My Favorite Plant in the Fish Room and Why!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Im not usually good at picking favorites since I like so many but in this video its different situation. My Favorite Plant in the Fish Room and Why! Micranthemum micranthemoides aka Pearl Weed.
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My favorite plant is jungle val. It takes care of itself and grows in everything! Makes me look like an expert even when I'm not doing anything 😎
you wouldn't by chance have any extra would you?
It may be boring, but my favorite plant is probably needle leaf javafern. It looks really good once you get a big established specimen and almost no maintenance needed. Also, a fan of bronze crypts.
Good choice Green Ghost, not boring at all!
not boring at all and to be honest needle leaf java fern is still a medium landscape commodity, a decent clump still cost quiet a bit due to the slow rate it grows
Your tanks are simply amazing. We placed a few clips of it in Father Fish's latest video 'An Old Timer's Balanced Aquarium'. In fact I think there's another clip of yours that was marked CC was in the previous FF video. Thanks
Interesting, didnt know that, thanks!
I really like Crypts. They look great and always cool to see the fish swim in and out of them. I have a nice Crypt jungle on the left side of aquarium for my Cardinals and Glo Lites. The pearl weed does look really nice as well
Your and others gave such a great review for pearlweed I put some in the 240 with rainbows. I now have 40% of what I bought for $2.99..ha. They like the taste of it.
That's the thing with Rainbows never mentioned...they will munch the more small leafed fine textured plants. Like salad. I thought they would..but hoping it survives to make a comeback.
My favorite is probably my crypt that i have had in my first Aquarium when i was like 10. Now im 24 and still have an Aquarium with that exact plant and it just never stops growing.
Thats awesome
Lol I have had a piece of plant floating in my tank since I got the blue dreams.....I now know it’s pearl weed lolz
Straight and simple.. thanks sir
My favorite plants are crypts... can’t pick one any bronze crypt I’m happy
I need to get more crypts, I hear my Clown loaches will leave them alone. I have one Wendtii with them and so far so good. BTW, great name!
My favorite is probably Pogo. Stellatus "Octopus". Just because it's so unique in it's leaf structure, and it's insanely easy to grow, at least in my experience. Also multi-use. I've had it in a 75 gallon, and in a 20 long, and even in a 2.5G Betta Tank. Works great however you do it.
I just knew it Lucas !!!!!
And pearlweed is my favorite also because of the things you mentioned but i bought a little bit of it six years ago and i still have it. Same plant only it's been propagated for six years. Some people can't believe its the same plant. It is the hardiest plant compared to any other.
Thank you L , keep up the good work 👍
My favorite is Hygrophila corymbosa compact. I love how dense it is. The leaf structure and color is awesome.
Your info of aquatics sir is above marvelous. I've seen some folks that are clowns and buy fake decor ,promote like it's the greatest tank ever and really just a joke. Kids got a little money and have all these not thought out process, subscribers who do not realize how to really make pet fish happy. Folks are following the wrong fish people. Great work sir!!
My favorite plant is val. Super easy to grow, works well for breeding and cool jungle aquascapes!
Favourite is the Anubias Petite in my shrimp nano tank. Looks fantastic, easy to grow and survives even in hard water (400 ppm) here in southern England.
I never thought pearl weed could grow that way. Tnx to this vid.
So glad you are starting to ramp up the videos been waiting too long to hear all your knowledge. Can't think of anyone who is closer to me than you with the messy but organized look of the fish room
I love hydrocotyle tripartita “Japan” when it grows in bushy layered clouds. It must be pretty tasty because my snails eat it, barbs eat it, I struggle to keep it in any decent quantity. It’s still my favourite!
Rainbows eat it like a salad.
Happy Easter !!! Water lettuce. I obtained some as a contaminant in one of my purchases at my local fish club. Since then I have a 90 gallon that is a water lettuce factory. Each month I have two large bags for our club's auction. Keep those videos coming. Love them all.
Thanks for sharing and I wish I had some pearlweed but until then my favorite plant has to be wisteria Hygrophila difformis simply because I can grow it in any tank at anytime. Thanks for sharing and keep doing what you do if it works for you.
Crypt balansae. Just powers through everything. Fast and lush with no Co2.
Bolbitis heudelotii is the greatest looking aquatic plant of them all. Not easy at all. Easy to make it look bad!...but its still my favorite when it hits a growth spurt and looks so lush.
Bolbitis can take a bit to transition and loves loves low light
I have tons of pearl weed which came from one clipping you sent with the Blue Dreams I bought from you 6 or 7 months ago.
My favorite plant is hornwort. Because it grows super fast with zero special care and putting a handful of it in your tank is like adding a filter.
I love that plant too because of you 😁 Great for bubblenest builders like gouramis and bettas. It's like a "weed" grows anywhere.
My favorite plant is the sunset crypt that Bob Steenfott hordes. If I ever get enough gas in my car I'll break into his house and steal one.
Lol
no.1 Java Moss..it always looks exotic and sets a mood. no.2 Italian Val. Nothing says underwater more then wavy Val in a current. Since re starting ( ok,one big tank) the hobby..Anubias barteri. I picked one up thats a foot tall or so,and it looks like I dug up a garden plant or a bought a tropical house plant and dunked the thing underwater. Great looking. Whats easier then tying the thing to a old chunk of live rock ( reef days) and put it in off center to get a good look?
Somertimes, instead of tying them I will just stick a rock on the anubias roots to hold it down. No glue or string.
Myrio Green (Myriophyllum Pinnatum). I love how it looks, and it grows pretty quickly from cuttings
I like Faux bamboo .all you have to do is stick it and let it grow. Love your shows, Mike
Floating, is pearl weed, but I love grass plants, my corydoras love to lay eggs on it.
I must admit after hearing u i also will admit itz mine favorite also i can use it to carpet the aquarium and it also makes a good all in one
It really does
I really like giant hair grass, like watching the fish swim through it
Me too but its such a slow grower when you only have a little bit to work with.
And no co2, but mines coming along nicely,
Great video!
I like crypts really dense, so that fish and shrimp fry can hide but it doesn't block "show piece plants".... however im visually fond of lily species Nymphaea and rotala x Lacustris
sunset/polysperma hygro. easy stem plant - low demanding. great colours and provides good coverage. helps maintain water quality. use it as a nutrient sponge when i notice algea.
My top favorite plant is eel grass i got so much growing and tolerate so many high n low temps.
Interesting, kinda like a sagittaria
Your fish room looks awesome just got some white cloud minnows.
maaan and i had plans of getting rid of mine.. (btw thanks for naming my second plant that i had no idea the name of it) now ill keep it.
the things i learned about this plant
water: doesnt matter
temp: i have it outside in the tub that was frozen in winter still alive so...btw peny wort and ludwigia does even better...
Light: i bet it would grow even in the dark 24h
co2: omg if u add it...definitely not needed
carpet: good luck, i give u a week. note if u do continue you will get a nice looking moss type of carpet, but it will grow up and grow fast.
Nutrients: didnt notice it to require anything.
beauty: awesome looking plant
best pairing: with valiseneria. i have it with nano val and they look awesome. val from nano became micro, i kept 5cm carpet of pw and i placed one baby val in the middle...now you cant see that val at all... does 1 year later val isnt 5cm tall and her runners doesnt even seem to reach even that.
easy: depends... to grow, easy is not the word... you do nothin.
Maintenance: yeah grows fast is a very thin stem plant so it breaks easy, roots are very tiny breaks easy - meaning tons and tons of break offs all over the place, and if you choose to do a carpet you might run in a problem where you wont be able to plant it...due to snails/fish/shrimp/current/sneeze it will root off and no matter what you will do - it will not stay there (trust me been battling for 8months till i accepted its not going to happen)
versatility: well you see in the video... you can do anything with it.
anything i forgot...ammm i forgot :)
my favorite: love em all... if only one choice... you cant go wrong with bucephalandra...tho its hard to say it since all my buce melted down for no reason at all..or i blame guppy grass for it since all was good until it started growing like crazy...heres the story: picture that i have perfect jungle type of planted tank all plants minus buce fast growing plants...i had one stem of guppy grass from the begging (1 year it didnt grow nothin) then something went wrong since i noticed it growing literally from the bottom of then tank to the top like in days...was happy like hell started breaking it down and replanting soon like 3 weeks later i have half of the tank full of gg, still super happy...then another few weeks later of enjoying gg i started noticing leave floating around the tank and im like okey that ludwigia...but then another leaf and another and im like wait that buce leave and then i look at all buces and 90% of about 50$ worth of buce is gone... gone gone... all gg out and more dmg: most val had/have some sort of black coral alge, old ludwigia had green spot alge, all the tank has light brown alge looking coat, which is not alge, but some sort of silicate of sulfate coating. worst is that no matter how much water changes i do i cant reverse it. not looking for solution it needs a redo anyways...tho there are 2 more tanks before that one...
Great breakdown, thanks for sharing!
Thats interesting with your buce and guppy grass. For some reason in the tanks I have anubias and guppy grass in, the guppy grass isnt doing well and is dying off. I wonder if its because they are both column feeders.
So glad I saw this. ..my plant book says pearl weed needs high light and it's challenging to grow!?!
My fav plant I have is sunset hydro with the pink veined leaves.
That's a cool plant java fern is my fav. Cause I like the way you can grow it
Pearl weed, OK, I'm going to find some and give it a try. My favorite is.... if I had to grow JUST one plant... Amazon Swords.
I’m also a pearl weed fan. Two thumbs up!
I have huge massses of Pearl weed floating in all 4 of my tanks. I am now giving away handfuls of the stuff to friends.
My favorite is all anubias barteri/ Nana, Java fern and lace plant
Neat info, thank you! I heard there’s some confusion about pearlweed, about how it might actually be one of two other similar species which are often sold as pearlweed. Have you heard any updates on that?
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So there is two plants and look really similar the only difference is one has longer leaves and the other has rounded leaves. Pearlweed vs Monte Carlo. Both have very similar care and growth.
Really want to get my hands on a bunch of pearlweed to play with! Haven't been able too, yet, unfortunately.
My favorite plant would probably be Amazon Swords. I just really like the long stems, the nice leaves and the way it propogates itself is cool. Doesn't hurt that the color of them, no matter how dark or light, is beautiful, aswell
Yay. I’ll have to try it
S Repens. So satisfying, high tech or low tech
My favorite aquarium plant is the Red Tiger Lotus
I'm obsessed by anything Bucephalandra lately.
My favorite plants are bucephalandras. Slow growing, but absolutely beautiful.
My favorite aquarium plant is anubias, because it survives everything.
Great look plant. Glad to learn a bit more about it.
Hey L, i always enjoy your videos and the content is always educational :) Pity these plants are not available here in Trinidad; at least I've never seen them.
Cool video Lucas. Have you ever noticed any of your pearl weed dying back when it's planted around crypts? I had some going great until I put it in with some crypt wendtii.
And my favorite plant has to be red tiger lotus.
I havent. I do have some with some bronze wendtii but no issues.
Cool. I may have to do a little more experimenting.
Love me some ludwigia grows great in lower light for a stem plant.
Gotta pick two, fast growing would be dwarf aquarium lilly, slow growing would be bolbitis heudelotii.
Great video. Thanks Lucas!
monte carlo,hydrocotyle japan, great work mate👍🏻
Thats a hard question. I don't like floaters but I grow Frogbit as that what the inhabitants like. I am going to settle for Spiky Moss. It is darker and greener than Java Moss and covers better. If I was a fry or shrimplet that is where I would want to hide.
I have a hard time picking a favorite plant. Some if my favorites are different species of valisneria, and crypts
for some reason I tend to like crypts most, big fan of baby tears but any crypt wins me.
My fav plant are crypts and bacopa
Liked for the wink lol
My favorite plant is hornwort
I cant pick one favorite really. But the ones that comes to kind is the Red Tiger Lotus
Wisteria, I love it because it is a beautiful plant.
I’m gonna have to get some of this.
Started with java moss and like how you can stick it on rocks and woods.
Its between hygros and ludwigia because of how some color up
I like my red rubin sword!
My favorite plant red lotus, why? Because they are awesome.
What brand light are you using to grow pearl weed ?
Vallisneria all day. I hope I spelt it right!
Currently my favourite plant is hygro araguaia but it will probably be different in a month
I like jungle Val for some reason, but one I really like is something I picked up that the common name was purple mudwort, don't know the actual name, really struggled with it in one aquarium because it's the one plant I have found that my goldfish just don't nibble on they flat out will eat it. I did put it into another aquarium, with some Bubbleyes and had some success with it they do eat it but have got some going in there right now.
First time I have heard of purple mud wort. Looks like a cool plant.
L.R.Bretz's Aquatics just cause you replied, I looked the plant up and got the true name, Limnophila Heterophylla. Kind of delicate.
Id 100% agree with you
I think I want to try pearl weed again. I tried it once before and it just disappeared to nothing. I did have riccia fluitans in the tank with it so perhaps that's why. I have very hard water too. Do you know if water hardness / softness has any affect on pearl weed?
Anubias-hardy, beautiful, low-light, don't need trimming
Downside-really slow-grower
I love your channel have learned a lot. A question.....how do you feed all the fry your raising. You have tanks everywhere with fry. Thanks.
I actually just use the dusting left on my fingers after I crush Tetra Tropical Color Granules. Which is what I feed all tanks.
i like the Ambulia i can get around here, pity my guppys love it more :D
Red tiger lotus.
Cool! But I’m still sticking with guppy grass ;)
This was from the good old days when you and George Farmer used to answer posts..times change....🤷♂️
Sorry been a busy summer. Wish there was more hours in a day
Crypts grows well in my tap water
What fertilisers are you using and any Co2 with your tanks?
I was waiting for an April Fools video saying your favorite plant was bladderwort or something like that 😄
Lol
Duckweed
Pretty tough to pick a favorite, but crypt spiralis is high on the list.
Thats a good one especially the retro spiralis
I like crypts!
I just purchased some of your pearweed plants being you fert them does that mean I do to?
You.have.pretty.fish.
Can you use Flourish for your plants if you have Neocaridina in the tank?
Huh. Pearl weed has always been on my yuck list. Maybe I need to give it another try.
Right now I think mine is anumbis because I don't have to trim it all the time lol will cichlids eat pearlweed
For me it’s probably crypts. I have crazy hard water. Works well with it.
What is Pearlweed like at removing algae from the water? e.g. a tank that is next to a window with filtered sunlight - can Pearlweed keep that algae-free?
It can be good for soaking up excess nutrients which algae feeds off. You should always manually remove what algae you can. With direct sunlight or filtered if it continues to get algae on the glass maybe try a fish that would eat that like a pleco or ottos or even amano. Or you can try shading it more with a potted plant or something. Hope this helps.
For Show Ill take An Eriocaulon. For practicality ill take Bacopa
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Can you do the drystart method with pearl weed?
yep
Trying to plant these individual to make a carpet is very nerve racking what options do u think its reasonable like those in your tank
Best to grow it out as a mass then take that mass and cover it and weigh it down with substrate then after that you have to keep trimming “mowing” it to get it to grow out as a carpet.
@@LRBaquatics and who say that u could never learning things and ideas in this fish hobby
Thanks bro.. i will try it your way
How about a Latin binomial name of the plant?
hemianthus micranthemoides
Anubis’s because it doesn’t melt in my very hard water.?
My favorite plant is pearl weed. But if your talking Anubis’s it can live in hard water but does prefer soft water. Anubias is a slow grower so it doesn’t uptake much for nutrients so helps to have a faster to moderate grower to soak up those extra minerals like pearl weed or guppy grass.