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The mud balls are Fluval Stratum, the fiber is coconut. For plants I bought some tissue cultures and robbed some trimmings from my tanks. They’re sealed up to keep the humidity high as they grow out. I’ll probably move them to a different container when they’re looking good. Maybe with a little waterfall and a mister. The shallow bowl in the last pic might be perfect. -
Let’s talk Wabi Kusa. Do you have a recipe for substrate balls? What type of plants are you using? What kind of containers? Here’s the definition from the aquatic gardeners association site. Wabi-Kusa takes its origins from the term wabi-sabi, loosely defined as finding beauty in nature’s imperfection and is exemplified by natural, uninhibited growth of plants. The Wabi-Kusa is described as a creative layout primarily comprised of emersed grown aquatic plants arranged on substrate surrounded by hardscape or standing alone on a substrate ball as it was originally created by Takashi Amano. As the hobby has grown, the definition of what represents a Wabi Kusa has evolved as well and the modern Wabi Kusa encompasses a number of different styles from the simple substrate ball to elaborate aquascapes incorporating hardscape material. some net pics and one from a shop in Seattle -
Has anyone tried wabi kusa balls in their planted tanks? Read about them today and my mind has been going wild at the possibilities ever since. Looks like most people use them for emersed growth in small vases etc but they can be used completely submerged too apparently. Aside from the obvious artistic application it just seems like a practical way of including plants in otherwise non planted tank, just plop it in wherever you fancy get the benefits of plants but still be able to quickly move it whenever you need to clean the tank or rearrange it etc. Like using a natural looking plant pot. Anyone tried them out? Got any pointers of how to DIY them? For anyone still reading, also got a couple random algae questions, my tank has quite a lot of algae at the moment, mostly because I was avoiding cleaning it as was waiting for a hillstream loach which I wanted lots of food for. I'm also not too fussed with the look, it almost looks nice I enjoy the natural touch of it. Anyway question is about a couple types of algae, I noticed today small patches of red algae that looked almost shiny, like small puddles of melted red wax - could anyone tell me what it is or if I should be concerned or anything? Secondly I have a patch of algae that I assumed was black beard algae, only there's this strange effect that when I look at it on one side of the glass it looks black but when I look from the other side of the glass it looks red - is that always the case for BBA or is it something else? Thanks in advance!
