Cycling without plants?

[Hades]

Then at the best time fill the tank, take pics.. Show it off, grab the kudos. And the thread ends because it's down hill from there.. 🙂 I don't say all, but the majority might be. Because there extremely little recources to find on trimming UG submersed.. 99% never gets to that stadium. The keep dreaming scenario..

Hehe, you might be right...
I saw a video of an UG-carpet being trimmed once (never saw anybody handle a pair of scissors more gentle and careful than that)
But i don't remember/think the guy made an update after that... 😀
So i guess i have to keep dreaming of a gracefully waving carpet... Ugh (pun intended)

Here is one of the last attemps i know of, totlay forgot about it and didn't check how it went. Started end (nov/dec) 2015 dry starting UG.. Did a pretty good job actualy, had a nice carpet.. But swapped the UG for hairgras in april 2016, that's 4 months into the process because of the difficulty keeping it nice and clean.
http://www.aquascapingworld.com/threads/mystical-mountains-journal.9578/
As said, it explodes at one time, because it doesn't want to cramped into the substrate it can't live like that. It grows itself out off it.. 🙂

Cheers, i will read (and who knows even study and copy everything in) that thread!
For the win!!!
I'm off for a good read now!