Any tips to grow nice Downoi.

[mecedesfish]

Any tips to had good nice Downoi. I have not sucessfully with my 4 fts tank,
PH abt 6.5, temp 26, light T5 54x6 for abt 9 hrs. Fishes about 40 pcs Cardinal tetra and 5 angel fish.

Duno wat missing, downoi will grow for few weeks but melt after it.

thanks

[Jungle-mania]

From what I heard, they grow well in Lapis sand and bio-gravel, but they are also an expensive delicacy for your aquatic vegetarians.

[Shadow]

you can do search at forum, if you are using ADA, some bro recomend to plant only the root. It work for me, though will move it to lapis sand tank, my ADA tank over run by glosso.

[grey_fox]

Grows well as long as you leave it alone after planting it. Had it grown in lapis and was doing well until my rummies took a liking to its taste.

[mecedesfish]

From what I heard, they grow well in Lapis sand and bio-gravel, but they are also an expensive delicacy for your aquatic vegetarians.

I am using Dennerle soil..........almost it product.

[mecedesfish]

Grows well as long as you leave it alone after planting it. Had it grown in lapis and was doing well until my rummies took a liking to its taste.

also wonder if my long nose and altum angel have liking to its taste like yours.

[anaconda]

My downoi growing find in my low maintenance tank with normal (6 bucks per pack gravel)

Dont do much with it, the one in office is a shrimp tank with no base fert but i use monster root. The office one is cooler cause of aircon

Home tank is 2 feet with pencilfish, shrimps, helicopter, boraras etc . Grows fine too. Just a fan, no aircon, normal gravel and monster root

Low maintenance so I dont dose any nutrients, just top up water most of the weeks. Once a while (some times months) if I feel like it , i change like 10-20% of the water. Been like that for the pass 1-2 years

My Downoi just keep growing and spreading. Sold 2 batches already

Gonna be selling another batch soon. They grow damm fast

Growing spiky moss, ini pelia and US Fissiden also in the same tanks, everyone is flourishing. Selling also

[StanChung]

I have been told not told plant it in New aquasoil tanks. Needs to be old water.
I use to have it in holland sand with nothing special and growing well.
In Aquasoil it's all gone! sigh.

[mecedesfish]

I used to add new plant after H2O change and there are alway some melted Downoi leave melted and float on surface. My Downoi stem alway melt at the soil/sand surface.

[oblivion]

I have been told not told plant it in New aquasoil tanks. Needs to be old water.
I use to have it in holland sand with nothing special and growing well.
In Aquasoil it's all gone! sigh.

thats totally true.
i tried 2 times in new aquasoil setups and both times all the downoi died

[anaconda]

Think just use normal gravel and it will do fine

[mecedesfish]

Think just use normal gravel and it will do fine

The downoi grown a bit but with small leaf. It will melt with no reason-guess it was the water change.

[a_scape]

From what I heard, they grow well in Lapis sand and bio-gravel, but they are also an expensive delicacy for your aquatic vegetarians.

Yup, my downoi grow extremely fast in lapiz sand (mine using Dennerle Deponit mix on the bottom).
But I notice the other key success factor is correct and proper lighting.
Under shaded area the downoi tends to growing taller and skinny
Also noticed that downoi is not demanding to CO2 supply.

[mecedesfish]

I will lower my T5 light instead of using 2 side stand, allow it light to rest on the tank top.

How abt other fertilization?

[kadios]

My experience with Downoi is that they can get sensitive to light. So I suggest to treat them like crypts, leave them alone and make sure their surroundings remains the same.

Cheers!

[Ben Chew]

With bright light it can grow very fast and nice.

[ranmasatome]

you guys should let this plant float in your tank for a while.. let it develope roots on the stalks.

Then if you are using aquasoil.. insert only the roots into the soil.. any part of the plant that gets inserted into the soil will melt excet roots.

If normal soil.. just plug and play..