These houseplant roots grow in water?

[ITHURTZ]

So I assume all these plants can grow in water

http://www.botany.com/index.6.htm

So as of right now, I want to load up on mint plants. I would love to walk into a room smelling that!

 

[ITHURTZ]

Excuse the ghetto ness of my tank. Iv been lazy on hanging the light from the ceiling. And also no light covering as I keep changing the dang lighting method. And the unfinished ugly tank as that cost money, plus I need to special order the rest of the tile.

Anyway put the ivy in, lets see how it goes. Last night I also saw a ladybug crawling around the arrowheads, so if any leaf mites, I hope it is still around to take care of it!



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[ITHURTZ]

I do 70% water changes every week. on m y 330gal, usually nitrates are 20-25ppm. Today is due for a water change, I am registering 10ppm..... weird.

 

[Piranha86]

Don't know much about the other plants, but +1 on the English Ivy being invasive. We go up to my grandmothers house weekly-biweekly, and every time I go up, I have to trim her Ivy patch. It's in front of her porch. It grows like mad. It seriously grows 2 inches taller (which is a lot considering the leaves lay parallel to the ground) and probably about 3 inches out every 2 weeks or so. And when she was in the hospital and not at her house for a month, it grew up onto the porch and into her siding.

 

[ITHURTZ]

Plants are loving it so far.



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My little buddy


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[dundadundun]

I do 70% water changes every week. on m y 330gal, usually nitrates are 20-25ppm. Today is due for a water change, I am registering 10ppm..... weird.

the plants keep growing like that, you'll be ADDING nitrates soon enough. :hypnotized:

 

[ITHURTZ]

I say screw pothos and go for arrowheads, mine have gone nuts while the pothos grow, just not crazy like the arrowheads!

Here is a pic from a week ago


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[ITHURTZ]

Im gonna need a new container some how, the arrowheads are starting to cover all the other plants.

 

[Wycco]

Biggest healthiest darkest green impatien I ever saw was the one growing in my paludarium. Was sitting in a container of just sand with water continually flowing over the roots to a depth of 2 inches.

You don't often think of impatiens as aquarium plants- but as long as not planted more than a couple of inches deep they do better than on land.

 

[ITHURTZ]

Replanted. Went to menards bought a black vinyl non mildew resistant shower curtain for $5 and made me a 55"x11"x5" container.

This is from 6 months of first being introduced, not a plant died on me yet, some grow better than others.

Pulled the plants out of the lava rock, little careful tugging and they came right out


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Pothos root system


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Spider plant, silver tree, and some kind of mint (planted 2 weeks ago) roots


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More spider plant


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And the shocker arrowhead root system, they are over 24" long


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Here it is as of right now, gotta figure out the top again


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Yes that is your common hosta on the right. From research as long as you dont cover the crown (like a java fern) it wont die. Its been in only a few days so time will tell. I also have 3 maple tree seeds to see how they do, maple trees like moist soil and are also found in boglands/wetlands.

So far I would rate the Arrow heads as the #1 plant, its growth has been AMAZING and day in day out producing more leafs.

Pothos would come in a distant 2nd, for 4.5months mine did nothing but shoot 1 leaf, the past 6 weeks it has been shooting atleast 2 leafs a week. I guess it got established then.

Spider plants, well... They grow, slowly, but grow.

The silver tree, grows faster than the spider plants, but nothing nitrate worthy imo unless you have a ginourmous container of them.

The Ivy has continued to grow and grow but is really a pita if you dont have something for it to crawl up on.

The hosta, and mint plant I cant say as they havent been in the tank long enough.

But all in all as of right now, Arrowhead and pothos are the way to go , more so the arrow head. If I did it again I would skip the silver tree, spider plants and ivy if you are looking for a super sucker or something that doesnt need to climb up something to get out of the way (can get messy). Im sure in 6 months Ill need to replant again. The lava rock held the plants in good, but also allowed me to take them out without ripping the roots apart.



Oops forgot 1 image. Water goes in 1 side (256gph) and waterfalls out the other side into the tank. Excuse the bio balls I had no where to put them haha


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