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I used superglue for the first time a few weeks ago to attach some large Anubias to wood and it has held firm with no problems and new growth. I used the Gel here as it is easier to put in place for the plant.

Ludwigia of some nature

I'm currently using AE dry powder.

I had the same, upped my trace and it cleared. I will add that I was cutting back to see how little I needed to put in.

Is it Siamensis?

I've gone Staurogyne on my latest replant and it's coming along nicely. Once it grew to an inch I cut the top off and planted it next to the original. In no time at all, I have the front covered, it bushes out lovely once chopped and it doesn't grow too fast once established. It also looks...

Re: Attempted Nursery These have been growing my low plants very well and when I made a mistake with my second tank recently, killing off almost all the plants, the nursery was a god send, replacing almost the entire plantmass for the tank from them. However, this doesn't support stems so more...

If you've still got somewhere to grow it emersed, just put the top of the plant there and it will quickly grow roots. I couldn't believe the size of the root system for such a small plant.

Re: Eleocharis Vivipara & Dwarf hairgrass going yellow/brown... When James did his chemical analysis on the traces, he pointed out that the Garden Direct traces were lower in iron and higher in copper than other traces. I have followed his advice since switching to these and use half the dose...

Sounds like a good sound case to me Ed. I've posted in Aarons post about HC emersed but when I introduced a tiny lump to my nursery above the O tank I couldn't believe the growth rate. I've got plantlets from planlets of cuttings of staurogyne taken from the tank that are bigger than the...

As my nursery post showed, I've got it growing above my Oscar tank, there is humidity in there under the perspex covers but all the plants I have tried have died back a little at first after their submersed leaves were first exposed to the air. Is it worth a try as an experiment to keep what...

LOL but if we knew it all straight away, there'd be no discussions on the forum :lol:

But then was it not also suggested that because those plants have had a big gulp of CO2, that they don't take as much out of the water stream leaving a higher concentration for the other plants? The HC to either side of the affected area started pearling more and sooner than areas a little...

Just as an extra, I've just checked again at what is almost 90 mins after the removal of the jug and this is what it is like now. The patch to the right that wasn't exposed is just starting to pearl now although you can't see it here.

I set up my own experiment this afternoon to test the theory. I took a 1 litre plastic jug and placed it upside down into the water to basically give my HC the same effect as being exposed to the air during a water change. The jug was held in place for 10 minutes (I got bored holding it after...

I wonder if you were to place a bowl upside down and push it down onto the carpeting plants for a while so that they were effectively emersed for a while, if it would then have the same effect on them ?

Very interesting read Dave, thanks for looking it out. Certainly got me thinking and I think Toms experiments dispel my thoughts on it quite adequately !!

I'd agree with that too, I get bubbles along the glass where the water line was sitting during the water change too.

Never heard of it myself (with plants) but have siliconed plant pots to rocks for use in cichlid tanks where they want to dig the plants up.

Re: Attempted Nursery Exactly !!!

Re: Attempted Nursery I would have thought if you're going to use an ice-cream tub that putting it next to a window and giving it natural sunlight would do rather than using an artificial light source. Could always try your own experiment and have 2 tubs one with natural light and one with...

Re: Attempted Nursery If you look at the first couple of pics on page 1 you can see the initial set-up. http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3910&start=0#p43846 The gap is about 2.5 inches between the tray and the perspex, but that's only because it was the space available to me, the...

Re: Attempted Nursery Inside this tank there are a few rims running around (for strengthening purposes) I have found plastic trays that fit into the area I wanted and 'rest' on the rims and braces of the tank. The betta breeding mat is like a filter wool and I get it from my LFS (I actually...

Re: Attempted Nursery 3 Weeks I have added some riccia to the matting from the original tray which has taken really well and is spreading. The second tray: The original HC from the first few days, now quite a bit larger (I'll send you this bit Nick). To the side is a Ludwigia cutting as...

Re: Attempted Nursery Had a couple of requests for more info, the tank is my 2 metre Oscar (& friends) tank, coming in just under 700 litres. Filtration is an FX5 and Tetra EX1200. I removed the fine media from the tetra filter and have now installed 2 trays under the perspex covers with...

If you still want Staurogyne at end of Jan, I will probably be able to stick a few cuttings of PH in as well

Wasn't it TDI that used blyxa all the way across ? Really does depend what you want, I found my glosso grew too quickly for me to be able to keep up with it, HC on the other hand is giving me a nice carpet and a steady growth rate. I've also got Lileopsis Brasiliensis growing well in with HC...

I've just set up a 60 litre tank for the pupose of breeding cherry shrimp. It has contained Cabomba for a long time as a previous fry tank and I left it in there. The shrimp have already bred and I can see new shrimplets running round already with no adverse affect. The tank is not dosed with...

Re: Attempted Nursery Well, I consider it to be a success so far, I've doubled my cuttings in 12 days and so I have converted the 1 tray into 2 with spray bars from the same filter into both trays. I'm concentrating my efforts on growing Staurogyne emersed just now but have a few clippings...

I wouldn't have thought water movement would be essential for the Staurogyne, etc. Those that grow their tanks emersed as a startup don't have water movement do they ? I've got Staurogyne growing emersed above my Oscar tank and have been surprised by the roots on it already. It's on a bit of...

It's growing uncovered by water. Currently I have several stems growing in a tray above my Oscar tank, the only feed they have is the return flow from one of the filters onto a betta breeding mat (bit like a fine filter wool), so only the roots are covered by water. It was a bit of an...

No problems, will do. Have noticed that even in a few days it doubled in size when grown emersed so have taken a few more cuttings to grow on and see what happens when submersed again. But I'll contact you again in Jan and let you know.

When are you going to be needing it? I'm just bulking out a couple of areas in a tank but I am also experimenting with growing it emerged above my Oscar tank so I may have some available towards end of Jan.

LOL, guess I've got the same. I was uncertain myself about Wendtii due to the fact that the leaves didn't appear "crinkly" enough but reading the description of size, etc it probably is. That was why I was wondering if it could have been Parva. Thanks all for your responses.

I got it ages ago without a label and has just survived in a low light set-up. Put it into my main tank and has more than doubled in size in a month. It only sits about 5 cm high with the individual leaves being about 4cms long

Can anybody tell me - is this Crypt Parva & if not has anybody got any ideas.

Re: Attempted Nursery Ok so here is the initial set-up and the first few cuttings on Day 2 (along with a couple of anubias that have been decimated by fish in another tank). Day 5 Staurogyne (with a before shot from Day2 alongside), I'm that impressed with the growth I've added another...

Re: Attempted Nursery Well 4 days on and the Staurogyne has grown dramatically, the Hygro has been cut into 3 pieces, the PH has new growth, Saggittaria has new leaves and the HC looks to be spreading. The blyxa is looking the worse for wear though but has put roots down. I also found a...

To be honest Aaron, if you are in what I suspect is a hard water area, I doubt it would be that either. My water is kH 1, gH 3 out of the tap.

I've been looking into ways of perhaps having a nursery for plants using the minimum effort. I have a 2m tank for mainly SA cichlids which runs with nitrates between 10 & 20 ppm between water changes. The tank is now lit by 2 O/H luminaires each containing 2 x 39W T5. I have put a "bed" above...

I was sceptical when I started reading but the more I read, the more it's opening my mind to possibilities. They latest section I read was a clinical experiment involving eleocharis coloradensis that visibly prevented the growth of pondweeds, potamogeton nodosus and P. pectinatus. That's just...

I am currently readind Diana Walstad's "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium" and a very good read I must say so far but she has been talking in the chapter I'm reading now about Allelopathy, where the plants are basically releasing chemicals into the water "for protection", some of these can affect...

I have to admit I experimented with some spare on my my wifes community tank and it is growing lush and strong- I have to really hack it back every week. The strange thing is - it is in pea gravel, no added ferts, no CO2, 1.2wpg, GH 3, KH 1, pH 7 but it is a heavily stocked tank. I have...

Now you're asking !! I've got a few plants in with my Oscar, he's left the Vallis Nana alone as it is planted behind decor. But there is also Saggitaria, Aponogeniton crispus, Anubias, Java fern & (surprisingly) Eichhornia Azurea. Think it might be a bit of trial and error to see what they...

Thanks for the explanation Ed. :D The only annoying thing is when the HC won't let go of a bubble and comes up with it.

That's interesting to note, my PH was growing slowly but surely under EI. Whe I changed parts of the tank around I stopped EI, with plants coming and going I switched temporarily to TPN+ for fertiliser and dosed according to the plant level I had in the tank. I too, have ended up with white...

Yes .. means they are oxygenating. :D

It'll be interesting to see, I've taken cuttings from other plants to use try in lower wattage tanks and they have struggled & given up under 1wpg T8, whereas they continue to grow (albeit very slowly) under a lower wattage T5 setup.

I have ordered from Greenline & Java-plants in the past but ordered my Pogostemon from AE recently. The plant quality was way and above that which I had received from others & was able to split the plants into multiple plantlets all of which are doing well. I don't know about anybody else, but...

Could it indeed be condition of the plants on arrival ? I got just a single pot (Tropica) but it arrived quickly and I planted straight away. I split it into 5 plantlets along with a tiny shoot of 2 flat leaves which fell out of the packaging. All plantlets are doing well including the shoot...

Take care with this set though, I emptied a bottle when the solenoid sprung a leak. Following a move from the reactor to a spiro diffuser, the increased pressure showed a leak at the solenoid where they had put a lock nut & washer in place which prevented the seal from making. I alerted them...

Indeed, when my bottle emptied the tank was without CO2 for 3 weeks and on my return the Glossos was nearly dead. A month on and it is amost back to full glory.