Plant Growth Spurt

Yup, tank went from looking like this:

To this:

I’m just over a week.

Anybody knows how quick frogbit grows? Could you sell it?

It grows very fast. I had to remove plants every month, sometimes less, or the plants were climbing on top of each other.

Yes it can be sold. There are several sellers on eBay with this in their listing. Some use the common name frogbit or Amazon frogbit, others use the Latin name. I sent some of my thinnings to a member on here, though I took some of the smaller plants to avoid crushing large leaves.

Essjay said:

It grows very fast. I had to remove plants every month, sometimes less, or the plants were climbing on top of each other.

Yes it can be sold. There are several sellers on eBay with this in their listing. Some use the common name frogbit or Amazon frogbit, others use the Latin name. I sent some of my thinnings to a member on here, though I took some of the smaller plants to avoid crushing large leaves.

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Thanks. I just made a thread about shipping within the UK? Any advice?

I've posted in that thread

My Anubias is trying to reach for the surface, looks like it's on stilts.
A lot of new leaves too.

StripySnailGirl04 said:

Anybody knows how quick frogbit grows? Could you sell it?

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Grows crazy fast, could definitely sell

Growth spurts are commonly caused in a change in nutrient levels. I you have all nutrients available in sufficient quantities plants will grow at a steady rate. Exactly how fast depends on light and CO2 levels. However in the majority of aquariums there is always at least one nutrient that has limited availability. So plants will grow until that nutrient runs. At that point growth stops. So if your growth stops for a few weeks or months some nutrients will build up in your tank but your plants will not be able to use them due to the one nutrient that is missing. And then something happens to your tap water or your substrate nd the nutrient deficiency is resolved and plant start growing.

in my tank there have been a number of times hen growth was very slow to nonexistant for months. And then I would figure out which nutrient was in short supply and added it .And then I would see a surge in growth until something else ran out. One of the biggest spurts I had was due to copper. At the time I was using a fertilizer labeled "Shrimp Safe" because it had no copper. Plants were slowly dying. I looked what I had and found my orchid fertilizer had copper in it. Since it was concentrated fertilizer and added a ridiculously tiny amount. At the next water change my anacharis had grown from about 8 inches long to about3 Feet long.

StripySnailGirl04 said:

My Anubias and Cryptocoryne are growing new stems, my floaters have much bigger leaves

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Note larger leaves could be a indication of a Zinc deficiency. Many fertilizers only provide about 0.001 ppm of zinc and copper. But for good plant growth you need about 0.02ppm of zinc and about 0.006ppm of copper.. in the past many homes had zinc coated iron pipes. Corrosion would add zinc to the water. but now many new homes have copper pipes. So no zinc is add to the water.. If you have copper pipes your fertilizer doesn't need copper since your pipes will add more than enough.

Today most new homes are built with plastic pipes. These don't corroded and won't add anything to the water. But Most manufactures are not adjusting their fertilizer recipes.

Just did a propagation experiment on the Myriophyllum. I'll have a little corner of the tank where experimental propagations will grow. I might use my last 4 nutrition capsules to boost the Myriophyllums at the back, in time for the next TOTM.

Oof did something stupid, let the floaters cover the vals now there are yellow vals

Sgooosh said:

Oof did something stupid, let the floaters cover the vals now there are yellow vals

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When was the last time you used root tabs?

PheonixKingZ said:

When was the last time you used root tabs?

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few months ago

Sgooosh said:

few months ago

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I’d add some more. Yellowing in plants is caused by lack of nutrients. The reason for them turning yellow is probably due to the lack of light, but adding root tabs will definitely help them perk back up.

PheonixKingZ said:

I’d add some more. Yellowing in plants is caused by lack of nutrients. The reason for them turning yellow is probably due to the lack of light, but adding root tabs will definitely help them perk back up.

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The root tabs I use have reviews that say they cause ammonia spikes