Nitrates beware!

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Please let us know the results.

Don't you have to add light more than a few hours? I mean isn't the growth rate (thus the nitrate extraction) proportional to light availability?

I just added some "Water Lettuce" (Pistia) to my 15g tank where I have two BGKs. I've been doing 60% WC/week on that and want to see whether I can extend that.
 
Would you believe this stuff can live through NJ Winters outdoors? My Aunt had over 100 of these things all around the house and one day my uncle took them all outside and planted them in along his side fence. They're about 45' tall now, they turn brown all winter long and come back every summer with a vengeance. He never trims them as thunderstorms tend to take the tops off of them easily enough with high winds. And now the church next door to his house doesn't send the cops over every time he has company.

Mike
 
My understanding is that the plant needs only minimal indirect sunlight to do well. I will play with it and see what amount of time works best but from what I have read the leaves will turn yellow and wither if it gets too much light

Awesome to hear that they are so hardy I don't exactly have a green thumb :ROFL:
 
Nice, clean and well thought out setup. I think it would grow faster in high nitrate tanks. My pothos is slow growing as I run 10ppm, it was 20ppm until recently, I think the pothos has slowly dropped off the last 10. It goes wild in high nitrates.

Interesting to follow, I might get a bit out of interest.
 
Thanks

If I can get my Nitrates between 5-10 I would be more than happy with this experiment. I think zero Nitrates is probably not realistic considering the size of some of my fish.
 
Very nice! Can it survive out side? So is your plan to let the roots grow to the bottom of the tank and then remove that tray?

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I am just going to let it keep going as long as it doesn't clog anything. I think it could probably grow outside in some ares but I don't really know for sure. I know someone had mentioned that it could even survive a New Jersey winter. But there are a ton of different bamboo and ivy species so who knows.
 
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