haha.. nice. This is the brownie today. Day 3.

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[armageddon]

nothing much. lets see 2 months down the road how it will be. now still trying to see how to settle the overloading of buceps at home as i just did a major overhaul to stock setup...

[Dodofish]

Can I ask what is the smallest breed for bucephalandra?

And does cutting off the old leaves produce smaller new leaves?

[Whitechicks7]

Can I ask what is the smallest breed for bucephalandra?

And does cutting off the old leaves produce smaller new leaves?

I may be wrong but I think it's Catherine / mini purple / belindae

[keithtang]

Mini set up...

[Dodofish]

I may be wrong but I think it's Catherine / mini purple / belindae

Is it also known as lamandau mini purple? I saw one in google like a carpet.

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[armageddon]

Is it also known as lamandau mini purple? I saw one in google like a carpet.

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there is in fact a misconception of people for buephalandras, maybe can help to clear the air.

yes, buceps are slow growing in some, but under optimum condition, some keepers have realised that they grow very fast. much faster than nanas in fact. known of 1 keeper, his buceps have already at least flowered 3 - 4 times in a period of 2 months each flowering can be up to 2 stalks of flower. No, this is not a clump, but just 1 stalk that subsequently grown out another smaller shoot and both flowered together.

bucephalandra doesn't really "carpet" they will grow more upwards. maybe for soft rizhome types like LMP, their rizhomes tend to lay lower. but once again, when bucephalandra's density grow, they will grow upwards, very much like any stem plants.

IMO, there are 3 types of rizhomed buceps. soft and small, mid size and stiff, big and hard. pretty common sense in fact. these 3 are also classified as the small mid and large sized bucephalandras (my categorization) .

so, if you are going to let it rest in a corner expecting it to creep and carpet like HC, or hairgrass, you maybe disappointed.

of course, light and depth of tank plays a part too. buceps in wild do not grow in deep water, more of shallow stream at the sides thus it is able to "creep" due to the inability to uphold itself up like a tree trunk.

hope this can shed some lights for bucep keepers.

[Pork Life]

My collection.
20140122_204720.jpg >>> unknown bucephalandra

20140121_214315.jpg>>> unknown bucephalandra with SK black in background

20140122_204159.jpg >>> SK black with new leaves growing

20140121_214645.jpg >>> another SK black plant growing new leaves

[Pork Life]

20140122_204252.jpg >>> side shot of SK green clump converting to submersed form with new roots growing

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20140122_205029_1.jpg >>> SK black clump with 2 flowers growing

20140121_214046.jpg >>> full tank shot after slight re-shuffling of plants again to create space in front for cory cats to move in

[vasteq]

Here you can found my new updated article about Bucephalandra, also in other languages:
http://bucephalandraplants.blogspot.com/

[win18]

Some of my new collection
Currently put into quarantine container

Bucephalandra Pixie
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Bucephalandra velvet
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Don't know what sp with flower
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Black type, probably theia black
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[TS168]

Hi Win18 the so call Theia black? Can you update with new photot after 1-3month time to see if it still black? Thanks.

[win18]

Hi Win18 the so call Theia black? Can you update with new photot after 1-3month time to see if it still black? Thanks.

Sure...
will update once I've plant it into the tank,
hopefully not melted down because the condition its quite bad now...