how to make plants in new tank grow faster

[Sgooosh]

hi! I have a new betta tank 15g
2 rehomed myster snails
and 1 small male betta
round small rock substrate
root tabs
what can i do to make the plants grow faster?
i don;t have lots of cuttings from the 75g, im still waiting for that to grow in too

 

[Crispii]

CO2 and good lighting

 

[Sgooosh]

CO2 and good lighting

hmm the only thing i can do for co2 is to put the air pump under the plant
that actually made a small cutting of rotala grow like crazy

 

[Colin_T]

Have good light and a liquid iron based aquarium plant fertiliser. Keep the iron levels at 1mg/l (ppm).

Have plants like Ambulia that close their leaves up when they have had enough light. This way you can keep the lights on until that happens and most of the plants will get sufficient light.

Have fast growing plants like Ambulia, Hygrophila polysperma, narrow Vallis and Water Sprite. Water Sprite is a floating plant but can also be grown in the gravel.

Don't bother with CO2, there is too much in the atmosphere and plenty in the tank.

 

[Sgooosh]

Have good light and a liquid iron based aquarium plant fertiliser. Keep the iron levels at 1mg/l (ppm).

Have plants like Ambulia that close their leaves up when they have had enough light. This way you can keep the lights on until that happens and most of the plants will get sufficient light.

Have fast growing plants like Ambulia, Hygrophila polysperma, narrow Vallis and Water Sprite. Water Sprite is a floating plant but can also be grown in the gravel.

Don't bother with CO2, there is too much in the atmosphere and plenty in the tank.

thanks
i always liked the polysperma makes a lush carpet
someone told me(i dont remember who) that if cabomba grows well in the tank then ambulia will grow slow, and in my case cabomba grows well, and the only difference of the new tank is that it is blackwater. am i still ok to go with ambulia?

 

[Colin_T]

You can try Ambulia but generally if Cabomba does well in a tank, Ambulia won't do as well, and vice versa. But sometimes they both grow well together. Ambulia is pretty cheap so it is worth a go.

 

[itiwhetu]

Aquatic plants are weeds with light and water they will grow

 

[Sgooosh]

Aquatic plants are weeds with light and water they will grow

Ok so i figured out that the elodea grows well

Also omg I befriended my beta to the point where he pecks at my hand

 

[StevenF]

Aquatic plants are weeds with light and water they will grow

That is not true. You could put a plant in pure water provid it with all the light and CO2 it neads and the plant will die. The reason is plant need nutrients dissolved in the water to grow. the nutrients are nitrogen, potassium, calcium, magneisum, phosphate, sulfur, chloride, iron, manganese, boron, zinc, copper, molybdenum, and nickel.

So you need all the nutrients available in the water plus light and CO2 to get growth. If you are missing any one nutrient, CO2, or light you get no growth. if all are pressent but scarce you will get slow growth. If all are available in unlimited quantities you will get rapid growth. it is quite common for plants to grow slowly in aquariums because one nutrient is scarce or becauseCO2 is scarce. light is often not scarce because we can see it. but you cannot see CO2 or dissolved nutrients.

Another common problem is that apeople buy a fertilizer thinking it will provide all the dissolved nutrients plants need. But the sad troths that most don't have all the nutrients needed or have nutrients or will have nutrients that onlywork at a specific PH, or KH range. Unfortunately none of this is ever mentioned on the bottle.

 

[itiwhetu]

That is not true. You could put a plant in pure water provid it with all the light and CO2 it neads and the plant will die. The reason is plant need nutrients dissolved in the water to grow. the nutrients are nitrogen, potassium, calcium, magneisum, phosphate, sulfur, chloride, iron, manganese, boron, zinc, copper, molybdenum, and nickel.

So you need all the nutrients available in the water plus light and CO2 to get growth. If you are missing any one nutrient, CO2, or light you get no growth. if all are pressent but scarce you will get slow growth. If all are available in unlimited quantities you will get rapid growth. it is quite common for plants to grow slowly in aquariums because one nutrient is scarce or becauseCO2 is scarce. light is often not scarce because we can see it. but you cannot see CO2 or dissolved nutrients.

Another common problem is that apeople buy a fertilizer thinking it will provide all the dissolved nutrients plants need. But the sad troths that most don't have all the nutrients needed or have nutrients or will have nutrients that onlywork at a specific PH, or KH range. Unfortunately none of this is ever mentioned on the bottle.

I think you need to look at my journal. I can't test for all the chemicals so there is no point knowing what they are. In a fish tank plants are weeds and will grow

 

[Sgooosh]

That is not true. You could put a plant in pure water provid it with all the light and CO2 it neads and the plant will die. The reason is plant need nutrients dissolved in the water to grow. the nutrients are nitrogen, potassium, calcium, magneisum, phosphate, sulfur, chloride, iron, manganese, boron, zinc, copper, molybdenum, and nickel.

So you need all the nutrients available in the water plus light and CO2 to get growth. If you are missing any one nutrient, CO2, or light you get no growth. if all are pressent but scarce you will get slow growth. If all are available in unlimited quantities you will get rapid growth. it is quite common for plants to grow slowly in aquariums because one nutrient is scarce or becauseCO2 is scarce. light is often not scarce because we can see it. but you cannot see CO2 or dissolved nutrients.

Another common problem is that apeople buy a fertilizer thinking it will provide all the dissolved nutrients plants need. But the sad troths that most don't have all the nutrients needed or have nutrients or will have nutrients that onlywork at a specific PH, or KH range. Unfortunately none of this is ever mentioned on the bottle.

I think you need to look at my journal. I can't test for all the chemicals so there is no point knowing what they are. In a fish tank plants are weeds and will grow

i only add ferts in the big tank once a few months lol
i use seachem flourish in the big tank, has all those micro nutrients