Small bowls are a simple, inexpensive way of keeping aquarium plants and moving on to bigger things. A YouTube video (‘The Simplest Planted Aquarium With Diana Walstad’) shows the setup of 1-gal and 5-gal planted bowls. Lisa and John Hudson of KGTropicals (keepfishkeeping.com) made this happen. Video is a fantastic learning piece for those of you rightly intimidated by setting up aquascaped tanks, using soil in aquariums, or maintaining high-tech tanks. Photo shows me and Lisa with our bowls. She’s got the bigger one, but I’ve got three little ones. Not surprisingly, all bowls are doing great since setup!
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Love your book and blog! Will this work in a tropical country? I live in a place were the temperature is around 30-32 degrees celsius?
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I think bowls would work fine if you carefully chose the plant species. After all, if they can survive in nature at those temperatures, why not a bowl? In looking at my reference book (Christel Kasselmann’s ‘Aquarium Plants’, 2003), I see several species that can take temperatures of 32C. Among them are some nice plants: Nymphaea micrantha, Riccia fluitans, Salvinia molesta, Vesicularia dubyana (Java moss), and Rotalia rotundifolia. I’m sure that there are many other species that your local aquarium store, aquarium club or a good internet search could direct you to.
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