I added a small amount of crypts from the gel bag things you can get at PetSmart about 12 years ago to my standard 20g and I couldn't get rid of them if I wanted to. They will take over a tank if you're not careful. Also when you pull them out, the roots that you leave behind will almost always grow new plants if they're sticking out above the substrate
I always heard crypts were so easy. I could never get them to grow. I started using root tabs and now they are looking great. The ones that looked dead for 3 years now have lots of new leaves!
I personally can attest to the moving crypts a lot is bad. I had a handful of red and green wendi crypts. I moved them constantly cause my fish continuously were pulling them out of the substrate. They went from big and beautiful to nothing over the course of a few months. I learned a trick to make them harder to pull out from MD. Caping the planted substrate with sand and then I poured more red clay substrate on top. Now the fish can’t uproot them and the one green and one red are now starting to propagate. I recently got a hold of a beautiful pink flamingo crypt and so far I have seen nothing but beauty from all my plants. Your videos are a so helpful. Thanks so much for this video. I had no idea that’s what was wrong with my crypts. But I struggle with patience. As most aquarist do. I’m learning to just leave it be. Moving into stems and drawf hair grass now. Trying to learn how to grow it without CO2.
I love Crypts. I have more accidental Crypts than I have bought Crypts. Because most sources of plants come from similar water, I have had very little die-back or that's what I attribute it too. The only ones that have melted is when I buy from a source outside of the city so that is where my thought comes from. Thank you so much for this!
Hey! I'd actually love to hear more about crypts! I want to know specifically how to plant them, what types of substrates they like best, how to recognize when they need more nutrients, how to get them to carpet (? - can they carpet?), and literally Show you planting them. Pretty please? 😍
I've never tried crypts before, but they are on my list for my winter projects tanks set ups. I keep dipping my toe farther and farther into fully planted tanks. You guys have a safe trip to and from Aquashella. 👍❤👍
Love it! So i've been slowly approaching this epiphany regarding my crypts and light. Struggled for a bit with them, but after raising the 6500k light bar(no co2) about half a foot higher, and off the top of my aquarium they just exploded with positive growth! I know I am doing something right when The Small Scape channel helps to confirm it! Thank you!
Someone can hate crypts?? I don’t believe it. They’re definitely my favorite plant. Anubias would be second. Crypts just come in so many beautiful varieties and they adapt well to my water. In a dirted tank they will grow big and beautiful. Thank you for spotlighting this plant, everyone should try growing it. If you’re new to the plant I find the wendtii the most hardy.
Great video. I am absolutely over the moon for crypts. I keep them in 9 of 11 tanks. Currently I have 16 different types of crypts and look forward too getting more.
I added one small one in mid front of my desktop anubias tank and it sits there so beautifully since; I made a hole in the sand, substrate in it and planted it in it… it grows so slow it sits there like a crown
Such a great plant. Comes in a variety of shape, colour and size types so suitable for nano to large and tall tanks, fore, mid and background. Let it settle in and it'll be one of the most rewarding plants you'll keep hey.
Hi Joanna I have a plants in some of my tanks. I use those easy planters. However, only certain plants can be put in these planters. Interesting video and very helpful. Thank you Joanna. Great information as always. I love your channel and yours and Jason’s Prime Time channel. Have a great week and enjoy Aquashella!
Hi Bonnie! Yes, we have a couple of those easy planters too. They really are very clever! Thanks so much for your kind words, always means so much to us. ☺️We’re already on the road, we’ll take lots of video!
Crypts have slowly spread to all my tanks. It's nice that moving from one tank to another in the same house (all tanks have the same water parameters) there is minimal melt.
I love the crypts. I have a few types, and also some tiny ones, which perhaps are parva. They are the only ones which refuse to grow much, even given root tabs. But that's ok, they look nice!
Crypts are definitely hit or miss for me, and it's not always obvious why they did or didn't do well. Have been adding root tabs and that seems to help. Currently loving my crypt balansae in one of my tanks, and lutea looks like it might do well for me too.
I know about crypt melt but I have two different species and one is extremely sensitive to environmental changes and the other one has NEVER melted and I’ve had them for seven years The sensitive one is the bronze crypt and the hardy one is a green crypt🤔
I have Crypts in all my tanks and they do great without anything special. I have two bronze plants in a 20 gallon long that have reached the top of the tank and between the two of them cover all the tank. My baby platies love hiding in them.
Appreciate the need to know info. Nice to see your “sweater” betta again. Looks so cool! I’m prob the only one, but I’ve not tried crypts yet. The melting was unappealing to me, especially since I had that issue with the anubias plants I tried last year. Maybe at some point I’ll go for it, perhaps a Wendtii. 🌱
I have a wendtii brown in my 10 gallon and it is just the most beautiful, lush and happy plant! The other one I think is a tropica? It too, very happy. Just root tabs once a month. I love them!
Love your videos. In your opinion should you remove the crypt from the small plastic pot out f the medium it’s been growing in and plant in to thr substrate. Or plant the pot plant in to the substrate straight away
I'm looking for some suggestions, I have a 10g tank and I'm looking to get a crypt to go in the back corner. Any crypt suggestions besides the c.parva? Thanks 🙏🏼
Question: what’s the best vertically growing crypt for a 20 tall to recommend for my parents? I planted up a low tech tank for them over the summer. I want to try crypts for the first time, and I have a foreground of pearl weed and dwarf sag and a background of Val and water wisteria. I think some easy mid ground species to offset the greens already present would look good, but I prefer not one that regrows submerged with a more horizontal orientation. Running eco complete and root tabs with low light. Thanks!!
I love crypts but I have no luck keeping them alive. I plant them, put in root tabs and admire them for a few weeks, then one day I look in the tank and poof! It’s completely missing. This last one I tried actually had leaf melt first, most don’t. And I always leave the root where it is in hopes that new leaves will grow, but they don’t. I’ve got low light and my Anubias and Javas do well, but not the crypts. 🤷🏼♀️
@@amandajoanbaker it hovers around 7.4 due to having wood in the tank. I supplement with Wondershell because I have shrimp in my tanks. If wood wasn’t in there, my Ph would be 8.4
I have black gravel and use root tabs for my jungle vallisneria on the. I just ordered a red cryptocorne wendtii. How deep do I plant it, and should I place one root tab there right next to the roots? Thank Joanna, or anyone who can help
Hi! I would stick to just a single root tab. Be prepared for leaves possibly melting and then just give them time to regenerate underwater. I like to put the crown just under the surface. Good luck!!👍
@thesmallscape thank you so so much for responding ❤️! That's good information because from the one article I read it said to leave the crown above the substrate. But trust me I'm going with your advice. Boiling almond leaves and alder cones right now for the the 15g fluval flex with white clouds, pygmy corys and 2 nerites. That tank looks sooooo much better since I started really watching the small scape...you are very much appreciated out here. Thank you
Recently moved some crypt parva to a higher light tank and it is taking off! I’ve definitely had crypts completely melt (and then the crown/roots rot) in a low pH tank… very sad!
I haven't added any crypts yet. I'm waiting for my floaters to grow more. On an unrelated topic, does anyone have suggestions for keeping your cat off the fish tank??? I've tried double sided tape (he peels it off), aluminum foil (he thinks its a chew toy) and a scat mat, which he pulled off the lid and was playing with it. The spray bottle doesn't work, either. Ugh!
I've used this black plastic spiky stuff that's meant to keep deer and the sort out of gardens to great effect. It's not sharp enough to hurt them but uncomfortable enough that they hate it.
@@amymandeville8342 The next step I used to keep them out of my houseplants was sticky boards. The cheap kind that's basically a sticky goop on poster board. It's non toxic to pets but it's effective at giving them a lasting memory of nope. The downside is having to drench the cat in olive oil to get the trap off then bathe them in dawn. I've only ever had to do it once for my cats and they've stayed off of any counter like surface for the past decade.
Did he ever show you the tank I set up with all your tips and tricks? This is a plant that in some of my tanks it does well and some not so hot. A blonde calls her boyfriend to come help with a puzzle of a tiger she got she can’t get it to look like the tiger on the box! Boyfriend takes one look and tells her put everything back in the box. There is no way we can get the flakes to look like Tony the Tiger!
Best accent in the aquarium hobby
My plant supplier always throws in a bonus Crypt because he knows how much I LOVE them!
I added a small amount of crypts from the gel bag things you can get at PetSmart about 12 years ago to my standard 20g and I couldn't get rid of them if I wanted to. They will take over a tank if you're not careful. Also when you pull them out, the roots that you leave behind will almost always grow new plants if they're sticking out above the substrate
I always heard crypts were so easy. I could never get them to grow. I started using root tabs and now they are looking great. The ones that looked dead for 3 years now have lots of new leaves!
Woohoo!! The magic of root tabs! So happy to hear about your plants 🌱🌱🌱
I personally can attest to the moving crypts a lot is bad. I had a handful of red and green wendi crypts. I moved them constantly cause my fish continuously were pulling them out of the substrate. They went from big and beautiful to nothing over the course of a few months. I learned a trick to make them harder to pull out from MD. Caping the planted substrate with sand and then I poured more red clay substrate on top. Now the fish can’t uproot them and the one green and one red are now starting to propagate. I recently got a hold of a beautiful pink flamingo crypt and so far I have seen nothing but beauty from all my plants. Your videos are a so helpful. Thanks so much for this video. I had no idea that’s what was wrong with my crypts. But I struggle with patience. As most aquarist do. I’m learning to just leave it be. Moving into stems and drawf hair grass now. Trying to learn how to grow it without CO2.
What exactly you use for the clay?
@@angelal5485 Florentine substrate. It gives a nice red tinge to the rest of the substrate.
@@angelal5485 I’ll look at the proper name when I get home.
@@angelal5485 ya I found it. Flourite red.
I love Crypts. I have more accidental Crypts than I have bought Crypts. Because most sources of plants come from similar water, I have had very little die-back or that's what I attribute it too. The only ones that have melted is when I buy from a source outside of the city so that is where my thought comes from. Thank you so much for this!
Hey! I'd actually love to hear more about crypts! I want to know specifically how to plant them, what types of substrates they like best, how to recognize when they need more nutrients, how to get them to carpet (? - can they carpet?), and literally Show you planting them.
Pretty please? 😍
Cool!!!! Those orange shrimp look like dancing little pumpkins in the bottom of this fall type looking tank.
Lol - don’t they?! Just the cutest ☺️
I've never tried crypts before, but they are on my list for my winter projects tanks set ups. I keep dipping my toe farther and farther into fully planted tanks. You guys have a safe trip to and from Aquashella.
👍❤👍
Love it! So i've been slowly approaching this epiphany regarding my crypts and light. Struggled for a bit with them, but after raising the 6500k light bar(no co2) about half a foot higher, and off the top of my aquarium they just exploded with positive growth! I know I am doing something right when The Small Scape channel helps to confirm it! Thank you!
Someone can hate crypts?? I don’t believe it. They’re definitely my favorite plant. Anubias would be second. Crypts just come in so many beautiful varieties and they adapt well to my water. In a dirted tank they will grow big and beautiful. Thank you for spotlighting this plant, everyone should try growing it. If you’re new to the plant I find the wendtii the most hardy.
The tend to melt due to small changes in aquarium water and they may or may not bounce back that's why some do hate crypts
Great video. I am absolutely over the moon for crypts. I keep them in 9 of 11 tanks. Currently I have 16 different types of crypts and look forward too getting more.
Thanks for sharing on my favorite aquarium plant. Currently, I am growing all the varieties I could find (24ish now). 🙂
Wow!! So cool !!! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
I added one small one in mid front of my desktop anubias tank and it sits there so beautifully since; I made a hole in the sand, substrate in it and planted it in it… it grows so slow it sits there like a crown
Such a great plant. Comes in a variety of shape, colour and size types so suitable for nano to large and tall tanks, fore, mid and background. Let it settle in and it'll be one of the most rewarding plants you'll keep hey.
Crypts Rock. I have bunches of them in several tanks 😁
Hi Joanna
I have a plants in some of my tanks. I use those easy planters. However, only certain plants can be put in these planters. Interesting video and very helpful. Thank you Joanna. Great information as always. I love your channel and yours and Jason’s Prime Time channel. Have a great week and enjoy Aquashella!
Hi Bonnie! Yes, we have a couple of those easy planters too. They really are very clever! Thanks so much for your kind words, always means so much to us. ☺️We’re already on the road, we’ll take lots of video!
@@thesmallscape 😋
Perfect timing
Love my cryptocoryne! They are absolutely bulletproof.
I'm all about the small scapes, too! :)
Yay for small scapes!!! ☺️☺️☺️
Crypts have slowly spread to all my tanks. It's nice that moving from one tank to another in the same house (all tanks have the same water parameters) there is minimal melt.
That’s fun! 🌱🌱🌱
My favorite plant! Working on pink flamingos now and they’re coming in well!
So jealous, Eric. I’ve had them once and they quickly said. “we’re outta here”. 🙁🤨
I love this video! Thank you for sharing!! And I 100% agree crypts are the best!
Crypts are the best! Its in my top 3 for sure!
They’re just an absolute classic.
Perfect timing. I just reshaped a 40g breeder and needed a new plant for the tank
Yay! These would be great! Lots of bang for your buck 😃
I'd forgotten about crypts
I need to get some especially the parva
Thanks again for another interesting vlog 😊
Great video thanks so much, This was especially very helpful because, I’m thinking of getting myself some
Thanks again 👍🏽🤩🤩
I have a 75 Gallon fully planted with different Crypts. I normally don't see a lot of melt when I add a new variety from my local pet store
Must be a beautiful tank! No melting? You’re lucky! Even when I move them from different tanks, I lose a leaf or two. Thanks for the comment ☺️
@@thesmallscape I don't see any melting but that tank is full of them
I think I'll try them again. 🙂😊
Have recently put crypts in my tank, ILike it
Woohoo! Glad to hear it, Dave!
Great information thank you again for sharing you knowledge and experience with us , I really appreciate it 👍👍
I love the crypts. I have a few types, and also some tiny ones, which perhaps are parva. They are the only ones which refuse to grow much, even given root tabs. But that's ok, they look nice!
Crypts are definitely hit or miss for me, and it's not always obvious why they did or didn't do well. Have been adding root tabs and that seems to help. Currently loving my crypt balansae in one of my tanks, and lutea looks like it
might do well for me too.
I know about crypt melt but I have two different species and one is extremely sensitive to environmental changes and the other one has NEVER melted and I’ve had them for seven years The sensitive one is the bronze crypt and the hardy one is a green crypt🤔
Always love your scapes. Perfect ideas 💕
I’ve been thinking about getting some crypts for my 6.5 Long nano to go with the Java Fern & Anubias. It’s the Power Trio! Right? 🤔🙂
I have Crypts in all my tanks and they do great without anything special. I have two bronze plants in a 20 gallon long that have reached the top of the tank and between the two of them cover all the tank. My baby platies love hiding in them.
Great to hear, must be beautiful 🌱☺️🌱
Appreciate the need to know info. Nice to see your “sweater” betta again. Looks so cool! I’m prob the only one, but I’ve not tried crypts yet. The melting was unappealing to me, especially since I had that issue with the anubias plants I tried last year. Maybe at some point I’ll go for it, perhaps a Wendtii. 🌱
Hi! Charlie is such a good boy ☺️Well, that’s quite alright. If you do try them at some point, I would recommend starting with crypt parva 🌱😃🌱
@@thesmallscape Thanks for the suggestion.😊 Have a great time at Aquashella! 🐠 🌱 🐚
I have a wendtii brown in my 10 gallon and it is just the most beautiful, lush and happy plant! The other one I think is a tropica? It too, very happy. Just root tabs once a month. I love them!
@@Eden_Rivers That’s great! What kind of substrate and root tabs do you like to use?
@@cherylbelott I just have regular gravel, but my next tank I will try sand. I just use tbe Seachem brand you can find at PetSmart.
such an awesome plant and they are super hardy i had a few in an empty tank with almost no substrate,no ferts,no light and they were thriving
Wow! That’s awesome to hear..the magic of plants!🌱☺️
Love your videos. In your opinion should you remove the crypt from the small plastic pot out f the medium it’s been growing in and plant in to thr substrate. Or plant the pot plant in to the substrate straight away
Good Morning.
I'm looking for some suggestions, I have a 10g tank and I'm looking to get a crypt to go in the back corner. Any crypt suggestions besides the c.parva? Thanks 🙏🏼
Question: what’s the best vertically growing crypt for a 20 tall to recommend for my parents? I planted up a low tech tank for them over the summer. I want to try crypts for the first time, and I have a foreground of pearl weed and dwarf sag and a background of Val and water wisteria. I think some easy mid ground species to offset the greens already present would look good, but I prefer not one that regrows submerged with a more horizontal orientation. Running eco complete and root tabs with low light. Thanks!!
thanks soo much! which is the largest crypt please?
@5:18 there’s red and black fish what are those called ?
I got a pink flimgo from the coop it was doing well but has stopped growing it had even sent out a runner but it had melted back 😭
My goto plants are Anubias and Java Fern as I find them indestructible, but every tank needs a Crypt or two 🤗
I have yet to have a java Fern thrive but everything else does just fine
Crypts are my fav. I just wish they grew faster
Love the video but not huge on crypts myself.. yet. I am pretty new still, and like to change things too much, so I am holding off for now.
Yes, Chris, if you like moving plants, there are better options. ☺️
How doni trim them without pulling them up?
'Tales from the Crypt'
Oh man. I totally missed the op for that one. 🤦🏻♀️🙌
I love crypts but I have no luck keeping them alive. I plant them, put in root tabs and admire them for a few weeks, then one day I look in the tank and poof! It’s completely missing. This last one I tried actually had leaf melt first, most don’t. And I always leave the root where it is in hopes that new leaves will grow, but they don’t. I’ve got low light and my Anubias and Javas do well, but not the crypts. 🤷🏼♀️
Is your pH low? I’ve had them die in a low pH tank.
@@amandajoanbaker it hovers around 7.4 due to having wood in the tank. I supplement with Wondershell because I have shrimp in my tanks. If wood wasn’t in there, my Ph would be 8.4
Do you think mixing cherry shrimp and bamboo shrimp would work since bamboo feed from the water column with the feather like hands
Yes! They work well together. ☺️
Awesome thanks
I have black gravel and use root tabs for my jungle vallisneria on the. I just ordered a red cryptocorne wendtii. How deep do I plant it, and should I place one root tab there right next to the roots? Thank Joanna, or anyone who can help
Hi! I would stick to just a single root tab. Be prepared for leaves possibly melting and then just give them time to regenerate underwater. I like to put the crown just under the surface. Good luck!!👍
@thesmallscape thank you so so much for responding ❤️! That's good information because from the one article I read it said to leave the crown above the substrate. But trust me I'm going with your advice. Boiling almond leaves and alder cones right now for the the 15g fluval flex with white clouds, pygmy corys and 2 nerites. That tank looks sooooo much better since I started really watching the small scape...you are very much appreciated out here. Thank you
I need to dim my light because my crypt is redish/brown.
Should this plant be a complete no for a 75 gallon aquarium?
💚💚💚💚
Recently moved some crypt parva to a higher light tank and it is taking off! I’ve definitely had crypts completely melt (and then the crown/roots rot) in a low pH tank… very sad!
Nice. Crypt parva is such a little sweetheart. 🥰
We're those black and red mollies????
Yup! ☺️☺️
I haven't added any crypts yet. I'm waiting for my floaters to grow more. On an unrelated topic, does anyone have suggestions for keeping your cat off the fish tank??? I've tried double sided tape (he peels it off), aluminum foil (he thinks its a chew toy) and a scat mat, which he pulled off the lid and was playing with it. The spray bottle doesn't work, either. Ugh!
I've used this black plastic spiky stuff that's meant to keep deer and the sort out of gardens to great effect. It's not sharp enough to hurt them but uncomfortable enough that they hate it.
@@WILDouglash that's what the scat mat is. It doesn't bother him at all.
@@amymandeville8342 The next step I used to keep them out of my houseplants was sticky boards. The cheap kind that's basically a sticky goop on poster board. It's non toxic to pets but it's effective at giving them a lasting memory of nope. The downside is having to drench the cat in olive oil to get the trap off then bathe them in dawn. I've only ever had to do it once for my cats and they've stayed off of any counter like surface for the past decade.
@@WILDouglash I may have to resort to that lol. Thanks!
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Crypts don’t need CO2 but when you do provide CO2 to them you will see a different level of beauty especially in Crypt Flamingo
Oh, I bet! ☺️
Did he ever show you the tank I set up with all your tips and tricks? This is a plant that in some of my tanks it does well and some not so hot. A blonde calls her boyfriend to come help with a puzzle of a tiger she got she can’t get it to look like the tiger on the box! Boyfriend takes one look and tells her put everything back in the box. There is no way we can get the flakes to look like Tony the Tiger!
I love crypts, but crypts don't love me. Well, the red ones love me. The rest hate my guts.
Lol. Ya. Even plants can be meanies.
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