I admire the December 2009 issue of Freshwater and Marine Aquarium Magazine "Planted tank issue". The magazine has an article that has a tank that is started completely dry and the end result is amazing looking the entire bottom of the tank is covered in a thick carpet of Hemianthus Callitrichoides. I am just now starting the set up of a 8'longx2'depthx20"tall and maybe want to do this set up it looks great. If anyone has this set up can I see pictures and some details on how long it takes to get this going
has anyone done a dry start?
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If I'm correct you're talking about and emersed growth? Find jcardona1 and look up his 55g setup. He's got pics all the way to the tear down.
It works very well with small ground cover or carpet plants that have little to no root structure at first.
Dwarf baby tears is probably the #1 plant that benefits from this because it naturally wants to float. So if you grow it emersed it can't float anywhere. And allows it to grow a root/anchoring structure.
Emersed plants also grow extremely fast because the air we breath contains 300+ppm of carbon dioxide. And water at equilibrium is around 4ppm. CO2 is a food source for all plants.
Dwarf baby tears is probably the #1 plant that benefits from this because it naturally wants to float. So if you grow it emersed it can't float anywhere. And allows it to grow a root/anchoring structure.
Emersed plants also grow extremely fast because the air we breath contains 300+ppm of carbon dioxide. And water at equilibrium is around 4ppm. CO2 is a food source for all plants.
yup i used the emersed method. works great for delicate ground cover. just make sure you co2 is cranked when you fill it with water or you will melt the plants!
kzimmerman;3834594; said:
I do not beleive so.
I am guessing you have sand subtrate?
If so switching to a heavier substrate will help wonders. I put mine in flourite black sand after chasing them for months in play sand. Flourite sand is a heavy grained sand allmost really fine gravel.
Nope, I'm using gravel, but about to switch them out to a 20 gallon minralized soil and sand substrate. The sand i got was general purpose/paver sand, it is alot coarser than play sand, so it may be alot better.