Hornwort Experiment

[QuietPlotter]

Hi everyone, I'm conducting a hornwort experiment just for fun! I put my clippings in three different cups. The middle cup and far right cup have varying amounts of Flourish, one has more one has less, the middle one has roughly about maybe more 1ml and the right one has .2 ml.

The left one has a peice of crab exoskeleton I found, lol.


I will be changing the water compeletely everyday with dechlorinated tap water and dose flourish, trying to see if they get to stay alive from Seachem Flourish!


They are in direct sunlight and an open window, and my hypothesis is that they are compeletely indestructable and will survive and maybe grow!

 

[QuietPlotter]

Here is daylight

 

[jlk]

I am curious to see if this has any effect & how this little experiment turns out!

 

[00youknowit00]

Interested to see how this turns out

 

[maxwellag]

What about the control?

 

[FreshwaterTropical]

Yeah you should set up a control!

 

[maxwellag]

Are the quality and length/size of clippings kept the same? IMO this experiment is hard to maintain as a fair test.
Location of the clippings relative to light also affects it.

 

[QuietPlotter]

Light is all the same only varying thing is the length, but that's not the concern, concern is growth and surviving.


Will do

 

[Gboy66]

My brother did an experiment with hornwort...chucked a bunch into the fountain outside. Couple weeks later i looked and all the needles had fallen off and were floating around. I put my hand in the water and it was freezing. I suspect thats why it died

 

[parrottbay]

Never had luck with them in my planted aquarium... with I did like you guys lol

 

[QuietPlotter]

I'm putting it in the lake lol invasive much???


Jk

 

[QuietPlotter]

UPDATE: Hornwort is alive in 38°-73° F temperatures, water keeps turning gooey like gel but only 40% of the plant is brown and few needles have fallen despite the fact I stopped dosing Flourish on day 2.

 

[Gboy66]

UPDATE: Hornwort is alive in 38°-73° F temperatures, water keeps turning gooey like gel but only 40% of the plant is brown and few needles have fallen despite the fact I stopped dosing Flourish on day 2.

Very interestinf that it can live in 38 degrees

 

[QuietPlotter]

Hornwort was still alive but I tossed it yesterday.



Woohoo

 

[parrottbay]

I have it in my 72 gal with the nova extreme and it is growing FAST