Easy Plants

[Miah002]

This is for my modified biorb as all my other tanks are fine with plants.

The tank size is a 30 litre housing two honey gouramis and 4 otos.

 

[dcarmor927]

nice, i use it in my 40 liter (10gal) so its more ideal...it will last alot longer for the smaller tank...

 

[Miah002]

ok ao why do people add co2 to their tank.

 

[OohFeeshy]

You certainly don't need CO2 or ferts for plants, especially since you're going for fairly slow-growing, low light ones.

 

[dcarmor927]

You certainly don't need CO2 or ferts for plants, especially since you're going for fairly slow-growing, low light ones.

It sure as heck wont hurt
The anubais needs more nutrients than java fern/moss

The co2 is what the plants need to go through with growth and what not, its like how we breath oxygen, since co2 doeesnt get into the water the way oxygen does for the fish, co2 is added manually...even with your fish "exhaling" co2, a DIY rig could help...for that size tank you could easily do a DIY system for very cheap...

 

[OohFeeshy]

It sure as heck wont hurt

Weell... I beleive some plants can suffer adverse effects from products such as Flourish, there have been a few thread about it lately IIRC. Mosses being one of them.

The co2 is what the plants need to go through with growth and what not, its like how we breath oxygen, since co2 doeesnt get into the water the way oxygen does for the fish, co2 is added manually...even with your fish "exhaling" co2, a DIY rig could help...for that size tank you could easily do a DIY system for very cheap...

Urm... Eh? Some very interesting science going on there then. Photosynthesis produces fructose, which is converted to glucose/sucrose and used for respiration. Respiration is a totally different process to photosynthesis- plants do both. Both oxygen and carbon dioxide diffuse into the water in exactly the same way. You only really need CO2 if you're running a high light, high growth tank- in a tank with slow growers like moss and crypts, it's a bit pointless.

 

[Miah002]

So slow growing plants won't need Co2?

 

[OohFeeshy]

Well, it's not that they don't *need* it, but it would be a bit of a waste of time.

 

[aaronnorth]

Light depicts how much nutrients are taken up - including carbon. I could have an tank crrammed full of anubias sp. in a 20wpg tank, this will be fine as long as i can supply enough CO2 and nutrients!!

Low light just means it can survive in low light.

 

[OohFeeshy]

And the tank in question is low light.

 

[aaronnorth]

And the tank in question is low light.

i was mainly referring to Miah002 last post:

So slow growing plants won't need Co2?

 

[Syphoniera]

Bolbitis seemingly does well in low light - I have some in my Q tank right now, been there for weeks along with floating plants like Pennywort and some Hygro whch is waiting to go in a tank, which gets only some light from a shared canopy - and I don't THINK it would be an overly munchable plant.
And various types of hygro and crawling plants seem to be able to handle a low light situation, although I don't know if your fish would find them tasty or not.
But I'll bet there are actually lots of types of low-light plants we don't tend to hear about.