I took a 1 gal hex Betta tank and put all of my Walmart bulbs in it. It came with a tiny light fixture that takes night light bulbs. I put a 7 watt clear bulb in it, so now I get to wait and see what happens. :laugh:
I will post pics when the weather gets better, my camera sucks and there is no room in my house that is bright enough to take pics in without using daylight. :cuss: :pft:


It's kinda like a fry tank but for plants. This way when my tank finally gets wet :whistle: the plants will have some growth instead of just being bulbs. :laugh:

The first batch of Aponogenton bulbs I bought already have signs of life :woo: I started them in a 1/2 gal peanutbutter jar. :laugh:

I think I have 11 or 12 of the Aponogenton bulbs and 2 Nymphaea Lilly Bulbs, I also have some Philodendrian slips for the tank.

:congrats: hope it works out for you

i cheated a little bit, i couldn't find the bulbs at my local china*mart (wal*mart) so i went to lowes, this is what i got, 2 of them, one is a little bit smaller. though, i hat do pay, a heafty price of $9.97 each.... :laugh: there goes my hopes of getting a new lighting system for my aquarium. LOL


and, oh my god, the bulb was, no kidding, about 5" long, and nearly 3" wide, verry hard to find a spot like that in my aquarium...

No Fair! :bitchslap:


:jk:


So you paid about $20.00 for 2 plants where I paid about $8.00 for 13 possible plants. I'll hold on my decision of which is the better deal until I see how many plants I actually get. :laugh: :laugh:

Finally there is enough light to take pics so here ya go.

Full tank shots, you can see the Philodendrian sticking out the top.






And close up of the Wall mart bulbs. Some of them are showing signs of life! :woo:





The packages from the bulbs.

actually i did find thoes plants at china*mart, but it was 30 bucks for just the 3 bulbs and it all ready started in a pot, the box said "just add water!, kiip moist, and wait a few days for them to sprout!" so i said, heck with it, i went just down the road to lowes and got two plants with 1 year guarentee to live. and, WOW, be carefull, mine grew about 3" over night, and produced 2 new leaves, look! and a pic of the new leaves.
but, good pictures, hope you can give a reoprt on how yoyur plants are doing, and ill stop spamming yout post :woo:

Awesomn pics!
I don't mind you spamming my threads, :laugh: it lets me know that someone is reading them. :lmao:

:laugh: i read all most all the threads, unless it is in a part i have no clue in, (i.e. salt waterand sickness) LOL


Tyler

Me too, it's a good way to pass time while you wait for replies. :laugh:

jay :woo: i do it all the time, if i don't have school work to do.

have a good one.

Tyler

Since I don't have any fish to fertalise the plant water I'm "feeding" my plant tank betta food. Will this work?

i would use florish tabs, thats what i am using, and you saw how much it grew, also i am using osme thing called cora life fresh water plant food. it seems to work really good togather. i beleive i bought the florish tabs at petsmart, but maybe a LFS would have them.



Tyler

My nearest LFS (not w*mart) is 60 miles away. :laugh:
W*mart is 30 miles away.


I live in the sticks :laugh: :laugh:

i live 30 miles out of town, and then another 15 or so to the LFS, so, don't feel that bad......LOL.



Tyler

P.S. if that is as far you live from a LFS, then, try to incorperate the trip to the LFS with food shopping, or even when you can get fish for your 55, all the things i have to say when i wish to go to the LFS, my only sorce of transportation is my mother, or my father, but thats another story....LOL

I can sympathise, I don't drive either, I depend on hubby. :laugh:


Unfortunatly the grocery store is only 8 miles away so I have to convince hubby to go to w*mart up north which is about 50 miles away, the one south (30 miles)of us is not even worth the effort.

well, i can't drive, but, its the law that i can't, its not a choice....LOL.

sorry to hear that. sorry, but what state do you live in?



Tyler

I'm in Minnesota.

Up until last week the doctors wouldn't let me drive, I went to a new Eye doctor and he said that my visual field defect shouldn't keep me from driving.

well, thats a good thing, if you have enough money for gas......its about $3.00 a gallon here, and in phoenix it is i beleive $3.75 some one told me.....


oh, the lilly has broken the water surface, if you care to see ill post a picture. and, it has produced a few new leaves. I think the reason it is growing so fast is due to the sive of the bulb, but I don't know......never had this type of plant before.

Please do post pics, but can you shrink them some?

how would you want me to resize the picture? i just have it on photobucket, and tried to use their size editor, but, it didn't work. :laugh:

Tyler

Don't feel bad I can't get it to work on there either. :laugh: Do you have Adobe photoshop? You should be able to resize them there and then re-upload them to your account, that's what I have to do.
Good Luck!

Blue five's PIXresizer

I transfered my plants to a 10 gal and added some kuhli loaches.

New pics of the Wal-mart wonder bulbs, they are getting big! If you look real close you might see a khuli in there :laugh: that's what I was trying to get pics of. :lmao:

Lilly bulb


Aponogeton bulb

looks great!

i bought some form petco, said betta bulbs, (what ever that means) LOL and they are barely starting to grow, i'll post some more pictures of my lilly before i put it in my pond (it was taking over my aquarium......LOL)

More pics of my plants.

Almost full tank shot.


The other lilly bulb, still in the 10 gal with the CAE.


The other bulbs are doing good, these are the first ones I started, they are about 1 1/2 weeks older than the others.

they have weird leaves for a lilly don't they?

I thought so to, I was expecting fairly round or oblong leaves, not arrowheads.

the ones i have, seem to have completly round leaves, and they aren't growing much, just producing leaves at the base, i think it is weird. oh, here is the picture of the lotus plant in my aquarium, before i put it in my pond.

OK, what I thought was going to be a flower stalk turned out to be a plantlet :dunno:

maybe you don't even have some sort of lotus....... :duno: it's weird, i have never heard of that, or seen it for that matter, and i have also never seen that type of leaf on a lotus plant, maybe the packaging was mixed up and you got an onion type plant, i have one that sorta looks like that.


hope it all turns out for the better.

Tyler