Love crypt so much! Currently i have crypt brown(bronze?, red, green, green gecko, becketii tropica, petchii, parva, ponderfolia, lutea,wilisii and lucen.
Using them all over my 10gal nano they look great once they mature into mini forests. Juvenile plants stay small for awhile and can be moved up front to give a foreground effect as well.
Brown crypts wendtii are my favorite. I have a mass of them growing up through roots of manzanita wood and I use bright green anubias nana petite on its branches as accent color. My substrate is sunset gold sand. There is minimal green in this tank. It makes my blue acara and geophagus red head tapajos pop. Sometimes breaking the rules works out!
Love crypts! I’ve been using crypt Vesuvius as a floater for months because it grew like wildfire and I was moving it to other tanks. I just haven’t planted them. But, great for fry and small fish that like to be near the surface. My tanks are low tech planted tanks, no CO2. ;-) Anyhow, thank you fore sharing the knowledge. I also have some Wendtii. Now I know a bit more about them. I appreciate your help. -MeShell
I have the gekko green Westin I’ve had no meltdown but it’s really in comparison to the lutea next to it that was planted same time I’ve had very little change in size the lutea is enormous
Hi .. I also have cryptocoryne wendetii brown and green, I use chihiros A901+ light at full brightness... But my crypts are growing vertically instead of horizontally as in the video.. and also the edges of the leaves are somewhat curled inward.. any thoughts or suggestions for this
It always sounds like crypt melt happens bad and all the time but I've never really had any melt, I've had a couple just straight die but they usually don't even lose their emersed leaves for me. I do not cut the plant at all when planting tho but I will split it into multiple plants
I'm a newb and I took my Crypto Wendtii out of the pot but planted the whole bunch into the substrate 3 weeks ago. It has grown a lot of little babies around it now. Would I be able to pull it out of the substrate now and separate it into small bunches and re - plant them?
Well I just received mine and had no idea there were different colors. I would’ve ordered green instead somehow I ordered “bronze”. Rookie mistake 🤦🏻♀️
Very interesting, I was wondering whether I could grow these in sphagnum and leca. I might experiment and see what happens. Also your pronunciation is "correct" (although there's no such thing, really) in (new) Latin, since the double "-ii" would probably sounded as a prolonged -ee, the -eye pronunciation is probably just in English.
Kids and and great danes are very similar. Very often I'll leave the house after playing with my dog and notice a couple hours later, after it dries, that he slobbered all over me.
A friend just gave me a lot of red crypts, some are very tall ( 18 - 20 in ) I didn't know they got so tall Just wondering how tall can they get. Love the red color & hope they don't melt back.
I know this is an older video... I have a bunch of the green gecko and was looking to add a couple of brown to the large patch of super green, but it's all sold out. I'm super bummed.
Hi... The crypts in my tank have their leaves curling at it's edges instead of those flashy waxy flat look... I looked up the net and someone stated that it might be due to calcium deficiency.. if so how i should add it effectively... I'm using tropica Specialised Nutrition fertilizer.. or is the curling due to low light... Your guidance is much appreciated
