60P - Colour by numbers

[wearsbunnyslippers]

i was thinking they looked a bit like dichondra or lobelia cardinalis, but looking at that other thread, it could be lettuce 🤣

although lettuce has alternating leaves, whereas these are opposite..

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

from reading that thread it might be watercress too

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

from reading that thread it might be watercress too

I'd assume the best outcome is a Hygrophila sp. for any dicot seed. I don't think that anything sold as Eleocharis or similar will ever be anything other than real "grass seed".

cheers Darrel

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

yeah i was catching up on some of the new plant species on tropica's web site and i saw Hygrophila serpyllum as a possible candidate as well.

but honestly i don't care what it is, if it's aquatic or not, i just wanted to setup a tank and get my hands wet after my hiatus. get back into the water change habits, letting my filter cycle etc. I am not going to add any inhabitants to this tank, so when this carpets time has come ( the bottle says 3-6 months ), i will rip it out and try some of the other seeds as well. i can imagine people getting upset if these seeds ruin an existing tank, or if they turn out not to be aquatic when they say aquatic on the bottle, but for the few pounds these cost, you can't expect too much..

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

and while elocharis does produce seeds:



i doubt harvesting eleocharis seeds are viable in the quantities required to sell them.

the seeds they are selling are most likely bog grass or agrostis, those grasses you see next to rivers and wet areas, that look so much like hairgrass, and they are covered in little seed heads, it's tempting to try some underwater, but they always die..

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

i have no impulse control, so i have added a madagascar lace leaf, and a lagenandra mebolddi rubin, as well as a philodendron golden goddess growing out the tank

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

I went away for a week, and couldn't keep up with my water changes, so I got an outbreak of rhizo
a big water change, and a couple of ottos later, and it is already looking brighter! gotta love ottos!

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

i finally hooked up a cannister, so no more HOF filter 😎

i still need a couple of u bends and a new one way valve and then i can reconnect the co2. its fresh aquasoil and a newly cycling filter, so the haze might be the beginnings of green water, or a bacterial bloom, but i will let it run its course instead of trying to fight it..

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

so it was green water and not a bacterial bloom:

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

i dug my internal uv out of storage:

 

[wearsbunnyslippers]

i also thought i would see if these plants could take a trim, and how they responded, so i trimmed the front left corner. the plants grew back nicely.

so then i trimmed about half the tank across the front portion, this also grew back nicely.

then i trimmed it a little harder, i did half the tank just to see, and the next day the plants were already greening over..

you can also see some plants just have different genetics to the others, some grow a bit taller, and some are even colouring up on the growth tips..

so far i am really enjoying playing with these crash seeds, i dont think i could have had more fun with two pounds, money well spent so far, especially if you not looking for something permanent or long term..

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

i dug my internal uv out of storage:

its fresh aquasoil and a newly cycling filter, so the haze might be the beginnings of green water,

You would be better off with a floating plant, just because it would deal with the "problem", not the symptom. In some ways the green water just tells you you have suitable conditions for plant growth, so not really a problem.

some grow a bit taller, and some are even colouring up on the growth tips..

Looks very likely to be a Hygrophila spp.

cheers Darrel