Lights and plants

[AlexT]

So would you say buy another 10 pots or so

If we are talking about the amazon frogbit, mine started multiplying quite quickly. I got 2 pots and now my 180L tank is covered with them, and I also have used some of them in a back up tank.

 

[Mathew1991]

Ah so maybe I don’t need any more the they should multiply?

 

[AlexT]

Ah so maybe I don’t need any more the they should multiply?

They should multiply, we can see what other's say about the ring etc.

 

[connorlindeman]

Frogbit grows very fast under the right conditions. You don't need to buy additional pots.

 

[Essjay]

The plants in the ring look as though they are tangled up together. Did you separate the individual plants?

Frogbit won't stay in the small ring, it will take over. I regularly threw handfuls away when I had frogbit. This grew from one pot, the surface of this tank is 107 x 45 cm.

 

[Mathew1991]

I didn’t no I just took it out the put and put it in whole, is that wrong

 

[Essjay]

If you want them to float properly, each individual plant needs to be separated from the clump and put onto the water surface. They'll quickly cover the tank, 1 plant deep, then if they aren't thinned out they'll grow several cm deep which blocks the light from the lower plants. I had to throw away handfuls almost every week to make sure there was some exposed water surface.

I have red root floater now and that grows as fast as the frogbit did. I have to throw away handfuls of that weekly as well.

 

[Mathew1991]

Ok maybe I will take them back out and separate them

Do you think I need any more plants in or do you think that looks about as much as I need on the bottom

 

[Mathew1991]

could I put a x Willisii we’re the Cory is we’re I have a drawing a red ring that will grow up round the wood

Or anything else I could put there