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First lumens is one of the least measurements to use to determine brightness to plants. This is a graph showing what lumens measures and what plants " like" in general. Point is the lumens of a RGB led and the lumens of a 7500k white LEDs have very different meaning to plants. Now as to...

...3 gave me some algae, but im not getting the bright red colour from some of the stem plants (Hra and orangejuice) and also the carpet of dwarf grass does slow down alot. So my main question is, how much light is HIGH TECH LIGHT such as the chihirios WRGB 2 or the main streams ones that...

...the end of last year, anything that was struggling was purged. I've had better luck introducing plants since then, like the hottonia and star grass. A lot of the plants I picked up at the convention are second tries of species I lost, and the difference in having more robust plant material in...

...water quality"> (or water testing) and the plants do the <"heavy lifting "> for you. It is literally <"just the leaf colour">, if it had a grass green leaf? It would be equally as suitable. It really depends how much you are willing to pay for <"ease of use">, in my case that isn't very...

Hi all, They are all a bit rampant. Have a look at <"Water meadow gardening">. If you were set on a grass? Glyceria declinata <"Glyceria declinata | small sweet grass /RHS Gardening"> is possibly your best bet. Catabrosa aquatica <"https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0000456975"> would...

...plants as the room is quite dark otherwise. Underwater things are going quite well. There's even some pearling, either from the hair grass or the monte carlo which I've never had before in my tanks. There are some new stems of rotalas in the back. Had to give up on adding caradina...

...it needed while the basement was in disarray, I ran to the LFS and grab a small 5 gallon tank some Fluval Stratum, a pot of dwarf hair grass, some stems of Ludgwida Repens, an anubius nana and a piece of driftwood. I slapped the scape together one night and put the tank on my daughters...

Cobra grass - I don't know if you get it that side. Crypt Parvati is nice edition being the smallest species of crypt

...If anyone is interested these are the plants in the pond right now: Elodea densa Hornwort Albatross lily Creeping jenny Pickerel weed Persicaria amphibia Golden club Greater spearwort I ordered a chameleon plant and bog grass but they arrived tiny and unplanted so went in the barrel basket.

Just planted some Spring perenials ,beside a few daffodils not got any or much flower, so next Spring they should do it, looking at a couple of disease resistant smaller Roses to plant, the small potted for a smaller garden

Been gorgeous here too. Cut the grass and planted a rose. Looks like a nice old stone wall, btw.

...because of the fish. However, it also has a ton of wildlife. Certainly usually has at least 2 frogs, and we counted 30 newts last year, plus a grass snake. Should I get them a filter when it has been a fish-cum-wildlife pond? I don’t want young newts getting sucked in to the pump, but then...

Three weeks later, and things continue to improve, with no changes to any of the maintenance. I transferred some mauritiana grass from forest, and some hair grass that was floating by a rock into the meadow and it hasn't died after a week or so, and perhaps there's some growth. BBA on buce...

...and I want some good ground coverage in the surrounding bog garden like creeping jenny, but I'm torn on taller plants. Can anyone recommend a good native grass that will spread and give some height? And any flowers that might attract pollinators? For both the shallow end and the...

...some new growth is emerging here and there. I will give them another month or so. Some of the hobbit is holding on still. I put in some hair grass to see if it fairs better than the Hobbit and Parva. Few pictures after replanting. Oh and there are several baby shrimp about so I added a...

...aquatic plants emerged in the west. In Japanese, Wabi’ denotes something aesthetic, imperfectly beautiful and natural. ‘Kusa’ means ‘grass’ or sometimes ‘plant’. Therefore ‘Wabi-kusa’ does not literally mean that they must be aquatic plants, but denotes something natural, beautiful...

...then. Are they still alive - who knows! I've also thinned out the floating plants (the limnobium laevegatum doing very nicely - all green as grass) and sunk the ceratopteris thalictroides (its immersed growth looks really nice). I have also raised the lights up a bit to minmise the...

...but we have a lot of coastal saltmarsh plants along our motorways and major roads. The really obvious one at the moment is Danish Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia danica) and now it is flowering it forms a pale mauve ribbon along the major roads in S. Britain <"Observations">. This is Dittander...

Hi all, just a quick update! I've added some more stem plants (rotala rotundifola, vallisneria, ludwigia arcuata, amazon sword), added some spanish moss and a tillandsia cupatata to the above water section and found a good quality LFS that I think I will eventually get my fish from :) The moss...

...in better colour these days since I brought ferts back up and I look forward to spreading it as it gets in better shape. Similarly with the grasses, there's still a chance to repropagate if I keep up the maintenance now. The cardinal tetras mostly love to stick all around the main stone...

...tall or more. If you really want it I would plant it in the bottom as soon as one shoot can reach above the surface, to give it as much room as possible. Another option is to switch it for the dwarf cultivar Cyperus sp 'Zumula', often sold as kitty grass, that should be a bit easier to manage.

...I plan to start using RO water from a local supplier with 2h Aquarist “sky” to remineralise. Will just use it for weekly 10% water changes to have a very gradual change. Have popped in some flamingo tissue culture and got some more moss in there. Will add some red hair grass this week too.

Yeah this one has demolished my hair grass, it at least also got rid of all the hair algae on the grass, so in some ways it has worked out.

I imagine that it will come back, it is no different than having the hair grass trimmed with a scissor. From what I read, there are a few different species of apple snails, some will mostly avoid eating healthy plants, while others... well, others are the one you have.

...help clear some algae added an apple snail to my Betta tank, and well it ate everything despite feeding it wafers, the main issue is the hair grass, I had a nice carpet growing in and it has acted like a little lawn mower and eaten it all, I still can see it has munched the top of it off, do...

...rule of thirds consideration when placing a focal stone and some supporting stones around it(perhaps also less spread out?). Then a balancing stone on the other side. Otherwise it is looking great. Do you hope to use stem plants for a more brazilian style effect or traditional grass at the back?

...filter from Eheim but not sure if it would help with the issues I'm having.. What would you suggest in my situation? Also, I need to clean the grass every 3-4 days as it's getting this green dust already For exemple, I'm really inspired by this aquarium and makes me wanna try to disconnect...

...periphyton, but some hard water-adaptable livestock would be nice for more motion and activity. Here is one idea. (Source: Mississippi Grass Shrimp) The native range for these does not quite include Green Lake, but it's close with extent into Lake Erie tributaries. Likewise not true to...

...going off of them. It is a new tank and I did add bacteria necessary and that kinda led to a bacterial bloom. Thanks for all help. The picture of the green plants is to show how they looked like when I first planted them. You can see that some grass blades are a little yellow but nothing too...

Yes when I had plants I had ludwigia, pogostemon stellatus. Pogostemon deccan, rotalla hra, rottala green, crypte. Ann carpet as hair grass after a month the water starting to change Brown but no wood or rocks used

...toxins as it slowly deteriorates) looks like Bolbitis Heudelotii (and again should not have the rhizome planted in the substrate and the grass like plant mid mid could be lilaeopsis. As already stated I'm no expert and could quite possibly be wrong on all counts but at least you get a bump...

...Calculation on my 650mm deep tank + height of light, the PAR is below advised by @George Farmer when in discussion at AG some time back. Hair grass. yes! i gave it a massive trim as i was struggling with some black / brown growth, its not bouncing back well, yet. - shall i test for Iron and...

...progress, then Co2 needs attention the lighting period needs to be increased to 8 hours gradually and the intensity reduced to 75%. The hair grass looks a tad yellow, but this might be the lighting or Iron/Magnesium deficiency. Purchase floating plants.....or add fast growing stems to the...

Hi all, Yes @sh4d0w , questions were directed to you. I think point 4. is overkill and not necessary, but it's my opinion. About point 5. If all channels are set, are those in full 100% setting? Regards

...Min for height, i had Aquabasis already and topped up with Tropica Substrate for the deep nutrient release, ADA power sand was suggested by Uncle Dave @Aquarium Gardens and capped off with Tropica Soil and Powder for a finer grade to help keep my grass in place. 5 - I use the preset "All"...

...issues not sure of the identity....try moving them into a more open area of the foreground. See how they react...if they don't progress, then Co2 needs attention the lighting period needs to be increased to 8 hours gradually. The hair grass looks a tad yellow, but this might be the lighting?

Hi all, I'm not sure root tabs make any <"positive difference">, but I don't tend to break my tanks down and, <"over time">, the "normal" <"substrate processes"> will occur. I think it is <"Ophiopogon japonicus"> as well, unfortunately one <"that comes up a lot">. cheers Darrel

Great suggestion! I might do that after a few months.

Looks great,but l would get a little Hair grass around the back ,give the fish more security

...it be enough? It's 6w only, but zoomable, so at least there wouldn't be any wasted light. The hardest plant I'd want to grow is dwarf hair grass or Marsilea hirsuta...

...(light, heat, nutrients) to grow. There are some other options that are more amenable to cultivation, but they have leaves that aren't grass green, mainly because of the presence of hydrophobic hairs. Below, these are two floating ferns, <"Azolla caroliniana"> and <"Salvinia "auriculata...

...some planting suggestions or tank images for planting this new layout. I'm thinking to go with a couple of carpets, keeping some of the mini grass eleocharis on the bottom level and monte carlo on the 2nd level. Then alot of anubias variety, cyperus halferi as background and experimenting...

...similar too - although they are meant to be more fussy about where they leave it. We get both in the garden. All over them seem to prefer long grass over short, and it moakes it easier to spot when walking. So if you mow your path, even if you leave the rest longer you are less likely to...

...trim and 80% waterchange 06th November 09th November 13th November 15th November 19th November TODAY So we can see that the grass is picking up a lot of Algae and other plant health has not really improved, i am looking for some support on this folks. Tank has been...

For sure - I bet I'll be able to get away with 18L when I bank some pumice. I ordered another bag just to have on hand in case. If I don't use it now I'll just keep it around for another setup or sell it locally. Original tank was 80x45x40, but new tank is 90x50x45 so I didn't want to be short...

...landscapes ,diorama etc and personally l love them but it's worth noting the term" Nature Aquarium" can be found in the wild ,take Amanos hair grass ,rock formations we're it's hisimagination of what the underwater world looks like in the rainy season. Then I remember the Dennerle plant...

...to give height and didn't end up even using 1 bag of aqua soil. Although, my application was different...I knew I wanted to only have hair grass and slow growing mosses/ferns/buce in my tank so I intentionally cut the amount of aqua soil used. I understand it also depends on the idea for your...

...4.) Limnophila Heterophylla 5.) Bacopa (not sure which one) 6.) Bucephalandra Red 7.) Cryptocryne (I think Nevellii) I've also got some Spider Grass growing emersed, although I might replace this with Pothos. The first issue I had was the lack of substrate depth for planting. Because I...

...but having anubias and crypts put up atleast one new leaf a week, lilies throwing a new leaf everyday, and being able to carpet with dwarf hair grass in only a month or two is super cool and not to much to handle. Keeping light limiting and having ferts and co2 in excess also makes it really...

Same thing with plants sold as Trithuria lanterna or Eriocaulon Australia red, which are really supposed to be the Australian grass species Centrolepis drummondiana. I was looking for a real Trithuria, but nobody seems to have one.

Mow it regularly to thicken up the carpet and encourage root growth, as you would do with a garden lawn! Hair grass tends to collect a lot of detritus and is susceptible to tufts of BBA....therefore needs to be vacuumed regularly.

Quick question - never had hair grass before when should i trim it ? Or leave it alone until full carpet is achieved?

2 weeks old now since planting after nearly 2 months dark start , starting to see bit of diatoms, have few ottos which hid all day some strands of hair grass turning brown which is slightly concerning but it should be ok if you guys notice anything or suggestions let me know

...filaments are definitely algal, fungal hyphae don't have any chlorophyll, diatoms have accessory pigments that make them brownish, rather than "grass green". The smell maybe from the wood. I'm not trying to be funny, but you <"will get good advice on UKAPS">, the same isn't necessarily true...

Discovering the Giant Nest Architecture of Grass-Cutting Ants, Atta capiguara The research paper about it... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492053/ Look at the size of this thing... The yellow dots in the first pic represent the initial entrance mount above the surface...

...struggling with plant growth and algea. I carried out a couple of mini re-scapes: 1. Thinned out a seriously overgrown carpet of mini hair grass and Helanthium tenellum 'Green' 2. Uprooted and replanted a number of stems Since doing that at the end if August I've massively suffered from...

Any member with "been there done that" experience with E.parvula? Could you suggest what is to be done to get a desired carpet? it has been 3 weeks ,all it has done in the meanwhile is a "coming soon" moment but really not getting anywhere. Since i have a inline diffuser with good flow from...

...I still have s.repens in my mature 60p and it is now very hardy. If I have it in a newly set-up tank I would be tempted to wait until the tank is more mature before planting it. In regards to dwarf hair grass, I find in my tank it does better when it has co2 mist going directly over the carpet.

Hi all, Recently purchased some plants and I am happy with health and ID of everything except this plant. I find myself questioning it's suitability immersed, but at the same time it appears to have grown immersed as it has aerial roots and some of the leaves had hair algea (though I left...

Over the last couple of weeks we've had animal poop appearing in the garden, on the grass. I'm thinking probably a fox but that's basically just a guess to be honest. It might be a cat. Pretty sure it's not one of the neighbours anyway. Sometimes the poop is very soft but other times I can...

This used to happen a lot to me when planting hair grass. I'm heavy handed when separating and would sometimes tear sections off with half the roots missing or damaged and needless to say these sections deteriorated quickly, however if there were any in tact within a planted section they'd do...

...Corymbosa perhaps as don't have Difformis in any of my tanks! I know there are some others, likely crypts of various types, hiding in the hair grass too. All quite interesting and although I'm not looking forward to winter, for all of my outdoor endeavours, I'm pretty excited about the...

Hi all, Welcome to UKAPS. The plant looks like Vallisneria <"Vallisneria spiralis ‘Tiger’ - Tropica Aquarium Plants">. Agreed, I'm a <"sand user as well">. Having said that, I'd like a few plants with <"chunky roots"> to <"spread through the sand">. Traditional Amazon Sword...

...in some of my fish unfortunately dying due to the toxicity. My aquarium substrate is a couple of inches thick and currently just have some grass planted (I don’t know the specific name). I have attached some photos. I went to my local aquatics store and they reccommended oxygenating the...

I did not know that!! Great tip as i want to keep the front sandy bit as clean as possible with a few bits of hair grass here and there. Thanks. The water has been a slight bit foggy past couple of days so i added a few drops of api accu clear. Wow. Thats amazing stuff. Now crystal clear...

...LC50 = 11.2 mg/L Bluegill sunfish NOEC = 10 mg/L 48h acute Oyster larvae LC50 = 2.1 mg/L 96h acute Green crabs LC50 = 465 mg/L 96h acute Grass shrimp LC50 = 41 mg/L 48h acute Daphnia magna LC50 = 0.35 mg/L Daphnia magna NOEC = 0.32 mg/L 96h algal growth inhibition Selenastrum...

...in 3 locations with one entrance below: I’ve found that Minuta and Hirusta don’t take to being uprooted too well compared to dwarf hair grass. New growth is starting to come through. I also purchased 6 Black Phantom Tetras on my way home from the Emirates on Sunday. There’s a fish shop...

...but the spider wood doesn't work so well if the goal is a river scape. I'd remove it too, and achieve that higher back area with planting of grass like stems. Or if you really must have some wood in there, select a piece that looks more like it could have fallen into a river from a nearby...

...(<"Creeping Bent">) would work, but it grows like mad. If I was going to try a UK species, I'd go for a Sedge (Carex spp.), rather than a grass, mainly because most grasses are going to get big quickly. <"Carex pseudocyperus">? might be an option and is easily obtainable as a pond plant...

There is a list of 'pond edge' grass species here: Pond Edge Seed Mix Common Bent Agrostis capillaris Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus Slender-creeping Red-fescue Festuca rubra Meadow Fescue Schedonorus pratensis - (Festuca pratensis) The dogstail looks promising...

Actual grass? Cocksfoot is a wider bladed, clump forming one - you can find it in a field. Or there might be an ornimental grass that would suit - this looks like it might be an option if you aren't planting directly into the water. Buy Hakonechloa macra from Woodhams Plants Or just go for a...

Hi all, Chlorophytum comosum (spider plant) would be a good one. I have an "all green" one if you can't find it anywhere else. You could try <"fresh Lemon grass"> (Cymbopogon citratus), 60p for two in Sainsbury. I've grown it like this <"a couple of times">. cheers Darrel

...cool but I think I want to keep a green aesthetic for now. Good to know about the eleocharis proliferation issue, but still, I do like the 'grass' look. I wonder if the inclinata and lancea are too similar to the siamensis 53B I already have. I'm looking for something low that I can have...

I'm planning a riparium setup to mimic an undercut riverbank. I want to have grass (or something similar) that hangs over the edge and to the water. Here's some of my inspiration: So far the options seem to be: 1) Acorus gramineus (which seems alright most of what I can find has yellow on it)...

I haven't even thought about doing a background tbh. I'll have a think about it though! I was thinking along the lines of vallisneria and various cryptocoryne's. Then anubias attached to various parts of the wood and in between the rocks in the area by the wood, a couple of riccardia mats on a...

Come together nicely. I think pebbles/cobbles are one of the hardest stones to work with. The right plants will finish it off nicely. Some large epiphytes and tall sweeping grass type plants will compliment your scape and tank dimensions.

...co2 again with the increased surface agitation. Tank is now at the 2 weeks mark and looks better than day 1. I’ll probably remove the hair grass at the front and swap it with Marsilia crenata which should be smaller in size. I’ve decided against the Chocolate Gouramis for now. The...

...all, I had a go at scything, I think it would be fair to say that I wasn't a natural (or even semi-competent), but now I'm going to blame the grass ("too dry"), rather than my own incompetence. On the bright side I still have two legs, which might not have been the case with a sharper...

...(though its easily managed by adding small amounts weekly rather than putting everything in the tank at one go) I find root tabs useful to give difficult plants a bit of a boost, but if we are talking about hairgrass, at the end of the day, its just grass and it really doesn't need root tabs. T

Wow, those water change sytems are amazing! I just sand-vacced all the crap that had been stuck in the dwarf grass; cleaned up around the filter inflow; vaccumed up the frozen mush and did water changes on two tanks in under 45 minutes.:cool: I am going to hold off trying out the new food...

...or return them to the tank to be eaten, or possibly survive, especially if you add more floating plants and moss, perhaps some floating guppy grass is easiest. Others may now better. I've bred a few sparkling gourami as a newbie, it isn't that hard. In terms of a WC, usually a very slow...

...the mini variant lol or maybe I need to trim it down more often to keep it low. Havent decided between using Rotala Orange Juice or Dwarf Hair Grass as the main carpeting plant yet. I definitely know that I dont want to use Rotala H'ra though lol. Also planning a Yugan reactor / setting...

It has been a while since my last update on tanks, so here it goes. In the smaller tank, the last time, I was getting algae on the dwarf hairgrass, which I attributed to the changed dosing and lack of good circulation on the right side of the aquarium. I decided to dim the light and install a...

...mine has decided to delve into a planted shrimp tank, and I'd love to bolster his plant selection with a load of my own. I have a mix of hairgrass, stem plants and also some rhizome plants. I was thinking of getting some sample pots from work to send them in, maybe with some wet paper towel...

...the tank at an angle is seeded with Weeping Moss. The other plants I currently have are: Red Root Floaters Water Lettuce Floaters Dwarf hair grass (new) Pygmy Bucephalandra Bucephalandra Stem Plants (typical starter selection) Lobellia Two varieties Anubis remain (I lost another last week)...

Hi all, I don't, but a better photo would allow ID of the "grass". I'd guess <"Chamaedorea elegans"> for the Palm, but all <"Parlour Palms"> would be similar. Edit: Ophiopogon japonicus for the "grass". cheers Darrel

Just saw you updated your post. Mondo Grass is a hardy ground covering plant that likes its roots wet. Parlour Palm/Chamaedorea elegans is a common oxygenating house plant sold everywhere. In and of themselves neither species causes any alarm, but if herbicides or pesticides were used in their...

Anyone remember their ID? Maybe @zozo or @dw1305 may know: It could be a red herring @pollyandpear but it’s worth pursuing. Equally we have materials used, potentially hand creams, unnoticed soap residue on hands, aerosols used in the room, air fresheners etc etc… It may seem like water...

...plants, and I was told on here they are not truly aquatic plants and I was misold, so I think was recommended to submerge roots. One is like a grass and the other a palm. I think Mondo Grass and Parlor Palm. I did scrub the rocks with a toothbrush but couldn't get all algae off - happy to...

Heteranthera zosterifolia (star grass) is another stem plant which grows like the clappers! Another reason for small holes in leaves can be snail damage, you said you seem to have an excessive number of them. If the plants are struggling & deteriorating they can attract snails which will munch...

By upgrading my filter, I liberated the space previously occupied by my old sponge filter and its' camouflage. I want this 70cm^2 area to be a grass like habitat and bought a 1-2 grow tub of eleocharis. Before planting, I was going to sand vac the area to clean up any detritus, but, thinking...

It does look good, but today when trimming it, it’s proved to be a bit of a nightmare. The stems break into pieces as you pull the out (it must be how the plant propagates naturally), so it ends up all over the tank. My strategy now is to pull off excess pieces with tweezers rather than trying...

Looks great mate, that stray guppy grass really suits the scape.

...also added some down the side of the tank to remove the gap and neaten it up (#OCDrules 😂): In the above image you can also see the Guppy Grass that now needs trimming. This was just a couple of small strands included in the shipping bag with the Black Rose shrimp for them to hold onto...

Todays walk, thru fields of wheat, bit of forest and the park and lakes. Never seen so many crows before, a proper murder of crows - Counted 50. Lakes had alit more trees planted. Still alot of water, but alot of grass has grown In.

...We share a drive with our neighbour (but it’s our drive) and he gets upset when I ask delivery drivers delivering to him who drive over the grass verges to be careful. “How dare you tell my …”. My response to him is that I reserve the right and I’d expect him to do the same if he saw damage...

Yeah ex paid £1000 to have hers done and she had 1/4 gravelled with buff chippings. Then a shed built, patio laid borders and slabs and grass. So I think it's a fair price. Do need to check if it includes the cost of the gravel etc though.

...ducked the question seeing it all. Did say to use a bigger commercial strimmer test would make it easier. Dog proceeded to enjoy all the tall grass and exploring, which led him to find a hole that he could squeeze thru into next door. He loved it but the builders were petrified of him and...

What would you think about converting all grass/gravel area to old skool meadow with a tons of mixed meadowish flowers and herbs etc? Bees and other little boys and girls will have a lot of fun in such an environment. Not to mention that there is no better pleasure than just lay down there for a...

Hi all, Snails and shrimps are a great mix <"Benefits of Snails for a Shrimp Aquarium - Shrimp and Snail Breeder">. You can always control the snails with a snail trap or hand baiting etc. This is what @LondonDragon does <"Practical application of lean fertilizer dosing"> I honestly wouldn't...