Hygrophilla difformis/polisperma & Limnobium Laevigatum (Amazon frogbit) are also good in removing excessive nutrients.
If you do not intend to have these plants as part of your scape, floating plant is a better choice.
hi,
Anyone know of any plants that will help to control algae growth?think use with shrimp,it will be quite useful as in a planted tanks,most shrimps will be eaten up even by peace loving fish such as cardinal tetra,rummy noses....
I saw my tetra n rummy nose attacking my shrimp...
try to use horn worts now....anyone got any more plants in mind?
Hygrophilla difformis/polisperma & Limnobium Laevigatum (Amazon frogbit) are also good in removing excessive nutrients.
If you do not intend to have these plants as part of your scape, floating plant is a better choice.
Last edited by uklau; 26th May 2008 at 07:14.
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U.K.Lau
Hullo blackjack - In general, all floating plants will be very effective algae-controllers because their accessibility to sunlight makes them more efficient at photosynthesis, which in turn allow them to out-compete the algae in the use of nutrients in the water.
Using the same logic, fast-growing plants are effective in stabilizing a water system quickly too.
Hi,
thanks for all the recommendation
I just got some hornworts from clementi. Can hornworts be kept alive by letting them float around?
Or do we need to plant them like any normal plants?Cause its quite hard to find the roots if any for hornworts.
Last edited by Shadow; 27th May 2008 at 14:20.
Rob
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A rooted stem plant which works well as a nutrient sponge is Anacharis, Egeria densa.. its commonly sold in almost all LFS which sell plants, and grows extremely quickly, and under lower light conditions too
The Egeria Densa has roots but hornwort doesn't. Though it is quite nice to anchor a bunch of them in a spot...like a mini-forest Provides a sense of security for the fishes in the sense that they can hide among the hornworts
Doing my pruning of hornworts and E.Densa soon. Any takers? FOC as usual
Hi all,
My hornworts growing nice now.....my tank actuallu infested with hair algae.....hope my shrimps can get to eat them up now since they will feel more comfortable now......
Is it true that UV light will prevent alage???coz the money i spend on shrimp (1packet $10 X dun know how many packs) shall be able to get me a UV light.....so many shrimp yet all like disappear and hair algae still around!!!!!
A UV filter can, not sure about UV lights in main tank, can't be good for the fish right?. Confused as to what you meant there...
Certainly i've seen UV filters, where water is pumped through a UV light tube and then pumped back into the tank, also removes diseases ect.
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Egeria Densa is a good plant, it grows like wild-fire and uses up nurtrients like crazy. I had to remove some in my tank because it took over and was basically stealing the other plants nutrients, so growth in my other plants virtually came to a stand still and this thing just kept growing and growing.
So from personal experience, its brilliant untill you let it take over.
Last edited by Verminator; 28th May 2008 at 07:57. Reason: Attrotious spelling =P
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