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usually planting all the plant at begining follow by cycling the tank. The plants roots should be established by the time cycle finish which is around 4 weeks.
I think some of you have used the metal strip that is supposed to tie the plants together and serve as a weight.
This is so that the fishes will not dig out the plants and allow it to grow the roots.
The question is this: Will there be any effects of having too many of these metal strips in a aquarium?
And, do you have any ways to plant new plants while the fishes are around?
usually planting all the plant at begining follow by cycling the tank. The plants roots should be established by the time cycle finish which is around 4 weeks.
Hmm... based on my own thinking - it should be quite ok to have a few of these metal things in the tank [LFSs that sells all these aquatic plants have even more thrown into their tanks & I still manage to see & find some fishes, shrimps & snails living happily amongst the plants leh...]
If you are concern about it, maybe you can try using more safe items (rocks, pebbles, DWs etc) to weigh down your plants in your tank....
Also, as mentioned by Bro Shadow, roots should have formed & held onto the substrate by the end of the cycling period... Unless you have faunas that are very notorious substrate diggers or plant unfriendly ones (think loaches, goldfishes cory etc... - I may be wrong as some may be able to keep these fishes in a planted tank without any uprooting of plants...)
Cheers!
Erm... i'm pretty sure those things are strips of lead. Never used them myself, don't want to risk anything.
As long as its those metal strips u see in LFS, should be fine.
I will not recommend it for long term use. I am not sure what is the impact to the invertebrates.
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Lead poisoning. Depending on the salts (Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, etc) in your water, it will react with lead hence leech onto the water. Worse still if water not treated for Chloramines as chloramines are known to cause lead to leech into water.
See this for more on chloramine and its effects on lead:
www.chloramine.org/chloraminefacts.htm
yeah, agree with bettlejuice, not very comfortable with lead in my substrate. Will remove the strip, will try to use some pebbles if hold the plants down and wait for it to take root.
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