Fish and plants acquired from a friend

[emeraldking47 98]

Just came home from a good friend of mine. Just like me, he's struggling with health issues. Energetically, he can't take care of his fish and tanks anymore. He's called me last week if I was interested to take over his fish. And we made an appointment for this afternoon. It took us a couple of hours to empty those tanks in his fishroom. We've put those fish randomly in small containers and bags. The Vallisneria gigantae, Cryptos and some Anubias were put in one big bag. This evening is meant for culling those fish from another. And get rid of the duckweed coming from his tanks.
I acquired a groups of Danio margaritatus, Xiphophorus yucatan, Xenotoca doadrioi, Phalloceros caudimaculstus reticulatus, bristlenoses (wild colored), Girardnus uninotatus, Macropodus honkongensis, Macropodus opercularis, Macropodus spechti and some random tetras.
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[GaryE28 26]

Not the best of circumstances, but nice fish and plants.

 

[Uberhoust13 3]

Vallisneria gigantae, is that the same as Vallisneria americana? I found references to Valisneria gigantae, Vallisnera "gigantae" (variety), and Valisneria americana var. gigantae. Some reference put the origin to Asia and others to North America.

 

[emeraldking47 98]

The Vallisneria gigantae comes from Asia. The Vallisneria americana from the Americas. I wouldn’t go so far as to definitively conclude that we are talking about the same type. For I'm not sure...