Planting In Wet Substrate....

[oldwhitewood]

Is the way forward for me now. I've been reading stuff on it from a few places. Upto now I have always planted when the tank was full of water or partially full. I realise this now to be daft, the best way is to arrange the substrate and add water until the substrate is barely covered, i.e it is wet but the water level is very low. You can then plant with tweesers in specific places without disturbing the substrate and clouding the water.

Give it a try. I can't vouch for it other than Amano uses this techqiue and well, you know the results there!

 

[Themuleous]

haha cheers will give it a try

 

[oldwhitewood]

haha cheers will give it a try

It's one of those where I am in no doubt it's a much better method. I just can't believe I have been planting the wrong way for years, planting glosso plantlet by plantlet over the space of a few hours, arm soaked, water all over the floor

 

[Themuleous]

Haha i had the same with my HC, the trouble is that we often have a fisk tank that we then add plants two, when i next start a tank ill start with the plants first and add fish later!

 

[NAL]

Hi Neil-did you get the pic I sent you over the w/e? Hope to post a full journal this week.

I can vouch for this-just re-scaped my 125 l with ADA aquasoil Malaya. I added substrate, hardscape and just enough water to wet the substrate. Planting was way easier than when I've tried to do it half full or whatever. Might seem like a trivial thing, but try it out. Plus the water was crystal clear once I'd filled the tank-probably a lot to do with the ADA substrate as well

Nick

 

[oldwhitewood]

Hi Neil-did you get the pic I sent you over the w/e? Hope to post a full journal this week.

I can vouch for this-just re-scaped my 125 l with ADA aquasoil Malaya. I added substrate, hardscape and just enough water to wet the substrate. Planting was way easier than when I've tried to do it half full or whatever. Might seem like a trivial thing, but try it out. Plus the water was crystal clear once I'd filled the tank-probably a lot to do with the ADA substrate as well

Nick

I did indeed, replied to it.

I think you have3 to do it with the aquasoil as it's like dust when dry, I can see no reason why this would not work with other substrates or even just gravel.