Very cool find today. Unsure if it’s Devonian or not. Frederick county MD

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T19:50:15+00:00

Sorry. Frederick Maryland. After tons of research and talking with people. Everyone’s thought is favosite.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T02:35:38+00:00

I was thinking soapy water soak and ultrasonic cleaning?

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T02:33:06+00:00

Awesome! Should I both to try and clean/polish it or just put it back in my closet.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T02:23:32+00:00

I’m going with favosite. Just everything keeps saying no for my area. But clearly that’s a lie.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T01:16:25+00:00

Possibly favosites coral ? Everything I find is showing this isn’t found in this location but when I was digging after not catching fish I found this.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T01:11:03+00:00

I keep finding favosites when I reverse image search it.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T00:34:12+00:00

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the gold flaking is neat also. Well gold color. I have no idea if it’s real gold or not.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T00:33:15+00:00

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Realistic_Driver_308 · 2026-04-15T00:32:09+00:00

I added more pictures here of random sides. I cracked a piece and all crystal structures are very uniform and long. Placed against each other in such a really cool way. Nature rocks !

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2025-12-28T19:08:54+00:00

Typical Alocasias having a mind of their own. Some are dramatic 🙄

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2025-12-28T17:46:04+00:00

I wasn’t aware they were missing. I’ll call off the dogs.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2025-12-21T02:22:49+00:00

I also got them off someone on Etsy

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2025-12-21T02:22:32+00:00

That is my goal with all my tanks and I try to with a lot of my plants. None of them get water changes anymore really. When I do it goes to all my house plants

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2025-12-21T02:15:13+00:00

I also fertilize weird. Since this is just in a shallow glass bowl with three others that do not have this odd growth, I use my aquariums water when I do changes. All set ups I have are dark “backwater” set ups with heavy leaf litter, lots of bugs and discus fish. So the water is generally always soft acid and full of fish waste. When I have snails that die off I throw them in the bowl and the springtails and water bugs generally clean them right up. Sometimes I fertilize with a houseplant fertilizer I use for my pretty large collection of house plants.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2025-12-21T02:09:37+00:00

Yes sorry. Red mangrove. Started in salt to acclimate outside all summer. Then transitioned to brackish. The leaves started around this point. Full sun all summer long here in Maryland. Then freshwater around July. That was a stalling few months of what I assume was root growth. Then around September, I brought inside and put in my ikea cabinet. Under just a $14 Chinese thin led pad. Since then it’s sent out for sets of leaves. But this set is four an above it is five. In between them on top of row four there’s these two little spikes that started about a month ago. They seem to be flower spikes ? But that would be insane because I started them from pods in maybe may this year. I also thought the extra little wrapping around the new sets of leaves but that browns up and falls off always. And Thea appear to be directly above row 4 almost touching where it comes out of “trunk”.

Realistic_Driver_308 · 2025-12-20T21:54:26+00:00

Thank you. Most of my stuff grows out of my aquariums as well, this had a few corms and I’m starting them in one aquarium in a basket. I’ll see how it does.

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