generally stupid questions ;)

[Jason Stanford]

lotus cant grow in heated water?
is there a plant that can grow in heated water like lotus?

soil substrate and piranha/catfish/plecs = no?

want a natural over grown not neat tank.

seen a few tanks here that look great, not sure if they suit my fish though.

also need a plant to grow over the cave/s that I will make from mesh and bogwood, which I will put on here,

I will add to this thread any random questions I get instead of making new ones all day long.

 

[MirandaB]

The only stupid questions are the one's that aren't asked

 

[MirandaB]

Tiger lotus will but I don't know how it would cope with the flow.

 

[soton_dave]

moss for the mesh/wood caves.

is your tank gonna be high or low tech,think this will help with plant choice.

cheers dave

 

[Jason Stanford]

high tech, but I think im going low tech plants.

just got loads of echinodorus bleheri and cryptocoryne costata.
I reduced the lighting to 6 hours a day to try combat this algae, any other things I can do?
I have 4-5wpg. pressurised co2 that's perfect on the drop checker now and I use the weekly ferropol fert and the daily one, both came with the jbl co2 set so thought id use them, I will use EI ferts that tylers on here showed me.
any tips on how to plant these? bunched up? spread them out etc. any tips at all really.

also got nomaphilia and ludwigia as had to make the numbers up for the deal in the shop lol.

 

[Iain Sutherland]

what light are you using? 4wpg is overkill and going to be very hard to control algae.

 

[Iain Sutherland]

you want to split the bunches up and plant 3 or so stems together, push them in deep or with you high flow thew will be uprooted. With the crypts and enchinodorus pull all the wool away from the roots then trim the roots to an inch.

 

[Jason Stanford]

cheers mate, I did check them videos out on youtube last night

 

[sciencefiction]

soil substrate and piranha/catfish/plecs = no?

Can't comment about piranhas. Do they dig deep like some cichlids?
You have to use a cap of sand or gravel over the soil, not a bother for catfish or plecos. They can't dig up the soil beneath.

 

[Jason Stanford]

they have nests when breeding, but other than that no