Heat Resistant Plants

gustavo85

gustavo85

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Anyone has had experience with plants at temperatures of ~86 Farenheit? Which species are able to resist these high temperatures for a few weeks (~10 weeks in summer)? I had plants before and got frustrated, but I'm starting to miss them...Thanks for your help!
 
My discus tank is 86F all the time. All of the crypts, java fern, hygro and wisteria will grow nicely in that temperature. There are so many different crypts....short, tall, red, bronze, bright green, alive green, with leaves having different textures that when you mix them you'll have a real nice planting. Mine are all grown under low lights.
 
pinkertd said:
My discus tank is 86F all the time. All of the crypts, java fern, hygro and wisteria will grow nicely in that temperature. There are so many different crypts....short, tall, red, bronze, bright green, alive green, with leaves having different textures that when you mix them you'll have a real nice planting. Mine are all grown under low lights.
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Can you specify what conditions you maintain on the tank? How many Watts per gallon of water? Fertilizers dosing? CO2? Anything that could help me...I would really appreciate it!!!
 
gustavo85 said:
Can you specify what conditions you maintain on the tank? How many Watts per gallon of water? Fertilizers dosing? CO2? Anything that could help me...I would really appreciate it!!!
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I'll have to check the bulb tomorrow night, it's off for the night now, but it's a standard 48" single light fixture with a 9,325K bulk that i think is 40W, that's over a 72 gallon bowfront tank. No CO2. Flourish once/week after a water change. I change water every week down to the top fin of the discus which is more than 75%. Medium hard tap water with lots of minerals. Occasionally I'll buy root tabs for some extra kick. NEVER have algae in that tank. I have to supplement the two otos that are in there.
 
Bk828 said:
I had my tank reach 88-90 in the summer and there was nothing wrong with the plants. Had ferns/anubias/cryprs/rotala/floaters/blyxa/ludwigia and more.
Just have to watch out for the fish since the water holds less O2
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So is it possible that there was something wrong with my CO2 and the fertilizers? I had a DIY CO2 back then, in a 20G; now I have a 38G... I used Flourish, Flourish Trace, Flourish K, and sometimes Flourish Excel (The highest dose permitted once a week). Or is too many fish the problem? (look at my tank setup) I would appreciate your help to see if I can get back on track...Tips from you BK would be great...I've seen your tanks and I love them!! They're awesome!
 
gustavo85 said:
So is it possible that there was something wrong with my CO2 and the fertilizers? I had a DIY CO2 back then, in a 20G; now I have a 38G... I used Flourish, Flourish Trace, Flourish K, and sometimes Flourish Excel (The highest dose permitted once a week). Or is too many fish the problem? (look at my tank setup) I would appreciate your help to see if I can get back on track...Tips from you BK would be great...I've seen your tanks and I love them!! They're awesome!
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If you want to have a successful planted tank, off the bat you should think of proper lighting, weekly fert schedule and co2 (optional and depends on lighting). If you are able to balance all of those 3 things, you should have a very healthy planted tank. (i cant even balance those 3 things. yes im lame lol)

what light you have over your tank, whats the photo period.
So you dont use diy co2 anymore on the 38g?? If not then i would suggest you try and hook that up. Excel is great but diy co2 + excel you will get a better/more constand co2 concentration.

Then you can focus on smaller things like Filtration, fish stock, water changes.

Why are you asking about temperature? Did you have plants die off/melt durring the summer months?
 
Bk828 said:
Why are you asking about temperature? Did you have plants die off/melt durring the summer months?
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Yes, that's why I'm asking. I got frustrated and switched to artificial plants, which don't die in th summer. But I miss the natural stuff. Right now since I have no natural plants I have 25W of light in the tank but I do have a 96W power compact system somewhere around which still works (that would be 2.5 WPG). Would that be enough? Also would I need 2 bottles of DIY CO2 instead of one? The tank has a substrate mixture of: Eco-complete, river sand, laterite, and tahiti moon sand...is this OK? I also do 50% water changes every week and a half - 2 weeks; fair enough? What fertilizers would I need? Sorry for all the questions but to be able to start again it should be from scratch, I don't want to get discouraged again...Finally, by the end of my last natural plant era (hehehe), I had a chaotic Black Beard Algae problem which made my life miserable and I would hate that to happen again...I appreciate your help!
 
From what I've seen, BBA loves the high light in the planted tanks. Low light tanks same water routine, same fert routine, same photoperiod don't grow BBA.
 
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