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I recently set up this 55 gallon with a T8 shop light - as you can see a couple of the ludwigia stems are growing faster than the rest. I have seen some beautiful scaping in lots of tanks where the ludwigia looks lush and healthy. I am looking for some direction on how to achieve this.
I put this in red and as you can see the new growth is green (which is fine).
My question is - what is the best way for me to cut this to make it look good? Do I cut the tops, remove the bottoms and replant or just cut where a new offshoot is so I can have multiple shoots of the same stem?
This question is probably kind of elementary but honestly this is one simple part of keeping a planted tank that I have not been successful with in my large tank. Often in that tank I have lush tops, very skinny bottoms that grow algae. Could it be that the light isn't penetrating deep enough in these set ups? I don't spend enough aquascaping it either as it is a lot of work - working with this smaller 55 gallon set up is a bit easier.


I put this in red and as you can see the new growth is green (which is fine).
My question is - what is the best way for me to cut this to make it look good? Do I cut the tops, remove the bottoms and replant or just cut where a new offshoot is so I can have multiple shoots of the same stem?
This question is probably kind of elementary but honestly this is one simple part of keeping a planted tank that I have not been successful with in my large tank. Often in that tank I have lush tops, very skinny bottoms that grow algae. Could it be that the light isn't penetrating deep enough in these set ups? I don't spend enough aquascaping it either as it is a lot of work - working with this smaller 55 gallon set up is a bit easier.

