binu Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 any pothos cutting for salee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 I tried tomatoes once, but the roots got algae'd/nibbled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 I have a peace lily and spider plant growing above my native tank: Is your spider plant in the water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rouseabout Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Got some cuttings of pothos in the weekend - looking forward to getting them to work in my Malawi tank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Is your spider plant in the water? Yes from last week, most of the long bits are out of shot either to the left or over the lights I don't know if it does any good at removing nitrates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr A Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Surely it's got to be removing some. How much is the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Great. I wanted to get a spider plant in my room and do that with it. Thanks for posting that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiraka Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 I used to have spider plants, now I have them again. They're currently rootles should I just hang one in the water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Nice moss log cave. Is it regular java moss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Nice moss log cave. Is it regular java moss? cough, cough... um, no. lets just call it fissidens rigidulus. cough, cough... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiraka Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 cough, cough... um, no. lets just call it fissidens rigidulus. cough, cough... :slfg: have a read of blueethers native thread in his sig.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverdollarboy2 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 I have a peace lily and spider plant growing above my native tank: How's the peace lily doing and what method have you used to hold it up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 How's the peace lily doing and what method have you used to hold it up? Doing ok, the spider plant goes mad, and needs another good trim. The Spider plant is in a plastic planter box that runs from the front of the tank to 3/4 of the way back, the lilly is in a clay pot above that with a drip feed off one of the powerheads to keep it watered Sept 2014 Today (forgive the glass) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverdollarboy2 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Doing ok, the spider plant goes mad, and needs another good trim. The Spider plant is in a plastic planter box that runs from the front of the tank to 3/4 of the way back, the lilly is in a clay pot above that with a drip feed off one of the powerheads to keep it watered Sept 2014 Today (forgive the glass) Thanks,I might try the spider plant. Do you think I could just dangle the roots in the water like the pothos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJWooble Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Doing ok, the spider plant goes mad, and needs another good trim. The Spider plant is in a plastic planter box that runs from the front of the tank to 3/4 of the way back, the lilly is in a clay pot above that with a drip feed off one of the powerheads to keep it watered Sept 2014 Today (forgive the glass) Oooo is that a flamingo plant behind the spider plant? How well does it tend to do and how far is it submerged? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Oooo is that a flamingo plant behind the spider plant? How well does it tend to do and how far is it submerged? Is it? It's roots arn't submerged at all, just a small flow through an airline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcculloch Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Just thought I'd show an update of how the Pothos is doing now. It has grown down the length of the tank then I bent it around and it has grown back towards the pot again. The Tropheus do eat the roots but it's still going strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Looking good! I hack about half the root mass off mine every so often as it gets so long it starts going over the weir to the next chamber of the sump, doesn't seem to bother it too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovmoller Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I have mine growing out a window and running wild along a tree outside. Must be 3m+ by now. This way it gets all the light it needs and I don't have to worry about it taking up space inside. Will be interesting to see how it copes with winter. I suspect it will do ok. Great plant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nudge Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I have a cutting in my troph tank its a decent size and had a lot of roots when i put it in the tank but over time the roots were munched by my trophs. I have since put the roots in a piece of fx5 tubing to see if they will come back. I'm struggling to keep my nitrates under control. I change about 60-70% every week with a good gravel vac, run 2 filters a fx5 and a cf1200. The tank is 350L and has about 40 fish max. I do a wc every tues night and my nitrate readings were I would guess about 60ppm as it is so hard to tell between 40-80 on the colour card. I miss a feeding on weds and tested my water tonight (thurs) and they are around 20ppm already and i have only fed them twice since tues. I feed pretty light twice a day and enough food that it is all gone in about 40 secs per feed. So i guess my question is that because of the lack of root system on my pothos plant could that be the reason I am not really seeing any benefit in nitrate reduction since I introduced it to the tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likoma Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Good day Nige, It could also be the lack of water flow over the roots. I dont know what the layout of the roots in the pipe is. The key to the plants doing well is plenty of light and an lots of oxygen around the roots. We are fortunate to be able to place the root structure behind the HMF sections of our tanks. This is wicked as the fish cant get to it and the roots grow into the Poret foam and action the nitrates there. In some of our tank we use a piece of foam around 150.100.50mm slice it down the middle. Lay the root structure within the foam and let the foam sit in the tank. Direction water flow on the Poret foam and your roots are protected and get the nutrients. If you want to increase the Nitrate removal you could light the pothos. This photo shows an 105liter aquarium with around 100 tetras, and 5 adults breeding whiptails. Even with the heavy feedings, lots of fish and no water change since Feb. Nitrate sits around 5ppm. The Strawberry , Pothos and Spathiphyllum are devastatingly effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted April 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 So i guess my question is that because of the lack of root system on my pothos plant could that be the reason I am not really seeing any benefit in nitrate reduction since I introduced it to the tank? I'd say that has something to do with it, the roots are what allows the plant to absorb nutrients from the water, so I'd guess a bigger root mass will increase/speed up nitrate absorption. What would be ideal is a sump, or some other separate chamber (maybe screen off a corner with some Poret foam?) where the plant can grow without being pruned by the trophs. I think I need to increase the lighting for mine, they're growing slowly, but the nitrate is well under control... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nudge Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 I think I just need a bigger tank, that'll fix it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaSa Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Surely it's got to be removing some. How much is the question. - Weigh the plant material you remove when trimming. - To make it easier lets go with that the plants contain 80% water or have a dry matter (DM) of 20%. - Typical nitrogen content of plants in their DM is 2% to keep it simple. - How often do you cut your plants? Every four weeks? - How big is your tank? 100ltr? Example: - Weight of the removed plant material = 100g (which is a lot but lets go with it because it's easy to calculate) - Equals 20g DM - Nitrogen is 20g DM / 100 * 2 = 0.4g or 400mg - 0.4g / 28 days = 0.014g or 14mg extraction per day - 14mg / 100ltr = 0.14mg removed per day and ltr (=1.4ppm) So next time you cut your plants back, grab the digital kitchen scales and see how much growth you had = extracted nutrients 8) Why do I love to have lots of duck weed (35% protein = 2.24% nitrogen in DM) in my fishroom? - Removal per week = 600g - DM is only 8% = 48g - 48g DM / 100 * 2.24 = 1.075g or 1075mg nitrogen - 1.075 / 7 days = Extraction of 0.153g or 153mg nitrogen per day - 153mg / 1200 ltr = 0.127mg per day and ltr (equals 1.27ppm) Cheers, JaSa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 I did not realise mine had gotten so long, they had started to grow behind my tank without me seeing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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