How Long Does It Take Plants To Settle?

[Fishy_7]

I have just added a load of new plants to my tank:

5 x Red Ivy (planted)
10 x Vallis Torta (planted)
5 x Java Moss (anchored to terracotta pot in tank)
1 x Riccia Fluitans (floating in breeding trap in prep for anchoring to slate)

It has been in there for a couple of days now and look fragile - especially the Vallis as there are leaves falling off.

Thanks.

 

[MHunt]

What's your water stats, particularly pH?

Plants should take to their new surroundings pretty quickly if given the right conditions. What's your tank setup like? lighting etc? The vallis is a good plant, but does suffer from inadequate conditions.

 

[Fishy_7]

What's your water stats, particularly pH?

Plants should take to their new surroundings pretty quickly if given the right conditions. What's your tank setup like? lighting etc? The vallis is a good plant, but does suffer from inadequate conditions.

Lighting as in my signature. Water PH is neutral to slightly acidic as I am filtering peat but water in my area is hard. Sorry, I don't have proper figures as my test kit is old and out-of-date ... at least that is what it says on the packet.

Thank you.

 

[MHunt]

What's your water stats, particularly pH?

Plants should take to their new surroundings pretty quickly if given the right conditions. What's your tank setup like? lighting etc? The vallis is a good plant, but does suffer from inadequate conditions.

Lighting as in my signature. Water PH is neutral to slightly acidic as I am filtering peat but water in my area is hard. Sorry, I don't have proper figures as my test kit is old and out-of-date ... at least that is what it says on the packet.

Thank you.

Well it generally sounds alright. Try adding some plat ferts. I'm using King British at the minute.

Edit - Just noticed you're adding CO2. The plants should be thriving in those conditions, quite odd. I'll defer to someone with greater experience than me on this one.

 

[Fishy_7]

Well it generally sounds alright. Try adding some plat ferts. I'm using King British at the minute.

Edit - Just noticed you're adding CO2. The plants should be thriving in those conditions, quite odd. I'll defer to someone with greater experience than me on this one.

Thanks! Your input is appreciated. They are not dying - just fragile looking ....

 

[nry]

My opinion here...I reckon plants take at least 2 weeks to really settle in and start to grow well. Some damage will have occured in transit, however well packaged the plants were, and I find that things like vallis will lose many older/outside leaves quickly - usually I will strip off any leaves that look remotely poor before planting and also trimming a little off the roots encourages them to send out new roots.

I am assuming you are adding enough relevant fertiliser to match your lighting and CO2 levels?

 

[Fishy_7]

My opinion here...I reckon plants take at least 2 weeks to really settle in and start to grow well. Some damage will have occured in transit, however well packaged the plants were, and I find that things like vallis will lose many older/outside leaves quickly - usually I will strip off any leaves that look remotely poor before planting and also trimming a little off the roots encourages them to send out new roots.

I am assuming you are adding enough relevant fertiliser to match your lighting and CO2 levels?

Thanks Nry! I did add some fertiliser - I can see the established plants reacting to that fertiliser as their leaves have turned greener.
I only have one Nutrafin CO[sup]2[/sup] unit for the tank as I am thinking that the fish will give off sufficient CO[sup]2[/sup] to make up the rest.

 

[nry]

One Nutrafin and the fish won't get close to 30ppm at a fair guess, I struggled with 30ppm with two cannisters on a 15-gallon and I have a fairly heavy fish stock.

 

[Fishy_7]

One Nutrafin and the fish won't get close to 30ppm at a fair guess, I struggled with 30ppm with two cannisters on a 15-gallon and I have a fairly heavy fish stock.