Plant indetification???

[I am a Newby]

The small floater is duckweed. It will take over your tank. Some people like it, some fish eat it. But if you don't want it, remove every single plant you can find, and keep looking every few days. I speak from experience having just tried to rid both my tanks of this invasive pest plant

Ok tnx i think i will remove it all and try growing it in bucket or tub and eventualy replacing hornswort with it and ring on top of water.
I like way hornswort looks planted in subtrate and i have valisneria planted also so dont want hornsworth on top to get tangled with valisneria and planted hornswort as i know i will end up puling them from subtrate by accident if they do.

 

[I am a Newby]

The small floater is duckweed. It will take over your tank. Some people like it, some fish eat it. But if you don't want it, remove every single plant you can find, and keep looking every few days. I speak from experience having just tried to rid both my tanks of this invasive pest plant

also let me ask you since u have shrimp on profile pic
Got them yesterday 7 crerrys and i noticed one might be carrying egs she sometimes open them out and fans them is this carrying female?

 

[TheTenthDoctor]

tnx mate yeah i conformed about fox tail thats how they cal it here and tnx for naming crypt for me.
Maybe u can confirm if this small stuff on post above is duckweed for me and how can i grow it maybe remove it and grow it in tub?

That’s definitely duckweed. Get rid of it. It’s a pest

 

[Essjay]

Got them yesterday 7 crerrys and i noticed one might be carrying egs she sometimes open them out and fans them is this carrying female?

Yes that's a female carrying eggs. It's impossible to say when, but the eggs will hatch into miniature adults and they are tiny. It is very easy to suck them up when doing a water change. I use a bucket and empty the old water with a jug to check for baby (and sometimes not so baby) shrimps.

 

[I am a Newby]

Yes that's a female carrying eggs. It's impossible to say when, but the eggs will hatch into miniature adults and they are tiny. It is very easy to suck them up when doing a water change. I use a bucket and empty the old water with a jug to check for baby (and sometimes not so baby) shrimps.

Did water change yesterday when i was adding plants just before i added shrimps.
I wont do anymore big water changes plan is only 30% once a week from now on, will add something on suction to not pull them out tnx.

 

[I am a Newby]

That’s definitely duckweed. Get rid of it. It’s a pest

Nah i think i will keep it first tank ever so i just want it all hahaha

 

[Essjay]

Just to warn you about the duckweed. A few months ago there must have been a couple of them hiding in a plant I bought. Every week I was pulling out duckweed but by the next water change there were more than the previous week despite having removed all the ones I could see. And they appeared in the shrimp tank as well. They collected together in clumps in any space between other floating plants.

A week or so ago I devoted two afternoons to ridding myself of this pest. In the main tank I had water sprite, red root floater and duckweed. I spent hours separating the water sprite, washing it by shaking in a bucket of old tank water, scooping out duckweed with a net before putting the water sprite back in the tank. Since then I have removed half a dozen plants each week. I gave up trying to decontaminate the red root floater so that went in the bin.
Then a repeat with the shrimp tank which had just red root floater and duckweed. Luckily this tank is a lot smaller than my main tank. I removed the whole lot into a bucket of warm water, picked out one by one individual plants of red root floater and put them into a second bucket of water, shook each one then into a third bucket of water before finally back into the tank. I'm still finding duckweed in the tank.

This is why we advise removing them while you can still do so easily.

 

[I am a Newby]

yeah i understand they are hard to remove but my plan is to have only them as floaters and remove this fox tail from surface.
Remove all now as there is very small number of them, dont think there is enough to cover glass of water top and cultivate more in bucket with fertilizer and small light source.
And for fox tail i did this and planted it in subtrate so if it doesn lose all spikes and stays lookeing like this i will do same with ones that are on surface now and remove rest of it and just add duckweed as floaters.
Here is what i have done so far and in last post u can see what ive done to fox tail. Cant find pics must have deleted them so here is entire build log.

First tank build

I have been building tanks for forty years, If the tube doesn't say aquariums don't use it. This is the silicone I have used for the last forty years

www.fishforums.net

 

[Essjay]

As long as you don't mind having it your tank forever......

 

[I am a Newby]

I see you have 30cm cube tank as shrimp in description any pics or videos of it here just want some ideas about it.
Looks like mine are quite contemp in here very docile chilling and eating white fungus from wood and biofilm and not much going on with them last night they swim like crazy today they chill i did add some food last night nothing today, im just made small feeding tray so i can monitor if they eat or not tommorow.

Never mind searched and find it

 

[Essjay]

Was it in the Photos & Videos forum? I updated that 3 months ago and it looks pretty much the same except there's a lot more moss. I need to thin it out.

 

[I am a Newby]

Was it in the Photos & Videos forum? I updated that 3 months ago and it looks pretty much the same except there's a lot more moss. I need to thin it out.

Think it was sorry for not replying been out of town for 3 weeks.

 

[I am a Newby]

Ok need help- again i got my hands on these 2 plants and was told second one is some anubia but it looks like it is stem plant.
First 2 pics are one and second 2 other plant any help in nameing them.
First one im gona plant in substrate but not sure about second one?

 

[TheTenthDoctor]

The second one looks like anubias OR cardianal plant.

 

[I am a Newby]

The second one looks like anubias OR cardianal plant.

it was sold to me as some anubias but to me it looks like it cant be planted in subtrate as if that is rhizome it grows upright not vertical to ground i recived it in small pot planted and now when i ask them they say they dont knwo should i plant it in subtrate or not

what do you think of first one i think thats some stem plant and can go in subtrate or not?