[Arnold]

Great news in this Christmas holidays I found Ruppia maritima also known as Widgeon grass growing in a brackish pond near the coast, a small pond probably connected to the sea by volcanic tubes just like the anchialine pools of hawai, it were full cover with the ruppia maritima and macroalgae like Ulva sp Sea lettuce. I will try to grow this plant in my Opae tank, this specie is the only plant that grow in the Opae ula biotope, its very adaptable and have a very elegant appareance like a Vallisneria; would be really cool to have all the back of the tank cover with it. Happy holidays to everybody and have a great new year

A similar pond were I found the plant but this more bigger, this is in the island of Lanzarote (charco los ciclos) I live in Tenerife


The plant
Ruppia maritima - Ditchgrass, Sea Tassel, Widgeon Grass by Janis Laraine Cossill, en Flickr

The ones that I collected


Also the other day in a pet store they give to me for free this Melanoides tuberculata snails I will try to adapt them to brackish, I already have the regular darker ones but I like more this color strain I think they will pop better with the black volcanic gravel

[Algae In Space]

No way you got Ditch Grass!

How cool. It can grow taller than 30 cm! Well done.

Will you do a little quarantine or just put it in?

[opae ula related]

Nice. Let us know if it lives.

[odin]

Oh this is awesome, subbed to this topic for sure.

[Arnold]

The plant its kinda rough right now after the aclimating but new buds and roots are developing in the internodes, I was worried if only can grow roots from the rhizome but no; its like a regular stem plant from a freshwater aquarium. The lighting its pretty low only 400 lumens from a 5w led bulb so I dont have great hopes for now. The Malaysian trumpet snails aclimatation were really good they are already popping babies and cleaning very well the tank

[Algae In Space]

Hey Arnold!

How is the Ditch Grass doing? I am curious. Could you take a picture?

And what about the snails. Are they doing ok?

[Arnold]

The grass its not growing too much but some stems are shooting new healthy leaves and roots also when I have time I will take some photos with a real camera not my phone. The snails are doing fantastic I had seen several babys and they have make an awesome work cleaning the substrate and the glass. Im hopping with the time that the aquarium developes in something similar to the biotope of the shrimps the anchialine pools of hawai

[Algae In Space]

Oh that's good to hear about the snails!

Well I'm not sure about the ditch grass but most plants don't even need that much light... Well let's see how it works out