No CO2, No Ferts, yet growth!

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pjsmetana

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I've never used CO2 in this tank, and I ran out of fertilizer about 3 months ago... yet my Banana plants are growing like weeds! Love it! Just wanted to share in my joy :)

3 days of growth, rhizome to leaves!
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I just trimmed this one, but those top leaves have been there almost 6 months
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and again, diff ISO and lighting. The particles are fish food, and I just fed them to get them all out of hiding. @1250 ISO I still couldn't get a shot of my black/white marble Molly with the yellow tail. The sucker is fast!
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Don't you mind the algae on my rock, I grow algae in a separate tank and swap rocks out when the Mollies have eaten most of it. They love the stuff! Java Moss seems to like my algae growth tank too lol
 
Banana plants are great. I have some Banana and dwarf lily in my very low lighted 75 and they grow like crazy. You plants look great.
 
Might have to invest in one of these!! Am no good at plants what so ever. I ur opnion this a good starter plant for a convict breeder tank?? (My convicts host a rock and don't move the gravel and they ain't gna breed anytime soon cuz he beat up his gf) i don't have CO2 nor fertilizer also
 
What kind of fert are you using?? Plants look great, I think it might be your magical red ruby rock.!!.:grinno::D just joshin around..
 
Zfishies;4988143; said:
Might have to invest in one of these!! Am no good at plants what so ever. I ur opnion this a good starter plant for a convict breeder tank?? (My convicts host a rock and don't move the gravel and they ain't gna breed anytime soon cuz he beat up his gf) i don't have CO2 nor fertilizer also
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These are excellent starter plants along with the dwarf lily plants you get in the multiple bulb packs.
 
Thanks guys.

fishmamma;4988149; said:
What kind of fert are you using?? Plants look great, I think it might be your magical red ruby rock.!!.:grinno::D just joshin around..
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No ferts....

The red rock is goofy, I know, but it was my wifes idea, and she still likes it. Originally she wanted pink...

Yes, I think the Banana is a great starter plant. I've recently put 2 of them into my Oscar tank (and 2 in my Betta). Although my Oscars will bust a heater in half, they don't mess with the Banana plants. I guess they are bitter, or something, but its odd that the only aquatic species of Rosette is also the only aquatic thing my Oscars wont touch. The down side of these in my 150g tank is the 2 I put in there seem to have carried in Limpets... So, kids, guys, gals, hermaphrodites, wash your plants thoroughly before putting them into your tank, no matter how good you think the grower was or how great the LFS is.
 
fishmamma;4988483; said:
I meant before you stopped using them 3 months ago, what kind where you using?
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API liquid or w/e was the cheapest liquid on sale at the time, long as it had pot ash and iron.

JamesF;4988547; said:
Don't forget, the "bananas" on the banana plant is there for nutrient storage. They grow well with very poor nutrients for a very long time. You'll see the bananas slowly shrink down to nothing eventually. All plants store nutrients for lean times, some just do it better.
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Actually, I went to move one of my very large, mature, Banana plants about 5 months ago and broke all the bananas off. I thought it would shrivel and die... but its been growing as if nothing ever happened to it. So far, these plants seem darn near impossible to kill. And this one plant absolutely does not have even 1 tiny banana left attached anywhere. I should uncover the gravel and show you the proof... maybe I'll do that later.

Once I figure out propagation, and do it successfully (no information on it has been right thus far, but I'll figure it out) I'll be sure to post how on here.
Clippings don't work. Buried Clippings don't work. Broken rhizome and replanted away from the rest of the plant doesn't work either. Next up is trying to bury a fully mature live and unclipped leaf, still attached, and see if it goes adventagious (or w/e its called lol), then do the same with a fully matured "lilly pad" that shoots from the top of these, as they don't spawn white flowers as previously mentioned in the record books. W/e works, I'll share my info. I want all my tanks to be near overgrown with this plant. Its just so beautiful!
 
I fully believe that it is growing with no bananas. I didn't say they wouldn't. Just that they are a nutirent storage system for when the plant is on hard times. I was referring to the bananas themselves shrinking, not the plant. I may have worded that poorly. :)
Also, once those leaves hit the surface, they have all the CO2 they need.
It's nice to see bananas doing so well. Yours are beautiful. For some reason I never had luck with this plant, no matter the conditions.
 
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