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If you have SAE in your tank, I'm pretty sure that the reason why your moss fail to grow nicely. I have yet to see SAE that doesn't eat moss. They will look as if they are clearing up algae when they are burrowing their snouts into the moss but if you look carefully at the leaves, they are...

Looking at this tank, I'm starting to wonder what you classified as failure in growing moss.... Any picture of what that might mean? I got a feeling it's not something to do with fertilisation but more of the line of destruction... You don't have SAE in your tank do you? Dan

as informative as ever from clive :)

I'm selling it. lol

From what I know, both are dwarf version of hairgrass with parvula being slightly smaller. There is other variety of dwarf hairgrass out there such as sp. Japan and belem.

way too much lighting for the tank size and the plant selection. you will either ended up with a jungle if you are lucky or a tank full of algae if you are unlucky.

yup all glutaraldehyde.

I added 10 ml of excel daily to my tank and the shrimp was fine with it (my tank was only 90 litre). It also depends on the shrimp you've got. I've only got cherry and amano

I had to increase my bpm to get the CO2 drop checker to turn lime green when I was using this diffuser. However, when I change to atomiser, the same amount of bubbles count gas my fish out! So I will second what viktor just said, you probably need to increase your bubble count.

how big is your tank?

depending on the size of your tank, you could make an atomiser with a small water pump and air sponges. I did that before and it produce such fine bubbles compareable to those of an atomiser if not better. I had to stop using it as everything was covered in the CO2 bubbles that it becomes...

I learnt it the hardway that it's not about how to turn your tank into a whirlpool but more of a simulating how it would be in the wild where the water gently carries the nutrient accross the leave. I had the same approached as you too (directing the outlet over the plants) and ended up sending...

If that's the only way it worked then it must be the problem with a CO2 distribution. What is your flow pattern in your tank? do you have any other mean of increasing flow in the tank? I used to struggle with any carpet plants. I added filters after filter hoping to increase the flow of the tank...

I've just sold the fissiden singapore that I've got. :) Very pretty but they grow upwards.

I had grown them emersed and submersed on lava rock with ease as long as your CO2 and fert regime is up to standard.

It really depends on where you get your narrow leaves fern from. I've bought it from Far east and tropica and both looks similar to a certain extend but the far east variety is a lot longer. I had them in a 18 inches tall tank and all the leaves were growing nearly to the water surface. The...

Nope they don't touch my pellia at all.

My SAE leaves both my moss and my Pellia alone if that's any help. They seemed to be grazing more on the moss than the pellia but my moss don't seemed to be too badly damage by it.

Luckily my old light bulb is still here. I just remembered that i've dosed excel as well when I changed the light as my CO2 ran out. so maybe my CO2 was the problem, not the light! :P Now i've upped my CO2, I'll see if this growth continues and when it does, I'll change back to the old light and...

I have to say that my old bulb does affect the growth of the staurogynes. I was growing them by the bucket and they were covering the foreground nicely. I've since then move to a new place but the tank was setup to be the same as before (positioning of the flow and the CO2 intake etc) and yet...

I actually hack all the leaves off to make them easier to tie onto lava rocks and wood and they grow back just fine. They tend of be better filled in the long run as well as each small fragment of the rhizome now starts as a individual clumps of plants.

There won't be enough microbes to feed the plants if you are running high light regime. You will need to supplement the diet by Ei Dosing if you have high light and high CO2. Otherwise then you will get not only stunted growth but also algae manifestation

nope the second one is definitely alternanthera sp. Got one in my tank but much more pinker when they are establish. I thinnk this plant is probably newly introduce to the tank

It's very difficult to assessed moss by just using one strand of moss. The gold standard is to use a microscope and identify the microscopic structure of it's leaves but unfortunately it's unavailable to most of the hobbyiest and frankly most people wouldn't know what to look for under the...

Well they claimed that the needle leaves java is similar to their narrow leaves but doesn't grow much taller than 6" tall. The narrow leave one I had grew up to a max of 18" at time. I just bought some needle leave from them as well and it definitely look different.

I've purchased the above plants from tropica and aquaticmagic before. The aquatic magic fern appear to be much more slender and has a slightly crinkly nature to it's leaves. Mine then grew up to 18 inches easily and looks very much like crypt balansae. The tropica variety however tends to stay...

Amazon frogbit are very sensitive. I find that mine doesn't do well with lots of water turbulence. They don't like overshading as well. Plenty of space to grow with lots of current below the water surface is the best to grow them. High level of ammonia has also be reported to cause damage to the...

Well maybe dilute the powder into 1000ppm solution and then add 5mls to every 10gallon and titrate it up to see if there is any noticeable difference? Seeing those south east asian tank out there that uses exclusively ADA product that has stem plants that is so compact makes me think that the...

Having read what green gain is about, I've search online for a few other items. One of the item I came across is this Cytokinin: 6-Benzylaminopurine 25 Grams (PGR) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cytokinin-6-Benzy ... 27aba98591 Theoretically by adding this to the tank after pruning, your plant should...

I've read somewhere about the hair grass species that it proliferates well with allelopathy. There has been research out there that uses hair grass as one of the possible allelopathic plants to control invasive weed such as duck weed and water lettuce. However not many of the studies concluded...

That's an impressive carpet. I think the glosso is only growing taller as it won't get any light if it grows underneath those thick carpet. Cut to all the way down to the substrate and the new leaves should be hugging the ground. Riccia you have to keep trimming it sometimes on a weekly basis...

I got mine from aquafleur initially but I have then kept it grown emerged with no problem for the last 2 months and it's now a big big pot just like how TGM kept theirs in the aquaponic setup. As far as i know the leaves haven't change at all in the last 2 months of being grown emerged. That...

I had the same problem as well and mostly when I bought emersed p.helferi. The submerged version tend to grow immediate whereas the emerged version tend to wither/melt away in a few weeks time. I haven't keep any fish in the tank or shrimp so I've blasted the tank with CO2, lights of 48W over 15...

It's eusteralis stellata but from aquaspot. I've tried growing that but for some reason even with the submerged leave growth it's never the same as the plant from oliver knotts tank or even tropica. Limnophila aromatica from aquaspot looks different. It has a wider leaves and it's submerged...

They kill my Pogostemon Helferi! Apple snail no no for me

don't think it is peacock moss. the aqua moss webpage is at www.aquamoss.net

One of the picture where it has needle leaves when it's submerged and then changes to rounded leaves when it's emerged. I guess the rounded appearance only happens to look like rotundifolia but it's actually wallichii. That set up is sweet. Would like to set up something like that in my own...

You sure it's a bristlenose you got there? Bristlenose don't normally grow beyond 6 inches. Sailfin plec on the other hand do grow huge

aquaspot have this plant on their list but it's going to shipped from singapore and you probably get some mushy stem plant when you receive it.

The post that I've written earlier on refer to aquaspot actually. It's true that the stem plants do grow after being in your tank but it's always a little dissapointing when you first received a bag of mushy plants. Not to mentioned it takes more than 3 weeks to grow the plant back to decent...

Plants that came directly from far east were never in their best shape. Stems plants are the worst of all.Bought some didiplis diandra and rotala rotundifolia. They were so mashed up that I can't tell which part is facing upward and which part is the roots! Took a good few weeks to revive them...

So far it seemed like the only online shops that sells quality plants besides those that deals with tropica is Greenline. Some of the plants traded here by hobbyist seemed to have far better quality than those online shops.

I've seen this plant sold alot in LFS. They look a lot like a plant that grows in marsh area in malaysia. It commonly known as bamboo plant but it probably not bamboo. looks more like palm tree to me.

wow that's some nice plant you got there. After seeing one of the picture that you posted there I'm pretty sure the first one is not pogostemon stellatus narrow leaves. The 3rd one in the picture looks more like it. I've got the plant in the first picture as well and I'm struggling to label it...

looks like pogostemon stellatus narrow leaves var

That's not algae. I'ts rhizoids. Some moss seemed to grow loads of it and some dont'. It's very apparent in those mosses that attaches themselves quickly onto surfaces. Christmast moss is one of them. On the other hand, mosses lsuch as flame moss takes forever to attach themselve and have very...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bolbitis-Kongo-Wa ... dZViewItem I could have spare you some plant but it will be in another year before I can do that :P This is where I got mine from. They are very very very slow growing so if you want an immediate focus point in your tank I say get about 10 of them...

peacock moss is not that rare. It's just lucky that you got some stuck in other plant delivered to you. Personally I think it's one of the most beautiful and versatile moss. Colour ranges from pale green to dark green and it has a fixed triangular form that just keeps getting bigger and bigger...

when you said rotala green is it the same as rotala macandra green var.?

Wow Dave, That's a very nice tank you got there. Mine sharing the specs of the tank?

looks more like baby tear Micranthemum umbrosum to me. Just planted some yesterday. Looks about the right size and right leave shapes

I thought for all apogeneton species you are meant to cut the flowring stalk away to prevent the mother plant from going into a dormant state? If they do flower and formed seeds, the mother plant will wither away isn't it? Correct me anyone?

I second eds opinion. those bubbles sometimes linger for hours after water changes and CO2 has a solubility too high for that to account to.