My Plants

Subject: My Plants Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:38 am

Here are some pics of my plants

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This is my 10g planted with 4-4.5WPG of light, co2 and ferts feeding my plants.

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23" red tiger lotus in my 55 gallon.

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Hygro

Some of my Sunset/Green Hygro that one lucky person got for $15 shipped!

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

I've never seen that Hygro stuff before. How sturdy is it? Is it a fast grower? If you end up with some extra again, let me know I'd be interested to try it out for some variety down here. Smile

Subject: Re: My Plants Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:44 am

I have mine under 4-4.5wpg so they grow extreamly fast. I have 3 types of hygro, Green, sunset and Giant hygro. All of them are easy to grow and they need medium low light to grow. The giant hygro has a thick stem and is verry sturdy. The others are not so sturdy and can break easy if you pull on them to hard. I'll gladly send you some when I more to spare. With the green and sunset make sure your state doesen't consider it to be a noxious weed.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

My state considers Red Ear Sliders to be a noxious weed and they keep giving me them to find homes for. Wink

One of my bigger tanks still has a UVB bulb in it from a turtle that was in there, so maybe I'll move out what's in there and try and set that up as an actual plant growing tank. I think that should work good right?

Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:34 am

Yea! What size tank is it?

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

It's a 30. I was patching up an Asian Box Turtle in it. Actually I think I'll need to move the clown loaches in for a little while. I know there were a good bunch of little snails in there last time I looked. Tho maybe the remaining comets got them..

I'm so lazy sometimes. Smile

Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:47 am

Clown loaches shouldnt bother the plants. If your going to do a planted tank I would upgrade the lights from the normal tank lights to one of these Lights.

Just keep in mind how many watts per gallon you want and make sure the bulbs are 6500k for color temp.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

So what's the difference between those and the UVB bulbs?

My uvb bulb boxes don't list the color temp on the package but seeing as they're trying to mimic the sun for reptiles I would think they'd be as good as the ones you linked too right?

Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:33 pm

If im not mistaken the uv lights will emit a different color spectrum than the bulbs used for plants. What does the UV light do for the reptiles? Im not familiar with reptiles.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

UVB bulbs are essentially sunlight in a can. They're a pretty good approximation of sitting outside on a sunny day. Most reptiles need 'em so they can produce vitamin D3.

I haven't tested them on plants, but I would think they'd work out fairly well.

Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:56 am

Humm. Give it a shot and let me know how it works out. I would do it to a small amount of plants at first that way you dont spend alot of money on something that would die in 3 weeks.

Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:43 pm

Nice looking plants, I like the ones that look like caladiums.

Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:50 am

Thank you! I'll have to update these pics because I moved a ton of stuff around.

Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:55 pm

Nice...how am I missing these threads~

Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:23 pm

Dunno. I'll post a pic of my 20 high when I get home. I wish my Pleco would stop up rooting plants in my 55g that thing would be mint! I dont think hes going to move into the new tank with the rest of the fish.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

My pleco seems to be fairly well behaved, it's those gourami's that are the diggers in my plant tank. One of these days I need to move them.

Member Posts : 8 Age : 38

Nice Mike... The Gymno is one hell of a plant Smile

Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:12 pm

Thanks BK it took me along time to finally get all of the gymno out of my tank. Damn leafs were everywhere

Member Posts : 8 Age : 38

lol i remember when i just started a planted tank and it was one of my first plants.. I was so HAPPY to see a simple leaf give off roots and then turn into a whole plant (later tree) Plant is nice but very hard to work with

Subject: Re: My Plants Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:51 am

I agree. It can be a pain in the but.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

I do amazingly good with regular old house plants and I grow all sorts of stuff to feed the torts, but except for things that are weeds, mint and hygro other plants are a complete pain in the balls to keep growing.

Still want to get merimo balls tho. Smile

Subject: Re: My Plants Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:39 am

I wouldn't mind trying out a merimo ball or a nice chunk of flame moss

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

I tried java moss and that stuff went all brown and gross in a few weeks. Tho the chunk I had was in bad shape to start with. I'm thinking of stopping at what used to be Big Al's by me and see what plants they now.

Subject: Re: My Plants Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:51 am

care full you might end up with an arowana What a Face

Th moss I had did quite well to the point that it got wucked up into my filter.

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