Ok! What other plants would you reccokend for this!midnightwhale said:It should work! What I've found helpful is having a few different types of auxiliary plants and floaters.
Diana Walstad recommends this to deal with the alleopathy and different conditions in each tank.
Anyways, to answer your question, Guppy Grass fits the bill for an auxiliary plant.
My knowledge is limited, but I think it’s a plant fast growing plant that you put in a new aquarium to suck up all the excess nutrients in the water. You keep it until all of the slower growing plants have had time to get big enough to consume nutrients. It’s actually really interesting, here’s a link to the tropica page explaining it:tnrsmomma said:I've never heard the term "auxiliary plant" before. What does that mean?
Thibault Drake said:My knowledge is limited, but I think it’s a plant fast growing plant that you put in a new aquarium to suck up all the excess nutrients in the water. You keep it until all of the slower growing plants have had time to get big enough to consume nutrients. It’s actually really interesting, here’s a link to the tropica page explaining it:
What Donovan Jones recommend is good. Large floaters like Frogbit and Dwarf Water lettuce as well as some of the larger salvinias such as natans or cucullata are easy to remove and take out a lot of nutrients. Hygrophila Difformis, polysperma (illegal to sell or buy but if you have it, it works wonderfully), corymbosa are all nice plants to grow. Pearlweed, I'm not too sure on the actually scientific name of it, but it grows really well. Definitely look around on the BSTF on this forum and other forums, people usually sell the trimmings of their fast growing plants for free.Thibault Drake said:Ok! What other plants would you reccokend for this!
Not to hijack, but I just put fist sized chunk in my tank today. Did I just make a big mistake?Donovan Jones said:Guppy grass is like herpes in aquariums.
It's so weird. I bought pearlweed off of a website and expected a fast growing nitrate stem plant but I think I ended up with Monte Carlo. I ended up with a beautiful carpet instead of a midground plant. I later got a stem of what I thought was pearlweed from a guy selling Cherry Shrimp but that hasn't really flourished. I'm not sure if it can't compete with pre-established plants or it's just not having it for me. I've heard of other people having good success with it though.Katie993 said:I bought Pearlweed for that purpose but I can't get mine to grow. Everything else in the tank is growing but its been in there for about a month and nothing.
Katie993 said:I bought Pearlweed for that purpose but I can't get mine to grow. Everything else in the tank is growing but its been in there for about a month and nothing.
Plants are funny. I see some people say that guppy grass gets out of hand, but mine doesn't do much. My pearl weed, on the other hand, does fine and is making a dense mass.midnightwhale said:It's so weird. I bought pearlweed off of a website and expected a fast growing nitrate stem plant but I think I ended up with Monte Carlo. I ended up with a beautiful carpet instead of a midground plant. I later got a stem of what I thought was pearlweed from a guy selling Cherry Shrimp but that hasn't really flourished. I'm not sure if it can't compete with pre-established plants or it's just not having it for me. I've heard of other people having good success with it though.
