;-)
Julie <'><
>From: Christophe Mailliet <christophe.mailliet at web.de>
>Reply-To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
>To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [RML] Microsorium brassii (and now Blobitis)
>Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:08:18 +0100
>
>
>Hi Julie,
>I am actually not the kind to bother too much about water parameters and
>stuff.. but those d*** Bolbitis just don't grow. Java (Windelow and
>"normal") is not a problem at all.
>Cheers,
>Christophe
>
>
>r_m_l at yahoogroups.com schrieb am 19.11.05 06:45:39:
>
>Perhaps you are too nice to them?
>
>I grow mine in various pHs (harder for livebearers, soft in dwarf cichlid
>tanks), and I usually do not give them much light. Many of the Bolbitis are
>attached to wood, but many are not. I don't use CO2 (too lazy) even in my
>tanks with plants that migh appreciate it, and I really don't think the
>ferns (Javas or Bolbitis) need it. I think the most important thing is to
>be
>sure not to let them (the ferns, that is) read the books that say they are
>difficult to grow -- what they don't know may help you. ;-) I wish you
>were on this continent. Then I would send you a couple of mine. Perhaps I
>just have a really hardy group of ferns, after all the years of
>mistreatment
>they have thrived under. :-) I have probably removed most of the "weak"
>genes from them by now. I got my first Bolbitis about 12 to 15 years ago,
>and most of my plants are from the first start. The Dwarf Java Fern I have
>had for about 8 years, and about 9 or 10 years for the Tropica and Windelov
>Javas.
>
>Julie <'><
>
>
> >From: Christophe Mailliet <christophe.mailliet at web.de>
> >Reply-To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
> >To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [RML] Microsorium brassii
> >Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:33:30 +0100
> >
> >
> >Hi Julie,
> >From the photo, it seems to be the same plant.
> >It does look like you've got a "fern-tumb" - trying to grow B. heudelotti
> >has always been like burning money for me..
> >Cheers
> >Christophe
> >
> >r_m_l at yahoogroups.com schrieb am 18.11.05 06:40:33:
> >
> >Johannes and/or Christophe,
> >
> >Do you mean this one (see attached photo)? In the US they call it M.
> >pteropus "Short Narrow Leaf." At least, that is what I got it as. I have
> >never had any problems with any of the Java Ferns as far as this
>"critical
> >mass" thing. If anything, I find the scores of tiny babies they produce
>to
> >be rather annoying. Like little green gnats that just get into
>everything.
> >;-) And it seems to grow and thrive as well as, if not better than, the
> >regular form for me. Of all the forms of Java Fern I have (four
>currently)
> >this is the one I find to be the most robust and prolific in my tanks. Of
> >course, I also have extrememly good success with Bolbitis heudelotti,
>which
> >so many people say is touchy. For me it grows under all conditions. I
>even
> >grow it in Betta jars. I can't kill it unless I resort to dumping bleach
>on
> >it. ;-) Maybe I just have a dark-green thumb? :-)
> >
> >Julie <'><
> >
> >
> > >From: Johannes Graf <J.Graf at web.de>
> > >Reply-To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
> > >To: r_m_l at yahoogroups.com
> > >Subject: Re: [RML] Microsorium brassii
> > >Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:32:00 +0200
> > >
> > >
> > >Hi All,
> > >additionally to those Microsorum species described, there is another
>one
> > >existing in very few numbers. It is adwarf form called "angustifolium"
>(I
> > >am pretty sure that the validity of this name has never been checked).
>It
> > >is a extremly slowly growing, small form or species with dense, oblong
> > >leaves of about 5mm with and about 5-8cm lenght. But very beautiful.
>Like
> > >other forms of Microsorum ("Windelov") it has a critical mass when
> >dividing
> > >it. If you make the pieces too small, it dies.
> > >Best regards, Johannes
> > >
> > >
> > >r_m_l at yahoogroups.com schrieb am 28.10.05 10:26:03:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > If you can't get M. brassii, you might want to try Bolbitis
> >heteroclita,
> > >a nice fern that supposedly also occurs on New Guinea. Here in Germany,
> > >there is also a very small form of M. pteropus with narrow leaves, that
> >is
> > >being sold as M. pteropus "narrow leaves", which to me looks very much
> >like
> > >M. brassii. It grows very slowly as compared to the normal pteropus.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Christophe
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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