Recent content by Gourami Girl

2 things. +1 on changing from one tank to another. It's amazing to see plants go from my high tech to low, to medium. Seeing how it reacts and colors in each one. The second is on process of identification,  it's easy to ID a plant based off of some simple or even complex characteristics,  but...

I hope so.

I see. I am planning on keeping C. Pavo as I have not seen many keep them on a lot of the forums, but they are readily available from some of the smaller lake tang. Specific sellers. But they will be in a community with red fin alto lamp comps. so unless I strip females, I won't see fry.

Larry Beck and Aaron Fenney are the only ones I know of to have bred them on here. I could be wrong though.

A little light reading found in links. Lots of controversy over all the reds in this family of plants. From my understanding currently tropica is calling palustris "sp. Super red" and others are claiming up to 12 subspecies of red ludwigia. And still others say 2 or 3 species, the rest are...

It produces really big pearls as you can see in the photo. Pretty fast growing too. Has been a real pleasure to keep, but VERY red all the time. It makes it hard to find balance.

ludwigia palustris ''super red''

Pretty tank :)I hit the - instead of the + on on accident :( :(

Haha. Too funny.

Thanks for the welcome. That was a lot of responses, really fast. I wish I had loads of fish stores. There's a few good ones in portland, but nothing around me.

Hello, I'm new here. Thought I should introduce myself. I have a 15 gallon tank with 6 ember tetra, and 3 honey gourami. I have been in the hobby for 10 months now, my mom got me my tank for my birthday last year. I am excited there's a local forum, probably not many from my neck of woods...