Reply With QuoteGet a short length of airtube, join the 2 ends together to form a loop. float it in the tank and place the plants within the floaty loopy thingy.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to confine floating plants like frogbits to a specific area of your tank?
They tend to get blown to the front of the tank by the fan and blocks out the precious lights which foreground plants need most.
Methods I've tried:
1 ) Try to entangle those frogbits with longer roots to my stem plants. This method doesn't work with duck weed...
2 ) Buy those transparent breeding tank with suction cap and put all the floating plants inside. But this is unsightly and these tanks tend to be small, not enough for a 4 ft tank.
Any advice?
Get a short length of airtube, join the 2 ends together to form a loop. float it in the tank and place the plants within the floaty loopy thingy.
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Maybe try fishing line to form an area on the water surface to hold back the floating plants.
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Take 2 suction pads, and stick it to both end of the tank. Use transparent straw, join them to the length you need (I bet you or your kids have done that some time of other). Then let the natural flow of the fan do the work to force it against the pads.
Floating straw when submerged reveals little from the top.
Ah... thanks for the tips guys!
I'll try the fishing line with suction cap.
I've tried the air tube method but it sinks coz air tube are abit heavy.
If the fishing line sinks, then i'll go grab the straws.
Cool! Hope it works.
Thanks!
i tried using air tube before.... my frogbits stay in but duckweed don't.
maybe use acrylic form a wall/cage then use suction cups to hold them in place ?
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Get floating fly-fishing line, fishing line does sink but you cant go wrong with the floating fly line, it floats.
You can do something intricate like get a length of sinking line, use mono maybe 2# test for side support and do a double floating ring at the top, it will give you however much depth you want to keep the plants where you want them.
This is going to look bad but the idea is there
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Left to right is bottom to top, bad drawing but I am no artist. I start alot of my stem plants like this, just drop them in the ring and let them grow.
What fish do you have with the duckweed?
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