2lucky

Hey everyone!

I've had a Dwarf Hairgrass in my aquarium for about a week and it is thriving.

I came in one of those little black plastic pots and grass is poking out the sides -i think its getting too big. I want to move it from the pot so it can grow all over the gravel, but the roots have grown all around the pot.

Does anyone know anyway around this? If I pull the plant away will i break the roots and kill it?

Also how do you vacuum the gravel when it's covered in the grass. I want to know the answer to this before I do anything radical!

Thankyou! M

kathyshovel

hi u could cut the plastic pot open a couple of times around the top down the sides and then across the bottom if possile and being gentle open it up then transplant into the substrate u could check out www. plantgeek.net and see what they say .as for cleaning i not sure ,but as i noticed quote "-still dont know what ele to put in !"have u though about shrimp they are great cleaners i seen them for-sale on www.livefish.com.au they have different shrimp ,blue ones sometimes but not the amano or crystal red shrimp (i do have a phone number of a breeder for crystal red shrimps in melbourne email if u want the number ) i have read that they are good cleaners , uneaten food and algae i hope i been of some help as i am just a newbe too

dmm28

I just got hair grass yesterday. The guy I bought mine from said you can and should separate it gently though, and as for vacuuming also gently.