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Alright, I started the tank with Christmas moss, it’s been going for a couple months now and is looking great.
Last week I rescaped my 20gal setup up. During the rescape, I added lots of plants.
I will go through each plant and what is happening so far with it.
Anubias nana
I’ve got three of these, they’re roots look great. A few of the leaves are starting to melt, but very slowly. I understand that melting leaves can be normal in my research that I have done so far. I’m not too worried about these plants as they are still looking very green and look otherwise healthy. They also spent two weeks in my quarantine tank before moving to this one a week ago. That’s a lot of change in a short amount of time.
crypts wendtii
have two of these, each plant had 4 leaves each roughly 1.5-2” long. So far each plant has lost one leaf to melting and both plants have new leaves growing. Only in 7 days! I imagine I may lose the other leaves but these ones are not growing too quickly to worry about maintenance just yet.
cork screw vals
None of them looked to healthy at the store, but I could skip a coffee for a day and throw $2 at a plant. As expected, existing leaves seem to be dying back a bit, but it’s already got at least one new leaf that is already about 2”
water wisteria
These ones were already 10-12” tall, came in a bunch of 4. They had enough roots at the bottom that i just stuck them into the substrate. Lots of the original leaves are melting away. But tons of new growth at the top of the plant, man does this thing grow quick. Most of these plants are also rooting quickly from both the first and second leaf nodes up from the bottom.
should I be maybe pulling these plants up, trimming them and replanting them with the new roots? Not sure what to do there.
red ludwigia
Same deal as the wisteria, although not as quickly. Lots of new growth, most of it is at the top, but also growing new leaves at existing leaf nodes. Rooting at the leaf nodes is a little less than wisteria as well. And one of them broke free, so I’ve been floating that one until it roots enough to plant.
water change day is tomorrow and I think before I change the water, I am going to trim most of the old leaves from the wisteria and lugdwigia. I hope this will encourage new growth.
Maybe I can cut the wisteria back and put the cuttings into my 10gal?
So with all that, I’m looking for any advice on how to go about maintaining, mostly the last two, plants. They’re growing much quicker than I anticipated.
Stay tuned below for some awful(ly) funny pictures: one where my diamond neon photobombed the picture I was trying to take of the wisteria roots, and another where I stuck my finger in the frame!
Last week I rescaped my 20gal setup up. During the rescape, I added lots of plants.
I will go through each plant and what is happening so far with it.
Anubias nana
I’ve got three of these, they’re roots look great. A few of the leaves are starting to melt, but very slowly. I understand that melting leaves can be normal in my research that I have done so far. I’m not too worried about these plants as they are still looking very green and look otherwise healthy. They also spent two weeks in my quarantine tank before moving to this one a week ago. That’s a lot of change in a short amount of time.
crypts wendtii
have two of these, each plant had 4 leaves each roughly 1.5-2” long. So far each plant has lost one leaf to melting and both plants have new leaves growing. Only in 7 days! I imagine I may lose the other leaves but these ones are not growing too quickly to worry about maintenance just yet.
cork screw vals
None of them looked to healthy at the store, but I could skip a coffee for a day and throw $2 at a plant. As expected, existing leaves seem to be dying back a bit, but it’s already got at least one new leaf that is already about 2”
water wisteria
These ones were already 10-12” tall, came in a bunch of 4. They had enough roots at the bottom that i just stuck them into the substrate. Lots of the original leaves are melting away. But tons of new growth at the top of the plant, man does this thing grow quick. Most of these plants are also rooting quickly from both the first and second leaf nodes up from the bottom.
should I be maybe pulling these plants up, trimming them and replanting them with the new roots? Not sure what to do there.
red ludwigia
Same deal as the wisteria, although not as quickly. Lots of new growth, most of it is at the top, but also growing new leaves at existing leaf nodes. Rooting at the leaf nodes is a little less than wisteria as well. And one of them broke free, so I’ve been floating that one until it roots enough to plant.
water change day is tomorrow and I think before I change the water, I am going to trim most of the old leaves from the wisteria and lugdwigia. I hope this will encourage new growth.
Maybe I can cut the wisteria back and put the cuttings into my 10gal?
So with all that, I’m looking for any advice on how to go about maintaining, mostly the last two, plants. They’re growing much quicker than I anticipated.
Stay tuned below for some awful(ly) funny pictures: one where my diamond neon photobombed the picture I was trying to take of the wisteria roots, and another where I stuck my finger in the frame!
