Malayan shrimp again

Guest came to my house and amazed by a "big brown shrimp" among the fire red. I have no word for it but giggled that my MS has fooled my visitors at that moment.

and than, another malayan shrimp came out wearing aquamarine blue.

I broke my Nano tank

My plants have far outgrown my small nano tank and I decided to do a rescape...












While shifting my tank, I accidentally heard a crack sound.

Now my plants and fishes have nowhere to live..

Will release this lot of fishes into river to avoid casualty after considering the non-option:
Option: Flush down the toilet, wait till I get a new tank and start to age the water?

Beginning of a long journey for these fishes

Hygrophila Pinnatifida

A year ago, I came across this Youtube video and wanted the plant to be on my wish list.

When C328 had a pot without any name on it, I was skeptical and gave it a shrug as some kind of non aquatic fern . Today, I still wonder what I saw at C328 was indeed the above plant.

 

However, I have forgotten about it until I saw this plant being sold at SV. It was pricey for a small pot with few "tiny" leaves, which deterred me from buying.  

Today, Green chapter has displayed a "Hygrophila Pinnatifida" themed tank which drew my attention again. Here are couple of photos. My apology  for the blurry background picture due to sunny sky outside the shop.

I observed how the plants grew and screamed silently "I must have this!". The manager quoted me a price (so, so much cheaper than those at SV) and by quantity of 3 stems (not just leaves)!!! I drooled upon it when the manager uprooted the plants for me. OK, I exaggerated but this india's "wild weed"  is not a regular guest in many LFS nor have I seen them in many LFS.  

The leaves texture, is very unlike common straight-cut or oval in shape, will make your aquarium stand out quite differently in terms of flora diversity - shapes and colors.

They are now sitting at the backdrop of  my tank...hmmm, my tank always seemed to have space for every new plants acquired...hahaha..*evil laugh* .  Will keep an update of this india's wild "weeds" as time passes.

Anyway, I found the following blog quite useful when trying to recall this plant's scientific name.
http://botanick.blogspot.sg/2010_12_01_archive.html

My initial purpose to GC today is to get some Fire Red shrimps, but found non except a tank full of "painted red" shrimps which, of course, is beyond my budget.  Without wanting to leave place with plant alone, I bought some Giant Malayan Shrimps and hope they play their color well, as in my previous post on Giant Malayan Shrimp.

A stroll by the reservoir

My recent assignment in work place was extremely stressful, causing a slight high blood pressure.  Doctor advised me to do more exercise and learn to relax.  I thought of a sanctuary not too far from home.  It is one place that I felt very rejuvenating and refreshing because menthol get released gradually from some unknown trees in  the middle of thoes forest...

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Probably it was the after-rain effect, the atmosphere was cool with slight breeze. Nothing beat having a camera on hand and taking a slow walk by the water bank.

Here are some photos of plants that love having wet feet.

This reminds me of an an aqua plants (Proserpinaca Palutris - Mermaid Weed). They look alike and this one has purple flower.

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They are weediing everywhere.

Hornwort at juvenile stage (emersed stage)

Growing longer

 

Finally submersed in water











Can be quite intrusive in the half-shaded area of the forested pond










Pennywort?

Crawling its way into the water

Clover?

Various baby shrubs and ferns

 

Cute fern with orange tone, reminds me of my african Bolbitis in the aquarium.











Baby pilea

Is this fissiden or moss? The leaves resemble those of fissiden.

Eleocharis

At the above spot where I stood, I saw several interesting woodbrush (2 ft long by 1.5feet H), fallen from the trees above,

This place look sad and very unlike it once was 10 years ago when it was still full of different flourishing flora, and natural mini waterfall with fishes swimming beneath the shallow pond. Now the place look broken and dull.

Admiring some of the common shrub flowers along the reservoir

Eco garden to educate public how rain water is collected, filtered through the ground and recycled into the pond naturally. The fishes (mostly cichlid) are happy no less.

Will update more if I venture deeper into the forest...someday.