Beautiful tanks,
@dasaltemelosguy !
@WhistlingBadger , I grow two emersed plants for nitrate removal:
- Cardinal plant (
Lobelia cardinalis) gets beautiful red/purple foliage when closer to the light. Have them in a shallow tank (pea puffer) and also the Vampire crab paludarium which has tannins (black water).
- Peace lily (
Spathiphyllum) in the shallow tank for the pea puffer.
I used to have pothos but decided to remove it since the critters peck at the roots when getting snails. These plants do an amazing job at Nitrate removal. I do not fertilize because one time I tried, algae took over, so it proved to me that the nutrient balance was there without fertilizers.
The added bonus is that they are easy to propagate. Here is the one in the paludarium:
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