14-11-2023, 02:18 PM
(13-11-2023, 03:33 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I just nip off the pollen loaded stamens with scissors, the flowers dont mind. I started doing that before I knew they were poisonous, because the pollen stains anything it touches, and I got fed up with marked wallpaper behind the flower bowl, and yellow spots across my boobs, lol...
(10-11-2023, 08:51 AM)SueDonim Wrote: That's unfortunate that your lotus isn't happy. What is/isn't it doing? It could just be sulking from being disturbed. I have one that I had to move just as it was waking up because the container sprang a leak. It's now looking well behind the others with only a couple of above water leaves so far. I have fingers crossed that it will catch up to the others and have some flowers in January, but it may be one that will miss a year. Flowering is never guaranteed. Some flower every year but some don't.
I don't know banana lily. I looked it up and it looks interesting but too tropical for my outdoor pond.
What fish did you get?
It has put up a second leaf, so there is life there yet. I picked up five ember tetras to start off in the blackwater and gave a place in the clearwater to two homeless white clouds, who have adjusted quite well to the jungle. They all survived being abandoned for the few days I was in hospital, so I am very pleased with the way both systems are establishing. I will get more embers once I am more mobile, and maybe a few ottos. And if the minnows can adjust slowly to warmer temps I still have a yen for some chili rasporas, but we will see.
Thing is, I am aleady thinking about a bigger tank. The addiction has me in its thrall, lol...
Cross fingers for the lotus. If there is a leaf actively growing it's probably OK.
The fish sound nice. The little rasboras would go well in the black water tank with the tetras. I think the minnows can go pretty much anywhere and won't be bothered by warmer water. I have mine in the pond and the temperature varies a huge amount - well above the limit for the rasboras in summer. I understand about getting the "bug". I'm always teetering on the edge of getting another tank but have to remember the practicalities of fishkeeping when we go away so I stick to my resolve to just have the pond with goldfish and mnnows.