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No you are right.

More phosphate!

What are you using for light? More light would be my first guess.

I've found my hygrophilla does better without fertilization..

http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2016/index.html

AQUATIC GARDENERS ASSOCIATION 2017 CONVENTION The 2017 AGA Convention, hosted by the Colorado Aquarium Society, is being held at the Denver Airport Marriott at Gateway Park April 28 - 30! Luca Galarraga and Ghazanfar Ghori will be speaking, and we are working on more. Once we have other...

Darrel I am not against keeping an aquariun clean but his claims seem to lack any real correlation. "Algae blooms or infusoria explosions are usually the result of excess phosphates in an aquatic system."

Yeah Discus and woodscapes are one of the best tanks. I haven't gotten much further than the growing out the plants myself.

Which one? Here, Coloardo I find that Hibiscus moscheutos in my garden just doesn't get started growing soon enough in the spring and to set flowers before the cold temperatures in September. I think it might be I need to move it into a warmer part of the garden.

Hardscape really has taken its place and it isn't all that easy. When I first started it seemed like I always used rocks that disappeared behind the plants doom n enough.

I like a lot of what Findley does but I don't really think that aquascape is one of his better ones.

This is kind of what I meant by the Wabi Kusa influence. I think the question I have is about why we are dismissing the so called "jungle" aesthetic and or how exactly does one deal with that? I tend to think there is a lot of this and perhaps too much but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like it...

So what about color? I read once that Amano really preferred the greens. (Or I made that up!) How does one blend color into this Nature aquarium and/or isn't this a real strength of the Dutch style? All that rotala that people use to sweep across the background seems to be on the wain these...

Nice photos. I am jealous.

I don't think anyone can deny the influence of Amano. He's given us a great gift.

Where I live I almost never see things like this. We just don't usually get enough rain for that. Definitely one of the challenges. I often think that a single species of plant might represent a biotope better and still be more 'natural'. I suppose the problem is that it becomes hard to find...

Hopefully we will be able to afford it! That would be interesting. I am all for the local.

I wanted to see If I could start a discussion about where we might be headed. The Nature Aquarium has been dominate for quite some time now. I am a big fan of that so I don’t mean this to be a criticism. It represents a very Japanese way of seeing or understanding nature. In contrast we have...

Hydrcotle triparttita does really well this way. perhaps too well.

Is it this? 37º- Swee Lim Cheah / IAPLC 2014 http://aquascaping.floraquatic.com/2014/11/international-aquatic-plants-layout-contest-2014/ Plants:hemianthus callitrichoides, hemianthus micranthemoides, hydrocotyle tripartita, hydrocotyle verticillata, bucephalandra sp, ceratopteris...

The 'mother leaf' is never going to recover. Just pull it off.

He used to post on APC http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/el-natural/84700-my-1-20cm-hopefully-npt.html

This is a good write up, http://www.onsnatuurgenot.nl/aquarium/walstad.htm

Yes the quality of the manufacturing seems to always be a questionable and the specs are often not reliable. I am also wondering about intensity and duration. I have recently been using stronger lights for shorter periods, At firsat I simply did this to avoid algae but now I think these...

I keep what we call here Sunset Hygro. It gets red under intense light. Not so much under less light. Some plants seem to change not just leaf shape but leaf color when grown submersed. I tend to think most viral infections are asymmetrical.

I heard a talk last year about how most led light is blue and the rest is mostly chemical coatings. Interestingly there are no white leds so I have no idea how we get white light out of that. I have recently bought a bunch of led lights and quite honestly I find this floodlight to be the most...

Part of the reason I ask has to do with this light. It is a philips led floodlight . You can see the reflection. I started using it last week and already the plants are taking on a more vibrant color.

We use par though most of us can't actually measure that at home. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think a lot of attention is paid to what exactly makes red plants red and such and it seems to me the real answer to that discussion is all about light. I hear people talk about limiting nutrients or raising nutrients but I find those things to really be secondary to light. So I am...

I put two 90w led floodlights on a 29g tank yesterday to try them out. One is a spot light and one is a flood light. It is too soon for me to relate how well they work but I do like the light penetration. I did start with one but added the second because one didn't light the whole tank well. fwiw.

The yeast will activate faster at about 110 degrees F. Filling the bottle about 3/4 full helps to reduce the airspace also. Still pretty much t takes a day to get going well. So I always start abottle the day before I use it.

Just takes a bit of time. No need to activate the yeast in another container. I use 1 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of yeast.

Here is a link if it works to Hogan53 's suggestion http://www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplants?filter[emersed]=1 You can filter this under cultural needs.

Is Aquasabi related to Flowgrow?

Maybe not the best but you can search the APC PlantFinder database by Can be grown emersed. http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/

Just do it! It isn't all that hard. Once a week just start a new bottle and replace the one you are using. All it takes is a cup of sugar.

Lots of skill there....Nicely done Pedro.

Yes I think it just grows slowly.

Maybe this is helpful EI target ranges CO2 range 25-30 ppm NO3 range 5-30 ppm K+ range 10-30 ppm PO4 range 1.0-2.0 ppm Fe 0.2-0.5ppm or higher GH range 3-5 degrees ~ 50ppm or higher KH range 3-5

It is kind of stuck in here. There are at least two of them.

Oh so it is more like an anubias than a crypt. I am a bit hesitant to dig it out of the substrate just to figure out what needs to be done,

I have this plant growing well now and I am wondering how to propagate it? Anybody know?

I'll go with the light.

https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-japans-moss-obsession-50500 To the Japanese, there’s a natural aspect to Wabi-sabi that’s considered beautiful. And moss is perhaps Wabi-sabi’s standard bearer: it grows seemingly at random, in asymmetrical patterns. The humblest of plants, it’s often...

I would just like to point out that I think this whole concept of non-limiting is a bit problematic. No one is really endorsing using unlimited amounts of fertilizers in an aquarium. In fact it might be argued that the prescribed dosing of EI is fairly modest and includes a large water change...

MGOC is commonly used but does have a few problems. It tends to be a bit hot in the beginning and can benefit from a little soaking. This will also provide you the opportunity to remove the floaters such as bark. People find it is best to use it at a depth of about an inch and cap it with...

Oh thanks I didn't know that.

I don't really know my snails all that well. ( None of them will talk to me.) I was told years ago that snails don't bother Java Fern but I came to realize that wasn't the case.

I find that my java fern (Philippine) gets ravaged by pond snails. Once a leaf is damaged it never recovers. Badly damaged leaves are best cut off. A couple of years ago I cut all the leaves of on a large plant and thought it took a long time it did recover completely. Unfortunately so did...

I am not sure how you call it but the narrow leaf form is my favorite. I am not sure how that fits into these distinctions. Looking at flowgrow it seems I am thinking of the Taiwan but it could also be called the narrow. It is very easy to grow and very common here. (Colorado) I don't really...

Shrimp don't need heaters.

A simple sump is just a pump and some filter foam. The advantage is that you can do the heat and the co2 in it. But if you aren't going to have fish you really don't need a heater and you don't really need a lot of water movement. You can control a lot by just doing large water changes once a...

How about making a small sump out of a small aquarium? Or just use the co2 to move the water.

I think we have to consider that the anubias may simply be recovering.

Just for the record I never test anything. I find lots of people tell me I need to test things. Some people tell me I don’t need to test things and then they tell me I should maintain certain levels of chemicals and that I need to test them. Most of the people who test things claim the tests...

What happens if one simply sets up a tank with a light a filter and a substrate. How long would it take to cycle itself? Would it cycle at all?

Greenfinger this is my favorite so far! I vote for Lysimachia I find this plant has a lazy stem when grown emersed.

Did you increase the light recently?

Somebody stole the new posts button last night.

Oh. No I am objecting the the second one on the basis of the fact that there are two focal points. and that causes the image to become static. Or something like that.

I would rather not have two things it that makes sense.

No problem Andy but I don't really understand why you would want to share the algae problem . I don't have access to any ADA products so I have no idea how they work. I never cycle new tanks in the traditional sense. I just plant them and once the plants are well established I add fish...

I think you would find that running a new filter on a newly planted tank for a month or two would be more than a sufficient way to cycle the tank.

I grow it in medium light without co2. It is an easy plant to grow but it isn't an easy plant to control. It tends to get everywhere and people get tired of it but if you are just growing it you won't care about that.

You can do some pretty amazing aquascapes with just some sting and some riccia https://www.google.com/search?q=riccia+aquascape&rlz=1C1RNBN_enUS433&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CC4QsARqFQoTCI_qz9qmlckCFRbaYwodRdoLPg&biw=1600&bih=1075

What about kokedama?

I have no idea what the target levels should be but yes too low.

I think this might be a calcium problem.

I like the lay out Andy. I would like to suggest you forgo the liquid carbon and put that money in a cookie.

Let's not forget scissors. Plant leaves do not repair themselves. (no running!)

Lets try and keep things in perspective. Vitaminb12 was first isolated by Dorothy Hodgkin, contributing to her Nobel Prize in 1964. Nutritional ecology of nuisance aquatic plants By Gerald C. Gerloff was published in 1975.

Try searching iwagami. edit ' iwagami aquarium ' works a bit better.

This is a really interesting group of plants. Looking forward to seeing it grow in.

Has the Ent moved at all?

This is a great tank. It kinda highlights what is wrong at AGA these days. I was sorry to hear they wanted to do a Dutch Category by the ‘rules’. This tank should rate much higher but they really don’t have a place for this anymore. (sorry if this is too editorial)

That's great stuff.

You don't think it is viral?

It is with great pleasure that the Aquatic Gardeners Association announces the results of the 2015 International Aquascaping Contest. As in years past, the contest had excellent participation with almost 500 outstanding aquascapes and participants from all over the world. Again for this year...

That's great stuff Andy. Thanks for all this. I just want to throw this in here. I have this pet theory about c4 plants which involves me in trying to understand why certain plants seem to do fine in aquariums without CO2 supplementation. I don't really have the education to comprehend...

Oh ‘immortals” I hadn’t thought of that. Lol That makes things a lot harder.

I have a java fern that I bought back in the late eighties or early nineties. More than once I have been down to a few leaves but it has always come back . The lucky thing about that plant is when the going gets tough it just starts throwing off plant-lets..

I’m curious about this plant. For a long time I had the new plantlets growing on the ends. Then I started using a bit of co2 and the plant stopped this behavior and started growing 6 to 8 inches tall and sending off runners. I am wondering if that was the co2 or what?

Yes they are grown emersed.

I have a 10g tank in which I have a 'mop' of java fern for the fish to use to breed etc. About two weeks ago it all just started turning brown. I am not really sure what is going on in there. I did have a fish die in there about the same time so I suspect there was an ammonia spike or...

Yes. But would the bba die?

So does that suggest that the treatment might be antibiotics?

I should add that a sudden change of light intensity will also cause the leaves to melt.

Some times anubias gets brown or black blotches that become soft or mussy. Most people seem to think this is a bacterial or viral infection of some kind. It f that is the case you need to remove all the infected parts and maybe treat the plant with bleach or h202 or some such thing. If the...

I would guess it is a bacopa. It is not the rotala they call amania for sure.

How do you get growth like that?

This is a good place to start. http://www.aroid.org/gallery/boyce/Schismatoglottideae%20of%20Borneo%20XXX%20%E2%80%93%20Bucephalandra%20-%20%5BWilldenowia%2044%2C%20DOI%20httpdx.doi.org10.3372wi.44.44201%5D%20-%20Wong%20%26%20Boyce%202014.pdf

Most of this is way over my head Andy. I am simply trying to pull out some information that might be useful. But yeah..........

Andy this refers to algae not bacteria. Or I think that is what it does.

2.3.1. Assimilation of ammonium Ammonium is the most preferred nitrogen source for algae. It is also the most energetically efficient source, since less energy is required for its uptake http://bashanfoundation.org/gmaweb/pdfs/heterotrophicmetabol.pdf

for instance.............. Abstract This study sought to investigate the growth rate and organic carbon and nutrient removal efficiency of Chlorella sorokiniana under autotrophic, heterotrophic and mixotrophic conditions. Growth rates of the microalgae were 0.24 d(-1), 0.53 d(-1) and 0.44 d(-1)...

Ummmm.............. Algae are Diverse Algae will do whatever it takes to survive. Maybe that is why they are one of the oldest forms of life on earth. Autotrophic species are photosynthetic like plants. Heterotrophic species get their energy from organic carbon compounds in much the same way as...

More and more people are doing research into algae as a potential carbon sink and or a potential fuel and such. I keep hoping we can learn from this work. Still, I can find almost nothing about work being done on BBA.

Yes thanks again I did find that and unwatched it all. That seemed to stop it all,

Results: The microalgae Chlorella vulgaris and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii exclusively utilize ammonium when both ammonium and nitrate are provided during growth on excess CO2. The resulting proton imbalance from preferential ammonium utilization causes the pH to drop too low to sustain further...