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1. Large leafed plants: Echinodorus, larger crypts, Nymphoides hydrophylla "Taiwan"... I like crinum but they are gigantic.
2. Fine leafed plants: Rotala wallichii variants, Myriophyllum, Proserpinaca palustris, Pogostemon erectus...
3. Linear leafed plants: Valisneria, Eleocharis vivipara..these look good with some flow.
Get green plant. They are usually pretty easy and contrast well with red ludwigia and R. "H'ra".
Get epiphyte plants like anubias and buce for the wood. Some moss would be nice too.
I would get some other non-green midground plants like Crypt "albida brown" or AR mini/variegated etc.
Hydrocotyle tripartita cushion in front of crypts would look pretty cute
I am assuming that you have high N in water column because..your H'ra is not red.
Some plants are more likely to stunt or not turn red under high N content in water column.
R. rotundifolia is one of the plants that even when you blast it with very high light, still just refuses to turn very red under high N.
(You might wanna replace it if you cannot reduce N)
Also you have seiryu stones in your tank which raises KH significantly. So better to avoid super softwater plants like syngonanthus species.
Choose plants accordingly to your water parameters and tank environments. Most aquatic plants can grow very well in this condition tho.
1. Large leafed plants: Echinodorus, larger crypts, Nymphoides hydrophylla "Taiwan"... I like crinum but they are gigantic.
2. Fine leafed plants: Rotala wallichii variants, Myriophyllum, Proserpinaca palustris, Pogostemon erectus...
3. Linear leafed plants: Valisneria, Eleocharis vivipara..these look good with some flow.
Get green plant. They are usually pretty easy and contrast well with red ludwigia and R. "H'ra".
Get epiphyte plants like anubias and buce for the wood. Some moss would be nice too.
I would get some other non-green midground plants like Crypt "albida brown" or AR mini/variegated etc.
Hydrocotyle tripartita cushion in front of crypts would look pretty cute
I am assuming that you have high N in water column because..your H'ra is not red.
Some plants are more likely to stunt or not turn red under high N content in water column.
R. rotundifolia is one of the plants that even when you blast it with very high light, still just refuses to turn very red under high N.
(You might wanna replace it if you cannot reduce N)
Also you have seiryu stones in your tank which raises KH significantly. So better to avoid super softwater plants like syngonanthus species.
Choose plants accordingly to your water parameters and tank environments. Most aquatic plants can grow very well in this condition tho.
Yes its co2 and 200L. I was dosing with seachem nitrogen phosphate excel and flurish but stopped all that and started APT compete. Hoping the hra will turn red. My nitrite and nitrate are zero ppm. I should be getting chihiros wrgb 2 hoping red will come out more. Really want my hra to get red
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I find that aggressive trimming accelerates turning red. Might be blowing N storage or something I dunno.
Hungry plants like ludwigia might not like it but looks like you are on right track. GL!
I'm running mine with a wrgb2 - it does best with high light and a bit of iron dosing will help.
Looking forward to getting my WRGB2...
Looking for something that will go in the back between the Ludwiga and Hra.. Something probably green to be between two reds.. Something not super fast growing like the hra and ludwiga as those are a headache but something with bright green.. Oh and something my amanos / shrimps wont eat!
Looking for something that will go in the back between the Ludwiga and Hra.. Something probably green to be between two reds.. Something not super fast growing like the hra and ludwiga as those are a headache but something with bright green.. Oh and something my amanos / shrimps wont eat!
A ton of guppies, mystery snails, japanese trapdoor snails, ghost shrimp, & tons of plants in a 10G.
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Water wisteria, for sure!!! You'll have an endless supply of it after propogating it and I started out with 4 bunches and now my whole back corner of my tank is a forest of water wisteria!
Really like Alternanthera Reineckii but read that shrimps especially amanos eat them??
Was thinking to get rid of the one on the far right also.. dont really like it
Was thinking to get rid of the one on the far right also.. dont really like it
Anyone has experience in this?
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Sometimes they eat them, sometimes they don't.
Who knows what they think in their tiny brains.....
A ton of guppies, mystery snails, japanese trapdoor snails, ghost shrimp, & tons of plants in a 10G.
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Water wisteria, anacharis, pennywort, moneywort, dwarf hairgrass, dwarf sag., water sprite
How are you testing? Your nitrate should not be at zero.
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