AnimalKrazed
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Hi all, pleased to join this part of the forum. This is the first time I have tried for plants in the aquarium, so I am sticking with relatively easy/low light plants. I figure I will post what plants I have added to the tank before asking for your advice. Currently I have stocked my aquarium with two marimo moss balls, which have been in for nine days so far.
Five days ago I got myself a Banana Lily plant that is doing great so far (it's budded off two new leaves so far in my tank and starting a third I think), and seven strands of Bacopa that all came together. The Bacopa is something I have been struggling with keeping in the sand, but I did see white rootlets starting to grow and bright green on the top most leaves on the planted portions of some of the strands when I cleaned the tank today. Do you guys have any advice for keeping the trouble making strands in the sand? I'm beginning to think that maybe I should just tie down a couple of the strands to a chunk of driftwood and bury that in the sand.
I run the 5.5 gallon with a ReefSun 10w light. It was the closest I could get to the two watts per gallon advised by the threads I found here. I also got myself a fertilizer today, Flourish Comprehensive Supplement, because I want to make sure that the tank does well. This looked like the most all purpose of all the ferts at the LFS for a water gardener NEWB like me. If you want to know more about the tank itself, here is a link to a thread I have on it.
Today I got myself a little bundle of Java Moss. It was in a 1-2-Grow container and I figured that must be doing well since all I could see was the green of the moss from my position looking down into the cup. I brought it home and now I don't think it was doing too well, since it was yellowing at the bottom of the strands. When I looked it up online, I am seeing that everyone agrees that yellowing is a really bad sign in Java Moss. Here is a picture.
Do you guys think that the moss is salvageable? I read on a couple threads that if I separated the green portions from the yellow bits that the green would grow it back. Could I do that with this?
Thanks for reading through all of this. Any help that you can provide me is appreciated.
Five days ago I got myself a Banana Lily plant that is doing great so far (it's budded off two new leaves so far in my tank and starting a third I think), and seven strands of Bacopa that all came together. The Bacopa is something I have been struggling with keeping in the sand, but I did see white rootlets starting to grow and bright green on the top most leaves on the planted portions of some of the strands when I cleaned the tank today. Do you guys have any advice for keeping the trouble making strands in the sand? I'm beginning to think that maybe I should just tie down a couple of the strands to a chunk of driftwood and bury that in the sand.
I run the 5.5 gallon with a ReefSun 10w light. It was the closest I could get to the two watts per gallon advised by the threads I found here. I also got myself a fertilizer today, Flourish Comprehensive Supplement, because I want to make sure that the tank does well. This looked like the most all purpose of all the ferts at the LFS for a water gardener NEWB like me. If you want to know more about the tank itself, here is a link to a thread I have on it.
Today I got myself a little bundle of Java Moss. It was in a 1-2-Grow container and I figured that must be doing well since all I could see was the green of the moss from my position looking down into the cup. I brought it home and now I don't think it was doing too well, since it was yellowing at the bottom of the strands. When I looked it up online, I am seeing that everyone agrees that yellowing is a really bad sign in Java Moss. Here is a picture.
Do you guys think that the moss is salvageable? I read on a couple threads that if I separated the green portions from the yellow bits that the green would grow it back. Could I do that with this?
Thanks for reading through all of this. Any help that you can provide me is appreciated.