One of the most popular options for landscaping an artificial reservoir is the establishment of an aquatic plant of cryptocoryn, as it has a beautiful appearance and is absolutely undemanding in environmental conditions.
Types of aquarium plants crypticorina
In fact, there are a huge number of species of the crypticorin family that can not differ too much in appearance and content requirements from each other. Therefore, for a normal aquarist, the selection of one or another species with accuracy is not absolutely necessary.
Instead, four groups of cryptocoryine species are distinguished, depending on the appearance:
- Cryptocorina Wendt and all similar species: plants with elongated leaves, medium in size, grow in bushes.
- Types of cryptocoryns with round leaf blades.
- High plants with elongated, lanceolate leaves.
- Complete lack of redness on the leaves of Cryptocoryn and characteristic tubercles on the leaf plate. This group is most rare.
Conditions of plant maintenance for the aquarium of cryptocoryn
The basic question of any aquarist: what water temperature is needed for an aquarium plant crypticorina, is solved quite simply. Optimal for itself the species of this plant is felt in a tropical aquarium, that is, where the temperature is kept at a level of 23-24deg; However, at 20-22deg, C cryptocoryin will be able to grow and multiply normally. Undemandingly, this plant and to the level of illumination, as well as the content of various substances in the water, so it will be almost ideal for any aquarium. Cryptocoryne reacts well to silty soil , but it will not die in fresh pebble. The average height of most species allows planting cryptocoryn as in the central zone of the aquarium, and closer to the back and side walls.