im looking forward to seeing this plant take over haha. I currently have 1 type of plant that I kept on propagating so it basically filled my whole tank now. im adding these in here and there in the hope they will catch on as well and start propagating too
Thanks for your nice comment Dishant, I appreciate it! If your jungle val does well it will propagate itself through runners. I've got a small variety of vallisneria in a new tank that started propagating after about 2 weeks. Good luck! Cheers -Bart
wow great video.. by the way.. my english is not perfect... is this vallisneria the same like vallisneria asiatica? i buyed vallisneria asiatica and i want to plant this in my fish tank...i hope it grows not very huge like vallisneria gigantea 🙂
Hello! Very educational video! I really enjoyed it! Is that white part above the roots called the "crown" am I supposed to keep that above nutrient rich substrate when planting it?
Hey Nourhan, good question! I'm not sure if it's called the crown, but I guess it's a good habit to only bury the plants roots. But with Vallisneria I've never had a problem burying too much or too little of the plant. Good luck with your tank! Cheers, Bart
My jungle Val is releasing many runners but the existing levels are melting and growing new leaves regularly. But the leaves are not staying up. Plants are in pots in gravel
Mhmm alright, that might not be enough for your plants, so I would try some liquid ferts and see how the plants react. Don't add too much as this could cause algae growth.
Are these safe for cats? My cat has never wanted anything more in its life. Then to get another taste of this Vallisneria plant. It’s normally on the shy side. I’ve never seen her this affectionate or talkative in its 4 years of life. Not during treats, catnip, food. What gives?
Would liquid fertilizer just be good? Or should I put root tabs in new gravel. Over time would the gravel have enough nutrition in it for the plant, along with some liquid fertilizer? I was really hoping it wouldn't need plant substrate and root tabs.
I would recommend root tabs especially with new gravel. In an established tank there's already way more nutrients in the substrate so liquid ferts could suffice. Then again, no plants rely for 100% on its roots. If you dose enough liquid ferts the plant will still be able to get nutrients. Good luck!
I cant grow Val in my pool filter sand 50 gallon tank with LED lights and have no idea why. They grow for the first 2 weeks then turn brown, die and float to the top. Even with root tabs, any suggestions? The Crinum grows fine
I'm building a 55 gallon goldfish aquarium and using 20mm pebbles as the substrate. They are smooth pebbles. I want to plant a ton of vallis (aquarium is 30"tall. Do you think it will grow OK and if not do you have any suggestions as to what tall grasses I can use?
Oehh that's a difficult one Mick! Goldfish are notorious for uprooting everything in their tank, and the pebbles are very large which makes planing difficult. The plants can't really stick with their roots if the substrate is too large. What you can do (besides just trying) is preparing a plastic container filled with gravel that you bury in your tank. The plants can grow in this container. Maybe you can also use some creative solution that prevents the goldfish from pulling the vallisneria out of the gravel? Good luck! Let me know what you decide and how it turns out.
@@AquariumGenius my plan is to plant it up and run it for 3 months with just shrimps before adding fish. I'm wondering if using a good quality aquarium soil under the gravel will work. Or using tops cut off plastic drink bottles with vallis planted through. I'm more worried about the plants being too tender to push through the pebbles when they send out runners.
Mhmm yes it's unlikely that the plant can push or move the large pebbles. What worries me is whether the plants roots are able to hold on to anything with smooth pebbles of that size. Btw starting the tank 3 months before the fish is a great idea, it gives the vals time to root. Aqua soil is expensive but a good idea nonetheless.
Great video! I was just starting a planted tank with vallisneria spiralis and wanted to know how many inches of layer do I need for planting vallisneria? I currently have 0.5 to 1 inch layer. Secondly how can I make sure there are no pests or other harmful stuff in the new plants? Will potassium permanganate help to disinfect the plant (if I can find it nearby)? Is there anything naturally I can do to disinfect the plant instead of using chemicals like running it under water fir a while and storing it overnight in a plastic bag without water for disinfection? Please do let me know.
Hi! 0.5 to 1 inch is fine! And there's not really a need to kill pests, other than some tiny snails. If you don't want the snails in your tank I'd recommend thoroughly rinsing the plants under running water.
@@AquariumGenius Hi again! All the old leaved wilted and I trimmed them off. There are small new leaves still. Also I noticed new roots. I guess they'll survive... 😁
Great question. You can use planted tank substrate which contains nutrients but is expensive. You can also use fine gravel or sand, which does not contain any nutrients for the plants. I recommend plain gravel combined with liquid fertilizer. It's a great combination that has worked very well for me.
You can cut the runners off and plant them closer to the mother plant. At some point, if it's becoming really really dense, you might risk growing annoying algae such as black beard algae due to the lack of proper flow.
Vallisneria grows great in sand as long as you provide some nutrients in the form of either root tabs or aqua soil. I would recommend root tabs as they are cheaper.
Do not trim the plant else it'll be a whole new story lol... Just remove it from the soil and cut the runners, they are easy to pull out and if you do it slowly you won't make a mess. I learnt it the hard way tho xD
@@sizzlinsenior well if ya trim em, they start dying off really fast and this causes a huge imbalance in nutrients....within a week diatoms show up on the dead ends and spread everywhere and almost a week later you have hair algae(guaranteed). And, in all this when ya trying to unfuck the situation all hail BBA(it just hangs around like tiny little hairy babies on leaves and rocks and looks kinda cute, so I still have a patch lol). Although it won't harm your fish, the tank will look ugly af(talking bout the hair algae here). I had christmas moss in the same tank and moss+hair algae=best friends forever which was the hardest part of it all. It took me five months to slowly get things back to normal. And that was my first planted tank. The vals were growing long so, I took advice from "You tube experts" and ended up learning in the process. XD Ow, and things to note are: 1. I had co2 which dint do jack shit. 2.blacking out the tank killed my rotalas instead. 3.it took a Lotta patience and manual labour and chemicals don't do jack shit either lol or maybe they did, I just dint notice. And one more thing, whenever I saw the vals rotting away and hair algae dangling, I just trimmed em more which escalated the situation until I realized. 😑🤦♂️
Very informative 👍
Thanks... Good information you shared...
Great video as always! I love your videos! Very good tips!
Thank you for all your nice comments. I am grateful
I thank you so much so mush on replying to my comments. I hope you channel will grow and become successful!
Cheers-
Steve
Great tips for a great plant! Your tank looks great too btw. New sub.
Thank you!!
im looking forward to seeing this plant take over haha. I currently have 1 type of plant that I kept on propagating so it basically filled my whole tank now. im adding these in here and there in the hope they will catch on as well and start propagating too
2:36 i have sand and my valisneria growths without any root tabs or other fertilizers.
Well explain video
Good information bro .Love from Nepal.
Yeah I do have jungle val. Please give more information on how to propagate it
Thanks for your nice comment Dishant, I appreciate it! If your jungle val does well it will propagate itself through runners. I've got a small variety of vallisneria in a new tank that started propagating after about 2 weeks. Good luck! Cheers -Bart
Thanx
I love how you have the little name thing at 0:54 that looks like one of the things like Sniper Elite 4 has!
Vallisnaria aquarium plant th-cam.com/video/jU6JCCfQJeE/w-d-xo.html
dont they feed from the water, and NOT from the substrate?
wow great video.. by the way.. my english is not perfect... is this vallisneria the same like vallisneria asiatica? i buyed vallisneria asiatica and i want to plant this in my fish tank...i hope it grows not very huge like vallisneria gigantea 🙂
Good tips thx. I'll make sure I don't get Jungle Vall
Hello! Very educational video! I really enjoyed it! Is that white part above the roots called the "crown" am I supposed to keep that above nutrient rich substrate when planting it?
Hey Nourhan, good question! I'm not sure if it's called the crown, but I guess it's a good habit to only bury the plants roots. But with Vallisneria I've never had a problem burying too much or too little of the plant. Good luck with your tank! Cheers, Bart
My jungle Val is releasing many runners but the existing levels are melting and growing new leaves regularly. But the leaves are not staying up. Plants are in pots in gravel
Hey! Thanks for the reply, I was wondering whether you add liquid fertilizer? That could help keep your plants stronger and might make them stay up
@@AquariumGenius no fert, no co2 , only livestock waste.
Mhmm alright, that might not be enough for your plants, so I would try some liquid ferts and see how the plants react. Don't add too much as this could cause algae growth.
Are these safe for cats? My cat has never wanted anything more in its life. Then to get another taste of this Vallisneria plant. It’s normally on the shy side. I’ve never seen her this affectionate or talkative in its 4 years of life. Not during treats, catnip, food. What gives?
Cats are just dumb lol
Hi. The corkscrew val, how tall does it grow?
Would liquid fertilizer just be good? Or should I put root tabs in new gravel. Over time would the gravel have enough nutrition in it for the plant, along with some liquid fertilizer? I was really hoping it wouldn't need plant substrate and root tabs.
I would recommend root tabs especially with new gravel. In an established tank there's already way more nutrients in the substrate so liquid ferts could suffice.
Then again, no plants rely for 100% on its roots. If you dose enough liquid ferts the plant will still be able to get nutrients. Good luck!
@@AquariumGenius thank you.
Cheers g
I cant grow Val in my pool filter sand 50 gallon tank with LED lights and have no idea why. They grow for the first 2 weeks then turn brown, die and float to the top. Even with root tabs, any suggestions? The Crinum grows fine
Same but with my 40 gal
I have a 24 inch tall tank would jungle Val be appropriate
I'm building a 55 gallon goldfish aquarium and using 20mm pebbles as the substrate. They are smooth pebbles. I want to plant a ton of vallis (aquarium is 30"tall. Do you think it will grow OK and if not do you have any suggestions as to what tall grasses I can use?
Oehh that's a difficult one Mick! Goldfish are notorious for uprooting everything in their tank, and the pebbles are very large which makes planing difficult. The plants can't really stick with their roots if the substrate is too large.
What you can do (besides just trying) is preparing a plastic container filled with gravel that you bury in your tank. The plants can grow in this container. Maybe you can also use some creative solution that prevents the goldfish from pulling the vallisneria out of the gravel?
Good luck! Let me know what you decide and how it turns out.
@@AquariumGenius my plan is to plant it up and run it for 3 months with just shrimps before adding fish. I'm wondering if using a good quality aquarium soil under the gravel will work. Or using tops cut off plastic drink bottles with vallis planted through. I'm more worried about the plants being too tender to push through the pebbles when they send out runners.
Mhmm yes it's unlikely that the plant can push or move the large pebbles. What worries me is whether the plants roots are able to hold on to anything with smooth pebbles of that size. Btw starting the tank 3 months before the fish is a great idea, it gives the vals time to root. Aqua soil is expensive but a good idea nonetheless.
From who is that beautiful aquarium at 2:20
Can we get more b-roll from that guy
Great video! I was just starting a planted tank with vallisneria spiralis and wanted to know how many inches of layer do I need for planting vallisneria? I currently have 0.5 to 1 inch layer. Secondly how can I make sure there are no pests or other harmful stuff in the new plants? Will potassium permanganate help to disinfect the plant (if I can find it nearby)? Is there anything naturally I can do to disinfect the plant instead of using chemicals like running it under water fir a while and storing it overnight in a plastic bag without water for disinfection? Please do let me know.
Hi! 0.5 to 1 inch is fine! And there's not really a need to kill pests, other than some tiny snails. If you don't want the snails in your tank I'd recommend thoroughly rinsing the plants under running water.
Hi. I just bought valisneria. I noticed the leaves are very bruised. Will they still survive?
I think they will! Make sure they have some root tabs for good nutrients. They are pretty hardy plants.
Thank you very much. They are in aqua soil now. I'll have to get root tabs. Great show by the way!
@@brmandyfsc If they are in aqua soil already you've got nothing to worry about as there are plenty of nutrients. And thank you so much!
@@AquariumGenius Hi again! All the old leaved wilted and I trimmed them off. There are small new leaves still. Also I noticed new roots. I guess they'll survive... 😁
Great to hear!
a question which substrate to use for plants
Great question. You can use planted tank substrate which contains nutrients but is expensive. You can also use fine gravel or sand, which does not contain any nutrients for the plants. I recommend plain gravel combined with liquid fertilizer. It's a great combination that has worked very well for me.
Thank you so much for everything
Will Val grow outside of substrate? Can it just float on top of water out of soil?
No
U send it pops up 2 inches away when it comes up Can u replant these closer to eachother or will u kill it
You can cut the runners off and plant them closer to the mother plant. At some point, if it's becoming really really dense, you might risk growing annoying algae such as black beard algae due to the lack of proper flow.
Just to clarify, is this also applicable for sand? No soil?
Vallisneria grows great in sand as long as you provide some nutrients in the form of either root tabs or aqua soil. I would recommend root tabs as they are cheaper.
Thank you.
My plant keep getting nibbled by my goldfish, is that the reason why its not growing in height?
Could be! But the difficult thing with aquarium plants is that there can be many different reasons why they are not doing well... It's a puzzle
i have a bare bottom tank(no substrate at all). With liquid fertilizer can i keep Vallisneria americana
How does that work? Do you have something else that keeps the plants weighed down?
@@AquariumGenius yeah I have driftwood to tie plants to
Ah let me know if that works with vallisneria! I always thought they needed to be rooted in substrate.
@@AquariumGenius Thanks for the quick reply. Subscribed. Keep up with the Contents
Is it okay if I plant this in sand with a layer of gravel on the bottom?
Yes for sure! Good luck! Cheers -Bart
When trimming the plant will it continue to grow upward?
Do not trim the plant else it'll be a whole new story lol...
Just remove it from the soil and cut the runners, they are easy to pull out and if you do it slowly you won't make a mess.
I learnt it the hard way tho xD
@@NYOOOOW what will happen if they are trimmed? Lol
@@sizzlinsenior well if ya trim em, they start dying off really fast and this causes a huge imbalance in nutrients....within a week diatoms show up on the dead ends and spread everywhere and almost a week later you have hair algae(guaranteed). And, in all this when ya trying to unfuck the situation all hail BBA(it just hangs around like tiny little hairy babies on leaves and rocks and looks kinda cute, so I still have a patch lol). Although it won't harm your fish, the tank will look ugly af(talking bout the hair algae here). I had christmas moss in the same tank and moss+hair algae=best friends forever which was the hardest part of it all. It took me five months to slowly get things back to normal. And that was my first planted tank. The vals were growing long so, I took advice from "You tube experts" and ended up learning in the process.
XD
Ow, and things to note are:
1. I had co2 which dint do jack shit.
2.blacking out the tank killed my rotalas instead.
3.it took a Lotta patience and manual labour and chemicals don't do jack shit either lol or maybe they did, I just dint notice.
And one more thing, whenever I saw the vals rotting away and hair algae dangling, I just trimmed em more which escalated the situation until I realized. 😑🤦♂️
Jungle
No trim only remove !!!
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Vallisnaria aquarium plant th-cam.com/video/jU6JCCfQJeE/w-d-xo.html
How much time do you have to swallow into the mic... horrible tendency
ASMR 😂
broer waarom slik je zo veel????