Grass In My Tank

[alexbinge]

Hi guys i want to get grass and some plants but mainly grass. I am re doing my tank with sand and i was wondering if i need to put substrates under the sand. Also does any one know where i can get grass seed or where i can get some grass that will spread.

 

[mike455555]

grass... you want dwarf hairgrass. iv bought some from here . do you dose your tank with ferts? and what lighting do you have?

if you use fertilizer i don't think you would need a plant substrate. but its always beneficial?

 

[alexbinge]

i dont know the exact lighting but i tithnk it is the natural t4 lighting i have got the juwel rio 180 and it was the lights that come with it. I do not dose my tank at the moment. I used to have some plants and i dosed the tank daily but it didnt seem to work. I would much rather not do daily dosing so if i havr the substrait would that bo ok to only use that.

 

[mike455555]

this is my 20l tank with the grass starting off

i used mud from my local stream and also root tabs. it seemed to die off a little where the mud was. but its spread out from the root tabs. you could go with plant substrate it would be beneficial

plants alive is also a great site. good delivery and good quality of the plants =]

theres another 2 types of hairgrass blem (its tip's grown down into the substrate instead of up) and Elocharis acicularis which is taller

it will need some type of fertilizer in some form or another, weather dosing, substrate, or root tabs

its a medium demand plant so needs fairly good light. and will benefit from co2 and ferts

 

[alexbinge]

ok thank you very much for helping i think i will get the substrates and the dose my tank once or maby 2 times a week thank you again your info has been verry usful. O one more thing i just saw a post that said bubbles are not good for plants is this true.

 

[mike455555]

bubbles i think are fine unless your dosing co2, then it will defuse into the atmosphere faster, and your just wasting your co2. otherwise i dont think there good or bad for plants? im unsure if the levels of co2 and oxygen differ from that in a aquarium without injection, if it does you might gain or lose co2 from the aquarium. but it wouldn't be by much (i wouldn't of thought though)