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Looks fine to me. IF you want it to be red,then yes more light.

With plants it takes patience not the fast growth people imagine plants will do in low tech. Moving them around is one setback after another if not a killer. Java ferns take months to build up a root system to grow on. If you want them to fill in an area fast? Then don't buy one,buy a whole...

I see that brown algae that grew where I could not reach at the far left corner-Syngonium roots and stems make it a hard reach- is now nearly clear of brown algae on the front panel. Most people would have said it was diatoms right?..well,brown algae can be a type of Cyano I would say now.

To put it another way- what large leafed plant is HARD to keep? Difficult? Tiger lotus can be fussy..vast majority of large leafed are good.

Thanks. But I have to remind that the BGA are part algae,part bacteria. That's why algaecides and UV lights dont kill them off. So for saving plants worth hundreds of dollars,in a pinch Erythromycin seems reasonable. My rainbow is looking better..and so is the whole tank.

Bacopa is large for a stem plant. I have that and the fish wont eat that or the one I used to have that was the golden Bacopa. Bacopa is the Arnold of stem plants.

On two or maybe three other aquarium plant boards they went straight to hostile when I said I use Erythromycin for the ultimate BGA killer. You would think I was a mad scientist breeding the next Covid 20. Those people never seemed to come to terms its LEGAL to buy and use those medications and...

Really,iron is pretty much all the plant additive you really need. Potassium distant second. Foods=fish poop and local water have enough of the rest. So I found some company that says hydroponic plants need about a tablespoon per 10 gallons once a week. How does that sound? Too much for...

One of my oldest and larger Rainbows came down with eye fungus. To make a long story short,it's worth it to treat the whole 240 gallon and stop that in its tracks. BUT,once again I see where antibiotics (Doxycycline) kills blue green algae ,smear algae ( gray on acrylic glass and very hard to...

Nano fish and aquarium people seem to enjoy what they are doing more than monster tank people. One seems to lean to artwork in what they set up and the other keeper also seems to hit a wall of losing interest sooner than the nano types. IMO of course,

Most of my plants are large leafed I noticed one day. Hence the post. Pearlweed was a great exception to the point,I sold it all off. Too much pruning and also..the roots could not hold the plant as it got some size..so it floated like a Macys balloon one day.

Some of those are too tasty to survive Rainbow fish and Barbs like Roselines. Others? Moss?..are growable but are they truly easy? C'mon,no. I agree that the larger the Crypt leaves the easier it is to grow and hardier too. Swords..You could include Jungle Val. Easiest of the Vals and ..big leafed.

That's another plus- large leafed plants are rarely 100% eaten. Small leafed stem plants? Rainbow's make salad out of them.

The closest to red in Crypts that is not Flamingo is 'Florida'. Another I meant to order and never got around to it. The Purple sword is the real deal..but its not a foreground plant. At first glance there is solda purple foreground plant...because it was grown emersed!..when dunked it turns a...

In general..large leaved plants in aquariums are easy to keep. When newbies look over...the Swords,the Crypts,the Aponogetons...Banana Plants...EZ.

There is Purple Sultan sword plant. I want to try that myself. From what I've seen its very purple and a slender sword. Amano planted it by the dozen close together in the Lisbon tank.

As I've picked up in four years of intense water plant culture is the general idea of my title. Most of the large leaved aquarium plants are easy to keep..and the smaller leafed are the hardest to keep-right? Swords,Java ferns,Anubias..E-Z. Monte Carlo to tiny leafed Rotala are...

You could shoot some hydrogen peroxide on it. After that reduce lighting to 8 hours a day or less. You might try the ultimate non chemical way- don't put the lights on for 3 days and cover the aquarium so its in pitch black. After all that? Stop with the too frequent water changes,clean your...

You got a steal in the striped cat. It stays small and keeps the stripes. So many of the striped/polka dotted cats grow to a foot and turn brown as they lose the dots.

Crypts need time to establish their root system. When they do? Then they are not slow growing. One plant to try is Sagittaria, tough leaves and strong roots- best planted in between stones or larger rock as to stop being dug out by the cichlids.

An update on the Syngonium. Like with no water changes? I no longer prune the vine. I just wrap it around itself. Does it like iron? Like a tortilla loves avocado! Adding iron makes a huge difference in growth. More update on an aquarium on the aquarium tomorrow..

I havent seen any ads on the old PC. I do have a trio of ad blockers. The problem with the site at first not loading properly and then doing so after a reload seems to have gone away. Congrats on fixing that, I think.

Just to report that Sword Plant Ozelot has grown a leaf larger than all the others and I don't know how tall they can get. Exact same for "Marble Queen" .Its story is it hadn't grown much in the near 3 years I've had it, The adding of iron in excess of what I used to add has changed it...

There is a channel where some young dude claims to be catching all kinds of wild aquarium fish in south Florida. Maybe one comment in 200 hundred calls the fish "planted for content" and he would be right. I can not believe the number of people who believe he's catching blue Platys and...

Lynnerzer,I used to think that way but the way these "tropical" mosses sail through winters has me thinking if NATIVE mosses might adapt to underwater,if they have to. Julia- you did that with native mosses? and they took to aquarium life? Time to experiment...

Last year I ordered some and put like 1/4 of it in a jar and the rest in the aquarium. I think I might have taken out too much one day in the aquarium and what was left died. So,all that was left was in a jar. It survived our California winter. Today I put some on a rock and try no.2 in the 240...

I think what makes me better than anybody else around is my humble modesty. It's what I love about myself.

Nah,just tired of the look and look alike sameness. Car channels are the same. Usually it takes the president or ceo of the company to NOT look like that.

The bottle? About $6 at any health store or market that carries all that stuff. I use about 3 pills per my 240 gallon. Seems to be right. Like one pill per 70 gallon.

It's also what you call what the banana clump is attached to. Yes,its used in botany too.

Lol,nah. You can go to Walgreens and buy a bottle of potassium gluconate pills. Cheap!

The Potassium seems to stop hole disease on Java fern and Hygrophyllas. I do feed 28 fish and including a herd of 4-6" Rainbow fish all they can eat as my aquarium also has a huge clump of Syngonium growing hydroponically along with with wall to wall aquarium plants.

So far so good with the liquid Home Depot iron. I will get an iron test kit soon. It seems to me all most aquarists need is iron and potassium. Those two really boost plant growth.

Last I looked at their advertisement,the website that sells nutrients has run out of powdered iron! Or,I would have ordered. The price was so low. But "Not in stock"..

Buenos Aires tetra are used to hot and cool temps. The whole deep South America has many interesting fish to seek out.

RAISE the water temperature to 84f. Mother nature wants you to make a temperature for the fish that it cant do on its own.

Paradise fish. Black Skirt tetras. Look up fishes from southern Brazil. They tend to be subtropical and into Argentina the tetras there take 60f for weeks if not months. At least they are imported. Other subtropical countries might not be in the hobby with fish collections exported.