My two axies..

[skylar]

Sorry bout the bad pic quality. Tijuana is the yellow wildtype and Tequila is the leucistic

 

[alex]

wow! they both look very cute and healthy!!. are those plants live?

 

[skylar]

yep, i'm a plant fanatic, hehe

 

[airwen]

Wow, looks great! I love their names. Hey what kind of plant is that behind the axie in the first picture?

 

[skylar]

It's a Giant Hygrophila (Hygrophila corymbosa). I have a few of them in the tank. Very easy to grow and grows like crazy in bright light (i just have mine by the window with no proper aquarium light, and it takes over the tank if i dont prune them.

 

[airwen]

Oh they look amazing! My light is pretty awful (so bad my low-light plants are hurting) but I got a new bulb today. I might just have to check out my LFS to see if there are any of those plants around once we see how my current plants are doing. Cause that is one nice-looking plant.

 

[skylar]

They are probably the most common stemmed aquarium plant around so you shouldn't have any trouble. Dunno about Seattle but I used to live in Victoria, Canada, and there were plenty there so you shouldn't have any trouble

. Mine grow about 2 inches a week, and i'd imagine they'd grow faster with a flourescent light.

 

[airwen]

So I was just looking in my newly purchased Aquariums for Dummies book, and it said the Giant Hygrophila was a brackish plant that blooms with purple flowers (???). Is that true?

Oh good. Thanks for the info!

 

[skylar]

I'm not sure about the purple flowers, mine had blue but it could just be a different strain of the same plant. My tank has no salt added and i've never heard of them being brackish water plants before, maybe they can grow in brackish water though?

Heres a good link to information about it:
http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_corymbosa.php

 

[rob]

axies look great Skylar and look very healthy

got any bigger pics of ur tank set up ?

 

[jojo]

ohhhh - nice axies Skylar.
Id like to see the whole setup too!!! **BIG smile**

 

[skylar]

Heres my tank:

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I have way too many plants!

 

[jojo]

WOW - nice!!!
DW, i dont believe it TOO MANY plants - axies have lots of places to hide and many plants to uproot LOL
OH.. and they have a huge range to choose from when they wanna chill out at the top of a plant!


Im loving the plants! All of them!! A tank looks fantastic with plants. And they are all real? Being a big plants buff yourself?

 

[skylar]

yes, all real.Having lots of plants is the only reason why I feel fine about having 2 axies in one 2' (20 gal) tank - water qual will be a bit better, and there are plenty of hiding spots

And i just noticed a floating rubber band, better take that out, haha.

My axie Tequila likes going up to the top of the tank and resting on the banana lilly leaves - his favourite one seems to be the 25cm diameter one. it sinks a bit so he's half below water and half above

 

[jojo]

LOL god bless em.
I personally think 2 axies in a 2 foot is fine hun.

 

[skylar]

Heres some more pics, thought i might as well upload them, i have sooo many pics of the little guys!

 

[jojo]

CUTE! Your axies have their own personal rainforest heehee

 

[rheann]

Beautiful tank! Cute axies too

Thanks for sharing ^___^.

 

[yan]

hey guys i 've got a quastion-why do axies look like they are smiling

 

[stipe]

Becasue they're HAAPPYYY! That they're with us not some nasty pet shop. ( i dont mean to get the thread of topic)

THat is a really nice tank. You banana lilys are like mine. Then the natualy seperate fro mteh host roots, DONT take them out. Leave it and the shaft will gorwn down towards the soil and make a new plant.