These are baby “S” grade shrimp.  Please note that shipping is different for shrimp, contact me for details…Summer 2012 won’t be a major increase over the cost of just plants.. $3 each or 10 for $25

A phenomenon often encountered when planting new crypts in an aquarium is commonly called Crypt melt, whereby the plant loses all its leaves. There seem to be two possible causes for this.

Rapid environmental changes is thought to trigger this, as these plants don’t seem to adapt well to transplantion, and may need thirty days or so to become established and for the leaves to regrow. Experienced growers report that it is better to plant crypts in aquariums that have been established for at least three months^{[citation needed]}.

In the wild, Crypts can grow fully submerged underwater, but in Oriental nurseries they are often grown emersed and crypt melt could then be triggered by the change from emerse to submerse conditions.

There is lately a trend for such nurseries to send crypts as just a rootstock (i.e. without the leaves to reduce shipping costs and because the leaves will be lost anyway once planted in an aquarium.

I will give as much as I can at the time, do not order multiple portions.  Don’t need much as it propagates readily.

very rare moss that grows straight.  Comes on a small 1.5 inch rock

Price is per plant, 3 leaves per plant

A. afzellii comes form Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Mali. Leaves are about 35 cm long, glossy, dark green, blades are wide oval with both ends narrowed, 20cm long and about 9 cm wide. Emergent plants flower quite often. The flower stem is longer than leaves, the quiver is glossy, green and tightly envelopes the inflorescence. It opens only for a few hours.

Nice foreground plant!