Staurogyne Repens advice/experience
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Here is my s. repens carpet in my 40breeder:
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Grown from two packs of staurogyne repens from petsmart
High light, press co2, and I dose ferts. They are FINALLY algae free!!
This plant does not creep or spread, you will have to trim and replant the trimming.
Grown from two packs of staurogyne repens from petsmart
High light, press co2, and I dose ferts. They are FINALLY algae free!!
This plant does not creep or spread, you will have to trim and replant the trimming.
Nice carpet.Here is my s. repens carpet in my 40breeder:![]()
Grown from two packs of staurogyne repens from petsmart
High light, press co2, and I dose ferts. They are FINALLY algae free!!
Just received 40 stems and I hope to carpet an area of one of my tanks with it.
How tall do they grow if you don't propagate?
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I saw a picture of a healthy bush of s repens, I may give that a shot in another tank.
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Here is my s. repens carpet in my 40breeder:![]()
Grown from two packs of staurogyne repens from petsmart
High light, press co2, and I dose ferts. They are FINALLY algae free!!
This plant does not creep or spread, you will have to trim and replant the trimming.
Beautiful! I am toying with the idea of going for this look, but also thinking about doing the rest of my carpet in HC and kind of making the Repens into 4 or 5
Lush islands among the baby tears
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Also you say that it's, finally algae free, was this after adding co2 or ferts, what did you add/ change to get rid of the algae?
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After I started EI dosing, the algae subsided.
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Same thing happened to a patch of my carpet as well. No changes or anything..
It has now recovered and filled back in though.
It has now recovered and filled back in though.
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Everything I've read says this does spread by sending horizontal runners out, kinda like dwarf sag. I just planted some from petsmart myself, but haven't gotten to that point yet.Here is my s. repens carpet in my 40breeder:![]()
Grown from two packs of staurogyne repens from petsmart
High light, press co2, and I dose ferts. They are FINALLY algae free!!
This plant does not creep or spread, you will have to trim and replant the trimming.
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LOL- Talking about "getting bushy". This is what happened to mine after not trimming it for nearly a year. My kids thought it looked like a "giant frog" and thought I'd been trimming it, to make it look that way.
My tank is a 225 gal, so you have that volume for reference.
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My tank is a 225 gal, so you have that volume for reference.
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I'd like something like that lol. That would fill up my 40 completely.LOL- Talking about "getting bushy". This is what happened to mine after not trimming it for nearly a year. My kids thought it looked like a "giant frog" and thought I'd been trimming it, to make it look that way.
My tank is a 225 gal, so you have that volume for reference.
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My staurogyne repens have never spread out horizontally. I have always had to trim and replant.
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LOL- Talking about "getting bushy". This is what happened to mine after not trimming it for nearly a year. My kids thought it looked like a "giant frog" and thought I'd been trimming it, to make it look that way.
My tank is a 225 gal, so you have that volume for reference.
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That is really cool! There is no mound it is growing on? The substrate is level, if so that's crazy, the height on it, I didn't think that it could get like that!
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This was my 29 gallon, possibly one of my favorite plants, very heavy feeder and grows at a decent rate.
They grow both vertically and horizontally, in higher lights they will send side shoots (not runners) that creep quite a distance from the main plant.
Advice, they will choke each other out like no tomorrow, plant with enough space in between or you'll eventually have a bunch of dead or yellow leaves.
They grow both vertically and horizontally, in higher lights they will send side shoots (not runners) that creep quite a distance from the main plant.
Advice, they will choke each other out like no tomorrow, plant with enough space in between or you'll eventually have a bunch of dead or yellow leaves.
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Very little honestly. I trimmed it about a month ago to get rid of all leaves with algae and its just now filled in. I find its a slow slow growing plant.
Next time I trim, I really wont have any place to plant the trimmings so I don't know what I'll do with them. Def don't want to throw them away.
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Next time I trim, I really wont have any place to plant the trimmings so I don't know what I'll do with them. Def don't want to throw them away.
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Lol- There's no mound per say, but there are three large volcanic stones under that mass that were arranged with the starougyne growing out from between them. Like I said- I didn't trim it for nearly a year. I finally got around to trimming it a few months ago and it wasn't fun. It made a huge mess and the plant itself had to be reduced to an ugly white mass that took a few weeks to green up again and look normal. Take my advice- don't let it get away from you. Trim consistently! LOL
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So should I have not planted mine in tight little groupings? I thought that would be the way to get them to carpet like shown in your picture, to plant 3 or four tight groupings and over time they would spread out and connect. But will they choke each other out planting in this way?..how did you start yours off to get such nice uniform coverage?
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