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ImAGMan
04-05-2007, 1:38 PM
Got some hornwort in yesterday, put it in my tank etc, is it normal for the next day for 90% of the um leaves i guess ud call it to have fallen off? Cause the bottom of my tank is FILLED with all of it.
Marinemom
04-05-2007, 3:24 PM
Did the pieces fall off or did some of the pieces just sink to the bottom of the tank?
Marinemom
ImAGMan
04-06-2007, 1:44 AM
Most of the pieces fell off, not the entire plant the actual pieces, theres only plant that pretty much is floating looking like a string now.
Rex Grigg
04-06-2007, 7:54 AM
More info about your tank?
ImAGMan
04-06-2007, 2:33 PM
More info about your tank?
No idea why it matters... but ok
Its a 10gal with a hob filter. Lots of other plants in it. No fish, Just finished cycling. 1.5wats of lighting/gallon.
Blueiz
04-06-2007, 2:36 PM
Its not unusual for the needles to fall off after the plant has been "stressed" I have found that transporting this plant fully submerged in water helps prevent this from happening. Don't toss the "strings" eventually it shouild grow new.. I would suggest vaccumint out the needles the best you can, as they will decompose and cause a parameter spike as well as clog your filter.
I'd say that's normal for hornwort. Usually, it recovers nicely :).
ImAGMan
04-06-2007, 5:04 PM
Yea i been vacuming it like everyday theres ALOT :), didn ttoss out the "strings" either, and thats the word!! NEEDLES!! :)
Sammie7
04-06-2007, 7:24 PM
Yea i been vacuming it like everyday theres ALOT :), didn ttoss out the "strings" either, and thats the word!! NEEDLES!! :)
Yea, what til they grow back and you do a water change. I remember thinking, "Ahhh something's got me!!" Man, I was blaming the ghost shrimp. I was afraid until I found out that the pricking/ pinching was happening everytime I rubbed up against the hornwort. Those things will prick you! LOL Ah, hornwort those were the good 'ol days.
You just wait til it starts to grow. It is a weed in every sense of the word. Just make sure that you don't let it get out into the local waterways, it'll make a complete mess of itself. I had to get rid of it, because it just grew way to fast and needed to be pruned often. And this wasn't a high light tank either. Just make sure that when you get rid of it for pruning or ridding it from your tank, you dry it out and bag it up. That stuff wreaks havoc on the waterways.