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[Angelphish]

Looking better and settling down a bit. Had to move the heater, I was getting a low flow error. I also angled the output upwards more, not sure if that's right but gave me more surface agitation and less blowing my plants around.

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Looks really nice, though I have a bit of constructive criticism. It looks like most of those plants are background plants, so you may want to move them to open up the front/middle, especially the hornhort (if I ID'd it correctly), as that stuff will very quickly overrun your tank, especially with a substrate like that.

 

[jyabs7]

Looks really nice, though I have a bit of constructive criticism. It looks like most of those plants are background plants, so you may want to move them to open up the front/middle, especially the hornhort (if I ID'd it correctly), as that stuff will very quickly overrun your tank, especially with a substrate like that.

Which ones do you think? I don't THINK i have anything by that name. but i'm sure i screwed up some of them lol I tried to look up each plant and see what was suggested for placement but some of them i couldn't figure out what was what. .

 

[Zanzag]

Hornwort is the spiky needle looking one. My suggestion would be to give it time, see what grows for you and what dies, and then adjust placement as necessary

 

[Angelphish]

Hornwort is the spiky needle looking one. My suggestion would be to give it time, see what grows for you and what dies, and then adjust placement as necessary

This is probably the best way to do it. I would plant them a little more densely towards the back simply to free up space in the front of the tank.

The hornwort is the needle plant in the left center.

 

[jyabs7]

hmm...came listed as myrio? But you're right, it does grow quite large. I guess i need better glasses, i read it as inches not feet oops. lol

 

[Angelphish]

hmm...came listed as myrio? But you're right, it does grow quite large. I guess i need better glasses, i read it as inches not feet oops. lol

It never really stopped growing in my experience, as I had an 18" ball of it floating in my 210 before the cichlids destroyed it. I'm sure it would have been quite a few feet of hornwort if I untangled it.

 

[jyabs7]

is it possible to cut it and use the clippings to grow more in a different tank?

 

[Zanzag]

You probably could yeah. I've never cut it myself the stuff so brittle it breaks just looking at it wrong

 

[Angelphish]

is it possible to cut it and use the clippings to grow more in a different tank?

To my knowledge that should work with every plant, or at least every plant I've grown. Hornwort I know for sure can be grown from clippings.

 

[Niki_up]

is it possible to cut it and use the clippings to grow more in a different tank?

I actually really hate hornwort! When it sheds needles all over the tank it’s a mess!!!

I let mine grow into a big floating Matt and then I clip a 1 inch piece off to keep in my tank while selling off the Matt of hornwort. I only have it in my tanks bc it sucks up nitrates.