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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: My Plants Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:38 am | |
| Here are some pics of my plants This is my 10g planted with 4-4.5WPG of light, co2 and ferts feeding my plants. 23" red tiger lotus in my 55 gallon. Hygro Some of my Sunset/Green Hygro that one lucky person got for $15 shipped! | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:03 am | |
| 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. | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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. | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:27 am | |
| My state considers Red Ear Sliders to be a noxious weed and they keep giving me them to find homes for. 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? | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:34 am | |
| Yea! What size tank is it? | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:11 am | |
| 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. | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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. | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:02 am | |
| 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? | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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. | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:43 pm | |
| 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. | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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. | |
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kiokie Member
Posts : 289
Age : 53 Location : West Melbourne, Fl.
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:43 pm | |
| Nice looking plants, I like the ones that look like caladiums. | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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. | |
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Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist
Posts : 4566
Age : 44 Location : New Mexico USA Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:55 pm | |
| Nice...how am I missing these threads~ | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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. | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:03 am | |
| 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. | |
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Bk828 Member
Posts : 8
Age : 38
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:26 am | |
| Nice Mike... The Gymno is one hell of a plant | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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 | |
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Bk828 Member
Posts : 8
Age : 38
| Subject: Re: My Plants Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:32 pm | |
| 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 | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: My Plants Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:51 am | |
| I agree. It can be a pain in the but. | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:48 am | |
| 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. | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| 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 | |
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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: My Plants Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:10 pm | |
| 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. | |
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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: My Plants Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:51 am | |
| care full you might end up with an arowana Th moss I had did quite well to the point that it got wucked up into my filter. | |
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