Java Ferns are a great plant! In my experience they like potassium to be on the higher side, and they grow better if the current is running parallel with the rhizome instead of against it.
Great observations! I've never noticed the current part- ill have to pay more attention to that... as I looked in my tanks, the rhizome seems to grow along the path it likes...and it lines up with the current in 3 of my tanks...so whoa! Great piece of info you managed to observe, my friend!
Oh Alex I'm glad you did this video! Java fern is my number one favorite plant of all. That is after two failed attempts of planting it in substrate (and this was before RUclips😂😭😂). so this time when I decided to try my hand again, I looked up java fern because I had planted it in the substrate again. I thought it was alive until I went to do a water change, I noticed the leaves fell off and I thought "here we go again I cannot grow this stuff" so I started searching for videos and I found out about the little spots on the leaves that were actually the spores. So I took all the leaves that fell off and threw them into some water and left them there, sure enough they started sprouting. I had also learned that it did better if you attached it to rocks or wood. So I took the Little sprouts that had grown off The Leaf and I glued them to little sticks, rocks, and onto Driftwood. I had no idea what a long process it would be but it's so worth it. It started growing and I was amazed. I appreciate you taking the time to talk about this great plant and explain the secret history of it living in our aquariums. So many people give up on this plant and I'm so glad I didn't. I enjoyed the talk about the different types and how it can be grown immersed or submersed! And what we are seeing when we see these black spots on it! I did not know about the gall and the cancer. That was really interesting to learn. Now I have more knowledge so I will be able to address more issues now in the future with growing it. I hope you're feeling better and staying safe. Always wonderful education here with you I enjoyed the video! I hope you're having a very blessed weekend! 🙏🌿🐟🌱✌️
Thank you so kindly Mary Paige. I'm glad you are reaping the fruits of your patience and effort, with the ferns! If one ever gets sick, it will usually start trying to sprout a new clone on a leaf end...so Wendlov is a great one! Lots of growth points
Man finally somebody explained this properly I have a medical background and I would tell the guy at the local fish place I don’t get I used to keep Java fern no problem in low tank setting but as soon as I moved to high tech setting they burn out and I would tell him is like the plant got cancer because that’s exactly what it looked like to me. You sir are a genius
Heh I don't know about that. But I'm certainly glad that you found this useful and of interest. I just find myself constantly in awe of nature. Thanks for writing!
@@Fishtory My ‘A-ha’ (or ‘duh’) moment was connecting everything that I was meticulously doing (thanks Alex) to maximizing my critters optimum happiness and health DIRECTLY translates to me. Minimizing Nitrates (bacon), quality of food, schedules, environmental conditions, stress, medicine… Based on the above, Fishkeeping has made me healthier both physically and mentally…so is it considered Medically Assistive and I can use all costs as Tax Deductible??? (a boy can dream)
😢 My java fern grew great and green for overva year and then the stems turned black and it begin to not be able to hold it leaves up. Have you ever seen that? First time viewer and subscribed to your channel because I love your instructionsl videos.
First of all, welcome 🙏 thanks for joining the community here in the nerdy fish corner haha. . So what is occurring, Is "melt" the ferns were either once under water only partway ( this is how they are nearly all grown) and it took a few months to realize " yikes I'm under water, I need to make babies but don't have time for spores clusters ( uniform black or brown dots on the underside of the largest leafs.) like terrestrial ferns and they evolved to focus their energy into the toughest plant start possible! Meaning those little starts of plants will all become full grown ferns if you cut off the dead tissues carefully and just let the babies float. Mom plant should survive. But may lose most her adult leaves for a while first
Your java ferns look greener than mine, once the leaves mature mine get black spots that aren't just the spores. Interesting info on the plant nutrition and its discovery. By the way the windelov variety is named after the founder of Tropica, Holger Windelov.
I always forget about my java ferns until I go to redo a tank. I end up finding one or two and just being amazed with how well the plant clings to life. My ph is well over 8 and my java fern is always green and looking pretty healthy.
Hi! Great content but I totally disagree with what you saying that the main nutrients this plant needs are "nitrogen, phosphorus, iron and manganese". In my many years having Java Ferns in many different tanks, I can tell you that the game changer for me was when I start adding potassium (and a little bit of iron) and nothing else. I even read a long time ago an article in my local fish store referring Java Ferns as "Potassium hogs".
Oh I agree with you that they only need those 2 things in a well balanced tank. But if they have pin holes specifically or are turning yellow, that's when the other nutrients are important. Potassium Is probably the most under utilized fert there is in my experience. It's usually the first to be depleted , or nitrates in stem plants and crypts. Followed by or tied with iron as you say
Wonderful info. I was worried about those black/brown dots. Now I'm not. I don't know how mine does it, but it gets baseball sized clumps and a few football sized plants in just a few months. I rarely do water changes but I do use Flourish and the others you spoke of. My lights are an el-cheapo light with full spectrum. These grow in my ten gallon like wildfire. I have a twenty long with no soil just filled with them, and it is creating soil and the roots are digging in. I use a grow light on it in 4 hour a day cycles. Only a few shrimp in the tank with no heater. I have the trident java fern and love it. Take Care and Stay Safe, my friend.
And now it occurs to me that perhaps I'm using too much light. Using a Hygger and threw another plant light (tube style) that I had lying around. Maybe I just need to learn patience. 😅 Edit: animal behavior is a funny thing. Turned off the extra light, just leaving the hygger running, and now my new-ish Otos are much less jumpy/anxious and seem to be feeding and swimming much more openly. I realize in retrospect that I planned my plants around an idea that light would be even throughout the tank and now I'm realizing I may have to move some things around. There's always more to do.
If my java fern grew great and then the leaf stems turned black what does that mean? I was able to snip with scissors and attach to new rocks and the little pieces seen to be growing. I am a newbie so any advice is appreciated. New to your channel. Thanks for these informative videos!!!
They're just trying to make spores, so likely that the plants were grown above wafer in a nursery and is simply not yet converted to a fully aquatic plant, and may take several months even
Your video is very helpful. I had not known about the little dots on the leaves and I had thrown them away thinking it was snail eggs infection. Now I know. Thank you very much!
Wow! This is the first time I've heard anyone talk about Java Fern, of all plants with much knowledge & passion. I like it a lot! Hey, bro do you have idea what my Java fern form's name might be? It looks like a 'trident' JF but it's bigger, like a narrow (not needle-) leaf. A tri-lobed 'narrow-leaf' so to say. Any ideas what these might be, or where they're from?
Thank you. I love all plants, but hadn't found a ton of info on some of the most common species. It sounds like you have mini trident aka narrow trident . Wendlov can sometimes look similar, but usually has 5+ splits rather than only 3. Another cool variety you can Google image hunt for, is Thor's hammer
@@Fishtory You're welcome! And thanks again, Alex! Yeap, you're spot on. I do have the 'narrow trident' variety. Here: www.epicaquatics.net/product/microsorum-pteropus-narrow-trident-60cm/ Man, I'm dying to get a hold on those Thor's hammer but to no avail, sadly. Crazy beautiful form. Struck my heart like lightning... lol!
I bought a couple bundles and now they have so many babies but they were just leave somebody cut off of the rhizome at least I have the babies to grow it a little bit better
Thanks for the info. I appreciate the details! I have a lot of tanks with Java and the condition of them varies. I think the PH is what is too high for some now. Good to see you are feeling a bit better....looks like it anyway. Be careful of your lungs though...they can be tricky.
Had this issue with Java ferns, I had 0 phosphates and I had stop dosing co2 since this supposed to be a low tech plant, sadly they still need co2 it seems like, so i ended up cutting all leaves and now I hope the new growth its healthy, added some PO4 and restarted doing co2, after all is not a low tech plant
Are you using tap water with a very low TDS? or very high TDS? Also, carbon (Co2) turns to carbonic acid in our water, which drops the ph, so perhaps you need to buffer the water more, because they are "low tech" for most folks...however there are exceptions for sure. Everyone has different water parameters and they all make a big difference.... also you can "drown" the rhizome if it's buried, and light can burn a plant if light is on the high end of the spectrum. But it sound like you've sorted out most the issues, so nice detective work! I hope it continues to improve
@@Fishtory I use osmosis in all my tanks, very low tds around 3 or 4, sometimes I mixed with some trated tap water to buffer up a little, tds 120 130 on all my tanks, im still not sure if using seachem trace its the same as using seachem equilibrium its the same but since the tds shows 120 im guessing its the same
@@Fishtory what time please? Am in UK but will set an alarm. I managed to treat myself to an early X**s present of "Aquarium plants " OMG,it blows my mind
I wish I saw this video ages ago... my needle leave fern has been slowly dying for past 6 months... I thought the black dots were spores. Time to bite the bullet and replace my poor fern Many thanks
Very informative video!!! I got my first java fern few days ago and it just started to show dark green discoloration on the tip of some leaves. Is this some kind of deficiency symptom, light burn or a sign of new plant syndrome?
Ive not heard any new science backed info...only speculation. But im placing my money on the undifferentiated cell tissue getting incorrect signals due to synthetic growth hormones in our aquariums, water and or fish... because thats one of the easiest ways to cause galls on aquatic plants in lab conditions. Wasps will cause it in nature, but i dont know of any creepy crawly in our tanks that can sting like that.... maybe corys actually lol...but id highly doubt its them
Love Java Fern, but I can’t keep the stuff alive in a low light tank. Usually goes well for a couple of weeks and then starts melting. Same with water sprite.
Well I leave mine for a month or so if I don't know. If they are still viable, they will grow little root looking threads on the end of the leaf. As soon as 2 leaves and the tiny roots sprout from a leaf, you can then cut that node off the top of any pointed Java leaf and grow those by floating then or just fastening them to a stick/rock (this is called vegetative growth). Then they also send out more root style material, which is known as "rhizome". This will also grow more plants and I usually cut any leaf that has more than about 40% of the surface area chewed, broken or off color. Trim it with a sharp knife or scissors, right at the base of of individual stem, and the plant should grow another leaf soon after (a month or so) Best of luck! Oh and PS... POTASSIUM or small amounts of phosphates are usually what Java ferns suffer deficiencies with.
I'm a great outdoor gardener and indoor plant grower. But I can't get javas to last more than 4 months...tried everything too. I bet if I used plastic plants those would die too. 🙄
Wait, so you're telling me that mine keep dying because they have TOO MUCH nutrients? I've heard of plants dying from lack of CO2, but people don't usually claim it's exacerbated by excess nutrients. Well, that explains why they do so poorly in my low-tech dirted tanks.
Yeah sometimes too much organic material can cause inballances as the plant races to grow but doesnt have some very specific micro nutrient. Its why more expensive fertalizer regimes and brands seperate macros, micros, carbon, iron and nitrogen sometimes.
Really useful again Alexander, thank you. Nobody else goes into this much detail in such an easy to grasp way.
Glad it was helpful!
Java Ferns are a great plant! In my experience they like potassium to be on the higher side, and they grow better if the current is running parallel with the rhizome instead of against it.
Great observations! I've never noticed the current part- ill have to pay more attention to that... as I looked in my tanks, the rhizome seems to grow along the path it likes...and it lines up with the current in 3 of my tanks...so whoa! Great piece of info you managed to observe, my friend!
@@Fishtory Thanks!
Same my rhizomes also try to find current
Oh Alex I'm glad you did this video! Java fern is my number one favorite plant of all. That is after two failed attempts of planting it in substrate (and this was before RUclips😂😭😂). so this time when I decided to try my hand again, I looked up java fern because I had planted it in the substrate again. I thought it was alive until I went to do a water change, I noticed the leaves fell off and I thought "here we go again I cannot grow this stuff" so I started searching for videos and I found out about the little spots on the leaves that were actually the spores. So I took all the leaves that fell off and threw them into some water and left them there, sure enough they started sprouting. I had also learned that it did better if you attached it to rocks or wood. So I took the Little sprouts that had grown off The Leaf and I glued them to little sticks, rocks, and onto Driftwood. I had no idea what a long process it would be but it's so worth it. It started growing and I was amazed. I appreciate you taking the time to talk about this great plant and explain the secret history of it living in our aquariums. So many people give up on this plant and I'm so glad I didn't. I enjoyed the talk about the different types and how it can be grown immersed or submersed! And what we are seeing when we see these black spots on it! I did not know about the gall and the cancer. That was really interesting to learn. Now I have more knowledge so I will be able to address more issues now in the future with growing it. I hope you're feeling better and staying safe. Always wonderful education here with you I enjoyed the video! I hope you're having a very blessed weekend! 🙏🌿🐟🌱✌️
I have lot to learn to this man is a blessing
Thank you so kindly Mary Paige. I'm glad you are reaping the fruits of your patience and effort, with the ferns! If one ever gets sick, it will usually start trying to sprout a new clone on a leaf end...so Wendlov is a great one! Lots of growth points
Thank you
So amazingly helpful! This is the first guide I’ve found that went beyond “Java ferns are easy!”
Glad it helped!
Man finally somebody explained this properly I have a medical background and I would tell the guy at the local fish place I don’t get I used to keep Java fern no problem in low tank setting but as soon as I moved to high tech setting they burn out and I would tell him is like the plant got cancer because that’s exactly what it looked like to me. You sir are a genius
Heh I don't know about that. But I'm certainly glad that you found this useful and of interest. I just find myself constantly in awe of nature. Thanks for writing!
@@Fishtory My ‘A-ha’ (or ‘duh’) moment was connecting everything that I was meticulously doing (thanks Alex) to maximizing my critters optimum happiness and health DIRECTLY translates to me.
Minimizing Nitrates (bacon), quality of food, schedules, environmental conditions, stress, medicine…
Based on the above,
Fishkeeping has made me healthier both physically and mentally…so is it considered Medically Assistive and I can use all costs as Tax Deductible???
(a boy can dream)
😢 My java fern grew great and green for overva year and then the stems turned black and it begin to not be able to hold it leaves up. Have you ever seen that? First time viewer and subscribed to your channel because I love your instructionsl videos.
First of all, welcome 🙏 thanks for joining the community here in the nerdy fish corner haha. . So what is occurring, Is "melt" the ferns were either once under water only partway ( this is how they are nearly all grown) and it took a few months to realize " yikes I'm under water, I need to make babies but don't have time for spores clusters ( uniform black or brown dots on the underside of the largest leafs.) like terrestrial ferns and they evolved to focus their energy into the toughest plant start possible! Meaning those little starts of plants will all become full grown ferns if you cut off the dead tissues carefully and just let the babies float.
Mom plant should survive. But may lose most her adult leaves for a while first
You should have been a teacher you're so thorough with all your information in history. Great video🐟💧🌿👍😊
Thank you...i did teach history for one semester hah... to get my archaeology degree.
Your java ferns look greener than mine, once the leaves mature mine get black spots that aren't just the spores. Interesting info on the plant nutrition and its discovery. By the way the windelov variety is named after the founder of Tropica, Holger Windelov.
Thanks! That's a very cool tid bit of plant name history!
I always forget about my java ferns until I go to redo a tank. I end up finding one or two and just being amazed with how well the plant clings to life. My ph is well over 8 and my java fern is always green and looking pretty healthy.
Hi! Great content but I totally disagree with what you saying that the main nutrients this plant needs are "nitrogen, phosphorus, iron and manganese". In my many years having Java Ferns in many different tanks, I can tell you that the game changer for me was when I start adding potassium (and a little bit of iron) and nothing else. I even read a long time ago an article in my local fish store referring Java Ferns as "Potassium hogs".
Oh I agree with you that they only need those 2 things in a well balanced tank. But if they have pin holes specifically or are turning yellow, that's when the other nutrients are important.
Potassium Is probably the most under utilized fert there is in my experience. It's usually the first to be depleted , or nitrates in stem plants and crypts. Followed by or tied with iron as you say
Wonderful info. I was worried about those black/brown dots. Now I'm not. I don't know how mine does it, but it gets baseball sized clumps and a few football sized plants in just a few months. I rarely do water changes but I do use Flourish and the others you spoke of. My lights are an el-cheapo light with full spectrum. These grow in my ten gallon like wildfire. I have a twenty long with no soil just filled with them, and it is creating soil and the roots are digging in. I use a grow light on it in 4 hour a day cycles. Only a few shrimp in the tank with no heater. I have the trident java fern and love it. Take Care and Stay Safe, my friend.
Glad to hear it my friend. Also ge a ay to see you. I hope you have a great week
The one stop information hub 🙏
And now it occurs to me that perhaps I'm using too much light. Using a Hygger and threw another plant light (tube style) that I had lying around. Maybe I just need to learn patience. 😅
Edit: animal behavior is a funny thing. Turned off the extra light, just leaving the hygger running, and now my new-ish Otos are much less jumpy/anxious and seem to be feeding and swimming much more openly. I realize in retrospect that I planned my plants around an idea that light would be even throughout the tank and now I'm realizing I may have to move some things around. There's always more to do.
Great video, speedy recovery. Be lucky Alex 🍀
If my java fern grew great and then the leaf stems turned black what does that mean? I was able to snip with scissors and attach to new rocks and the little pieces seen to be growing. I am a newbie so any advice is appreciated. New to your channel. Thanks for these informative videos!!!
They're just trying to make spores, so likely that the plants were grown above wafer in a nursery and is simply not yet converted to a fully aquatic plant, and may take several months even
Fan-bloody-tastic Alex! Love the knowledge you share!
Your video is very helpful. I had not known about the little dots on the leaves and I had thrown them away thinking it was snail eggs infection.
Now I know. Thank you very much!
Thanks for watching the channel :)
My type with the thicker leaves have no roots now. Had them in sand mixed with aqua soil. I'm sad, don't know how to get roots back
Wow! This is the first time I've heard anyone talk about Java Fern, of all plants with much knowledge & passion. I like it a lot! Hey, bro do you have idea what my Java fern form's name might be? It looks like a 'trident' JF but it's bigger, like a narrow (not needle-) leaf. A tri-lobed 'narrow-leaf' so to say. Any ideas what these might be, or where they're from?
Thank you. I love all plants, but hadn't found a ton of info on some of the most common species. It sounds like you have mini trident aka narrow trident . Wendlov can sometimes look similar, but usually has 5+ splits rather than only 3. Another cool variety you can Google image hunt for, is Thor's hammer
@@Fishtory You're welcome! And thanks again, Alex! Yeap, you're spot on. I do have the 'narrow trident' variety. Here:
www.epicaquatics.net/product/microsorum-pteropus-narrow-trident-60cm/
Man, I'm dying to get a hold on those Thor's hammer but to no avail, sadly. Crazy beautiful form. Struck my heart like lightning... lol!
I bought a couple bundles and now they have so many babies but they were just leave somebody cut off of the rhizome at least I have the babies to grow it a little bit better
Free plants!
Thanks for the info. I appreciate the details! I have a lot of tanks with Java and the condition of them varies. I think the PH is what is too high for some now.
Good to see you are feeling a bit better....looks like it anyway. Be careful of your lungs though...they can be tricky.
Thank you kindly.
First view:) was really hoping to have a distraction from the world so 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Had this issue with Java ferns, I had 0 phosphates and I had stop dosing co2 since this supposed to be a low tech plant, sadly they still need co2 it seems like, so i ended up cutting all leaves and now I hope the new growth its healthy, added some PO4 and restarted doing co2, after all is not a low tech plant
Are you using tap water with a very low TDS? or very high TDS? Also, carbon (Co2) turns to carbonic acid in our water, which drops the ph, so perhaps you need to buffer the water more, because they are "low tech" for most folks...however there are exceptions for sure. Everyone has different water parameters and they all make a big difference.... also you can "drown" the rhizome if it's buried, and light can burn a plant if light is on the high end of the spectrum.
But it sound like you've sorted out most the issues, so nice detective work! I hope it continues to improve
@@Fishtory I use osmosis in all my tanks, very low tds around 3 or 4, sometimes I mixed with some trated tap water to buffer up a little, tds 120 130 on all my tanks, im still not sure if using seachem trace its the same as using seachem equilibrium its the same but since the tds shows 120 im guessing its the same
A godsent! Finally an explanation on why my javas never last! Thank you!
Glad to help. I was curious for years before I researched it.
Great info, Thank you for sharing! Love this style of video - Little Bobby
My favourite java fern is Windelov variety.
Hope you are in less pain.speedy recovery
Thank yoy
Thank you. I'm still hurting...bit I managed to sort out the aquascape contest with Allyn...so we will be streaming tomorrow: )
@@Fishtory what time please?
Am in UK but will set an alarm.
I managed to treat myself to an early X**s present of "Aquarium plants "
OMG,it blows my mind
I wish I saw this video ages ago... my needle leave fern has been slowly dying for past 6 months... I thought the black dots were spores.
Time to bite the bullet and replace my poor fern
Many thanks
Well the brown dots that look dusty , those could be spores if they're in consistent lines or rows
Hi you mentioned lead to keep plants down.Are lead weights not poison to fish?Love your channel..
They're bonded with zinc and nickel so they are inert :)
Such an awesome video thank you. Keep up the good work
Glad you enjoyed it! There are many more in the playlists I've made, if you liked this one!
Very informative video!!! I got my first java fern few days ago and it just started to show dark green discoloration on the tip of some leaves. Is this some kind of deficiency symptom, light burn or a sign of new plant syndrome?
It's probably just acclimating to the new habitat. If it starts to turn yellow or get holes...then worry
"Gall" Disease on Java ferns? Any new info on this, is there more to it than nutrients or always encouraged by a nutrient deficiency?
Ive not heard any new science backed info...only speculation. But im placing my money on the undifferentiated cell tissue getting incorrect signals due to synthetic growth hormones in our aquariums, water and or fish... because thats one of the easiest ways to cause galls on aquatic plants in lab conditions. Wasps will cause it in nature, but i dont know of any creepy crawly in our tanks that can sting like that.... maybe corys actually lol...but id highly doubt its them
Another excellent and interesting video!
I've read that the black/brown ovals on the leaves are sporing bodies where the baby ferns can develop.
Yes i talk about it near the end
Will Java fern be ok with a ph of 7.2
Love Java Fern, but I can’t keep the stuff alive in a low light tank. Usually goes well for a couple of weeks and then starts melting. Same with water sprite.
Perhaps your ph is too high or tds is too high? Do you have hard water 💧?
@@Fishtory when I test the ph is always around 7 - 7.1. The water can be a bit on the harder side, but not terribly hard.
Hi, I purchased a j fern on a coconut husk. Was I supposed to anchor the bunch, or separate away from the husk and anchor? Thanks
You can do whatever pleases you...just don't bury all the root/rhizome, it needs water flow and oxygen from the tank / to release co2 also at night
Thanks for the information my friend awesome video
You are very welcome 🙏. Thank you for tuning in!
I have a new small Java fern. A few leaves are brown and holes in it. I'm not sure if it's the immersed leaves. New leaves are growing any tips?
Well I leave mine for a month or so if I don't know. If they are still viable, they will grow little root looking threads on the end of the leaf. As soon as 2 leaves and the tiny roots sprout from a leaf, you can then cut that node off the top of any pointed Java leaf and grow those by floating then or just fastening them to a stick/rock (this is called vegetative growth).
Then they also send out more root style material, which is known as "rhizome". This will also grow more plants and I usually cut any leaf that has more than about 40% of the surface area chewed, broken or off color. Trim it with a sharp knife or scissors, right at the base of of individual stem, and the plant should grow another leaf soon after (a month or so)
Best of luck! Oh and PS... POTASSIUM or small amounts of phosphates are usually what Java ferns suffer deficiencies with.
@@Fishtory ok great thank you for all the tips I will look out for the new growth at tips of old leaves. Thanks
Great video, thanks for the info!
Thanks for tuning in!
I got my first trident. Jfern few days ago
Ty for info
Subscribed 😎👍🏻
Oh right on! Trident Is the best since you can get the most baby plantlettes off the tip of each leaf!
Will these do well in blackwater?
Yes
Always great audio
Loving the needle leaf varienty
Yes! Very beautiful and great for medium size fish to utilize as cover
Where is the Facebook group link?
Just search fb for The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium and you'll find it
I love your personality. What a great guy!
That is very nice of you. Thank you for watching
Love jawa ferns😋😎
Very informative.👍
Could you please make a video about water lily's and talk about all the verities and species?
I have made a video on nymphaea micrantha and nymphaea minutia... but yes, I will add that idea to the list. Thank you for your input :)
You need some Wendilov.
Agreed
Awesome content
I'm a great outdoor gardener and indoor plant grower. But I can't get javas to last more than 4 months...tried everything too. I bet if I used plastic plants those would die too. 🙄
Watch my episode here
.... it may help a bit?
ruclips.net/video/LOyccyllMQk/видео.htmlsi=4QVNfaAhjP1JiLgN
Wait, so you're telling me that mine keep dying because they have TOO MUCH nutrients? I've heard of plants dying from lack of CO2, but people don't usually claim it's exacerbated by excess nutrients.
Well, that explains why they do so poorly in my low-tech dirted tanks.
Yeah sometimes too much organic material can cause inballances as the plant races to grow but doesnt have some very specific micro nutrient. Its why more expensive fertalizer regimes and brands seperate macros, micros, carbon, iron and nitrogen sometimes.
How do you get it to grow emergent?
Just place the base and rhizome in water, and it'll toughen up it's leaves that are out of the water....and grow faster
I feel really guilty for all the Java fern I killed trying to keep a brackish tank.
I think they need to grow up in brackish water (like the little plantlette needs to break off then immediately be placed in it)
@@Fishtory Makes sense, those are the only ones that lived (but they transitioned just fine to freshwater when I broke down the brackish set up).
I planned it in sand it rooted into the soil underneath I can't get it out I'm scared if I pull it hard dirt will get in the water colum
Great video by the way thanks for sharing your knowledge 😉
Dirt will likely get in the water, if you pull it. But if it's looking healthy....perhaps your substrate is just the right density for it to survive
It looks pretty good it got some babies growing off it I've hade it for 6 months or so it's gone up and down it's ok now I'll let it be thank you 😊
Co2 makes me burp 🥴
If Java fern isn’t pristine, which it 99% isn’t, it quickly becomes super ugly.
Totally agree lol
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