great video lazarus! 🤩 LCA fertilizers are really good Id recommend looking into em. They are way better than the standard stuff like Seachem flourish etc
Yeah, I've been considering them for a while as I see so many people using LCA's products. I thought I'd feature Seachem for beginners because it's a brand they might recognise. Thanks for watching Sas!
Dear Lazarus: From your thumbnail, which says, “save this…” I thought you were going to recommend something I heard Father Fish suggest. When a leaf falls off your, aquatic plant, use some tongs to push the leaf into the substrate. There, the nutrient-rich leaf will decompose, restoring fertilizer to the soil. Thank you for sharing your interesting and informative video on “melting,” in aquatic plants. All my best, Sincerely, E. J. Brinegar
Oh wow, never heard of that technique before! That's genius! Thanks for letting me know EJ! I'll have to try it out myself and I'm sure it'll work very well! Thanks for watching EJ! Have an awesome day mate!
Dear Lazarus: I see that the Hygrophila corymbosa, which I added to my, best, 10-gallon, cherry shrimp aquascape has shed several leaves. Since I’m trying various, terrestrial leaves in the scape, I believe I’ll allow the leaves from the hygrophila to simply settle, on top of the substrate, and see what happens. If they encourage algae, I’ll remove them. Keep up your, amazing hobby and YouTubing. Sincerely, Brinegar
Can I really just use potting mix under the gravel? That sounds crazy, would it be bad for my bettas ? I have a couple of 29 litre 2nd hand set ups from marketplace with purple and grey pebbles and my plants look terrible
As long as it's organic and there are no added pesticides or chemicals. try remove as much gravel as you can and place a 2-3cm thick layer of organic potting mix and should last you years. One of my tanks is still relying on the dirt and plants are looking great after 3 years. Root tabs are an alternative, but need to be replaced every couple of months. Good luck Mandy!
Before running out and buying separate types of nutrients in single bottle quantities, FIRST; Look for an "All-in-one" fertilizer. Usually as a liquid type that contains both micro and macro nutrients in it. In a nutshell, Most aquatic plants get their nutrients from the water column area while stems get theirs from root tabs.
@@patconcubierta295 you can buy a liquid iron. They should have some at your local fish store, if not, Seachem’s Flourish Iron works well for me which u can buy on Amazon.
@@Flowerhorn_brasen That depens on the plants you have. Echinodorus or Cryptocorynes take most of their nutrients out of the soil with their roots. So tabs would work for them. Stem plants on the other hand take the nutrients out of the water column. So they should be fertilized with liquid fertilizer.
I thought the fish gave the plants nutrients...? Thats the whole point to a sustainable ecosystem, we dont add fertilizer to ponds but we take pond water and add it to plants for fertilizer 😮
Great info! I've noticed this in my pond plants as well
Good plant discussion Laz. Cramned loads of great points in there.
Thanks Daniel!
Great information Lazarus
Great video Laz!
Cheers Aaron! I really appreciate the support!
Hey Laz, great video like usual. I’m really sorry I haven’t commented on your videos for a while I’ve been fairly busy these couple months.
No sweat, Fresh! Thanks for watching though!
Awesome video laz! Found this very very informative!. I use alot of easylife products ie fertilizer,co2,iron. Thanks for sharing mate 🙂
Yeah, Easy Life is another awesome company I'm yet to try! 😅
great video lazarus! 🤩 LCA fertilizers are really good Id recommend looking into em. They are way better than the standard stuff like Seachem flourish etc
Yeah, I've been considering them for a while as I see so many people using LCA's products. I thought I'd feature Seachem for beginners because it's a brand they might recognise. Thanks for watching Sas!
Great video
Thanks so much Bipolar! I appreciate you watching man!
Good video
Thanks Tom!
Dear Lazarus:
From your thumbnail, which says, “save this…” I thought you were going to recommend something I heard Father Fish suggest. When a leaf falls off your, aquatic plant, use some tongs to push the leaf into the substrate. There, the nutrient-rich leaf will decompose, restoring fertilizer to the soil.
Thank you for sharing your interesting and informative video on “melting,” in aquatic plants.
All my best,
Sincerely,
E. J. Brinegar
Oh wow, never heard of that technique before! That's genius! Thanks for letting me know EJ! I'll have to try it out myself and I'm sure it'll work very well! Thanks for watching EJ! Have an awesome day mate!
Dear Lazarus:
I see that the Hygrophila corymbosa, which I added to my, best, 10-gallon, cherry shrimp aquascape has shed several leaves. Since I’m trying various, terrestrial leaves in the scape, I believe I’ll allow the leaves from the hygrophila to simply settle, on top of the substrate, and see what happens. If they encourage algae, I’ll remove them.
Keep up your, amazing hobby and YouTubing.
Sincerely,
Brinegar
Great video can you please tell me why are the leaves turning transparent
Are there strip tests to see nutrients and iron etc? Like they have for basic water parameters?
Thank you for the very helpful video, waking up to white transparent plants.
Good luck mate!
Can I really just use potting mix under the gravel? That sounds crazy, would it be bad for my bettas ? I have a couple of 29 litre 2nd hand set ups from marketplace with purple and grey pebbles and my plants look terrible
As long as it's organic and there are no added pesticides or chemicals. try remove as much gravel as you can and place a 2-3cm thick layer of organic potting mix and should last you years. One of my tanks is still relying on the dirt and plants are looking great after 3 years. Root tabs are an alternative, but need to be replaced every couple of months. Good luck Mandy!
Before running out and buying separate types of nutrients in single bottle quantities, FIRST; Look for an "All-in-one" fertilizer. Usually as a liquid type that contains both micro and macro nutrients in it.
In a nutshell, Most aquatic plants get their nutrients from the water column area while stems get theirs from root tabs.
I agree with some of the things you said but if one has snails Liquid Iron can kill snails.
Mine has started getting holes in the leaves. Thinking that's potassium deficiency...
Ions?how can i add ions on my walstad tank?
@@patconcubierta295 you can buy a liquid iron. They should have some at your local fish store, if not, Seachem’s Flourish Iron works well for me which u can buy on Amazon.
Holes in the leaf develop most of the time from potassium deficiency.
what about transparent leaves
Transparent leaves could be already melting/dying leaves or nitrogen deficiency.
Does tabs work?
@@Flowerhorn_brasen That depens on the plants you have. Echinodorus or Cryptocorynes take most of their nutrients out of the soil with their roots. So tabs would work for them. Stem plants on the other hand take the nutrients out of the water column. So they should be fertilized with liquid fertilizer.
@@thomi234p9 ok thank you
It is a big issue. I can really say I have mastered it yet. lol
edit: I can't really say
I thought the fish gave the plants nutrients...? Thats the whole point to a sustainable ecosystem, we dont add fertilizer to ponds but we take pond water and add it to plants for fertilizer 😮
Fish can't cover all the nutrients 😅