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thanks Darrel, dont think i was looking in the right place!!

If you brake a bit of the mail root off an established plant it will grow a new plant, I have been doint this for ages and moveing the new plants into my other tank.

dont throw the melted plants they often grow back from nothing, they like stable water conditions in my experance if you bump up your co2 injection then they wont melt. the plants dont seem to need loads of light but if they have loads they are still just as happy, they are prob my fav plant and...

Hello guys, I know there are some green fingered people on here and i have an odd question that might be applicable a little to tanks. I am doing an engineering dissertation on alternative fuels and materials that can be used to build and fuel cars, I am trying to find how much Co2 is absorbed...

i dont trim them until there is significant growth so i would just leave it.

not quite, all plants are difrent stems you can replant the bit you cut off, things like hair grass cutting them encourages side shoots to be produced making them carpet.

what is a good stem plant for the back of my tank? light about 2WpG for 7 hours ferts ADA step1 Co2 30ppm pressurised full ADA substraight system with tropica root tabs.

my hc did go a bit tall looking when it started growing but after it got ruted properley is just spread out into a carpet and now i am sick of it growing!!! i would just leave it to it for a while and let it get going more and it will spread out, my hc is about 7cm tall at the min.

I had a feeling there was too much light so i have some floating plants on the way. I use RO based water which may have next to no iron in it, i have easy life ferro for my main tank i will work out what i need and start adding it to this tank to elimnate any possiblities of this causing a...

I am not adding any iron into the tank do you think this could be the problem? i dont want to use tap water because it is verry soft and acidic so i fear it will have a lot of copper in it which will kill my baby CRS!

I have had my nano up now for about 4 weeks and it has Utricularia graminifolia, Ceratopteris thalictroides and flame and christmas moss. The moss isnt verry green and dosent seem to be growing anymore, all the plants are growing quite well yet quite slowley. the tank is a 20L with 11w of light...

I am waiting for my new nano tank to turn up and i am trying to decide on some plants to put into this new tank. i can grow HC so that i fancy a diffrent plant. i was thinking of a tank like the one Oliver made even though i was looking at Dans route to wilderness before he made this. i want...

my max height is about 5 cm something nice and low i do like the look of the crypt. :D

i just want something i can just let go mad and grow then just trim it back!! i have been told you can onlt have hc for a limited amount of time and then have to replant it. i dont ming givving it a trim but i dont want to replant every 6 months that is just a pain!! Matt

I am looking to replace the HC with another plant or a similar spec but thet dosent grow over its self and need as much maintance or need to be removed and replanted, something like a hair grass. some ideas would be apreciated. Matt

check out my tank for how HC grows when planted in indevidual stems, nearly 5 hours of planting and this tank is only a 60L. the link is below i think it is on page 3 the comparison of before and after. Matt

i have had all the same problems as you on my 60L but i had no co2 and no ferts, now i am on a FE system and am doasing tropica ferts and easy carbo. my HC is going mad only been in a week and has nearly covered the tank!! :lol: the main prob i had was flow of nutrients and co2 around the...

i dont know what the plants are but you could try looking them up on http://www.tropica.com/default.asp some will know but at least you can start looking!! Matt :)

well i will put the co2 up when i get home by a little and go through it tomorow and set it up properley! should i reduce the lighting time? Thanks Matt

i have never used co2 injection before so i am still getting used to it. i also only got the pressurised yesterday will have a play when i get time. the reagne in the drop checker started out blue so i am not sure if i should reliy on this reading until i clean the thing out and start again from...

I have some of these plants in my tank they have been in there for a week and are suffering a bit with yellowing leaves and a little bit of melt (about 5 leaves have melted and been removed). The tank spec, tank, 60L Filter, 680L/H light, 24W T4 on for 8 hours a day with co2 comeing on 2 hours...

1, there should be some movement of the surface of the water, ant airation or air stones shouldnt be used this will help keep the co2 in the water long enough for the plants to use it! 2, you might be lucky that the plant isnt dead but dry leaves are useless and i would think to remove them so...

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can anyone tel me what plant is at the back of the tank, i want to do a rescape that is a bit like thisi have some crypts i am going to save from my algi heaven!! any ideas are welcome. Thanks Matt

Thanks again for your help Matt

as the tital says i want a green carpet in my tank and i just want to know what i have for options for my spec below? I have been thinking of using Hemianthus callitrichoides. spec tank 60L 600 L/H filter lighting 25w T4 (is verry bright) CO2 no system is fitted to my tank but i will be using...