Just stopped by aquarium co op and saw some of this and had to buy one knew nothing about it so I went to TH-cam found your video's and learned everything I needed to know thanks a bunch boss. Stay awesome.
I learnt how to propagate such beautiful red plants, also I learned that there are so many variations between minis and variegation between the leaves. I love your content! I hope you make it big like other aquarium hobbyists on TH-cam. 😁
So much wonderful information. Even if not doing plants for profit this gives tons of information how to tell if your plants are healthy and if they are missing one of the big three (light, CO2, and nutrients).
I don't use C02 but my plants look like yours in your C02 tank. They are completely red. No green. I wonder why that is although I'm happy about it. Thank you for the video on this plant. I needed it as I have it in all my tanks.
I've gotten pretty decent red out of AR without CO2. The trick is medium light, low PH, and a good supply of iron in the substrate. Lower PH makes iron more readily available to plants, which is definitely a benefit for the red plants. Using a good amount of a clay based substrate will maintain a low PH and will also bond a lot of nutrients for the plant roots.
I am enthralled! Great series! Keep them coming. I would love to learn how to ID plants, how to distinguish them when found as "Hygrophila sp" for instance. I know many consider Hygro weeds, but I would Love to see a video on this species. Forgive me if you've already done one I haven't been able to see all the videos yet!
Your plants multiply so well. You get a lot of child plants. I know co2 is ideal to get specific colors but even without it, plant colors are still nice.
Awesome info, that's a great looking plant. Haven't tried it in my aquarium and will have to give it a shot. Will have to track down that short version would be great foreground color!
Really glad to see a species spotlight on plants. Can you grow the Alternanthera Reinecki taller without a lot of the water roots? More ferts in the substrate maybe? And do you add any ferts to your soil?
You could in theory grow it well out of water, some of mine has grown out of the tank before I finally trimmed it back down. I only add some basic root tabs over where the crypts are planted, as this has Fluval Stratum and Eco-Complete in the substrate, the CEC is pretty strong, so liquid fertilizer will be pulled into the substrate for plants to feed from.
Any chance for an update or new version of this? I've failed with it probably 6-8 times. The closest I've come is keeping it alive for a pair of weeks until it wilted off. The biggest question I have is why this species of plant specifically seems to wilt off and turn to mush on some people. I wish I understood this species better.
I got lucky and found that at petco today. Must be very fresh- no roots,but its full leafed,solid stemmed and right off the bat stood out in my sunlit tank. A great contrast to a Echinodorus grisebachii.
I learned that the brown tops and scarlet pink underside of my AR Mini leaves is NOT because I did something wrong - that's just because I'm only doing 2 drops of CO2 per second. In a 22gal long I'm afraid to do more than 3bps for fear of gassing my shrimp and SAE. Should I be worried to increase it?
I picked up a tissue culture A.r. 'Rosanervig'. The label also called it 'Cardinalis'.One bunch ,two names. I don't use Co2,but I do use lots of Iron. My tap must be near iron free. That tank in the vid,Bentley,does it use Co2? And what light is that? Never seen an LED with yellow lights like that. Thats a nice amount of light from that one strip.
Thanks Doug! I really love this particular plant, it's one of many that will propagate without the need to clip the top, leaving it looking stellar while still adding more plants.
Hi Bentley, In a 36 gallon, with the plant 3.0 LED fixture, what would be the recommended light percentages for my Alternanthera Reineckii? (with CO² injecting at a rate of 1.5 bps) Thanks for your help
I have some Alternanthera reineckii Rosanervig being delivered this week. With a lot of stem plants, the (rooted) stem melts/rots where I plant it. What can I do to prevent that? Should I weight it down & let the roots do their own thing?
hmm those child plants are interesting, I didnt even realize there was a mini morph. Do you have any advice on how not to split the AR? when planting?, I almost always bend a stem in this process and it snaps like a toothpick. Also...I'm stoked to be doing side trimming instead of topping on these now.
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium I've found this comes down to using straight tweezers and planting straight downward leaving about 1/4" of tweezer ahead of the roots to do all the burrowing for you. Just plant slow and careful has been my best success story the prevent bends or breaks.
Hi, I have just bought one of these, it arrived with no roots, the seller claims plants cannot be imported with roots, how can it establish itself in my tank with no root system, it died by he's saying it's due to my tank conditions? perfect water parameters, temperature and lighting
So the way that I would accomplish this is using a plant weight to hold the plant down by the substrate but not actually planting it into the substrate. This will give the plan a little bit of time to build a root system and adjust to your water before you plant it into the substrate. One of the easiest ways to know whether or not it's fully submersed grown is based on the leaves themselves. If you hold the leaves up to some light and they seem vaguely transparent, they're more than likely submersed grown. If they are more opaque and you're really not seeing light come through very clearly, then that's more than likely that they were emergent grown and then it has to do a lot more conversion to convert to living inside your tank.
When you pull the adult plant out of the substrate and replant it, does it take awhile to get going again ? Does it go through any shock/ leaf melt? I was told that was a no unless you really want to rescape your tank.
Eric K in my experience there's effectively no issue. Same water system, same nutrients so it doesn't do any real adjustment. You might see a short stall in growth, but it's pretty negligible. This can be different with very heavy root feeders like swords though. For stems: no issues.
Never heard of this plant? I grow many plants, no cO2 however I do pretty well, with many plants. Are you selling this plant? Thanks for the video... red liguidia is my best red plant.
Yes I do sell this and many other plants. If you're interested, you're welcome to email me using the email listed in the about page for this channel. Many of the red ludwigias are wonderful little plants and I keep several species as I love them all.
Can I use liquid CO2 (Easy Carbon, CO2 Booster, Excel, etc.) along with Seachem Flourish and get good results with this plant (I have 3 small ones)? Do I need to dose it every day? I'm using root tabs and Eco Complete/Stratum/Crushed coral substrate; medium light, somewhat heavily planted but waiting for plants to take off and fill in 20G tank. I hope my little peewee plants grow up to look like your gorgeous Goliaths!
Yes it's possible as they are a water column feeder. Though they do try to develop pretty strong root systems for a stem, you'll likely see more mid-water column roots as it thrives.
Bentley Pascoe 😂 That’s crazy I thought for sure I was right I know a lot of people in Maine and they say it the same way That’s why I thought you might be from there💯
The thing that I learned from you was about the roots in the water column being child plants ready to propagate. Thanks for the awesome video!
Just stopped by aquarium co op and saw some of this and had to buy one knew nothing about it so I went to TH-cam found your video's and learned everything I needed to know thanks a bunch boss. Stay awesome.
Happy to help!
Thanks for teaching me how to propagate this beautiful plant!!!!
i am so glad i watched this before taking someone's advice and just cutting below the roots.. now i know too wait for them to grow more
I learnt how to propagate such beautiful red plants, also I learned that there are so many variations between minis and variegation between the leaves. I love your content! I hope you make it big like other aquarium hobbyists on TH-cam. 😁
So much wonderful information. Even if not doing plants for profit this gives tons of information how to tell if your plants are healthy and if they are missing one of the big three (light, CO2, and nutrients).
Love the colors of this plant! I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for this plant. Thanks for sharing!
Very informative - love your videos so far! Keep up the great work!
So here i learn something new about AR. Thank you!
I don't use C02 but my plants look like yours in your C02 tank. They are completely red. No green. I wonder why that is although I'm happy about it. Thank you for the video on this plant. I needed it as I have it in all my tanks.
I've gotten pretty decent red out of AR without CO2. The trick is medium light, low PH, and a good supply of iron in the substrate. Lower PH makes iron more readily available to plants, which is definitely a benefit for the red plants. Using a good amount of a clay based substrate will maintain a low PH and will also bond a lot of nutrients for the plant roots.
I am enthralled! Great series! Keep them coming. I would love to learn how to ID plants, how to distinguish them when found as "Hygrophila sp" for instance. I know many consider Hygro weeds, but I would Love to see a video on this species. Forgive me if you've already done one I haven't been able to see all the videos yet!
I had no idea there was a mini version! Will have to see if I can find some.
Beautiful tank
AR is a very easy to use for proft because of how its is propagate. Thanks for the great videos
Thats awesome, I learned I dont have to crop the tops of my AR, but to hack them at the side shoots. Great tip!
I enjoyed the info alot in this, thanks for all of your help to all of us....you are great!
Thanks for watching Kim!
I just got some of the A.R. variegated this past weekend, hopefully mine will grow like yours soon!
Your plants multiply so well. You get a lot of child plants. I know co2 is ideal to get specific colors but even without it, plant colors are still nice.
Awesome info, that's a great looking plant. Haven't tried it in my aquarium and will have to give it a shot. Will have to track down that short version would be great foreground color!
Sweet, I love the red on the plant! I learned how to pronounce the name lol...I could never say it when I read it 😂
Good video love the red plants never tried them before.
Really glad to see a species spotlight on plants. Can you grow the Alternanthera Reinecki taller without a lot of the water roots? More ferts in the substrate maybe? And do you add any ferts to your soil?
You could in theory grow it well out of water, some of mine has grown out of the tank before I finally trimmed it back down. I only add some basic root tabs over where the crypts are planted, as this has Fluval Stratum and Eco-Complete in the substrate, the CEC is pretty strong, so liquid fertilizer will be pulled into the substrate for plants to feed from.
Any chance for an update or new version of this? I've failed with it probably 6-8 times. The closest I've come is keeping it alive for a pair of weeks until it wilted off.
The biggest question I have is why this species of plant specifically seems to wilt off and turn to mush on some people. I wish I understood this species better.
I got lucky and found that at petco today. Must be very fresh- no roots,but its full leafed,solid stemmed and right off the bat stood out in my sunlit tank. A great contrast to a Echinodorus grisebachii.
I learned of a red plant that doesn't need co2. ..will need to try this plant out. ..thanks for sharing!
never had a plant that grows childs up the stem like that. very cool
I learned that the brown tops and scarlet pink underside of my AR Mini leaves is NOT because I did something wrong - that's just because I'm only doing 2 drops of CO2 per second. In a 22gal long I'm afraid to do more than 3bps for fear of gassing my shrimp and SAE. Should I be worried to increase it?
I picked up a tissue culture A.r. 'Rosanervig'. The label also called it 'Cardinalis'.One bunch ,two names. I don't use Co2,but I do use lots of Iron. My tap must be near iron free.
That tank in the vid,Bentley,does it use Co2? And what light is that? Never seen an LED with yellow lights like that. Thats a nice amount of light from that one strip.
Fluval plant 3.0, some co2 about 3 bubbles every 2 seconds in a 40 breeder tank.
@@BentleyPascoe Ah,ok. Fluval last i checked for a 48", had almost double the diodes of basic brands.
I just got 5 stems of this plant.thanks for the great info
Great video! I am trying to grow AR Mini without CO2
beatifull plants bentley......................................................dougie
Thanks Doug! I really love this particular plant, it's one of many that will propagate without the need to clip the top, leaving it looking stellar while still adding more plants.
Enjoyed your video, does the reinecki come in plain green color ?
No, it's always some form of red/pink in tone. Closets leaf text in green would be something like limnophila aromatica
Hi Bentley,
In a 36 gallon, with the plant 3.0 LED fixture, what would be the recommended light percentages for my Alternanthera Reineckii? (with CO² injecting at a rate of 1.5 bps)
Thanks for your help
Which one is Alternanthera Reineckii Rosanervig? What is variagated? Thanks for the info! :)
Yep, same thing.
Very helpful video!
I have some Alternanthera reineckii Rosanervig being delivered this week. With a lot of stem plants, the (rooted) stem melts/rots where I plant it. What can I do to prevent that? Should I weight it down & let the roots do their own thing?
Weigh the plants down and let them convert to your water conditions. Once you see some decent new root growth, you should be safe
Excellent tank and excellent plants. I have to check that. New sub here.👍😃 Have a great day.😃👍
Cool great video
hmm those child plants are interesting, I didnt even realize there was a mini morph. Do you have any advice on how not to split the AR? when planting?, I almost always bend a stem in this process and it snaps like a toothpick. Also...I'm stoked to be doing side trimming instead of topping on these now.
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium I've found this comes down to using straight tweezers and planting straight downward leaving about 1/4" of tweezer ahead of the roots to do all the burrowing for you. Just plant slow and careful has been my best success story the prevent bends or breaks.
Hi, I have just bought one of these, it arrived with no roots, the seller claims plants cannot be imported with roots, how can it establish itself in my tank with no root system, it died by he's saying it's due to my tank conditions? perfect water parameters, temperature and lighting
So the way that I would accomplish this is using a plant weight to hold the plant down by the substrate but not actually planting it into the substrate. This will give the plan a little bit of time to build a root system and adjust to your water before you plant it into the substrate. One of the easiest ways to know whether or not it's fully submersed grown is based on the leaves themselves. If you hold the leaves up to some light and they seem vaguely transparent, they're more than likely submersed grown. If they are more opaque and you're really not seeing light come through very clearly, then that's more than likely that they were emergent grown and then it has to do a lot more conversion to convert to living inside your tank.
When you pull the adult plant out of the substrate and replant it, does it take awhile to get going again ? Does it go through any shock/ leaf melt? I was told that was a no unless you really want to rescape your tank.
Eric K in my experience there's effectively no issue. Same water system, same nutrients so it doesn't do any real adjustment. You might see a short stall in growth, but it's pretty negligible. This can be different with very heavy root feeders like swords though. For stems: no issues.
Never heard of this plant? I grow many plants, no cO2 however I do pretty well, with many plants. Are you selling this plant? Thanks for the video... red liguidia is my best red plant.
Yes I do sell this and many other plants. If you're interested, you're welcome to email me using the email listed in the about page for this channel. Many of the red ludwigias are wonderful little plants and I keep several species as I love them all.
Can I use liquid CO2 (Easy Carbon, CO2 Booster, Excel, etc.) along with Seachem Flourish and get good results with this plant (I have 3 small ones)? Do I need to dose it every day? I'm using root tabs and Eco Complete/Stratum/Crushed coral substrate; medium light, somewhat heavily planted but waiting for plants to take off and fill in 20G tank. I hope my little peewee plants grow up to look like your gorgeous Goliaths!
It won't take the liquid CO2 as well, but you should see some color and growth boost. Just expect a little less is all.
Good stuff. Do you sell plants. I hope so.
Yes I do
@@BentleyPascoe Can I see?
@@rogermims9119 feel free to shoot me an email: bentley.pascoe@gmail.com
If I am determined to use gravel, what’s the most plant tabs I can stick into the gravel?
I would do one every 5-6 inches for seachem sized tabs. Every 4" for Aquarium Co-Op sized tabs
for the ar mini, do you have to uproot the plant every time you want to propagate?
Not if you can remove the child stems easily
learned how to propagate this plant
And here I could have just watched this video instead of asking about my A.R. Mini the other day. Oh well. Worked out well regardless!
What substrate are you using here?
50/50 mix of fluval Stratum and Eco-complete
@@BentleyPascoe Thanks. Do you actually mix them or do you cap one on top of the other?
@@commoncurt4569 I've done both, in this tank they're mixed, in my 75g long that's behind me in many of my most recent videos it's layered
In a 20 high, will passive co2 be enough for this plant?
It doesn't require CO2, so yes, but the coloration and speed of growth will be different than with proper CO2
Yep, I NEED co2! Awesome plant!
Comment for entry. Conroe Texas here! Thanks Bentley
where did your get yours
I got my original Reineckii from a local club member, since then I've just grown it out from my own stock.
Can these grow in sand?
Yes it's possible as they are a water column feeder. Though they do try to develop pretty strong root systems for a stem, you'll likely see more mid-water column roots as it thrives.
whats ruts
Roots.
I thought about plants for profit but I don’t think I am that disciplined
I learned the loser to the light the dealer the color
This plant really dislikes me lol I don't know why everything else thrives. I keep trying though
It can be really iron hungry, so make sure you're supplementing iron - it also does well in reasonable flow.
I know where you’re from💯😂 You said ruts instead of roots You gotta be from Maine💯😂
Nope, born and raised in Seattle, I'm just a weirdo
Bentley Pascoe 😂 That’s crazy I thought for sure I was right I know a lot of people in Maine and they say it the same way That’s why I thought you might be from there💯
Rutts
Good content as per but whoah you say roots funny!lol
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