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After a 7 months hiatus living at our house during renovations I gave the planted tank a good going over before moving it back into its position in the house. (It's been under drop sheets for a few months and was coated in bga on the glass.

Good news is most of the plants were plugging away even with only one functional flouro tube out of 4.

Co2 is now back up and running too and I'm already seeing new growth. I lost a few erios which is upsetting but one has survived and hopefully in a few months will be up to dividing.

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Love your Crinum there Foxpuppet, is that E versuvius in foreground of of last Pic. Welcome back.

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Love your Crinum there Foxpuppet' date=' is that E versuvius in foreground of of last Pic. Welcome back.[/quote']

Yeah that's my last one. I've culled it heavily. From a $25 Vesuvius plant I bought a few years ago and sold many plants and runners from it since then.

The Crinum is doing well with three pups on the go.

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Nice looking tank, now that it's uncovered and all running it should be good in no time.

Cheers mick

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Hope it multiplies for you again, i have never grown it, but looks like a real lovely plant, good luck!!!!

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Is the forum still down?

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  • 2 weeks later...

man finally worked out how to log back in here!

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if only I could find the bss section.... Has the forum changed a bit?

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if only I could find the bss section.... Has the forum changed a bit?

On the home page there is now a classifieds tab where you can list bss items! If you are using mobile, you may need to scroll to bottom of screen and select 'use full version'.

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Using tapatalk

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I'm using tapatalk

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In Tapatalk, to find the new Classifieds section, I used the following steps.

Go to Forum, then to Classifieds, then to For Sale. The first thread by Nogi is about the new Classifieds Area, there is a link in here, when you press the link it will open a full page view within tapatalk which includes the new Classifieds tab. You may need to log in to this full view site again though.

Hope this helps! Sorry to hijack, but once I know you have found the section, we can tidy up your thread and move this tapatalk section to a new thread.

Let me know if it works for you mate! Cheers

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  • 6 months later...

I'm getting an upload fail notification every time I try the share a picture here. How are folks doing it straight off your phone?

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Finally got pics working... Tanks now a mess ;)

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0d868303f6f470aaea5d10b8daa5f012.jpg my little bucep pride & joy

680220b867c160af9aa937683d1f1d99.jpg after selling off a bunch of Crinum pups I've now got a stack more coming up

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This looks like a sweet jungle man hows it progressing?

I've got about 8 crinum pups on the go in there and the latest addition was a buce, started with 4 leaves now up to 8

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