Bolbitis heudelotii has failed to survive in my tanks over and over again. And this time, the start wasn’t encouraging… the mature plant had come from a fellow hobbyist’s chilled tank and within a week in my un-chilled tank, all the existing leaves started to die off.

Nevertheless, the rhizomes were still green and they could possibly spring back once it adjusts to my tank conditions.

Lo and behold, 3 weeks later, some of the surviving unopened fronds have put out new leaves! I took out the plant to trim shorter the leftover stalks that I had trimmed earlier and was rewarded with new fronds budding last week.

The photo shows the plant 2 weeks ago with new leaves. Hope the plant keeps this up.

The current tank is cooled with two 120mm PC case fans running 24/7, blowing over the water surface. Temperatures range from mid-27°c to high-28°c. For fertilisation details, see the top menu for the link to tank details.