Please can you tell me what plants I have?

[Guru]

Hi all,

I am looking to find out which plants I have so I can research how to care for them with regards to pruning etc...

This is a video of the tank:



Please can someone let me know what plants I have?

Thanks,

G

 

[harryH]

The tall ones either side are Limnophila sessiflora. Back right Vallisnera Gigantica, Bright green broad leaf is Amazon sword or Echinodorus Amazonica, Small carpet plant is Echinodorus tenellus and the red one Ludwigia species.

Unless of course anyone else knows better😉

Harry

 

[Edvet]

Red ones look like an Alternanthera to me, behind the swordplant (probably Echinodorus bleheri) could be a Valisneria?

Unless of course anyone else knows better😉🙂

 

[harryH]

Could be Alternanthera but I'm guessing Ludwigia Repens. In any case treat as any 'stem plant'.

I spelt the Vallisneria Gigantea wrongly.

And I really don't know better. never was much good at identifying plants that don't have labels on them. 😕

 

[Guru]

Thanks for the replies 🙂

Decided to trim the plants...

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I re-planted some of the bits I cut off.

 

[harryH]

Seems you've done allright there. You will certainly find the stem plants you re planted should grow away nicely. I would allow the plants to grow right to the top of the tank, even trail across the surface before your next trim.

My only other thoughts are, I personally do not like to incorporate an air pump along with CO2. I reckon it only serves to gass off your CO2 to atmosphere. You have good surface agitation from your spray bar which will oxygenate sufficiently and once your plants are growing well they will supply more than enough oxygen too.

Trick is now to get the water flow right in order to disperse your CO2 and Fertilisers to every corner, adding a power head to assist if needs be and tweaking the CO2 and ferts until you are happy.

There is so much great information on this site regarding CO2 and fertiliser requirements. See the Tutorials section EI DOSING USING DRY SALTS by Ceg4048.


Tank looks nice.

Harry.

 

[Guru]

Thanks for the reply 🙂

I've done a bit of a trick with the CO2, I've positioned it directly below my powerhead so any bubbles that make it out of the diffuser drift up and into the bottom of the powerhead where they are smashed into tiny little bubbles and drift out nicely to cover the entire tank 🙂

 

[Guru]

This is what I meant above....

It's not as extreme as this now, but you get the idea...

 

[harryH]

So it seems you removed the air pump and placed a CO2 'ladder' under the power head which is OK. Do you have pressurised CO2? if so you could improve it further by having a Ceramic mist type diffuser under the power head but you would have a constant fine mist of bubbles floating throughout the tank. Some don't like that but I have a similar set up and find it acceptable.The plants love it.🙂

Harry

 

[Guru]

The first video was actually shot after the second. The CO2 diffuser was there in both, but the air pump has been added. Although it is switched off for now. I am going to put it on a timer so that it is only on at night when the lights are off.

It's just biological CO2 for now so I can't turn it off over night which is what prompted me to install the air pump.

As it stands, every time I look at the tank I can make out very fine bubbles, although I don't know if they are just from the CO2 or if they are from the rippling at the surface.

They are so fine that they will not break the surface if the water and seem to sit there until they hit the flow and then go back down into the tank. Hard to describe properly, but there are always bubbles.

I'm happy to admit I'm a complete novice at this though so I have not a great deal of a clue about any of this lol