[Monster Fish]

No need to cut it when you first plant it. Let it get established first and form some runners before you trim it.

 

[Monster Fish]

Very nice set ups Monster and Hybridherp. What fertilizers do you guys use for your tanks?

Thanks. I haven't really updated those links but I used dirt, root tabs, and dry ferts.

 

[Monster Fish]

After doing some research about dry ferts, I was thinking may be NPK and CSM + B. Do you think that is a good idea?

Add a separate source of chelated iron and GH booster if your water is soft and you should be set.

 

[Monster Fish]

What kind of substrate are you using? The emersed grass will slowly die back but since the grass is already established, new growth should pop up quick. Injecting CO2 will speed up the process.

 

[Monster Fish]

Excel might work, depending on how strong your light is. Not sure about Mr. Aqua aquarium soil but the osmocote+ should be alright. How big of a tank is this and how many osmocote+ capsules did you use? Though the fact that the leaves turned yellow shortly after flooding is probably a cause for concern. Whenever I'd flood my dwarf hairgrass after a dry start, the emersed grass would still survive under water for quite some time. When they finally did start to die off, the plant had already shot up fully aquatic leaves.

 

[Monster Fish]

You used too many Osmocote+. The ammonia from the osmocote+ probably burned your grass.

 

[Monster Fish]

Some of the grass might have survived. Do some more water changes as you suggested.

 

[Monster Fish]

One every 3-4 square inches. Regular Osmocote has more ammonia based nitrogen. You don't need that much since it's very potent. Here's the product specification sheet for regular Osmocote:

http://www.scotts.com/smg/products/osmocote/PDF/Osmocote - O _ I Product Page.pdf

And here's the one for Osmocote+

http://www.alliedbotanical.com/pdf/Osmocote15912.pdf

 

[Monster Fish]

It carpeted pretty well for me with fluorite black sand. My next tank is gonna have black diamond blasting sand over dirt so I'll see how that goes.