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petsmart sword plant?
Hi, I purchased a "sword plant" from petsmart but I now read alot of
plants pets store sold are not really meant to be submerged, I figure either it is amazon or brazilian sword, is there a way to tell whether I have a true aquatic or not? I have searched through pictures on internet but I am still not sure how to tell what my plant is. If I take a picture will you guys be able to tell? |
Should be able to tell by a picture..... You have probably already
placed the plant in your aquarium, no huge deal, but read up on how to clean the plants first. I used to shop with Petsmart and bought a zillion snails with every plant I bought. That being said. I don't recall our local Petsmart carrying anything but true Aquatic plants. My Aquaria info & pics at: http://www.geocities.com/spiral_72/Spirals_page.html |
spiral_72 wrote: That being said. I don't recall our local Petsmart carrying anything but true Aquatic plants. One of them, I'm not sure which, either PetSmart or PetCo sells "Mondo Grass" which is not an aquatic and dies in a few weeks. steve |
.......except for that one!
Thank-you. My Aquaria info & pics at: http://www.geocities.com/spiral_72/Spirals_page.html |
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They have all plants submerged, a tank full of swords, assorted sword
plants. pots of variegated acrocus was submerged too. I figure leaves for those should poke out of the water to breathe for the acrocus. I also went to PETCO and bought their little tube packaged O. Japonica Kyoto, I got home and found it was a land plant, it's going back today. They also sell the black mystery snails so I guess the snails eggs might be that variety? Are little individual black dots on the plant snail eggs? I am running a 20 gal barrel outside, the snails probably won't bother me if they chew on the plants a bit as I don't get a good view of my plants most of the time. But I kind of want the type that would rather eat debris and clean things up, thinking of getting a couple of their black mystery snails what do you think? |
spiral_72 wrote:
Should be able to tell by a picture..... You have probably already placed the plant in your aquarium, no huge deal, but read up on how to clean the plants first. I used to shop with Petsmart and bought a zillion snails with every plant I bought. That being said. I don't recall our local Petsmart carrying anything but true Aquatic plants. My Aquaria info & pics at: http://www.geocities.com/spiral_72/Spirals_page.html My local PetSmart sells both Echinodorus spp. and submerged Spathiphyllum spp. (peace lilies). Even worse, some of the employees have told me that the Spathiphytllum are "true Amazon swords" and that the Echinodorus spp. are houseplants. -- Elaine T __ http://eethomp.com/fish.html '__ rec.aquaria.* FAQ http://faq.thekrib.com |
wrote in message oups.com... They have all plants submerged, a tank full of swords, assorted sword plants. pots of variegated acrocus was submerged too. I figure leaves for those should poke out of the water to breathe for the acrocus. I also went to PETCO and bought their little tube packaged O. Japonica Kyoto, I got home and found it was a land plant, it's going back today. They also sell the black mystery snails so I guess the snails eggs might be that variety? Are little individual black dots on the plant snail eggs? I am running a 20 gal barrel outside, the snails probably won't bother me if they chew on the plants a bit as I don't get a good view of my plants most of the time. But I kind of want the type that would rather eat debris and clean things up, thinking of getting a couple of their black mystery snails what do you think? I don't know what to say about the black mystery snails but I must say I am not regretting holding off from buying some clown loaches to eat all of my pond snails and the reason why is that my pond snails seem to do exactly what I want them to do - clean up and not eat the plants. Now mind you - they do eat dead plant matter and when I introduced them to my bedroom tank by putting a ton of hornwort in with them on it and I didn't dip the hornwort to get rid of the snails the pond snails ate the dead hornwort matter that died when my water conditions weren't good enough for them and the newer smaller hornwort that grew from it has grown some and the snails don't seem to be eating any of it. The pond snails that spread to my silver dollar tank don't seem to be eating any plant matter either and surprisingly my hornwort I introduced to that tank is growing like crazy which is great as that is exactly what I wanted. I would have said it's because I feed the snails "sort-of" by putting in spirulina pellets but I only do that with my bedroom tank and not the silver dollar tank which is doing just as good so that explanation is out the window too. I must have misunderstood Elaine a few months ago because I thought she recommended (any loach?) I try some loaches to get rid of the pond snails when I was wary of them and so I bought 5 kuhli loaches (which I love despite the lack of them cleaning up the snails even by my previous standards) and they grew and I see 1 once a week or so but they don't seem to eat any of the pond snails at all. I am not at all upset at Elaine because it was my mistake and I even don't consider it a mistake because kuhli loaches are so beautiful and unique. Bottom line - you will probably have to buy a group of larger loaches (clowns probably) to have them eat all of the snails if you decide to try snails and then change your mind. There is some beauty there as most if not all lfss will accept any sellable fish as a donation or for store credit so if your tank is too small for a number of grown (there is some leniency on specifics) clown loaches you should be able to return them to the lfs after they have done their job. I haven't done that for two reasons - I love my pond snails so far and I don't live close enough to an lfs to pick up clown loaches quite yet and I don't think I'd be able to return them if I got them through online or mail order, except for getting them to the lfs. Good luck with making your decision, and take your time making it. Later! |
"Daniel Morrow" wrote in message ... Bottom line - you will probably have to buy a group of larger loaches (clowns probably) to have them eat all of the snails if you decide to try snails and then change your mind. I've read about people having mixed results wrt Clown Loaches munching on snails. They seem to do the job for some, but not others. I had Clowns before I had any plants or snails. They're not too big... maybe 2.5" give or take a little. They don't mess with the larger snails much, but I rarely see a small snail. I have 2 other tanks without loaches that have a lot of snails. I'll fish a load of them out, then drop them in the tank with the Loaches at feeding time. They wipe them out quick. Kinda funny watching a Loach pick up a snail and swim around with it. Crushing shells on larger snails helps. Gary |
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