KimAnnKitz
Aquarium Advice Regular
This might seem like a total no brainer, but I'm wondering if I can get any advice on this subject. My planted stem plants are getting uprooted replanted so much in one of my tanks that the stems are getting mushy before they can root. As a result the plants get pinched back to the good part and replanted. Sometimes I find them floating again in minutes or hours. I as assuming my mystery snails are doing this as they slide over them. I have put led weights on a few of the stems, which solves the problem with them floating but I don't know the long term disadvantages of the weights. I also tried the rubbery plant anchors that you cut an X in and insert stems. These seemed to cause the ends of the stems to turn to mush faster so I took them off...BUT they are working in two of my 2 gallon tanks. The plants that keep getting uprooted are Bacopa, Staurogyne Repens, moneywort, pennnywort and Ludwigia. I have a plant substrate with a thin layer of sand as the planting bed in the most disturbed tank and Tahitian Moon sand in another tank that also ends up with some "floaters". Any help or advice to keep these plants PLANTED so they can root? If I keep shortening the stems I am no going to have any plants left! It's making me crazy!