Bucephalandra Fan Club

I'm very new to keeping Bucephalandra plants, having just started days ago...  Hope I've "planted" them correctly, which was simply to place the roots onto a piece of slate and then pop a couple more pieces of slate on there to hold the plants in position...  I hear that their roots quite quickly attach themselves to suitable surfaces - hope then that this is true and that they will be ok like this...

After chatting about them briefly last night, I went and ordered another one, lol, a "Wavy Leaf"...  I can easily picture this Bucephalandra thing becoming a side obsession...   

lol, I wish that I could afford that level of addiction...   

Can easily see me starting to collect a few of them though, especially the slightly rarer ones...  I'm thinking that there is a point at which we must stop adding livestock to the tank because of bioloading etc...  That's a bit of a party pooper point to reach, after the fun of all the fish, snails & shrimp etc...  Switching attention to large plants is definitely a no-no on the grounds of space...  But starting a collection of very small and slow growing exotic plants, especially as they're easy to care for, does keep that "I need to buy something else" style retail aquarium therapy going nicely...   

I bet they would work well between the stalks of stem plants at the back there, especially with not needing much light and so not minding being in the shade of much larger plants... 

Blimey, at typically £5 each, and upwards, that would take some wonga to fill...   

I'd not heard of the river blue before, so had to look it up. Very nice.
Where do you get you plants from?

I'm quite lucky to live within a reasonable driving distance to Aquarium Gardens (<20 miles), so I get most of my stuff from there, and avoid the delivery costs. They do advise splitting the plants into several portions prior to use, but I think it depends on how much immediate impact you want to make.

I am in the amazing position of having some great LFS in the area, plus Aquarium Gardens, a few specialist aquatics stores, and a couple of award winning fish stores within less than an hours drive from the house. It's only been within the past few months that I've taken to driving further afield to look at other shops. Very handy for something a bit different, and even just to look at how different shops are set up. 

"Luckily" I've run out of room at home for any more tanks, so I'm now limited to what I can do with my current tanks.