Shelf pond plants are marked with  ,   or  - hover over/touch the symbol to see each pond plants shelf requirement.You do not need to purchase a basket or compost or worry that bareroot plant pieces will 'float up' when you lower our pond plants into position in the pond as they are all ready rooted into their baskets, unlike the bareroot plants sent by the majority of online retailers. Shelf pond plants can be vertically emergent or horizontally rafting across the water surface.Water depth is vital to pond plants Too deep and one variety will not thrive. Too shallow and some varieties will not receive the frost/ice protection over their crowns that they require and would receive from deeper water. Before you build a pond you should take into account the depths of water preferred by different marginal pond plants and ensure you create the right depth shelving into your pond construction. See the Build a Pond section on the Tips and Advice pages for more information. Planting depth measurements given for each pond plant are from the top of the basket to the water surface level.

You need to take into account the depth of the basket to calculate how deep the pond plant will be in the water when placed on a particular depth shelf. Basket heights: (9cm = 3i/2", 1 litre/11cm = 41/2" and 2 litre/15cm = 6") tall. Planting in a wet, muddy, waterlogged, boggy area should also use pond plants of the category. These plants can stand with their roots in wet soil as well as on a shallow shelf of water at the pond edge but their crowns are able to be exposed to frost and ice on the mud surface.fish tank for one goldfishPotted aquatic pond plants will quickly add foliage, colour and habitats for wildlife to the edge of the pond area. fish tank for crested geckoShelf pond plants can be decorative, creating the mood of the pond. fish tank for free manchester

A formal setting can be created by planting one large basket in each corner of a regular shaped pond. Aquatic pond plants help to develop the setting that allows the clear reflective water and flowering waterlilies to show inside this frame, while creating habitats for the wildlife which visit the pond.As a guidance we recommend a minimum number of shelf plants as 3 x 1 litre baskets per metre length on a pond shelf, with more if the shelf is wide or if a full look is required quickly.fish tanks for sale sunderlandMany pond plants appreciate sunshine and all will benefit from feeding with a pond plant fertilizer if they have been in your pond for a while.fish tanks for sale okcTo find a pond plant suitable for your existing pond you can use our Advanced Search or Sort by shelf depth on these pages. fish tank and stand combo for sale uk

We have divided the pond plants shown on these pages into shelf ,, according to the depth of shelf they are likely to require. Please note that some plants can handle a variety of shelf depths and only the shallowest depth is shown on the category page. All potential shelf depths are shown on the More Information page for each plant with all its details.If you are planting a new pond you also need to consider all the different ares of the pond. There are oxygenating plants which grow under the water and rafting plants or water lilies for the water surface. Along with the marginal shelf pond plants these will create a well balanced pond that will not look green or cloudy. an Elephant Nose for sale in our online store. This fish is a member of the group of fish called Mormyrids. This fish's long probe is quite flexible and controlled by the fish. Pictures: above 4" Elephant Noses and below a 5" Elephant Nose, swimming in one of our aquariums, when one of us took this picture.

Click on each picture to see a bigger here to contact us by email, by phone, by fax, or by mail. A group of Elephant Noses, like the ones shown in the picture below with twenty or more young fish, can live in a bare aquarium. We recommend you keep one Elephant Nose or several but not a few. If you keep 2, 3, or 4 Elephant Noses together in the same aquarium, the strongest one will often make the others miserable. In a group with 6 or more the stronger Elephant Noses become less aggressive. Elephant Noses will do better, if each one has a cave or a piece of plastic pipe for a home. Be sure the rocks, pieces of pipe, and everything else you put in your aquarium are not contaminated. Click here for more about avoiding contamination. Elephant Noses are very peaceful and interesting fish. The probe below their mouth is not really a nose but is a very sensitive electric organ that is very good at finding small worms in dark or murky water. If you put a small ball of tinfoil in the aquarium, the Elephant Noses will play with it.

This may be due to the electrical properties of the tinfoil. Elephant Noses are members of a group of fishes called Mormyrids. Click here to read a brief article from the Encyclopedia Britannica about this group of fish. The article has links on it to other interesting articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Here is a group of Elephant Noses for sale in our facility. Click here for more about buying Elephant Noses from us. These are very interesting fish. The picture above shows a group of about twenty Elephant Noses in a bare glass aquarium in our facility with no gravel and a few box filters. These Elephant Noses were eating well, complete acclimated, and ready to be shipped to customers. Live Black Worms and other live or frozen foods. Click here for more about Black Worms. Click here for more about feeding fish. Keep one or several Elephant Noses but not just a few as discussed above on this page. African Black Knifefish, Synodontis Catfish, and Baby Whales are good tank mates for Elephant Noses, which are also often kept in aquariums with Clown Loaches, Gouramis, and Angels.

Click here to read more about several other groups of compatible fish. Size and Life Span Elephant Noses can grow to be 14" long, but they rarely grow bigger than 9" in an aquarium. They can live for 6 to 10 years, and sometimes longer. Just above, a nice Elephant Nose, measuring about 5" long, when one of us took this picture of one of our fish, swimming in one of our aquariums. Links to Other Web Sites Click here to go to another website where you can hear an Elephant Nose emitting electrical pulses, and get information about how to buy inexpensive equipment to listen to your Elephant Nose. Click here for more information about electrical discharges from another Mormyrid fish, where it says, "The electric organ discharges of the Mormyrid electric fish may be described as having two parts: a relatively fixed Electric Organ Discharge (EOD) waveform, and a variable sequence of pulse intervals (SPI). The fixed EOD waveform is controlled by the anatomy and physiology of the electric organ;

the variable sequence of intervals is controlled by the pacemaker in the brain." Click here for information about the interesting Electrical Fishes of North-Eastern Gabon, where it says, "The EODs of the Mormyrid fishes shown here are all from the Ivindo River and surrounding streams of North-Eastern Gabon. Each species has a species-typical EOD waveform which is illustrated by one or two example traces." >I have a few questions regarding the elephant nose.  On your web site you said they like to have a pipe as a home.  I was just wondering what kind of pipe you mean.  How big should the pipe be? Should I have more than one pipe if I were to get more than one elephant nose?  Should I have more than one pipe if I just have one elephant nose? Should the pipe just be like a PVC pipe or something else? I appreciate your help.For many years we put pieces of PVC pipe in the aquariums in our facility with Elephant Noses. We bought the pipe with a 2" or 3" diameter in 10 foot lengths at Home Depot, and this pipe was very inexpensive.