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Cheers George. I'll be delighted if it grows :D

Its 155 litres, George - it's quite deep though, about 70cm. I've got good circulation - the C02 bubbles get right down to the bottom as I use a couple of Koralia 1 pumps - all the plants sway in the flow too :D

I've tried Blyxa in my tank before and had bad results - so, I'm trying again. I have pressurised C02 and 4x24w T5 lighting. I use EI dosing. The Blyxa is slightly shaded - am I on a hide into nothing by having it out direct light?

The SAE's are off to Maidenhead Aquatics at the weekend. I really want the moss to do well. After looking at some pictures of it from the early days of it being in my tank - I've realised just how bad it looks now.

Great :( My tea strainer has now been seconded to my tank toolkit. Trying to trim the dwarf hairgrass without making a mess is almost impossible. The tea strainer is brilliant for sweeping the surface and getting rid of the trimmings though.

That doesn't sound good - I don't want high maintenance anything. Water changes alone are enough for me (I'm still using a bucket!) Saturday is tank maintenance day - I might try and get it out. The moss is what I'd really like to get sorted - although I think I'm on a hide into nothing with it!

:lol: Right SAE's get the blame then (and not my shoddy attempts at attaching it in the first place). It looks like I'm fighting a war of attrition to keep the moss going - not only do I have 2 SAE's - I have a little tribe of Amano shrimp. It's like a 24x7 salad bar. I'll leave the...

Thanks Saintly - just been to Google some pics of it and you're right. There must have been a strand or two of it in with the FM when I got it (although I certainly didn't notice it). Unless it came in on another plant and found its way into the moss. Strange that it's done nothing for so...

I've got flame moss in my tank, it's been there for several months and its never really done much. I'm probably to blame because I was very slap dash in my attempts to tie it on. I've recently re-tied it and done a much better job and am hoping it still has enough life in it to finally attach...

Just that one plant is starting to get unruly, George! It's a pretty little thing, but it seems to be bent on getting tangled in the p. stellata - so it might have to go (or at least get moved). I need to start re-thinking my random approach to planting!

Thanks for the info. It's going to get a trim today as its starting to tangle with another plant. I'll take some off the top and keep it pruned to see if I can get it to spread out a little. Thanks again :D

Thank you, both for responding. It's starting to bolt up now, but I rather like it. If it starts getting tangled up in my other plants, it might have to go - but at the moment, I find it really pleasing to look at - very delicate. From your experience, Saintly - will it spread out as well as...

Having had a search around, I'm wondering whether it's Cardamine lyrata - any thoughts?

Brilliant - thanks, Saintly. My tank looks like a wasteland compared to that - it looks beautiful. Yep, there's loads of new shoots coming up from the bottom and one of the stems has bolted way ahead of the others. I'll get pruning later :D

I know I shouldn't go off buying random plants without knowing what they are and what they need - but it looked on it's last legs and I liked it. I didn't think it was going to survive (I planted it at the same time as the stellata) as it went very yellow and lost a lot of it's leaves. It...

Obviously I didn't read it well enough, Saintly! Where do I cut? Just above existing leaves? Between sets of leaves on the stem? Thanks

Thanks for the ID, Clive :D I'll take off the tops then. Sorry about the amount of questions I'm about to ask :oops: Can I leave the established part of the plant where it is? (It's throwing up all sorts of stems that are making the plant quite bushy at the bottom, so I'd like to...

Clive - I really enjoyed reading the piece you wrote about Limnophila Aromatica - a great article. Right - I finally managed to get some pictures. I still don't know which plant it is and I can't put off pruning for much longer. It still seems to be doing well - although not nearly as well as...

Thanks all for the advice and information. Apologies for not responding sooner - work is just nightmarish at the moment. I only escaped from working the weekend because it's my birthday tomorrow and I'd already made arrangements. Have to be away again for most of next week - so very little...

Excellent - thank BVB. I'll get a photo tomorrow or Monday and post it - it would be good to know which it is. It's only been in a fortnight, but its grown loads. Whichever it is, it's a lovely plant - really pleased with it. Thanks again. Caroline

I bought the plant as Pogostemon stellatus - it has quite a narrow leaf with serations along its length. The new growth that's nearing the top of the tank has a pinkish tint to it and the leaves at the top of the plant when I purchased it did have a pinkish hue. That seems to have gone now and...

Attached it and whilst I had the glue out, I removed some of the anubias, attached that to pebbles and have moved it to another tank. I had to use some gravel to fill in the hole a bit because the plant is only little and it was dwarfed. It was too late to simply plant it into the gravel...

Its an amazing place, isn't it? We stayed in the medina, which I found quite intense to begin with. Trying to navigate those tiny, rabbit warren streets on memory alone, whilst numerous people insist you are going the wrong way (even though you didn't ask them) is an experience I won't forget...

It's certainly an enthusiastic plant :D

Indeed it is! It seemed like a good idea at the time - but I've regretted getting it for a number of reasons. It's really caused me issues with flow and the knock on effects that brings. It also restricts the variety of levels (well, just variety really) that I can have in the tank - the wood...

What beautiful tanks! Well, superglue it is then. I'm so pleased I asked, there is no way that I would have ever considered that as an option. Aaron - I probably shouldn't admit this, but I'm glad you clarified that point - it could have gotten messy if you hadn't :oops:

That's a good idea, Rawr - that might be the safest option for me. I think I've still got a small piece that had to be removed to get the wood in the tank. I'm really amazed at the superglue thing - I've ordered a couple of these plants, so I might try gluing one on too. Thank you all for...

The challenge is going to be how to tie it down into the bowl (thanks for the idea about fishing line Paul). The wood is too big to lift out to allow me to tie it underneath. This pic might help illustrate what I think the challenge is going to be; The P. Helferi will go in the fork at the...

I've got some Pogostemon Helferi arriving this week and I know its going to be a challenge to attach it to the wood in my tank. I wondered if anyone might be able to offer some advice? The challenge, is that I want to attach it to a fork in the wood which forms a fairly deep bowl - here's a...