Ive had a pothos plant for YEARS, and we just started a new tank - I didn't want to spend lots of money on plants only to do something wrong and have them die 😵💫 So thank you for this! I can experiment a little with a few cuttings (darn thing needs to be trimmed anyways!) and lighting!
Pothos love high light, but they also do well under low light conditions. So if you don't have risers for your light, I'm sure the pothos would still do fine with the ambient lighting.
Do be careful if using prepotted plants from a store-wash REALLY well. Sometimes growers use chemical fertilizers which aren’t compatible with fish. I only use cuttings from my plants, where the only fert I use is old tank water.
Would you need to completely remove all 'store originating' soil and completely clean out the roots? Or, would I be able to mostly (80%) clean off the dirt, then let the tank cycle out anything toxic prior to adding the fish? Thanks in advance!
@@alexjohnson4567 wash them thoroughly. The problem with using store bought is that you don’t know for sure what type of fertilizers have been used, so get them as clean as you can, and perhaps soak the roots in old tap water for a week, then another wash before putting into the tank. That’s why I prefer to root cuttings from my plant. I start the cutting with water I’ve treated with prime (chlorine can inhibit root growth), then wait until I’ve got 5 or 6 inches. When you start developing feeder roots on those initial roots, you’re close to planting, so get your next round of cuttings ready.
I feel ya, just gotta let the toxins soak out fully and let the plant do it's thing! Much appreciated, I've been stocking pothos from a variety of locations for this matter as well.@@amandabyrd9349
First time fish keeper. Great video you definitely know your stuff. I will soon add a pothos to my 55. It has about another week before I add fish. Looking forward to seeing your plant channel.
Hi there! Beautiful fish room! Just wanted to let you know that pothos WILL grow under water, especially if it's new growth. I put a couple of cuttings in my tank about 2 months ago and it's filled with leaves and insane roots! I don't need any fertilizer and the lighting comes from a west facing window. The tank is within inches of the window but not in direct sun. My fish love to play in the roots; shooting in and out between them and racing around the tank! I hope this is helpful!
Great video, thanks! I've just bought a rooted pothos cutting... straight into the fish tank! We'll see how it fares! Hopefully it'll be ok in subdued lighting!
Always great advice from you. First time I did pothos in my tank I used the roots already in the pot but didn't do such a good job cleaning it so it mucked up my tank a little and the roots are still discolored and a little brown. I decided on the snip method and I have much nicer looking roots. thanks again!
Yeah, the roots can still be a little brown, so I wedge some Java rhizome into them, looks nice, covers any brown and I'll take any opportunity to put more plants in my tank 😁
Lots of light and a tank with a heavy bio-load. The pothos in my turtle tank absolutely took off and is 4x larger then my other pothos in grow out tanks. So now I added a plant light above those and they are filling out now. I agree they love light.
I've ad a pair of the 10gal Hygger lights and those things are troopers. Had them for over two years and haven't been gentle to them and they still are my go to over any others I have, save for a Vivosun grow light xD
My friends dad literally just gave me a clipping told me to wait for it dry at the end and just kinda hang it in the water after and now she’s growing like crazy
Noticed you have cats as do I and many of us. They love their fish tv. Recently found that peace lilies aren’t pet safe. Adding terrestrial plants to aquariums for both practical as well as aesthetic purposes is quite popular. A video I’ve been looking for and surprisingly been unable to find is pet safe house plants to grow immersed in your aquarium. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough 🤷🏼♀️ Just a thought.
They can go into “shock” being transferred to water/the other way around. Not really sure what to do about that but it’s what I’ve heard. I think if they stay in the water long enough they’ll get used to it
I've tried it but they always fall in or out. I was hoping you would show a method of attachment other than just resting it on the rim of the tank. That has never worked for me.
What I did, and it might work for you, Once the roots become long enough to reach your substrate, put a weight on the root to encourage the rooting into the substrate. What Chris did not say , Yes the Pothos will consume nitrates, however if the roots are free floating they will not perform to their full potential of nitrate removal. Once however, your Pothos is rooted in your substrate, the Pothos becomes established.. More Nitrates are removed by the Pothos from an established Pothos than those with free floating roots. In my experience.
Just rinse off the soil and cut the roots a bit and place in the aquarium. They'll grow all over the place and watch out for salt treatments because that will kill the pothos quickly..
fun fact! Pothos will actually grow underwater! Ive had 3 pothos fully grow under water, they just have to be grown in water or the tank for a while! My biggest one sprouted about 5 new leaves underwater as well!!
Been doing this since 2017. I grew a one leaf cutting in HOB filter into a 30 foot vine, so I know it works. When I took water sample to store she said "How do you have no nitrates. All tanks have some." I didn't tell her my secret.
@palmer aqutics I know this is an old video but I've got a tip for you. There's an incredible product that really encourages full plants. And full disclosure, I am not a fishkeeper but I have a bunch of houseplants and an outdoor garden. I noticed some of your pothos vines on your large tank had bare spots. It happens ALL THE TIME to anyone who keeps pothos. Lol. You could A-cut those and reroot those bare nodes and they will start new vines or B-get some crazy keiki cloning paste. It works great to get those nodes working again and will fill in the bare spots, giving you more leaves for photosynthesis. It's a paste that goes no the actual node so i don't think it would effect your fish as long as its keep out-of the water. It's also not water soluble... Also, to anyone who doesn't know much about pothos, trimming your vines encourages new vines to split off from lower in the plant. Every time you clip the end of a vine, it sends a hormone back down towards the soil and tells the plant that it needs to activate an older node. If you trim often, you could hypotheticaly have a new vine split from every node, making your plant fuller. Also, I know you mentioned your partner is the plant person so I'm sure she knows all this but hopefully this can help you or someone in your audience if they have any issues. Pothos are incredibly awesome plants....and finally, try an N'joy pothos. They are one of my favorite and SO pretty.
I'm so glad you've touched base on pothos. I've been growing them for over 20yrs and I've great success with them. I'm so glad I'm joining my 2 hobbies plants and fish into one fantastic ecosystem. Keep up the great work, have an awesome day. 😎👍
Hi i know this is a year's old comment. but you seems to have the experience for my question😅. I have devils ivy in my home and they grow their leaves to 30 or 40 cm long. Can i use the dead leaves and put in my aquarium for my shrimps and fishes? will the leaves be poisonous to them?
Only 1 minute in and I'm genuinely excited for the information. Haven't started my aquarium because Id rather not spend another small wad of cash on aquarium plants-I've already got 4 thriving pothos in the room anyways. Knowing I can use what I already have to get this tank started... Huge step forward my man, thank you!
I did this with a bunch of pothos cuttings twist tied together. I draped the plant down over the side of a large terra cotta planter that became an outdoor pond. The fish fry love hiding in the roots, too! A natural decoration for the “pot pond”!
They actually will grow completely submerged. Learned by accident. Once the leaves break the water it will shed the lower leaves and look like crap but they will definitely grow submerged
Pothos are flexible, malleable, and so beneficial for your aquarium water chemistry! Absolute must for all tropical tanks, plus you can gift them to family and friends👍
I am setting up a 65 gallon and yesterday I added philodendrons. I am pleased that you perfectly agreed with what I did. I also put cuttings into the HOB for rooting and temporary holding tank. My weak spot is the lighting. I think I will add a light hanging from my ceiling.
Thanks for all the info. Just put mine in yesterday! Can’t wait to see how they do! I put a whole plant in my 75 gallon. I still need to put one more on the other side. My 2 goldfish seems to love it, they favor that side in just one day. I’ll hopefully keep an update
I have multiple large cichlid tanks and I used to have to go to great lengths to keep the water quality good. After adding pathos to all my tanks, funny enough it dropped my need for maintenance and water changes so much that I actually miss the time I used to spend working on my tanks.
I'll keep saying it - Hygger lights for the win - nice vid, I am using egg crate as support for the plants in my tanks - a strip of it across the lips like a lid and you have plenty of little "stem holders" - I know I keep promising vid, my new fishroom is almost built and tanks moved so it is coming
mint can be half submerged. the stem that is rooted sends out shoots and they can start underwater. i'm growing an entire cutting with many shoots underwater right now as an experiment!
Awesome, I’ve been raking clippings from my wife’s pothos plant for a while now but I use very little light. I’m going to try adding more light to them 👍
I have them in my turtle tanks and have noticed they are eating them a little bit but not much and I’ve heard they may be mildly toxic but my plan is to buy those black slotted boxes online that suction cup to the aquarium at the waterline(about half way up the side) will they do well growing roots through those small black boxes? Also I have hyyger led full spectrum lights and I usually keep them at 40-50% brightness. I know they grow through a screen top but I’m going to be using a glass lid soon will the light do ok going through the glass? Thank you
I know this video is old, but my planted tank isn't super well established yet, and I know that pothos will suck a lot of the nutrients out, which will help with the algae I have, but I was wondering if it will affect the plants in the tank? I don't want them to die of anything obviously.
omg, your home looks so amazing and very relaxing! I love that... I bet your guest would never want to leave. lol I have a small tank/29 gallon and would love to try this but I do have a dog who likes to bite and chew on my plants and I heard the pothos can be harmful to pets. so I put in a spider plant. do you have any recommendations for other ideas? I do want to change my hood light to what you have. it's better than a stander old fashion hood and makes the tank more alive.
Good evening, I recently bought plans, and their roots are pretty long. Can I just cut the roots to plant them or do i have to make the whole big enough in my gravel for the entire root.
Help! Why won't my pothos cuttings grow roots? I took two cuttings from a friend's pothos plant and placed the cut ends in my aquarium with two nodes on each cutting submerged below the water. It has been a whole month, and nothing has happened. No roots. No new leaves. Nothing. They didn't die, either. The leaves on the top end of the cuttings look perfectly green and healthy. Just no new growth. What could be happening?
I have two questions 1- what do you recommend to get the plant to stay? Because my filtration has a flow that may push around the plant 2 I have two aquariums a tropical tank around 79 degrees and a cold water tank around 65 degrees. Which would the pothos prefer?
So anyway Chris, in a totally unrelated matter, I actually love your set up, surround your TV. However Sir, If you got something on the TV you really want to be watching, how are you not distracted by the surrounding beautiful aquariums ? 🙂❤️
They do work great. I have a plant called "Swiss cheese philadendrion " same as Pothos I belive. You should check them out. If mine grows more this summer in pond I'll save ya some cuttings.👍
I have a 10 gallon that I’m starting up with the cycling. Would you recommend to put pothos in the tank now with 0 parameters, or wait until there’s at least some nutrients?
I see you like house plants, ever thought about doing a beautiful planted vivarium with dart frogs? I made the switch from the fish hobby there is a lot of overlap.
Is there any reason to avoid pothos? I’m concerned my chili Rasboras may not produce enough waste and I don’t want my other plants to suffer from lack of nutrients
I just added a small pot of pothos to my dirted tank. I used egg crate diffuser to keep them above water. I am not sure how I can get my light elevated above them???
may have gone over board but i threw a shit load of pothos cutting as well as some inch plant cutting from a dying plant and threw them in my 5 gal lol
Hi im from india kerala i had two types of pothos the normal one and marble pothos the both pothos grew well in outdoor ponds when its summer time in direct sunlight all you nees to do is spray water during noon time and afternoon by the way the pothos leave long roots which will take over under the aquarium if theres substrates
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Ive had a pothos plant for YEARS, and we just started a new tank - I didn't want to spend lots of money on plants only to do something wrong and have them die 😵💫 So thank you for this! I can experiment a little with a few cuttings (darn thing needs to be trimmed anyways!) and lighting!
I have no additional lighting (ambient only) and they still produce new leaves and trailing roots.
Buying one tomorrow! Thanks. And I will cut in-between those nodes :)
Pothos love high light, but they also do well under low light conditions. So if you don't have risers for your light, I'm sure the pothos would still do fine with the ambient lighting.
Naw man them thangs need light
Excellent!! Picking up one tomorrow just for my aquarium!!
Try ordering online... more variety.
Is that a "ladder light" at the beginning of the video? WOW, what an incredible idea!
Do be careful if using prepotted plants from a store-wash REALLY well. Sometimes growers use chemical fertilizers which aren’t compatible with fish. I only use cuttings from my plants, where the only fert I use is old tank water.
Thanks for the heads up!
Would you need to completely remove all 'store originating' soil and completely clean out the roots? Or, would I be able to mostly (80%) clean off the dirt, then let the tank cycle out anything toxic prior to adding the fish? Thanks in advance!
@@alexjohnson4567 wash them thoroughly. The problem with using store bought is that you don’t know for sure what type of fertilizers have been used, so get them as clean as you can, and perhaps soak the roots in old tap water for a week, then another wash before putting into the tank. That’s why I prefer to root cuttings from my plant. I start the cutting with water I’ve treated with prime (chlorine can inhibit root growth), then wait until I’ve got 5 or 6 inches. When you start developing feeder roots on those initial roots, you’re close to planting, so get your next round of cuttings ready.
I feel ya, just gotta let the toxins soak out fully and let the plant do it's thing! Much appreciated, I've been stocking pothos from a variety of locations for this matter as well.@@amandabyrd9349
First time fish keeper. Great video you definitely know your stuff. I will soon add a pothos to my 55. It has about another week before I add fish. Looking forward to seeing your plant channel.
Hi there! Beautiful fish room! Just wanted to let you know that pothos WILL grow under water, especially if it's new growth. I put a couple of cuttings in my tank about 2 months ago and it's filled with leaves and insane roots! I don't need any fertilizer and the lighting comes from a west facing window. The tank is within inches of the window but not in direct sun. My fish love to play in the roots; shooting in and out between them and racing around the tank! I hope this is helpful!
Thankyou Chris, once again , for an informative upload.
I got what exactly i was looking for….thanq❤
Great video, thanks! I've just bought a rooted pothos cutting... straight into the fish tank! We'll see how it fares! Hopefully it'll be ok in subdued lighting!
Awesome video!!! So much value information. Thank you very much. 👍🏾👍🏾
Always great advice from you. First time I did pothos in my tank I used the roots already in the pot but didn't do such a good job cleaning it so it mucked up my tank a little and the roots are still discolored and a little brown. I decided on the snip method and I have much nicer looking roots. thanks again!
Hells yeahhh
Yeah, the roots can still be a little brown, so I wedge some Java rhizome into them, looks nice, covers any brown and I'll take any opportunity to put more plants in my tank 😁
Lots of light and a tank with a heavy bio-load. The pothos in my turtle tank absolutely took off and is 4x larger then my other pothos in grow out tanks. So now I added a plant light above those and they are filling out now. I agree they love light.
That seems to be the most common issue!
I have a turtle tank also. I’d love to put pothos in his aquarium… does your turtle eat it?
@@FEEFS. not even interested in them. The roots have taken over the one side and are now in the substrate.
@@williamjamescavejr9423 ohh okay. Maybe I’ll try it. Thanks!
I've ad a pair of the 10gal Hygger lights and those things are troopers. Had them for over two years and haven't been gentle to them and they still are my go to over any others I have, save for a Vivosun grow light xD
Thanks a lot man your so good human being noticed me in nxt video.,😌
Yessss 🙏
I use a plastic feeding ring to hold my pothos in aquarium. It keeps the leaves out of the water and the roots stay stationary
My friends dad literally just gave me a clipping told me to wait for it dry at the end and just kinda hang it in the water after and now she’s growing like crazy
Very interesting
Do you need liquid fertilizer?
Found it! Haha awesome videos!
Noticed you have cats as do I and many of us. They love their fish tv. Recently found that peace lilies aren’t pet safe. Adding terrestrial plants to aquariums for both practical as well as aesthetic purposes is quite popular. A video I’ve been looking for and surprisingly been unable to find is pet safe house plants to grow immersed in your aquarium. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough 🤷🏼♀️ Just a thought.
Spider plants can be used and are pet safe!
How often do you do water changes with using Pothos and with a non dirted tank do you gravel vac?
They do like light and can go well to in low light too but too much bright DIRECT LIGHT is not good for them
Genuis
Can i glue the roots into the rocks or driftwood?
Hi, I noticed on another channel a guy growing pothos under water....
Is it normal for my plants to lose some leaves after taking them out of the dirt
They can go into “shock” being transferred to water/the other way around. Not really sure what to do about that but it’s what I’ve heard. I think if they stay in the water long enough they’ll get used to it
I had one growing inside my fish tank underwater, It was thriving, beautiful until I added goldfish to my Fishtank and they ate it.
What is your experience when adding salt to your aquarium and its effect upon the pothos?
Didn't watch all the way through so sorry if you mentioned.
Pothos is toxic for cats. Everyone should be aware of that before using them.
Bro is like rubber band ......... So essentially ...... 1 2 3 .. repeat
I've tried it but they always fall in or out. I was hoping you would show a method of attachment other than just resting it on the rim of the tank. That has never worked for me.
Tape them to top edge tank
I use a small piece of duct tape to attach and also to direct it when it starts to grow. Above water obviously.
Try using a feeding ring or of you have a glass canopy try resting it in the canopy with roots in the water? Best of luck👍
What I did, and it might work for you, Once the roots become long enough to reach your substrate, put a weight on the root to encourage the rooting into the substrate.
What Chris did not say , Yes the Pothos will consume nitrates, however if the roots are free floating they will not perform to their full potential of nitrate removal.
Once however, your Pothos is rooted in your substrate, the Pothos becomes established..
More Nitrates are removed by the Pothos from an established Pothos than those with free floating roots.
In my experience.
Plant in the substrate with a plant weight
This is the first time ive ever heard a neon pothos referred to as "fancy". Lol
Just rinse off the soil and cut the roots a bit and place in the aquarium. They'll grow all over the place and watch out for salt treatments because that will kill the pothos quickly..
fun fact! Pothos will actually grow underwater! Ive had 3 pothos fully grow under water, they just have to be grown in water or the tank for a while! My biggest one sprouted about 5 new leaves underwater as well!!
Fully submerged ?
For how long?
Been doing this since 2017. I grew a one leaf cutting in HOB filter into a 30 foot vine, so I know it works. When I took water sample to store she said "How do you have no nitrates. All tanks have some." I didn't tell her my secret.
@palmer aqutics I know this is an old video but I've got a tip for you. There's an incredible product that really encourages full plants. And full disclosure, I am not a fishkeeper but I have a bunch of houseplants and an outdoor garden. I noticed some of your pothos vines on your large tank had bare spots. It happens ALL THE TIME to anyone who keeps pothos. Lol. You could A-cut those and reroot those bare nodes and they will start new vines or B-get some crazy keiki cloning paste. It works great to get those nodes working again and will fill in the bare spots, giving you more leaves for photosynthesis. It's a paste that goes no the actual node so i don't think it would effect your fish as long as its keep out-of the water. It's also not water soluble... Also, to anyone who doesn't know much about pothos, trimming your vines encourages new vines to split off from lower in the plant. Every time you clip the end of a vine, it sends a hormone back down towards the soil and tells the plant that it needs to activate an older node. If you trim often, you could hypotheticaly have a new vine split from every node, making your plant fuller. Also, I know you mentioned your partner is the plant person so I'm sure she knows all this but hopefully this can help you or someone in your audience if they have any issues. Pothos are incredibly awesome plants....and finally, try an N'joy pothos. They are one of my favorite and SO pretty.
I didn't know this about pothos & fish. Have lots of pothos. Will do this immediately!
😊
So you take a cutting and stick it in your aquarium? Just like you would if you were growing it out of a vase with water? Thanks 🙏
I ordered a cutting online and sat the stem, in the tank. Now ordered a third cutting! They seem to do OK, sending down long roots!
I have had pothos for years and always wondered if I could add them to my tank safely!!! Thank you!
I'm so glad you've touched base on pothos. I've been growing them for over 20yrs and I've great success with them. I'm so glad I'm joining my 2 hobbies plants and fish into one fantastic ecosystem. Keep up the great work, have an awesome day. 😎👍
Hi i know this is a year's old comment. but you seems to have the experience for my question😅. I have devils ivy in my home and they grow their leaves to 30 or 40 cm long. Can i use the dead leaves and put in my aquarium for my shrimps and fishes? will the leaves be poisonous to them?
How often do you do water changes with growing Pothos in your aquariums? And for a non dirted tank do you gravel vac?
Only 1 minute in and I'm genuinely excited for the information. Haven't started my aquarium because Id rather not spend another small wad of cash on aquarium plants-I've already got 4 thriving pothos in the room anyways. Knowing I can use what I already have to get this tank started... Huge step forward my man, thank you!
Hey, this video on how to grow Pothos in a freshwater aquarium was really helpful. I appreciate it .
Tried the method of using a whole pot of queen pothos in my 40 gallon breeder tank and loving it! Thank you!
I did this with a bunch of pothos cuttings twist tied together. I draped the plant down over the side of a large terra cotta planter that became an outdoor pond. The fish fry love hiding in the roots, too! A natural decoration for the “pot pond”!
My pathos is planted into my substrate and is doing well
They actually will grow completely submerged. Learned by accident. Once the leaves break the water it will shed the lower leaves and look like crap but they will definitely grow submerged
Pothos are flexible, malleable, and so beneficial for your aquarium water chemistry! Absolute must for all tropical tanks, plus you can gift them to family and friends👍
I can say I've been growing pothos for years and everything you said is correct in growing pothos plants
I am setting up a 65 gallon and yesterday I added philodendrons. I am pleased that you perfectly agreed with what I did. I also put cuttings into the HOB for rooting and temporary holding tank. My weak spot is the lighting. I think I will add a light hanging from my ceiling.
Thanks for all the info. Just put mine in yesterday! Can’t wait to see how they do!
I put a whole plant in my 75 gallon. I still need to put one more on the other side. My 2 goldfish seems to love it, they favor that side in just one day. I’ll hopefully keep an update
How is it going?
Your Pathos video is very helpful and easily understood, thanks 😊
I have multiple large cichlid tanks and I used to have to go to great lengths to keep the water quality good. After adding pathos to all my tanks, funny enough it dropped my need for maintenance and water changes so much that I actually miss the time I used to spend working on my tanks.
Awesome video. I'm not overly fond of vining plants, so I put a big ol peace lily out the top of mine. I've seen monstera can be quite good too.
Love me some monstera
My Peace Lilly flowers
have 2 tanks w pothos plants and the water in crystal clear w little water changes ....love them and super cheap idea
I'll keep saying it - Hygger lights for the win - nice vid, I am using egg crate as support for the plants in my tanks - a strip of it across the lips like a lid and you have plenty of little "stem holders" - I know I keep promising vid, my new fishroom is almost built and tanks moved so it is coming
Nice Video, top content. Thanks for share 👍👍
Mine are partially submerged and they actually do very well. My Bettas sleep on the leaves
Thanks a lot. The video just answered all my questions. very helpful. subscribed😃
just found your channel....wow, that fish room is amazing....plants & fish together....absolute heaven....
Cutting just Grow like Crazy . In a few days my cuttings grew roots. Its amazing
This is very informative. Are there any other terrestrial plants you’d recommend growing half submerged? Thanks
mint can be half submerged. the stem that is rooted sends out shoots and they can start underwater. i'm growing an entire cutting with many shoots underwater right now as an experiment!
You could use Monstera deliciosa as well...
Peace lilies have good results, from what I've seen.
monstera, peace lillies, spider plants, philonendroms
Awesome, I’ve been raking clippings from my wife’s pothos plant for a while now but I use very little light. I’m going to try adding more light to them 👍
My pothos are fully submerged 😅and doing good.
But the growth is very slow.
And yes they do need good light.
Low light will even kill them
First time watcher. Nice fish room bro
I have them in my turtle tanks and have noticed they are eating them a little bit but not much and I’ve heard they may be mildly toxic but my plan is to buy those black slotted boxes online that suction cup to the aquarium at the waterline(about half way up the side) will they do well growing roots through those small black boxes? Also I have hyyger led full spectrum lights and I usually keep them at 40-50% brightness. I know they grow through a screen top but I’m going to be using a glass lid soon will the light do ok going through the glass? Thank you
Great Video Chris!!! Hope all is well
I know this video is old, but my planted tank isn't super well established yet, and I know that pothos will suck a lot of the nutrients out, which will help with the algae I have, but I was wondering if it will affect the plants in the tank? I don't want them to die of anything obviously.
omg, your home looks so amazing and very relaxing! I love that... I bet your guest would never want to leave. lol I have a small tank/29 gallon and would love to try this but I do have a dog who likes to bite and chew on my plants and I heard the pothos can be harmful to pets. so I put in a spider plant. do you have any recommendations for other ideas? I do want to change my hood light to what you have. it's better than a stander old fashion hood and makes the tank more alive.
the dead fish at 2:56 ☠
Good evening, I recently bought plans, and their roots are pretty long. Can I just cut the roots to plant them or do i have to make the whole big enough in my gravel for the entire root.
Help! Why won't my pothos cuttings grow roots? I took two cuttings from a friend's pothos plant and placed the cut ends in my aquarium with two nodes on each cutting submerged below the water. It has been a whole month, and nothing has happened. No roots. No new leaves. Nothing. They didn't die, either. The leaves on the top end of the cuttings look perfectly green and healthy. Just no new growth. What could be happening?
I've heard gold fish can die if they eat the leaves, but the benefits outweigh that risk, especially if you are vigilant .
I have two questions
1- what do you recommend to get the plant to stay? Because my filtration has a flow that may push around the plant
2 I have two aquariums a tropical tank around 79 degrees and a cold water tank around 65 degrees. Which would the pothos prefer?
So anyway Chris, in a totally unrelated matter, I actually love your set up, surround your TV.
However Sir, If you got something on the TV you really want to be watching, how are you not distracted by the surrounding beautiful aquariums ?
🙂❤️
Taking my pothos start out of the jar by the window & in the tank it goes!!!
They do work great.
I have a plant called "Swiss cheese philadendrion " same as Pothos I belive.
You should check them out.
If mine grows more this summer in pond I'll save ya some cuttings.👍
Enemy is ammonianand nitrite , nitrate are lesser of 3 evils and many go as far as 40 ppm but usually 10 to 20
I have a 10 gallon that I’m starting up with the cycling. Would you recommend to put pothos in the tank now with 0 parameters, or wait until there’s at least some nutrients?
I see you like house plants, ever thought about doing a beautiful planted vivarium with dart frogs? I made the switch from the fish hobby there is a lot of overlap.
Is there any reason to avoid pothos? I’m concerned my chili Rasboras may not produce enough waste and I don’t want my other plants to suffer from lack of nutrients
I had a pothos in a jar with tons of roots, just stuck it in my 2.5 gallon tank.....4 days later no nitrates or nitrites
My roots keep turning brown, like turning to mush and thr leaves end up turning yellow so I don't know what imbdoing wrong :/
I find they grow best when rooted bfor they go in .. as long as they have roots started they ten to do well....🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤
I just added a small pot of pothos to my dirted tank. I used egg crate diffuser to keep them above water. I am not sure how I can get my light elevated above them???
Can I add pothos plant under water in my aquarium? 😊
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Fish don’t give off nitrates. Biological material released by fish are broken down by bacteria to form ammonia, nitrites and nitrates.
I have a pothos on top of my aquarium it has been doing great but I noticed on leaf is turning black any ideas why? What can I do?
may have gone over board but i threw a shit load of pothos cutting as well as some inch plant cutting from a dying plant and threw them in my 5 gal lol
Behind my house is the river. And they grow with leaves so large they like to climb on large rocks.
first time user of pathos here and the thing i'm wary about is that maybe my shrimps and snails would use them as a stairway to get out of the tank.
I have a sucessful poths start currently in my fish tank i want to be able to transfer that plant back to dirt anyone have experince with this ?
Hi im from india kerala i had two types of pothos the normal one and marble pothos the both pothos grew well in outdoor ponds when its summer time in direct sunlight all you nees to do is spray water during noon time and afternoon by the way the pothos leave long roots which will take over under the aquarium if theres substrates
Thank you for this, I have been unsuccessful with pothos, plus I don't have the light and nitrates I discovered
I added the pothos but trimmed the roots a bit. Will it affect the growth?
Hi I tryed for 1st time this plant an it kinda melted away what am I doing rong
I think that my plant dint do well because of low ligth they where surviving and not thriving
I put a pothos in my tank after watching this and god worms … help :(
"Don't let the leaves touch the water" Pothos will literally live underwater😮😅