Morning,
Right, I'm getting really really annoyed with my plants at the moment. I'm very close to jacking this whole thing in as it's driving me around the bend !! The only reason why I've not is that I've spent to much money to just walk away, but I'm seriously considering it.
I'm not trying to do anything special, only got a smallish tank (23gl), got my eco-complete, lights, seachem stuff, Nutrafin Co2 everything that I think that I pretty much needed to get a half decent tank in place.
After loads of reading up on various plants, making sure that I got the correct ones for my light levels I made the purchace. I even bought myself some tweezers so that I can plant successfully.
Now I'm specifically talking about my forground ones : Crypt Becketii, Cryptocoryne Lucens, Pygmy Chain Sword
I've planted them, some of them acually pretty deep in the substrate, and they look a-ok when they're first planted.
I go upto bed, come down in the morning and 70% of them are floating around the top of my tank !!. I plant them again, go to work, come home 9 hours laters, and surprise surprise about 70% of them are floating at the top again !
I'm sure that it's not my fish that are pulling them up: few male guppies, neon tetras, cherry barbs, and some zebra dinos so I'm sure that it's not them going around pullin them up.
Obviously I can't put lead weights around the bottom of these small plants to hold them down - SO HOW DO I SUCCEED
??
Right, I'm getting really really annoyed with my plants at the moment. I'm very close to jacking this whole thing in as it's driving me around the bend !! The only reason why I've not is that I've spent to much money to just walk away, but I'm seriously considering it.
I'm not trying to do anything special, only got a smallish tank (23gl), got my eco-complete, lights, seachem stuff, Nutrafin Co2 everything that I think that I pretty much needed to get a half decent tank in place.
After loads of reading up on various plants, making sure that I got the correct ones for my light levels I made the purchace. I even bought myself some tweezers so that I can plant successfully.
Now I'm specifically talking about my forground ones : Crypt Becketii, Cryptocoryne Lucens, Pygmy Chain Sword
I've planted them, some of them acually pretty deep in the substrate, and they look a-ok when they're first planted.
I go upto bed, come down in the morning and 70% of them are floating around the top of my tank !!. I plant them again, go to work, come home 9 hours laters, and surprise surprise about 70% of them are floating at the top again !
I'm sure that it's not my fish that are pulling them up: few male guppies, neon tetras, cherry barbs, and some zebra dinos so I'm sure that it's not them going around pullin them up.
Obviously I can't put lead weights around the bottom of these small plants to hold them down - SO HOW DO I SUCCEED
??
Its just harder. Or plant them through a net and put the net under the gravel.
