Aquatic plants collecting trip.

[dom]

Was asking members about this trip. No one was call up up till the last minute. Littar, Andy and Mantusa666 called up.

16/07/2006. 8:45am. 3 of them arrived at my place in Sentul - Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia. So, first is to cure the stomach first. We had a very fast breakfast and heading to Ulu Yam after that.

We were stop at the 3rd water fall. (There are too many water falls over there.) Due to quite early. Not much people over there. I first jumped into the mud and found "Pelia".
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/littar70/P1010288.jpg
http://www.my-mac.net/forum/files/thumbs/t_p1010187_914.jpg

Perhaps, saw the "pelia" many times and it is too common for me and members in here. So, didn't take any. We continue and heading to the water fall.

Reached a bridge...
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/littar70/P1010289.jpg

Littar got nothing to do while myself, mantussa and andy was busy looking for aquatic plants. He snap a fat malay chick picture for fun.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/littar70/P1010292.jpg

[dom]

Found some cure fungi, mini "pelia" look alike and a type of Bolbitis look alike. The Bolbitis look alike is x 2 bigger than the "micro-bolbitis" which I found before. (Forgotten to snap the pictures of the "bolbitis".)

Here are the fungi and mini "pelia" look alike. I took some of them. I had it since my last trip to here a month ago. Growing. But slow.

Fungi
http://www.my-mac.net/forum/files/thumbs/t_p1010190_555.jpg

Submersed mini "pelia"
http://www.my-mac.net/forum/files/thumbs/t_p1010191_867.jpg

Emersed mini "pelia"
http://www.my-mac.net/forum/files/thumbs/t_p1010193_191.jpg

[dom]

This Chiloscyphus sp was sold in some lfs for RM35 per piece.

http://www.my-mac.net/forum/files/thumbs/t_p1010192_587.jpg

Check out Andy's photo..(very good photographer)
http://andychin.multiply.com/photos/album/12

The photographs shown how we 'rob' the mother nature and washing the soil away from the mini "pelia", mosses and Eriocaulon.

Littar was attacked by a leech and asking us to check our foots. We were all jump on the road and checked. Lucky, we were fine and didn't lost any drop of blood.

And...I left a big pack of "cendol plant" aka "dragon claw" over there. !

[Robert]

Hi Dominic,
thank you for these nice pictures! The liverworts (you call it "pelia", although it has nothing to do with the genus Pellia) look interesting but I doubt that they would survive under water. Did you find any liverwort growing completely submerged?

regards

Robert

[dom]

Hi Robert,

Please check out the picture which I named it as submersed mini "pelia". It is the growing on a piece of wood inside the slow moving water with temperature of 22C.

From the beginning of the thread and I named it as mini "pelia" look alike. Due to I am not yet send it to the lab for further indentify. And yes. It is growing submersed. I have quite a number of them which I took it last month. And all of them are growing. There are lot of new shots. Will try to take the picture of those inside my tank.(With temp of 24C. 2 x 150W 10000K MH)

Cheers,
dom

[NULL]

Very nice pictures, I really liked to see these non-tank pictures.
In our cool climate, it's not likely to get field trips at all in this hobby. :D

[amber2461]

[QUOTE=dom]This Chiloscyphus sp was sold in some lfs for RM35 per piece.

http://www.my-mac.net/forum/files/thumbs/t_p1010192_587.jpg

The ones that I got from you, I have a small sized growing on a piece of wood in a tank inhabited only by shrimps ... they are green with health .... the rest didn't quite survive the trip though but they sure take a long time to grow.

Thanks a lot Dom ....

[dom]

Sorry for late reply. Kind of busy with my works and study.

The Chiloscyphus need very low temperature to grow in submersed environment. I am abled to grow them in 24-26C. And it is not doing well in 26C. Turning brown. But had tried on 20-22C and it grown in light green.