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So I have been hearing a bunch of people talking about how they grow there own plants immersed, for quicker growth before they submerge them into there main aquascaped aquarium. Or some people sell them, as I have thought of doing and am thinking of.
So here is my plan for growing and selling Emersed aquarium plants. now this plan wont be carried out until a later date.
Plan: Get PVC pipe (not sure what thickness yet, probably around 4 inches) and create a high tunnel that's around 20 ft long, and 15 ft wide. How tall it is will depend on how high the PVC bends up into the air. Holding the PVC down to the ground with cinderblocks with poured cement in them and into the ground (partially).
once the high tunnel is up, inside, the ground will most likely be gravel (cheap gravel, or pebbles, maybe sand).
Inside the high tunnel, there plans to be a pond looking structure held up by wood, (not sure the thickness and measures of that wood yet, not getting detailed to much) with liner inside the structure, or wood pond, (ok to give you a visual that's less confusing, a square made out of wood with pond liner in it) fill it half way with water, and potting soil mixed with sand (pool sand) then put plants in pots (like the ones you see when you order plants, those kinds of pots) and place the pots bottoms inside the sand, with pebbles inside the pots holding the plants down. Nutrients can be dosed (dossed?) into the "pond" or "pool" to provide nutrients for the plant roots and the plant itself. The filter system I have not thought out yet, probably will be some kind of outside filter system (kind of like a sump).
Anyway can anyone see anything im missing, or any ideas anyone has?
So here is my plan for growing and selling Emersed aquarium plants. now this plan wont be carried out until a later date.
Plan: Get PVC pipe (not sure what thickness yet, probably around 4 inches) and create a high tunnel that's around 20 ft long, and 15 ft wide. How tall it is will depend on how high the PVC bends up into the air. Holding the PVC down to the ground with cinderblocks with poured cement in them and into the ground (partially).
once the high tunnel is up, inside, the ground will most likely be gravel (cheap gravel, or pebbles, maybe sand).
Inside the high tunnel, there plans to be a pond looking structure held up by wood, (not sure the thickness and measures of that wood yet, not getting detailed to much) with liner inside the structure, or wood pond, (ok to give you a visual that's less confusing, a square made out of wood with pond liner in it) fill it half way with water, and potting soil mixed with sand (pool sand) then put plants in pots (like the ones you see when you order plants, those kinds of pots) and place the pots bottoms inside the sand, with pebbles inside the pots holding the plants down. Nutrients can be dosed (dossed?) into the "pond" or "pool" to provide nutrients for the plant roots and the plant itself. The filter system I have not thought out yet, probably will be some kind of outside filter system (kind of like a sump).
Anyway can anyone see anything im missing, or any ideas anyone has?