floating plant fight club journal

[salvanost]

so i just think, it's the time to put 1 floating plant each tank and compare them later

i focus on the nitrate and how easy is it to grow, how faster it multiply

journal will be finish in 6 months

 

and no stem plant, i hate stem, no offence guys

[revolutionhope]

ill be following with interest!

[buck]

Keen to see your findings! 

[JacksonL]

My money is on the Duckweed, that stuff multiplies amazingly fast.

[salvanost]

duck weed need other plant to keep it stable at water surface

i got lot's of duck weed, so i will try only duck weed on 1 tank later,

water letuce and frog bits wouldbe a hard challenge because need to keep the root short

Edited August 16, 2015 by salvanost

[salvanost]

Dunno why i get this kind of idea... i see floating tray dish for fish

why not make some for plant? Using simple tool with good result!

[salvanost]

got melting issue from new tank, duck weed and water letuce cannot survive in new tank for 2 month, so i swap to frog bit and salvania for a while

maybe it's lack of nutrition, cannot use fertilizer/trace element because it's would harm the shrimp

so i cannot continue this journal for a while

will update again later,  thx

[salvanost]

hate to announce end of floating plant journal

i will change all my plant to salvania natans, the least melting problem and easy to manage

still fighting for melting floating plant

every morning i got new activity, trimming and throwing melting part of floating plant

change my principle from use lot of floating plant into use floating plant, but take out the melting part immediately, so having lot of floating plant could hinder finding the melting part

[NoGi]

That's a shame, the pics did look cool though.

[s1l3nt]

Sorry to hear about the end of the journal! it did look cool as above.

Have you thought about try with Hygroryza aristata? I recently got a piece with about 5 leaves, it has tripled in less than 2 weeks. Would be easy to remove, it has really cool roots though they grow quite long so would need to trim them to keep them in check which is the only down side.

[salvanost]

never seen that one

but i seen other floaitng plant being use

this one, the smallest one, credit from septhen (random google image search)

but it's got melting condition when i saw it, so i never try it

[s1l3nt]

That is Azolla sp. in the middle of that photo. The plant on the bottom right corner is Hygroryza aristata.