I don't drink coffee, and I'm not complaining the size of my coffeefola has doubled, since I added it to this tank...
Mrs. has been complaining... coffee prices of her favorite have doubled lately...
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Funny about the Mrs....I was just looking to order more nectar of the gods and it has in fact doubled in price. I'm going to be forced into becoming a saint because I can't afford any of my vices!
Anyway I like the tiered look, that's really cool. Out of curiosity how long did it take to double? The only "large" anubias I've got is barteri, and it's exactly the same size now as it was 3 months ago.
Anyway I like the tiered look, that's really cool. Out of curiosity how long did it take to double? The only "large" anubias I've got is barteri, and it's exactly the same size now as it was 3 months ago.
I've had barteri get to 5 or 6 times its size in a few years. I have a couple doing really well after I had divided everything up for my move 4 years ago. I just divided a bunch. Other ones in similar set ups grow really slowly.
I don't have coffeefola. It's too dangerous - I would go into a frenzy, grind it up and drink it. It would be disappointingly foul.
This message was written with the assistance of dark roasted Mexican coffee. However expensive coffee gets (it doesn't have tariffs here) I will buy it. I'll give up other vices for this one. I can flourish without drink, drugs, religions or gambling. But no coffee? Why bother.
I don't have coffeefola. It's too dangerous - I would go into a frenzy, grind it up and drink it. It would be disappointingly foul.
This message was written with the assistance of dark roasted Mexican coffee. However expensive coffee gets (it doesn't have tariffs here) I will buy it. I'll give up other vices for this one. I can flourish without drink, drugs, religions or gambling. But no coffee? Why bother.
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it's been here 3-4 months... you can see from the pictures I have lots of gardeners, polishing the leaves... this is a bright tank, with long hours of light, so the fish do a wonderful job, keeping it clean, I also have a small sheet of tinted plexi, between this plant and the light, to cut back the direct brightness a little... my nanas, and hastifolia don't grow much, but my Congensis ( I have 2 ), the one in my black water tank, shoots off new leaves pretty often and the last 3 have gone emergent... the other tank, seems dormant... no leaf loss, just not producing many new leaves yet... that one is placed in the current from a filter output, in an attempt to reduce buildup on the leaves... the aggressive water movement may be holding back new growth???
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@Magnum Man could you post a picture of congoensis sometime? I'm lazy about identifying plants even if I'm obsessive about fish. I have some Anubias I got unlabelled from Africa 25 years ago, and I've been meaning to get around to knowing what they are for, oh, 25 years now!
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I just happen to be sitting next to this one... this is the one with emergent leaves... in a 24 inch deep tank, so they do get "leggy"
this tank doesn't have anyone to polish leaves... and it's been here for a couple years... this one also has a piece of tinted plexi over it... and from the other side, if that helps with identification...
look at the size of that main root, in the 2 nd picture... these were originally just stuffed into the holes on a resin hollow log, but it's flourished here, that main root is 4-5 times the size it was, when it was placed in the log...
this tank doesn't have anyone to polish leaves... and it's been here for a couple years... this one also has a piece of tinted plexi over it... and from the other side, if that helps with identification...
look at the size of that main root, in the 2 nd picture... these were originally just stuffed into the holes on a resin hollow log, but it's flourished here, that main root is 4-5 times the size it was, when it was placed in the log...
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I actually wonder if the garras polishing the leaves, on the coffeefola, stimulates the plant, and encourages the growth???
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@GaryE ... this seller has 4 pages of anubias, it may help with your identification... I. myself, have to take the sellers word for identification... BTW... I think this linked, is a good seller, but none of my anubias came from there, they just seem to have a really large selection...
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Tell your better half to check out https://volcanicacoffee.com/
I have been drinking coffee for close to 65 years. Of course when I was drinking at age 12 it was mostly milk. My dad, a lawyer. represented the Colombian Federation of Coffee Growers in America. For many years were would get a month;y box with several pounds of complementary coffee. Back then there was no Juan Valdez o Brown Gold Coffee.
Maybe a decade ago I switched to buying my coffee online. The place linked above has coffee from all over the world. One can buy ground or beans. If one subscribes you get ab even better price.
I have a lot of huge anubias. I can no longer ID them. I have lots of coffeefolias for sure and a number of other varieties. I no longer remember the specific species. I have not bought an anubias in about 20 years. All the one growing out of the water in my tanks I propagate by splitting rhizomes. When I was a vendor at the 2023 Keystone clash I had the biggest anubias for sale in the room. Mine were much nicer than the plant vendors had to offer.
I am again overgrown and will be offering a few huge ones this coming weekend at my club's public auction. I also have a huge driftwood I will sell. I need a big tank. I will be selling both blue and red varieties of Neocaridina davidi and assassin snails. I will be selling big bags of frogbit as well. But, I have no fish to offer.
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Tell your better half to check out https://volcanicacoffee.com/
I have been drinking coffee for close to 65 years. Of course when I was drinking at age 12 it was mostly milk. My dad, a lawyer. represented the Colombian Federation of Coffee Growers in America. For many years were would get a month;y box with several pounds of complementary coffee. Back then there was no Juan Valdez o Brown Gold Coffee.
Maybe a decade ago I switched to buying my coffee online. The place linked above has coffee from all over the world. One can buy ground or beans. If one subscribes you get ab even better price.
I have a lot of huge anubias. I can no longer ID them. I have lots of coffeefolias for sure and a number of other varieties. I no longer remember the specific species. I have not bought an anubias in about 20 years. All the one growing out of the water in my tanks I propagate by splitting rhizomes. When I was a vendor at the 2023 Keystone clash I had the biggest anubias for sale in the room. Mine were much nicer than the plant vendors had to offer.
I am again overgrown and will be offering a few huge ones this coming weekend at my club's public auction. I also have a huge driftwood I will sell. I need a big tank. I will be selling both blue and red varieties of Neocaridina davidi and assassin snails. I will be selling big bags of frogbit as well. But, I have no fish to offer.
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Coffee in the hobby - it connects.
Here, the best local store shares its building with a coffee roaster. The coffee company (Java Moose) is incredibly supportive of our club's efforts, and offers free coffee for every meeting. Sadly, they mainly do flavoured coffees, and adding to a good dark roast is like putting glofish genes into a tetra. I'm a purist.
I get a lot of my coffee from a local company in my old neighbourhood. I order bulk and friends who come to visit know they have to bring a box in their cars. I've managed to stay supplied for 4 years that way, and have found some good local sources for when that conduit dries up. A couple of my coffee mule friends liked the visits so much they're moving here when they retire in a few months, so there'll be less back and forth.
The Montreal roasters had fishtanks at home, and I'd sit in while the beans roasted so we could talk aquarium keeping.
Here, the best local store shares its building with a coffee roaster. The coffee company (Java Moose) is incredibly supportive of our club's efforts, and offers free coffee for every meeting. Sadly, they mainly do flavoured coffees, and adding to a good dark roast is like putting glofish genes into a tetra. I'm a purist.
I get a lot of my coffee from a local company in my old neighbourhood. I order bulk and friends who come to visit know they have to bring a box in their cars. I've managed to stay supplied for 4 years that way, and have found some good local sources for when that conduit dries up. A couple of my coffee mule friends liked the visits so much they're moving here when they retire in a few months, so there'll be less back and forth.
The Montreal roasters had fishtanks at home, and I'd sit in while the beans roasted so we could talk aquarium keeping.
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A new coffee leaf on the way...
not sure why, but lately I've been having trouble posting pictures here, they take forever to up load, not sure if it's the forum, or my wifi, but I don't have issues with other sites, when I can't upload??? been trying for 15 minutes on this thread, and another... giving up until later
so this tip is visible in the 1st picture of this thread, ( upper left side ), taken 2 days ago, so it's actually growing pretty rapidly... maybe not as fast as the price of coffee is going up, but quickly for an anubias
not sure why, but lately I've been having trouble posting pictures here, they take forever to up load, not sure if it's the forum, or my wifi, but I don't have issues with other sites, when I can't upload??? been trying for 15 minutes on this thread, and another... giving up until later
so this tip is visible in the 1st picture of this thread, ( upper left side ), taken 2 days ago, so it's actually growing pretty rapidly... maybe not as fast as the price of coffee is going up, but quickly for an anubias
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gimme30
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It was, I was having trouble too. I normally blame everything on Microsoft but it did the same in Linux. Seems to be ok now.
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so, this plant obviously has tank conditions it likes... it's a 70 degree plus 1-2 degrees depending on the season, tank, with more light hours than is normal for most aquariums... I set a small piece of tinted plexi on the top, just above the plant, to reduce direct light, and it constantly has hillstream loaches, and panda garra resting on the leaves, and keeping any build up of mulm, or algae off the leaves, and as I mentioned above, I wouldn't be surprised if all the leaf polishing , stimulates the plant, putting it in grow fast mode... maybe it's the fact the Denison clan dances around it nearly every morning??? got another pair actively going at it again this morning...
the male must be feeling frisky, he's got all the girls whirling around the dance floor this morning...
even the more immature "goldie" gets a spin around the dance floor this morning...
even the gourami does his part to
keep it in tip top shape...
the male must be feeling frisky, he's got all the girls whirling around the dance floor this morning...
even the more immature "goldie" gets a spin around the dance floor this morning...
even the gourami does his part to
keep it in tip top shape...
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a couple days later the new leaf is mostly uncurled... a flying fox is pitching in on plant maintenance...
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today, with a flying fox
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