Anybody else read this from NPR?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/ ... tmas-trees

Is this just complete silliness?

How long till we can get the glowing bacopa for our tanks?

Lovely tank, hon! I'm impressed, I really like the grouping.

Thank you! Now I'm going to have to decorate the rest of the kitchen to match...

Amo te,

Amo

My Bletilla germinated! And the Palustris has thrown up a couple of plantlets! Everything else is hibernating though.

Kris, hang in there. My palustris was (and still is) turning brown in some spots, but in the last two days finally showed a new shoot with a tiny leaf. I figure as long as there is no obvious contamination or complete degradation there is always hope. And unless you need to recycle the jar, might as...

The CVS pharmacy gave me a couple of needle-less syringes for free which we use for dosing tanks when I asked at the pharmacy counter.

Well, I've collected some in wax paper. Has anybody ever grown ferns from spores before? How long does the gametophyte phase last? (probably longer than my patience)

Thanks! I'm going to try to float some tape sticky-side up and see if I can catch some.

THAT WAS SO COOL!!!!

THANKS!

We've got a few (3-5) tiny yellow-orange thingies hopping on the water surface of our 20 gallon high. They are less than 1mm in length. Can't catch 'em either. Probably harmless, but has anybody seen these things before?

X-Moss tree! (made with rolled screen cone, java moss, and cotton thread).

Or maybe I'll just put googly eyes on it and make a swamp monster....