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[crazycat]

ok. so i now have 4wpg. and i pulled out an entire black lab-sized mess of egeria natans (which just takes over!) so now the light reaches down to the bottom of the tank better...

and i went for it...i planted glosso (gulp). my tank now looks like it got a very bad hair implant. i couldn't do it stem by stem, because there was just too much of it, and it was all clumped together in little packets--but i did the best i could--with my brand new surgical tweezers.

how long before the glosso usually takes root and begins to fill in? or, how long before i fail miserably and it all dies?

cross your fingers, kiss your elbow, and wish me luck...

 

[rich311k]

Good luck. I have everything crossed I can for you. Growth should be apparent in a week or two,

 

[crazycat]

thanks rich!

 

[malkore]

the bad part about planting in clumps, is that it'll choke out half the clump and it'll die.

Keep CO2 at 30ppm, up to 35ppm, for optimal glosso growth IMO.

 

[crazycat]

thanks malkore. i just wasn't able to separate all the stems. but i will replant all the ones that get uprooted. my co2 is currently about 27--but my ph monitor seems to have broken--sigh--and they say houses are money pits...

 

[travis simonson]

This is by far the best on-line planting guide for Glosso (or Riccia, or E. triandra, or . . . OK, I'll stop there ):

http://www.nature-aquarium.com/glosso.htm

It's where I learned to do it the right way