Do some research in the Planted Tanks forum... Lots of good stuff there on lighting, ferts and CO2. Adding plants shouldn't be a big deal. I usually have to thin mine out every month.
Adding live plants
- Thread starter Pudge
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Hi there: I'd like to add something else here. When you add plants, make sure you take off and discard any metal clips or anything holding the plant or roots together. Sometimes metal clips can have some bad stuff in them. Also, some people quarantine or disinfect plants before adding them to a healthy aquarium. Not sure how others feel about this, but I did it for years, just like quarantining fish. I used to bath any new plants in a weak potassium permanganate solution, rinse well, then plant. I hope this helps,
frogdog
frogdog
Yeah, that's one reason why I always did it. If anyone is interested you can buy potassium permanganate from the pharmacy here in Canada. (My pharmacist is used to me ordering all kinds of odd things). Fill a bucket with lukewarm water, add enough KMnO4 just to color the water lightly purple, dunk new plants for 5 minutes, rinse well, plant. Bye bye snail hitchhikers and any other nasty microscopic critters. ;o)
In the US it is easier to get it from the local pool supply store. I planned to get some but I did not get it in time and my plants were here.
