Stop doing this with Vallisneria!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- In this Video I will give you a helpful tips that beginners are unaware of that will kill your Vallisneria.
I also reach out to my subscribers and ask all of you what you'd like me to cover in my next video. I give 6 topics of discussion that I will cover this Friday depending on what gets the highest votes.
Regular flourish works fine
Any fertilizers works fine too. 😜
@@DEXTER-TV-series So right, I have vallis growing like crazy and I fertilize daily with an AIO fertilizer (Easylife Profito) and root tabs and have done similar over many years.
Val does not like liquid carbon such as Excel . Val also does not do well in soft water, mine has a PH 8 and dkh 18. The Vals love it.
I’ve had valisneria for over 3 months, I bought easy green from aquarium coop recently. But I’m still using the bottom end of my seachem flourish excel and the plants are thriving! Good videos, but you may need to do a bit more experimentation to figure out what the problem is. Additionally, I’ve stopped using root tabs on my valisneria because liquid fertilizers most certainly do the trick for them. They may be “root feeders”, but I’ve found even more success with liquid fertilizers
Right. Only liquid fertilizer with Bio available carbon can do what I mentioned. Easy Green doesn't have that in there. There Fertilizer is so good because they know the macronutrients that plants need. It's loaded up with nitrogen. Great stuff! 🤙 The facts are correct. I wasn't showing Val that was dying. Mine do just fine. The video is just a warning. I don't use root tabs nor liquid fertilizer period in my tanks. I teach dirted tanks.
Oh this helps. I don't have val but was considering it. How do you trim it? Just the tops if it grows too long? I'm not sure if that would kill the blades and stop them from growing?
I have jungle vallisneria and the seachem flourish has been perfectly fine. I stopped using the liquid CO2 after adding an actual CO2 tank, so I can't say if that was killing it, but after the initial die off, its doing really well.
When things are going well; you really don't need to question your decisions. Regardless of what I say or anyone else.
I'm super stoked that things are happening. That's the goal my friend 🤙
@@yourtap Every tank is different as well. My CO2 injector is right next to this plant, so it may be overpowering any negative effects of the Floruish, but something to keep in mind as i plan on propagating this plant in other areas further away. I’ll comment if I run into any issues
@@gdn86 I actually really appreciate you commenting. I need things to attempt in front of my eyes. I've been losing interest because I felt no one had any suggestions insinuating otherwise.
Feel free to email me.
@@yourtap thanks for the reply. Your channel has helped around the margins where I couldn’t find much information otherwise. I have some issues with water being a bit too soft for shrimp/snails going forward as well. Edit: you also saved my Java fern. It wasn’t from a big box store, but it still had the string around the roots and I split it all up and now it’s all growing new leaf shoots off since I replanted it after.
@@gdn86 I love talking to other hobbyist. I need to troubleshoot issues. I believe I have a solution for you. My email address is spoodledoodlenoodlefoodle33@gmail.com
It is me. Hit me up 🤙
New subscriber here 😊 I would like to see a video on how to propagate cardinal plants. I just bought some val, and I am excited to see it take off. Thanks for sharing this video 😊
Welcome 😁
So how do I get rid of the black beard algae ... the only plants I have are cork screw val across the back in my 20 gallon tank with my platies, albino cories, albino cherry barbs, ramshorn snails, (3) amano shrimp. It's a topfin tank with kit lights that are on a timer for 7 hours a day. The bba is mostly on the gravel and near the roots of the plants.
Sounds to be a bit overstocked. A 20 I may put 5 1inch long animals in there. Too much food and waste can cause it.
Also, things like that need to go through their process. Just like diatoms that are brown. Won't simply go away until they've gone through their cycles.
Meaning you physically clean it up until it stops or let it do it's thing.
Never use chemicals to "treat or fix" issues.
Nature will happen in your ecosystem. It's the way of things. I don't fight water bugs, fleas, worms etc because they all contribute to the balance of life you're creating.
Hope that helps 🤙
New Subscriber and new to the corscrew val. but not new to the aquarium world love your videos and exclamation of your content
Happy to have you 😊
Hey, I have some in my tank and put some liquid fertilizer and CO2 in there for about a week now, if I stop using those products do you think they will survive or do I need to buy new ones ?
They'll bounce back if it's started to become effected already. Otherwise I wouldn't invest any stress about it. Plants are pretty resilient my friend 🤙
LOL they do respond to liquid fertilizer, all 3 you mentioned are NOT fertilizer, but rather forms of glutaraldehyde.
Val responds very well things like thrive nilocG, the standsrd seachem Flourish etc.
Also folks have been able to use Flourish Excel with Val at lower doses. If you follow the directions on the bottle and do the initial huge dose ya the Val is a gonner 😂
Thanks man 🤙
Exactly the two products I’ve been adding to my tank! I’ve been pulling my hair out…
Well shit! Don't don't do that. Lol
Do a water change and your plants will recover if there's any obvious damage. 🤙
Thanks for your video man!! My first one!! Looking forward to seeing rest of channel!! Apisto lover here lmao
Thanks for joining us 🤙
I have Val and it's not doing so well I did add algae remover once so that won't help I done a big water change to remove it I was using fluval plant ferts do u think I should keep using the fluval plant ferts or stop using it I have auqasoil and Val and anubus and a tige lotus,, thanks
You asked just in time. I was speaking to another hobbyist on TH-cam. I do all my tank talk here.
You have questions and I have answers. Depending on how long that algae junk has been in your tank ; you already did the first step correctly. Your head was in the right place. A huge water change. Next, is to thoroughly check all your Vals leaves. Any yellowing or melting on any individual leaves. Cut them all the way down to the base. Get rid of potential infected leaves.
Secondly, I actually have fluval plant liquid fert. It's completely harmless to your Val. Only fertilizers that say "Bioavailable Carbon" in the guaranteed analysis on the back of your ferts will cause more harm.
In any case. Lay off the ferts for a week. Even if you don't notice any yellowing on the Val leaves. Give them a chance to recover. Your Anubias will need liquid ferts however; it'll do just fine an entire week without it.
Thanks for the question. Hope to see you around in the future 🤙
I had vallsineria in a tank where I put none of those 3 products for them and 3 out of 4 plants died off. Maybe I planted them too deep into the fluval striatum or my water parameters wasn't for it.
Is easy green co op safe? Like let's say I want vals with nitrient rich substrate and I jave anubias that need ferts. Will easy green affect vals, I love their ferts cause it makes my other rhizome plants grow lol
Easy Green is perfectly safe for everything. The ingredient you're trying to avoid is bio available carbon. I only know it to be in Flourish. But now you know what to look for 🤙
Thanks for watching! I'll look forward to seeing you around!
@@yourtap...Flourish Excel....Not the Flourish fertilizer, 2 different products.
@@BassManStrikes , you seem to understand just why it would be confusing to beginners. Generalizing this topic helps.
Never had a problem with using Excel or Flourish, through out val by the bucket full.
That's awesome 🤙
Thanks bro cuz I'm another person that was about to do all the liquid and root tabs I've seen on TH-cam but I do like the plant if anybody knows if they can have one plant in a beginner tank what would it be
Seachem excel is just glutaraldehyde (which most people use as an algaecide). So basically your three tips for vallisneria is to avoid glutaraldehyde, avoid algaecide, and avoid glutaraldehyde. That has nothing to do with fertilizer.....
Don't use anything that has bioavailable organic carbon.
It has everything to do with fertilizers in general because your average beginner doesn't understand the difference.
I'm simply pointing out what can kill the plants if you don't take the time to actually read it's content.
Thanks for watching! 🤙
Your fish look really happy swimming amongst your plants
Appreciate it man. If they're not happy, there's not much more I can do for them.
It's literally the safest personal natural habitat they could have.
I take that back. The baby fish were born straight into the thunder dome.
The parents ate close to 3 dozen of them.
The smart one's hid in the bushes until they became to big to fit in their parents mouth. 😂😂
i just got cheap 25 cent a foot of tubing and used a bottle and a 99 cent air stone with yeast and sugar to make co2 for my tank XD
Nice 🤙
“Your tap water is crap”
Wish I had found you 2 months ago. They are putting something in our tap water that just has massive amounts of ammonium, and has been scaring the crap out of me.
Talked to a LFS, they asked me if I lived in city X Y or Z, yep, I’m in Y. They got me some processed RO, and it’s getting things fixed. Need to do a couple more 20% changes to cycle out as much of the tap water as I can. They only charge 30¢ a gallon, and for the amount I’ll need in the long term, doing it myself would take awhile for it to pay for itself, and I’d probably have to change the filters on it well before I made 1,000 gallons of water.
Plants like ammonium. We also love putting it in explosives. Humans drinking it. Lol "I wouldn't 😂"
The struggle is real. Our tap water is crap.
Don't panic about your water. Switching it all out right away will actually create problems. Once you make the switch don't forget to add minerals to it using buffers 🤙
Thanks for watching
@@yourtap they remineralize it, I made sure to ask that. I’m doing 20% every 4-5 days, have done 2 so far, plan to do 3-4 more. The tap water just stays cloudy, doing 2 water changes has made a great improvement, but it’s still there
I used thrive. thank you. learned something!!
Have fun digging through videos! There's plenty to binge watch 😂
Seachem Excel kills Anacharis also.
I just bought a bunch of jungle val for my 75 gallon have had the plants for about a week and was adding liquid c02 not knowing what it was entirely. Are all my plants toast ?? Or is there a chance of them still coming back since they're in shock right now anyways??? Please help !!
Bro! I'm not going to lie to you. Do a 100% water change immediately!
Dude your freaking awesome!!! thank you for getting back to me and giving me all this advice I will do so and hope my jungle val is able to be saved.
@@tinogonzalez3173 , no worries my friend. I'm sorry I didn't see this last night before bed. It's not game over. Plants want to make it. You're correcting the only mistake I noticed that could be fatal.
Check in anytime man. It's literally all I do. I'm constantly researching plants and water chemistry in my basement.
I am brand new to keeping fish, and i had the idea to setup a bathtub aquarium in the backyard. I grabbed a 2nd had tub, used a soil base capped with 2inches/5cm of sand, and i planted a lot of vallisneria exclusively. I have a solar pump that pumps the water from one end of the tub up through a gravel bog filter that has various plants growing in it, and that filters water back into the tub. The plan was to plant the tub heavily, put in some fish, and the waste water would sustain the plants in the tank and the bog filter. After i set it up, i wanted it to sit for a few weeks to get the plants established before putting in any fish. And so i figured i would add some liquid fertilizer, a brand that also contained liquid co2. I figured it would feed my bog plants while there were no fish in the tub at that point. I added a decent amount as it was a large volume of water, planted my vallisneria, and walked confidently back inside. Just by pure coincidence later that day i watched a video about caring for vallisneria. No liquid co2, no liquid fertilizer... i raced outside and did an immediate water change. So far so good. Nothing melted. I still have no fish in there, and the water is testing pretty clean. But now i am getting a bit of algae because its getting a lot of direct sun here in Australia. Trying to find that balance.
Algae is going to happen. You may even get a bloom and the water turns completely green. Even in a tub pond it'll need maintenance on occasion.
If the algae is brown, you're dealing with diatoms and those are a type of animal. It's a phase and can blow over in time.
A paint brush and a weekly swipe to the sides of your tub will help.
FYI, fish love algae. They eat it and it's a huge provider of oxygen.
You got the liquid fertilizer out. Everything else sounds perfect for your fish.
Drop some wood in there and tannins will help blot out extra sun light.
I knew it was killing my vallisneria. Aquarium stores aren't aware of this
There are many things Aquarium stores aren't aware of. Thanks for watching 🤙
thanks for this. I would've done all the mistakes you mentioned if it weren't for this video. 🔥🔥🤘
You're welcome my friend. See you around 🤙
great vid mate
Thank you Paul 🤙
OOP'S 🤔 hum ? I was wondering why my val isn't growing, thanks I got root tabs to replace
the easy green I've just about have used up, now I put what jungle Val I have in a 3 ft plastic
garden box to let it grow in it with root tabs in the middle of it in a row a 1/2 inch under P
gravel & just got in 12 extra val plant's to go in the garden box in a 110 gal oval shape stock
tank till I can redo my 75 gal aquarium. I just found your channel, liked the content, I hit the 🔔
Hey there Raising Goldfish! Thanks for joining us my friend 🤙
If you're feeding your Val and it's got appropriate light. It could just be dormant. Vallisneria is a perennial. Because of this, 4 months out of the year it'll appear to be stagnant or even completely die off on you. This is perfectly normal. You can speed things up by trimming everything off that's already dead or dying.
I do hear this comment quite often from Val keepers.
If you want to check if it's actually struggling. Pull one out. Uproot it. Touch the roots, look at the colors.
If it's not firm to the touch, if the roots aren't a dirty white and more darkest brown to black and soft. It is actually dying on you.
Hope that helps 🤙
Will the regular Seachem Flourish kill my Vallisneria? I switched to Vallisneria because despite trying everything, Java Ferns would not do well in my tank.
I have a gravel substrate and the only other plant that's managed to survive in my tank has been Amazon sword. Hoping the Vallisneria make it.
It'll be fine. What it'll enjoy more and speed up the growth is seachem root tabs. Val absorb 90% of it's nutrients through the roots.
You mentioned gravel so this will benefit your Sword plant as well.
I have many videos on Java Fern in my playlist. There is videos on why people fail Java Ferns, propagation etc.
It's not a beginner friendly plant like it's made out to be. You'll get answers in there.
Good luck to you my friend.
@@yourtap Thanks for the advice. If it weren't for my Amazon Swords thriving, I would've kept believing that I was an inadequate aquarium plant keeper! Java Ferns are definitely not beginner-friendly. I've tried root tabs, gluing them onto driftwood & rocks, and liquid fertilizers in the past to no avail. I'll check out your videos to see what I did wrong! I suspect it may have been my lighting.
So confusing how I’ve killed my Val yet my Java moss is thriving??
If you have a undergravel filter the liquid fertilizer is more effective with heavy root feeders.
Cardinal plants! I have Lobelia Cardinalis and could only find one good video on this plant. Not a lot of straight forward info out there thats easy to find. Its one of my favorite plants because while everything I've had may have struggled or melted through my learning phase this plant is still going strong and looking good. I have so many questions? Can you carpet this plant? How big does it get really? Is it more of a root feeder vs column feeder? Because I see a ton of roots above and below
I will cover all your questions about Cardinals on this video today.
I'm starting it now.
I'll have it ready in an hour.
I'll hook your questions up.
@@yourtap Thank you for everything. Glad I found your channel
I think this video is great, but it teaches a lesson different from the title. My take: don't add ridiculous things to your tank if you have a problem. If you have a problem, solve the problems root cause. Don't add random panic things. They might well cause you even more problems and may even kill everything (i.e. not just your val) :D
You interpreted it correctly. Thanks for watching. If you were looking more about the complete care and propagation of Val. Here's my tutorial on the species. Hands on tutorial 🤙
th-cam.com/video/EsF5wrHXJxY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the insights. Know that our local tap water is crap in Nebraska, also. Our water hasn't killed Guppy Grass, so far.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching 🤙
Hello from 2024
that why my chain sword died
is tropica fertilizer safe for italian val .
I'm afraid I don't have the answer to that. My knowledge in fertilizers are as follows.
Fluval
API
Aquarium Co-Op
Flourish by Seachem
Thrive
However, I can tell you this. If you notice it has CO2 as one of it's ingredients. Do not use.
My experience and advice come from watching what happens with my own eyes and perfect water conditions.
you saved my Val ! I finally bought some about a month ago and planted it in a 55 I fertilize the shit out of .
I pulled both plugs just now and replanted them in another tank that gets no ferts .
I’ve found it does insanely good in cooler water.
Can I also ask for a topic to be covered? How much Nitrates for planted tanks! Go ahead and give it a Google or search it here on TH-cam you will only find info on how to lower it. I'm so confused on who to listen to... I know it depends on what you've stocked animal and plant wise, but if you have a varied well stocked community tank you'd think there would be a consensus as to what range to keep your nitrates at. 0 for non planted, but plants need the nitrates right?
I don't need to Google search. I have hands on experience and have seen with my own 2 eye's what fish can tolerate and plants.
I'll go over that as well.
I'm writing all this down. Others had request too.
I'll answer everyone's questions. 👊😎
Just got some today lol
Well now you've got some knowledge going into it. I have 4 Vallisneria care videos. Check out my playlists; there's one specifically for Vallisneria care and propagation.
4 videos total.
Thanks for the comment.
Propagating Repens sounds like a winner to me
You got it Bro. Let's carpet the shit out of a tank. Thanks for the vote!
Seachem - pronounced See-kem. As in chemistry for the sea.
You're late to the pronunciation party! Lol
I've been corrected verbatim twice now this way. 🤣
Thanks for watching George! I'll look forward to seeing you around other videos 🤙
Nice video bud
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6 minutes, and he finally gets to the point. I'm out
I spent a week thinking about this comment. I put a bunch of thought into everything I do. I share my personal life here.
My question to you is; are you suggesting free advice has a price and that price is your precious time?
I'm being practical here in my response. I spent 2 weeks of my time editing dozens of hours of proof for free. I did this because I care. Remember.. . FF is an option for your precious 6 minutes 🤙
I got to 3 mins (which was being generous & pushing it) before totally losing patience with the whole obsession with subscribers and NOT addressing the title of your, clickbait, video .....a bit lame ....
I haven't watched this one in awhile. I apologize you didn't enjoy the video. Normally I don't even ask for subs. The videos are an extension of my hobby. I do it for fun. This channel isn't for financial gain. Thanks for the constructive criticism. 🤙
My Friend you have an awesome Tank know you need to get Some SIAMESE algae EATERS to Help you Clean the Tank God Bless and keep up the good work 🇺🇸