Ruppia maritima got ya!!

[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

[mike.d]

That's great! I'd love to see pictures of the ruppia in your tank.

[Arnold]

Here you can see the tank:
https://www.petshrimp.com/discussions/v ... =16&t=6446

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

[Mustafa]

Great! Let us know how it goes in the future.