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what do you have for light...etc...because my java fern grows like a weed...but the
moss doesnt seem to grow much....mostly dark greeen....get very little of that bright green growning tips... Barry wrote: I have a 29 gallon setup with standard gravel and UGF. My Java Fern is incredibly lush and the Java Moss grows like nuts. Both were doing great even without CO2 or PMDD (which I've recently setup to try and revive a rotting Crypt). My feeling is that gravel substrate is perfectly fine for the fern or moss because they are not deep rooting plants, they will attach to the gravel or whatever you have in the tank. My moss has attached to gravel, sea shells, rock, and driftwood. Good luck. In article , Rich Conley wrote: what do you guy sreccomend I use...its a 20H tank, and I really dont want to use anything that I'll have too worry too much about clouding my water or anything like that..... It'll have mostly java fern and java moss in it...attached to some cork bark I have siliconed to the back....but I woul like some swords and crypts...and maybe some carpet type plants....How much light do you guys reccomend? and what for substrate..what for fertilizer..? And actually...my workmate grows his prize bonsai trees in gravel... Mr GTV wrote: "Rich Conley" wrote in message ... What is better for pllants? Sand or gravel? Neither. You wouldn't stick your prize roses in a bucket of sand nor a bucket of gravel so why do teh same with aquatic plants? Ideally you should use about 10-15cm of fertilizer / sand mix and hold the lot down with 4cm of gravel, 2mm diameter. Steve |
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