Larry Little
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Hey Y'all,
I think I've asked this before, but I want to ask again. I'm looking for an aquarium plant from my youth. My mom kapt aquariums form the time she was 10 years old (in the 1930s); I don't remember a time without at least one aquarium in the house while I was growing up, from the late 1950s through the late 1970s.
She always had one particular plant that she just called "Crypt". I don't ever remember her buying any; it was just always there. When I went out on my own, I took some of that plant with me for my tanks.
It was a darker green, like Java fern, on the tops of the leaves. The undersides were a wine color or maroon. The leaves were either smooth or slightly ruffled along the edges. It grew in a rosette form, wasn't more than 4 - 5" tall, and propagated by runners like crazy. She kept it in everything from 5-gallon to 55-gallon tanks under incandescent or fluorescent lights.
Everything I've seen points toward C. wendtii, but none of the many pictures look exactly like what I remember. I don't know what Crypts might have been around in the aquarium trade as long ago as the 1930s. If anybody has any idea what plant it might be, I would surely appreciate any help.
Thanks.
I think I've asked this before, but I want to ask again. I'm looking for an aquarium plant from my youth. My mom kapt aquariums form the time she was 10 years old (in the 1930s); I don't remember a time without at least one aquarium in the house while I was growing up, from the late 1950s through the late 1970s.
She always had one particular plant that she just called "Crypt". I don't ever remember her buying any; it was just always there. When I went out on my own, I took some of that plant with me for my tanks.
It was a darker green, like Java fern, on the tops of the leaves. The undersides were a wine color or maroon. The leaves were either smooth or slightly ruffled along the edges. It grew in a rosette form, wasn't more than 4 - 5" tall, and propagated by runners like crazy. She kept it in everything from 5-gallon to 55-gallon tanks under incandescent or fluorescent lights.
Everything I've seen points toward C. wendtii, but none of the many pictures look exactly like what I remember. I don't know what Crypts might have been around in the aquarium trade as long ago as the 1930s. If anybody has any idea what plant it might be, I would surely appreciate any help.
Thanks.
