My Dwarfs

[Ruki]

I couldn't find that I have any thread with batch of my dwarfs, so I'll make one.

The newest photos of my A. barlowi(WF) :

and their tank(96 litres):

Taeniacara candidi(probably Czech breed)
1st pair

and their tank(96 litres):

2nd pair:

and their tank(45 litres):

And third species for today, A. mendezi(female wf, male F1):

and their tank(57.5 litres):

 

[animalmgc]

nice collection you have started.ecspecially the Taeniacara candidi.
I've wanted a pair badly but yet to find a pair

 

[hapaluku]

Hello.
Very beautiful mendezi...very nice .
One of my favorits.

 

[Ruki]

Nice to read that you like them.
Today's time for my A. sp. "Pebas"(WF)

I have one pair and in second thank around 30 of their offsprings. :biggrin:

 

[rafael]

Hi Łukasz.

Your dwarfs & photos are wonderful.

One question: How often you have to switch to the oak leaves? I have a couple of pictures of your tanks with oak leaves in a message that takes time talking about it. :wink: http://www.aquaesfera.org/panel/showthread.php?t=3449

Rafael.

 

[Ruki]

I don't switch leaves- I only put new leaves when old are near their end. :biggrin:
Recently I really like Magnolia's leaves.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I don't switch leaves- I only put new leaves when old are near their end. Recently I really like Magnolia's leaves.

I've got Magnolia leaves (M. sprengeri) as well at the moment in my shrimp tank. I'm not sure what effect they have on water quality, but the shrimp like them and the lamina decays to amazing "skeletons". Not my photo but exactly how they look.

cheers Darrel

 

[ZliBrka]

Ruki - very nice fish and tanks!!!!

I did think about putting magnolia leaves in my tank (becouse I have magnolia tree in my yard) but I was wondering about their effect to water quality. Now hearing it is all OK in your tanks I will probably trie it.

Sasa

 

[Ruki]

Magnolia leaves are better than oak leaves in terms of water conditions. They are making water more acid than oak leaves, sometimes(with 100% RO water) even to pH near 4.0-4.5! I never had something like that with oak leaves.
But, unfortunately, magnolia's leaves are decaying faster than oak leaves(after one and half of month most of them look like leaf from Darrel photo).

 

[ZliBrka]

Just yesterday I collected magnolia leaves in my yard and threw them away. There is some more leaves on my magnolia tree so I will collect it and maybe trie it in my tank.
Thanks Ruki!


Sasa

 

[Ruki]

Rememeber to collect only "natural brown"(without any plant fluids in them) leaves. I haven't tried dried green leaves, but probably they'll be worsening a condition of water.
I have to wait few days for my collections. :wink: Leaves are yellow now.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Magnolia leaves are better than oak leaves in terms of water conditions. They are making water more acid than oak leaves, sometimes(with 100% RO water) even to pH near 4.0-4.5! I never had something like that with oak leaves.

Thanks Lukasz, this is extremely interesting, I feel some experimentation with the de-ionized water and a pH meter coming on.

cheers Darrel

 

[Bilbo]

Which magnolia plant are you talking about. I have access to a few types.

Magnolia grandiflora has huge leaves and is evergreen.
Magnolia striatifolia has small leaves but is deciduous.

Wiki names hundreds of other types as well.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
The deciduous Magnolia striatifolia, M. x soulangeana, M. campbellii, M. stellata etc are the ones with the leaves that skeletonize.

I'm pretty sure we had a thread about the evergreen M. grandiflora leaves (possibly toxic?) as well, but I'll have to find it. I've got access to a M. grandiflora, so I'll have a go with the leaves of that as well.

I've used evergreen Camellia (Camellia x williamsii) and Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) leaves in the tanks without any problem and they are much more long lasting than Oak etc.

Nothofagus leaves should be suitable? They don't like the soil here, but the Chilean N. procera and N.obliqua are very Beech like, not sure about the evergreen N. fusca or N. menziesii as I've never seen these growing in the UK.

cheers Darrel

 

[Ruki]

Which magnolia plant are you talking about. I have access to a few types.

Magnolia grandiflora has huge leaves and is evergreen.
Magnolia striatifolia has small leaves but is deciduous.

Wiki names hundreds of other types as well.

If I'm not mistaken the most popular in Poland is Magnolia salcifolia and leaves from this mangolia I'm using. But I'm not sure beacuase I'm not a botanist.
P.S.
Because of polish climate evergreen Magnolias usually don't survive their first winter.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
A lot of the Magnolias aren't very hardy, M. salicifolia isn't planted very frequently in the UK. It should be an easy one to ID, as it has slim pointed leaves (salix is a "willow", so "willow like leaves") dull green and very pale underneath. The hardiest Magnolias as far as I know are Magnolia "stellata" (probably a variety of M. kobus) and Magnolia acuminata (might be this one? flowers in the summer with a drooping flower with a red centre?)
<http://mn4h.com/projects/yardandgarden/ygbriefs/h466magnolias.html>

In the S. UK M. x soulangeana would probably out number all the other Magnolias by x10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_%C3%97_soulangeana

cheers Darrel

 

[Ruki]

As I said, I'm not a botanist and my knowledge about plants is little. :wink:
Darell, maybe you can ID my magnolia by only seeing leaves in tank :biggrin::

P.S.
Is photo displaying at your computers? Or not only I have problems?

 

[ZliBrka]

@Ruki - There is no photo.

Sasa

 

[Ruki]

Thanks, so I'll haye to reupload few photos.

 

[hapaluku]

Hello Ruki. I can see your pictures...very nice.