Your crypts look beautiful. How did you get them to look so good? Mine always seem to struggle getting to a nice tall height despite using aqua soil and pond soil with low-med light. Would you recommend not using any substrate additives to get a taller growth as you have done?
Sorry for the late reply, was on holidays and have had too mucho work lately. They actually seem to do better with less nutrients to start. I plant them in straight sand and just let fish poo do its work... most of my tanks are growing fry so, eventually there is a fair bit of nutrient. The only other things that way be helping are 30% weekly water changes and all my tanks have pretty good flow from canisters, hang-on-backs or internal pumps.
@@AguabonitaAquatics How old is this tank? Because I also love these crypts! Even in my CO2-aquasoil-using tank they mostly just hang out rather than get lush like this😅
@@humanelements2 About 5 years. It has just had fish poop as additive, but has been vacuumed heavily a couple times to reset. Last time was about a year ago. It now has a hairgrass carpet rather than crypt parva as the new light was too intense for the parva, so I tried hairgrass. Apparently it can be grown without CO2 if you have enough light... it's doing quite well.
@@AguabonitaAquatics thanks for the advice! It sounds like patience and not bothering crypts is the best way. I have a 20G tank with good light, ferts, + CO2 but in 6 months my crypts haven't grown much. My hairgrass, S. repens, pogostemon, and other plants all need regular trimming but the crypts just sit there, haha. Except for the Crypt. spiralis; that one still grows slow but is noticeably taller and leafier.
Very nice one
Thanks!
Your crypts look beautiful. How did you get them to look so good? Mine always seem to struggle getting to a nice tall height despite using aqua soil and pond soil with low-med light. Would you recommend not using any substrate additives to get a taller growth as you have done?
Sorry for the late reply, was on holidays and have had too mucho work lately. They actually seem to do better with less nutrients to start. I plant them in straight sand and just let fish poo do its work... most of my tanks are growing fry so, eventually there is a fair bit of nutrient. The only other things that way be helping are 30% weekly water changes and all my tanks have pretty good flow from canisters, hang-on-backs or internal pumps.
@@AguabonitaAquatics How old is this tank? Because I also love these crypts! Even in my CO2-aquasoil-using tank they mostly just hang out rather than get lush like this😅
@@humanelements2 About 5 years. It has just had fish poop as additive, but has been vacuumed heavily a couple times to reset. Last time was about a year ago. It now has a hairgrass carpet rather than crypt parva as the new light was too intense for the parva, so I tried hairgrass. Apparently it can be grown without CO2 if you have enough light... it's doing quite well.
@@AguabonitaAquatics thanks for the advice! It sounds like patience and not bothering crypts is the best way. I have a 20G tank with good light, ferts, + CO2 but in 6 months my crypts haven't grown much. My hairgrass, S. repens, pogostemon, and other plants all need regular trimming but the crypts just sit there, haha. Except for the Crypt. spiralis; that one still grows slow but is noticeably taller and leafier.
Which model aquatop tank are you using?
They are 20cm wide 40 cm high 60 cm long. I think it is the HCA-12GT.
@@AguabonitaAquatics 12 gallons vs the 5 gallons of the 5 gallon.
@@fvvfvbbbb way better than the 5 gallon tanks for the pony wall. Figuring out what plants look good in a tall narrow tank has taken a while, lol.
Tip:
You don't pronounce the 'e', at the end of latin names.
For example: 'ae', reads 'a'.
'Parvae' reads 'parva', etc.
Thanks, I'm self-taught in latin, mostly guessin.
@@AguabonitaAquatics I see english people having trouble with latin names.
It hurts my ears.
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@@MrGigi-dz9cv I'm Canadian so I'm sure it's worse, lol. I'll try to do better!