I have been meaning to try UG for a while now but there is pretty limited information on the internet about this plant. If any of you have any personal information about keeping it like specific requirements, please feel free to chime in.
Not usually no, UG growth is via runners, so occasionally
you get the stray runner growing above, you can replant
that.
The usual trim/mow is just like cutting grass, leaves
everywhere, mow it just before water change, net out
as much as possible, then water change gets the rest.
I finally got my UG to take off in my shrimp tank and now I'm fighting hair algae in it. Such a pain. I have almost pulled all my UG out trying to remove the hair algae. Now I've put about 15 amanos in there. Hopefully they will be able to be more selective than I can. I sure hope they take care of it. This was about the 4th or 5th time I have tried this stuff and was finally successful - just to be foiled by the hair algae! ARGG!!!
Oh and I'd also like to see some pics of your UG carpets and if you could list the tank specs like lighting and ferts and whatnot, that would be great!!! Thanks
For what it is worth, the UG in my tank is growing steadily while my HC has all but died. It really doesn't seem to be all that difficult a plant, the biggest challenge has been training it to send it's runners under the substrate.
I just want to see some UG I haven't already seen 20 times on google images even though several are amazing. I don't care if its patches or a full carpet but I just want to see something new. MedRed, please share the next time you take pics
I'm getting it from another member on this forum. You can put up a WTB on the swap n' shop and see if anyone has any.
There is also carnivorousplantnursery.com who have pretty good service from what I've heard.
I had this in a 20g with 2x65W and press CO2. This was a pic in late May before I took the tank down at the end of the school year. I will re-establish the tank and UG in the next week or so.
Was that the last pic before you took it down because that UG looked like it was forming a great carpet!!! When you get that tank set-up again, be sure to post progress pics as the UG grows!
Well, the UG that I recently got seemed to be doing well and then my tetras and SAE decided to have a snack. It is still alive but all of the tips are chewed and the chunk floated to the surface. I clipped off the plant portion of a fake foreground plant I had in a closet and it turned into a crossed plant weight -that floats-. So I went outside and gathered 4 small rocks to weight down each end. I figure that because UG grows so thick that it will cover the rocks and "weight". At least if the fish would bite it that the roots will first have a chance to establish themselves. What do you guys think of this? I'll post pics in a little to show more specifically what I mean.
that stinks... i guess my sae's have enough stuff to nibble on that they don't care about the UG. i'm going to need to get some more UG. I may end up redoing the 5.5 mini-m with ug...
I removed the SAE and there s hardly anything left of the UG but hopefully there is enough to let grow back. Even though I really doubt it
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