That's what I'm trying to achieve but they just grow straight up and not bush out
Plants stretching need advice
- Thread starter Potluck
- Start date
The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
If you saw her beautiful golden yellow color before, you would disagree...but she is still my "orange" queen of the tank.
She still looks beautiful
ZxC
Aquarium Advice Addict
That's because that pic is a mother plant with a bunch of side shoot/offspring plants growing from the base.
If you want to achieve that look you'll have to plant smaller wendtii's amongst the larger ones.
Queen of the tank...she may be an Angel, bit sometimes an aggressive devil!
Ohhhhhhh, so I should bunch up 2-3 Wendtii? I don't have a mother plant I did read trimming roots leads to fuller growth but I'm not trying to uproot my plants every couple weeks lol,, would trimming a few of the longest leaves promote more growth in the middle like an amazon sword? Or would this just because of my lack of par.
If I got a stronger light with more penetration the plants would produce more growth in the middle im assuming and wouldn't grow as tall so fast as they aren't trying to reach the light so fast as the light is at the plant not at the water surface??
Especially around time to lay eggs , that is if you have a mated pair.
ZxC
Aquarium Advice Addict
It's fairly tough to keep them like that. The photo was taken right when the mother plant was bigger than the offspring plants. But in a month after that picture was taken the offspring plants will be just as big as the mother plant. What I do with sword/crypts is buy them small, grow them large, remove/sell and replace with smaller ones, repeat.
I have 4 Angels in that tank that just reached adulthood. Her and another ang fight so violently in a swirling way that they almost create whirlpools...I mean violent. She always wins but neither get hurt.
It's still very stressful on them to do that though, so I'm assuming you have 2 females and 2 males or 3 females and one male or 1 female and 3 males the configuration is complex lol
I think you're right. I actually think goldy is male. I think one of my koi is a female, because she did the egg laying move up an undergravel tube with the other koi following her waiting to fertilize the eggs. No eggs got laid because Goldy and the striper were there bothering them. I seperated the 2 koi to their own tank for 3 days and they wouldn't eat, so I put them back.
ZxC
Aquarium Advice Addict
It won't hurt that's for certain. Happy plants will not shed the lower leaves, meaning sufficient light, fertilizer and carbon.
Lol dennis wong is saying to throw on a twinstar, I'm not rich lol, or the satellite but that's also $250.00 dollars yikes
Current USA 18"-24" Satellite Plus PRO LED Light https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QVGH7CG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_EQ35Ab21H6CR9
ZxC
Aquarium Advice Addict
Sat+ Pro is "old" now. Much better options available. Twinstar is yes, a premium that comes with a premium price tag. T5-HO's are still hard to beat.
I can't go with t5's I have no ac and In the summer my tank would get blazing hot, the satellite is a very popular light and also very costly the 48"is 245.00, the finnex 24/7 is half that which I don't know why, Dennis said I'm Lacking par so I need to get a stronger light to penetrate to the bottom more but what my plants are doing is very common in low tech no soil no co2
ZxC
Aquarium Advice Addict
Yes, the fluval 3.0 is a far superior light than the sat+ pro and finnex. T5's will probably run cooler than high output LEDs anyway.... I've never had issues running 4 x 54W T5's over my 90 gal in terms of it heating the water either.
I'm very torn with finnex quality... too many stories of it burning out after the 1 year warranty period expired. Fluval has 3 year warranty, 100% water proof, fully customizable and more PAR if needed.
Okay so I've been researching what you posted, the satellite is 70 par at 18" but I can't find par ratings on the fluval, it's also $60.00 less than the satellite which is a bonus, dennis says the fluval is a really decent light and probably better built and it cheaper
ZxC
Aquarium Advice Addict
I'll get some PAR data for you. I know mine (2.0 version) is 130 PAR @ 14". Give me a minute and I'll dig up some more data.
Similar threads
