magicgreen

Iam just about scared to plant the ponderosa lemon, seeing as how iam sucking with the velutina seeds!

Ive never been this poor with germinating seeds!

Iam getting a heat mat this weekend for sure. Maybe thats the ticket! I have a 55gallon tank to put the heat mat in. Maybe thats what i need!

I also have a 132gal high tank that ive grown angel fish and other aquatics in.
I think i'll try cichlids next.

Maybe the secret to growing these banana seeds is forgetting everything ive read so far, and to go on my own instincts!!!!!!!!!

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mskitty38583

my ponderosas havent come up yet so dont feel too bad...but any day now and well have sprouts!!! its about time for them to make an appearence. i planted 2 ruby red gf seeds, that we got off a tree( there was only 2 seeds in the whole ruby red i was suprised), one of them is 2 and 1/2 inches tall, the other is 1 inch tall. it could be that i dried out the lemon seeds( so they could be shipped) and the gf seeds were fresh. i didnt dry them. i put those babies in the ground wet. i have 2 bala sharke(6-8 inches long) and one silver dollar fish. my anglefish i had for 7 yrs, went to the big fishpond in the sky. so i have 3 fish in a 75 gallon aquar. it needs to be cleaned out. ill probably do that tomorrow. ill keep my fingers crossed about your nana seeds. and you should get a heating mat. it seems to do well for everyone else. just let me know when they sprout. im excited for you.

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Lagniappe

I know where you guys can get an amazing deal on some Red Texas cichlids !

magicgreen

You mean to tell me they ship fish like plants Lagniappe?

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Lagniappe

Of course ! In fact ,I ship my plants like fish , in plastic bags and styrofoam boxes . (sans the heat packs and oxygen)

The real difference is that they MUST be shipped overnight to prevent oxygen depletion and toxin build up .

CookieCows

Cichlids are fun magicgreen. They have such personality. I think ours were the So. African species.

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tophersmith

Yes that's why mine are under the house but I have to draw the line when building large seprerate structures for differnt bannanas. One day I will have a greenhouse and solve this dilemma,

magicgreen

I do have a green house, and this spring n' summer i'll winterize it. I'll want to bring a few plants in the house to look pretty for me, and of coarse the baby nanners; but the rest inside that cozy Greenhouse!!!.

how many cichlids do you think i could put in my big tank? I have everything they need. Welllllll iam not sure about their gravel. I know they can tear up stuff in the tank. But they are so beautiful. Been curious about them for awhile.

Pete, do you have any pictures?
Magicgreen

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tophersmith

I have had Cichlids in the past, both South American and African I now have Salt water. I think you'll find if you go with a larger pebble size gravel bed the cichlids wont bother it as much.

mskitty38583

magicgreen it is better if you have no gravel in the tank, they will root everything up. if you want to have something in the botton of the tank for your new fishies, use aqua. sand. they will root that up but the sand looks better and you dont have to keep moving it around like gravel. im a fish nut too.lol

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magicgreen

So many of us on this site have the same interest. I wonder what other things we all like , that are the same interest? Might be a topic for a thread. Magicgreen

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the flying dutchman

I have also an aquarium, I joined Jarreds aquarium forum, it is not so active
at the moment but if members from here would join the forum it could be
a nice place to talk about fishes.

Here is the link

http://www.aquariumforum.com/index.php

And indeed, it is a good topic for a new thread, you are free to start it

Ron

mskitty38583

i just did.

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Lagniappe

Sorry we hijacked your thread like that !

I am in Norhtern Louisiana and it is considered to be zone 8 and very close to zone 7 .
I keep all of my Maurellii in the ground overwinter with very little mulch and they have performed well .

tophersmith

How cold has it got there this winter, it got down to 18 here

Lagniappe

I am trying to find out . I did have some diet cokes to freeze (or get icy at least) in the back of my truck .

Bananaman88

It is cool how so many of us share the same interests! I've kept cichlids for over 15 years now. They are definitely fish with their own personalities!

To keep this in the nanner-vein, though, I had Maurelii for a few years, always left it in the ground with no special protection. It did great the first year, however, never really did great after that. After it's first winter outside it came back OK but never really grew well. It barely survived it's second witer and it died in the spring. I probably should have done more to protect it but I live on the Gulf Coast as well with conditions very similar to SteveL's.