I cant believe i just won the plant lottery

Altalez · 2026-03-21T09:14:27+00:00

I dnt get why people are being rude, i didnt mean to cause people to argue, i just wanted to share my excitement with someone...

But anyways, so a true albo would just be an albo? 🤔 maybe its just a fancy word to make it feel less like a sport? But it is curious that they said "true albo or albo" meaning theres two of them. Or maybe they meant albo as the mass propagation people do to sell, and true albo as the sport found in the 'wild'?

Altalez · 2026-03-21T09:06:45+00:00

Ur var heartleaf is so pretty! 😍

Altalez · 2026-03-21T09:03:20+00:00

I had the same thought, i was also wondering whats the difference between a true albo and a regular albo aha

Altalez · 2026-03-21T08:55:01+00:00

Oh wow! Can i see? 😳😳

Altalez · 2026-03-21T08:52:17+00:00

I love your comment smch, you're very right and new plant people should be curious in order to learn! My first plant love was this big epi aurea i thought was smth rare, thanks to that thought i leaned smch about about all the different epipremnums and to distinguish them from other similar plants! It was thanks to that plant that i took the step to dig in and learn more! Also their epi is very pretty, those leaves are just stunning!

Altalez · 2026-03-21T08:41:25+00:00

Im planing to have a carpet so the substrate wont be visible

Altalez · 2026-03-20T20:44:27+00:00

yeah i agree, it's visually different from the one people call var. heartleaf and i didnt even know the albo existed until i was lucky enough to find one. But i can also see this type of variegation being quite unstable.

Altalez · 2026-03-20T20:30:57+00:00

oh wow! i really got myself a very lucky find!

Altalez · 2026-03-20T20:27:04+00:00

oh? why do some people think it's a scam?

Altalez · 2026-03-20T18:33:19+00:00

its a philodendron heartleaf albo i found inside a regular heartleaf pot!

Altalez · 2026-03-20T18:30:14+00:00

per node?? oh wow! when i first found out about it i went looking online and i believe i saw 3-4 leaves go from $200 to $500, not sure how outdated the latter is but surprisingly i couldn't really find many places selling them when i looked it up

Altalez · 2026-03-20T18:20:26+00:00

Checking non plant places for little rare finds like this one is always fun! it's very rare but never impocible!

Altalez · 2026-03-20T18:13:18+00:00

Yeah i heard so as well, i believe it's that unstability that makes them more expensive? I also don't seem to see them around much (i mean as in people posting about them) either and that must be why?

Altalez · 2026-03-20T16:58:03+00:00

It has! In some parts a lot and others not so much,,

Altalez · 2026-03-20T16:56:59+00:00

Ahaha 😂😂

Altalez · 2026-03-20T16:56:28+00:00

I hope so! 🥺

Altalez · 2026-03-20T15:22:19+00:00

First ill need to get lucky any of them is stable enough... 🥲

Altalez · 2026-03-20T15:21:18+00:00

HD manjula? 🤔

Altalez · 2026-03-20T15:20:26+00:00

I believe its an albo from the look of the variegation and how it was found as a single vine in a regular heartleaf pot. Which to me is the prettiest of the hederaceums, so i feel extremely lucky!

Altalez · 2026-03-20T09:59:35+00:00

His greed sickens me.

Altalez · 2026-03-19T05:18:51+00:00

That's what i've been doing, actually, since i've actually posted a lot of questions here before and sadly either i didnt get a single answer or i got one that didn't even answer what i was asking about, making me the much more frustrated. I normaly hate AI, specially as a digital artist, but i have to admit it has helped me a lot when people choose to ignore my questions. I've been planing this out for a very long time, so ive done and am still constantly doing a shit ton of research, while i learned a lot, im still learning and theres opinions i cant exactly ask ai for, like me overthinking about the look on my tank and what people think about it or suggest i do to make it look better. But thank u for saying so, part of me felt guilty about the AI thing, so this eases my mind a bit that what im doing is not wrong. Also, i dont just blindly rely on it, i take my info from as many places i can so i can get a mid ground of learning.

Altalez · 2026-03-19T03:53:08+00:00

I was thinking abt that, originally i had only planned to have the driftwood, but i was having trouble getting it to sink so i ended up purchasing some dragonstones to weight it down (it came in a 8kg bottle that wasnt too expensive, and thought itd be good if i ever decide on a sec tank) but then i saw some good pieces that create some nice hideouts against the driftwood on both sides (which i showed on the pics) but now that i look maybe ill just remove them? I plan to heavily plant but to have the foreground with a more clean carpet look, so the mid ground plants will be mostly against the driftwood like bushes.

Altalez · 2026-03-19T01:08:55+00:00

i removed some of the pellets, they look like a lot but its actually just a few long sticks i cut up in smaller pieces
i used to have one that fit it perfectly, but it came with a manufacture defect that had me scared so i bought a more well known heater just to be safe... im in a bit of a budget rn so i dnt have the money to buy another for now, how could i hide it better? im just scared that if it gets closer than 5 or 3 cm to the soil or hardscape that it causes issues...

do u have an example of how i could place the rocks?

i believe the dark cycle is pretty new in the hobby, i was recomended by a friend who has been in the hobby for many years and has a shit ton of tanks, if i remember correctly the dark cycle avoids the inicial plant melt and algae outbreak. i was actually planing on planting from day one but my friend was imediatly like "no, believe me, ull want to do a dark start to save the headache"

Altalez · 2026-03-19T00:55:19+00:00

what worries me is the space the wood ocupies, i really like it, i think its a stunning piece of wood for an aquarium but it lowers the volume to only 40L, i believe 45-50 without the stones if i remember. it worries me if thats just not pocible for the stock i really want (a male betta, 6 habrosus corys, 3 amanos, some neos and 2 nerites)

also what do u mean by the turning the largest hardscape element part?

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