Hey, Andrew, keep posting pictures. I love all of your critters, especially the baby Crestie.

Who needs math anyway? As long as you have all of your fingers and toes and can count to 20, balance a check book, you'll be fine, at least after you get through organic chemistry and physics. I could do all of that stuff on a slide rule, years ago, without understanding a bit of it, but now it's even easier if you can take your calculator to exams.

I think the plant in question may be Fittonia vershaffei, possibly the variety, "Dark Star." While I do have some Fittonias with wet feet and low light, I keep this one high with good drainage, and in the only tank I really have strong light in. (90 W fluorescent 6700K--2 of them.) So I think that Trinian's assessment is correct. I believe I sent you a Fittonia cutting, but it was one of the silver veined ones that tend to be more forgiving of damp feet and low light, in which it tends to scraggle around etiolating to look more like a vine.

Congratulations on growing a Philodendron without killing it! You're making progress there. I will be eating crow in no time for teasing you. Just don't try orchids quite yet.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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