Adding More Aquarium Plants to the Dutch Style Aquascape!!!
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2022
- This tank has come into its own over the last few months. It’s time we give it a big trim and add in a few new aquarium plants. Watch the whole process unfold! This is a dirted tank or “Walstad” style tank. This means there is no filter, pumps, co2, ferts, or anything other than a light, tank, water, soil, sand, plants, and fish. I highly recommend this approach to planted tanks in the aquarium hobby!
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When it comes to light, its always so hard to know what is low / med / high light.
It would be interesting if you posted photos that show:
ISO / Aperture / Shutter - so the photo can be directly compared.
I know Galaxy phones are compatible with "Lux Light Meter Pro" on the Android Market place. Perhaps that would be good info too.
beautiful non co2 walstad tank.
I enjoy how simple and informative your videos are
Thank you! 😊 I’m glad you find them informative!
The dutch say: its looking great!! The plants are looking so green and healty
Keep up the good work Will!!
With love from the netherlands ✌
Cheers, Stefan! Hope you are doing well!
I love this aquarium style. I'm sure pressurized CO2 and filtration would liven up these plants even more, notice how the leaflets are flaccid on the wisteria and bacopa? they would become much more turgid.
No doubt co2 would make them grow more vibrant and much faster, that’s just not my style 😂.
Another reason for the droopy look you’re seeing was from overcrowding, resulting in insufficient light reaching the lower leaves. I watched that develop as the plants began to get excessively long and shade out their lower leaves, they’ve bounced back since the trim. With the exception of the Bacopa because I gave it a buzz cut, it’s going to need a few weeks 😂.
@@AquariumPlantLab Yeah, I find stem plants look much more dense with CO2 like rotala rotundifolia and macrandra, even bacopa grows much thicker with it. Co2 is a rabbit hole, once you get in theres no going back imo
@@gallardo20000 I’m sure it is! I like my tanks to grow slowly generally speaking. My farm takes so much time I don’t really get to play around with my tanks much anymore unfortunately, so slow growth is kind of a good thing. One day I will give co2 a shot though. 😊
@@AquariumPlantLab very understandable, Co2 does need some upkeep. I only have one large tank holding my entire stock so it makes sense for me to invest in Co2 to get the best possible submerged growth and avoid algae.
I was wondering why my longer stems of bacopa and creeping jenny never took off but them not having the roots to support the whole stem makes so much sense. Thank you for the light bulb moment.
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Great to see the update. I really wish I could get my S. Repens to grow immersed - they keep melting.
Thanks for watching! Sorry to hear the struggle with S. Repens!
I am a firm believer that the trick to submersed S. Repens is to make sure they have an abundance of nutrients at their roots. I don’t dose that tank at all but they are getting as much nutrients as they could ever need from the soil and grow like a weed in there. So depending on what substrate you are using perhaps look into some strong root tabs, or possibly switching to a different type of substrate 👍.
When it comes to emersed propagation they definitely still appreciate a strong nutrient availability at the roots and high humidity. Well suited to hydroponic production and soil production.
@@AquariumPlantLab what do you recommend for getting nutrients to the roots? Root tabs?
@@GenRN I am a believer in dirted tanks now. But if that’s not an option my next choice would be a dedicated nutrient enriched aquasoil type substrate, root tabs would work too but you would need lots of them to achieve similar concentrations. This isn’t to say you can’t grow S. Repens without those types of substrates, but I do think you’ll achieve better results 👍. An all in one liquid ferts and gravel should work reasonably well also.
@@AquariumPlantLab I do have black sand and Eco-Complete and some other black planted substrate but not dirt. I have too many diggers in that tank. That’s why I can’t have nice things. 😂 I do use root tabs and sometimes liquid ferts. Sometimes I think I don’t have enough nitrates because I do too many water changes. I’m really heavily stocked in a 75 gallon.
I have tried in multiple substrates including organic potting soil capped with sand. No joy!
Do you have a heater in it?
Super videos.
Tks!
Thank you! Not at the moment. The tank is currently staying at acceptable temperature ranges naturally for the fish so I am not using one. If temps drop much more I’ll need to add one in though (this may become necessary in a few weeks as winter is coming here).
i love your aquarium so much, i have the same kind of setup but it's just s repens and cyperus helferi, s repens are spread out but not a carpet yet. this tank motivates me to be more patient lol
Thanks! It has really come together. Just keep cutting and replanting! You’ll get there!
Those 4 In L. Repens, do you strip off the lower leaves and just stick it in the substrate?
I leave them on there and stick right into the substrate. The leaves act as anchors to help keep the plant in the substrate until roots can form and take hold. 🌱
Ok, so when you trim 3 - 4 inches from the mother plant. Then you plant half of the trimming into the substrate, whatever is being rooted, you remove all the leaves? Thank you from NYC
I typically leave them on there. The leaves that get pushed under the substrate act as temporary little anchors to help prevent the plant from getting uprooted as easily. 👍
@@AquariumPlantLab Thank you, makes sense.
How do you get rid of fish manure? Did you add any water conditioners for ammonia or nitrates maybe?
Water conditioners are not a great way to deal with ammonia/nitrite/nitrate in my opinion. A properly cycled aquarium will have beneficial bacteria which process the primary form of fish waste (ammonia) into nitrite and ultimately nitrate. Plants are efficient at uptaking all three of those as well. So a well balanced/established planted tank like this is more or less self sustaining with minimal periodic water changes and very occasional gravel vacuuming to remove mulm (the visible mostly inert organic debris comprised of waste and decomposing plant material). Hope this helps 👍
@@AquariumPlantLab so basically lots of plants help?
@@davidrakurai9360 Definitely, as the plants consume the waste they clean the water. Also look up how to cycle an aquarium, that is key to understanding how to keep your aquarium water healthy. 💧
My wisteria gets diatom algae on it and dies off. It’s really frustrating. It is in a lower light area under a bracing bar and somewhat shaded by red tiger lily. Any thoughts?
Why light do you have?
Gorgeous tank! Your Cardinals look amazing with those plants.
Diatoms are usually only an issue in the beginning stages of a new setup. Is this a new tank? I would maybe try growing the wisteria in a brighter location. I find it’s better to adapt to what the plants require than try to force them to grow somewhere they don’t like to grow 👍
Light is a fluval 3.0. There’s a link in the pinned comment to my Amazon influencer page if you want to check them out 💡
And thank you! I love cardinals 😊
@@AquariumPlantLab yeah, that is what is weird, it’s been set up 2 years! It’s only the wisteria that gets the diatoms. I’m long past the dreaded new tank diatom stage (thank goodness!). Yeah, I agree, maybe I should try to move it. Maybe even to another tank. 🤔
Btw, I have 2 huge monsteras growing in the back of my 270 gallon fancy goldfish/rainbow shiner/zebra danios/white cloud mountain minnow/variatus aquarium thanks to your inspiration! They are so beautiful and I’m hoping they eat my nitrates up!
Thank you so much! Love your content!
(short) size matters
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