Still actively experimenting... I was doing some reading the other day, & was surprised to see that Orchids do well with hydroponics... you know those prissy flowers that you add an ice cube each week, so you don't over water them... my tanks are mostly built in, so plants growing out of my tanks, are really only visible from the work area behind them, so no need for Orchids...
an update on the Monsteras & Pothos that are actually the filter media in in those old double cartridge hang on the back filters... they are all growing great, & the roots are growing out of the slotted pots filled with ceramic media... so far the roots are not encroaching in on the impellers of the pumps... sooner or later I'll have to trim the roots ( and the plants, eventually ) but the maintenance is actually less than the filters with regular filter cartridges...
on the plants growing in the hang on back pots, the Philodendrons, are the slowest growing, but all are doing well... the 2 varieties of Calathea's are doing great, & I'm adding 2 more varieties next week... I'm also trying a couple new plants... I've got a tea plant coming
Camellia sinensis
for the Asian tank... they typically don't like to have the soil wet, hoping they will take to the hydroponics, like Orchids, I was reading about Tea plants & hydroponics, so that one is a maybe... I also have some little pots of Blue Nile Lilies coming
Agapanthus Africanus
... to try in the African Tetra tank... they may grow too big, too fast, but it's worth a shot, even if I keep them trimmed enough, that they don't bloom... generally the faster something grows, the more they pull out of the water...
My Bonsai Willows are slower growing than I expected, though with a Bonsai tree that's not a bad thing... I expect they are rooting as much as they are growing right now, so once roots grow out of the pots, I expect the greenery will start growing faster, as that has been typical on all the aquarium potted plants, so far...
not mentioned so far in this thread, is the Marimo algae balls... I've been ordering 2-4 of them per month, and I have a topiary thread, where I started talking about this... I'm going to just make a standing 6 to 8 inch ring composed of 1 inch Marimo balls... I'm making a base, with a wire to use to form the ring... after I get enough balls here... I'll add that to this thread
seriously, I mean, how do you even get that right??
orbifolia gets enormous so it will be interesting to see how big you can get it! 
