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This is a discussion on Surface plant overload!! within the Member Photo/Video Gallery forums, part of the Aquarium Related Chat category; I purchased a few surface plants off of Stuart (CRS Fan) a while a go, and a few days before ...

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    Default Surface plant overload!!

    I purchased a few surface plants off of Stuart (CRS Fan) a while a go, and a few days before that i got a Red Tiger Lotus bulb from IPU. Today they are both getting out of control and it is safe to say that the rest of my plants are starving for light. Check out the growth here!

    Red Tiger Lotus fresh from the store

    Red Tiger blows up and other plants get added

    The next four are from this morning


    In this cluster there are 3 different surface plants besides the Lotus... can someone please let me know the id's of them...i forgot what Stuart told me when i picked them up

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    Well i will take a stab at it and say, you got asian water grass,some amazon frogbit,and the last little one seems to be small water lettuce.Anyone here feel free to correct meThats quite the growth you got going on, what you doing ferts/Co2 wise?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luke78 View Post
    Thats quite the growth you got going on, what you doing ferts/Co2 wise?
    I was going to ask the same question!
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    The 3 floating plants are:

    Salvinia minima

    Hygroryza aristata

    Azolla filiculoides

    Hopefully that helps !

    If you trim all the floating leaves off the lotus.... you should get some submerged leaves to form (more light for your other plants ).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luke78 View Post
    Well i will take a stab at it and say, you got asian water grass,some amazon frogbit,and the last little one seems to be small water lettuce.Anyone here feel free to correct meThats quite the growth you got going on, what you doing ferts/Co2 wise?
    I'm using EI dosing and metricide. No pressurized CO2 yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CRS Fan View Post
    The 3 floating plants are:

    Salvinia minima

    Hygroryza aristata

    Azolla filiculoides

    Hopefully that helps !

    If you trim all the floating leaves off the lotus.... you should get some submerged leaves to form (more light for your other plants ).

    Best regards,

    Stuart

    Thanks Stuart, I figured you'd see this thread. Remember how much you gave me? It blew up in no time!


    As far as trimming the Lotus, do i just cut the stems right down at the base? or just chop the leaves off the top?
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    Quote Originally Posted by monkE View Post
    Thanks Stuart, I figured you'd see this thread. Remember how much you gave me? It blew up in no time!


    As far as trimming the Lotus, do i just cut the stems right down at the base? or just chop the leaves off the top?
    Cut off the all the floating leaves at the bulb base. As soon as you get 1 floater the plants will automatically send out more floating leaves. If you ensure the plant has no floaters the plant typically will maintain submerged growth.

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    once you let the leaves hit the surface and become floaters, it will take a long time for the plant to stop sending up the fast growing floater leaves. I found you need to make sure you do not let any of the new shoots reach the surface again if you wish for the plant to return to its slower growing submerged form
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    thanks for the info guys... I really like them on the surface, so I guess I'll just have to trim it regularly to keep it under control. maybe ill get a second one and keep it submerged, might look cool that way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by monkE View Post
    thanks for the info guys... I really like them on the surface, so I guess I'll just have to trim it regularly to keep it under control. maybe ill get a second one and keep it submerged, might look cool that way.
    Your other non-flloating plants will not be happy with the lotus !
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