I did it!

[malkore]

I finally got the nerve, after 2+ years, to pull out the driftwood that had the monster java fern of doom attached to it.

Its a beast, but its seen better days too. Lots of holy leaves due it it basically choking itself out.

The photo shows a normal office sized trashcan, and that's my 75gallon tank behind it. Its well over 16" in diameter.

I just had to make some room for new plants!

 

[PsiPro]

Wow thats impressive! I wish mine would actually grow.

 

[mr funktastic]

that is ridiculusly huge!!! my amazon swords are stating to get a little out of controll to lol i might need to pull one out of my tank. what are u going to do with it? u cant possible be tossing such beautiful plant!!

 

[malkore]

its sitting on the porch right now.
probably turn it into 50 small plants and trade to my LFS for a couple Demasoni to put in the 75.

 

[nitrous]

wouldnt you think you would make more money selling the 50 instead of trading because will the lfs give you a good amount for them? im sure someone will be willing to by them or that whole thing for a good profit

 

[czcz]

Wow!

What are you putting in its place?

 

[An t-iasg]

Wow! 8O

 

[travis simonson]

Nice Bob Marley-looking Java fern man Are you sure there aren't already a couple of Ps. demasoni stuck in that thing?

 

[malkore]

I wish travis. My fish don't even pretend like they're interested in spawning But maybe I need to get the tiger barbs completely outta there, and start raising hardness like you do

Lincoln isn't a big plant town.

My other option is to divide that beast and sell it in the classifieds here. Its just a fair amount of work to pack up and ship 5-6 boxes.

I have some large crypt wenditii 'red' and 'bronze' I need to dump too.

 

[Jchillin]

I've often heard you speak of this monster and the images conjured up came nowhere close to that massive thing.

Just some background...how old is that thing?

 

[krap101]

id probably buy some . i finally spread my plants throughout my tanks, and now they look kinda empty .

 

[PauloSilva]

its sitting on the porch right now.
probably turn it into 50 small plants and trade to my LFS for a couple Demasoni to put in the 75.

I wish I could find some demosoni's

 

[malkore]

if you look really close at this pic, where the two pieces of driftwood touch...that was the java fern I originally planted.

That was taken Jan. 19, 2004, so about 2 years 3 months.

And I did prune it back numerous times, and sold parts of it to forum members, and planted more and more of it in various tanks.