Do you have any pics? I would love to see your root system.
Masive plant roots!
Hey TPT,
I am fixing to dirt my 55g, and I have quite a few rooted plants. Their roots can be seen when looking at the bottom of my tank threw the stand, and most of their roots are going from one side of the tank to the other!!!:icon_eek: So when I try to remove them what will be the best way, so I won't damage the plants?
I have a Aponogeton longiplumulosus that has a HUGE root structure, as well as some BIG CRYPT Mother plants. The green has 50+ leaves, and the Brown has at least 30. They have MANY daughter plants shooting up all around them too! Also I have a tiny Ozelot Sword and a unknown sword that has 40+ leaves and is around 8" total hight. The rest of my plants are stems and Java ferns, so no worries there.
Thanks for any help Yall can provide!
Drew
I am fixing to dirt my 55g, and I have quite a few rooted plants. Their roots can be seen when looking at the bottom of my tank threw the stand, and most of their roots are going from one side of the tank to the other!!!:icon_eek: So when I try to remove them what will be the best way, so I won't damage the plants?
I have a Aponogeton longiplumulosus that has a HUGE root structure, as well as some BIG CRYPT Mother plants. The green has 50+ leaves, and the Brown has at least 30. They have MANY daughter plants shooting up all around them too! Also I have a tiny Ozelot Sword and a unknown sword that has 40+ leaves and is around 8" total hight. The rest of my plants are stems and Java ferns, so no worries there.
Thanks for any help Yall can provide!
Drew
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just try to wiggle them free not pull but gently rock them to loosen their hold on the substrate or point a power head at the base to blast away the substrate??
I have 1 in my journal, but I will go take another as it is much worse now! I'll post asap!
Pull the plants up gently until the base of the root structure is exposed and... Snip! You'll have to trim roots to replant anyway and the plant will bounce back quickly.
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woooooo haha id get chopping haha they shud bounce bk
Ha, I've got a Syngonium wendlandii growing in a floating riparium style thing I made, it's roots have grown all the way from one side of my 20 gallon to the other and down into the substrate! It's liking it in the tank so much that it started making submerged leaves from the underwater root even though the rest of the leafy part is above the water line, so I just clipped that part off and planted it in the substrate fully submerged!
Half of my tank is full of roots from the plants up top, my ghost shrimp LOVE playing in them! Guess I'll have to trim them eventually...
Half of my tank is full of roots from the plants up top, my ghost shrimp LOVE playing in them! Guess I'll have to trim them eventually...
Davely,
That sounds cool!!! Can You post some pics, or link it here so we can see it!
I have some Hygrophila difformis that was floting in the 55g, and it too grew roots all the way to the substrate! I didn't get any pics, but the Rummynoses loved it too!
That sounds cool!!! Can You post some pics, or link it here so we can see it!
I have some Hygrophila difformis that was floting in the 55g, and it too grew roots all the way to the substrate! I didn't get any pics, but the Rummynoses loved it too!
Leave the roots alone. What you have there is a good thing because the roots by a process called guttation that takes place within the plant itself draws water up via the roots bringing new water into the substrate along with some oxygen. Roots also put oxygen directly into the substrate which is a good thing.Hey TPT,
I am fixing to dirt my 55g, and I have quite a few rooted plants. Their roots can be seen when looking at the bottom of my tank threw the stand, and most of their roots are going from one side of the tank to the other!!!:icon_eek: So when I try to remove them what will be the best way, so I won't damage the plants?
I have a Aponogeton longiplumulosus that has a HUGE root structure, as well as some BIG CRYPT Mother plants. The green has 50+ leaves, and the Brown has at least 30. They have MANY daughter plants shooting up all around them too! Also I have a tiny Ozelot Sword and a unknown sword that has 40+ leaves and is around 8" total hight. The rest of my plants are stems and Java ferns, so no worries there.
Thanks for any help Yall can provide!
Drew
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