How to keep plant in the substrate

[kanvas]

I got some Blyxa japonica and Blyxa aubertii a few days ago but I had trouble keeping them down in the substrate. They are really buoyant so they keep slowly uprooting themselves.

How do you keep those light weight plants down?

 

[Mgamer20o0]

i dig a small hole. put it in fill the substrate around and press down around it then move more substrate over it. this should keep it down until it roots its self.

 

[jpappy789]

B. japonica was a hard one for me to keep down. Do you have sand or gravel or something else?

 

[kanvas]

B. japonica was a hard one for me to keep down. Do you have sand or gravel or something else?

Gravel + sand + turface

I just temporary anchored them by "stapling" them down with bent aluminum wires.

 

[zzyzx85]

I actually buried them deeper, using some substrate in between the leaves to keep them weighed down. Other than that, I used tweezers and pulled them into the substrate by the roots as deep as possible.

 

[dundadundun]

i use tweezers and a spatula (reptile feeding tongs and a plastic cake knife/spatula). i get it as deep as i can with the tweezers, hold it down with the spatula, pull the tweezers out and backfill/press down with the substrate.

 

[pam916]

I use a long pair of hemastats, grasp the plant stem gently and push as far into the substrate as it will go and it usually stays without any problem.

 

[tanker]

Put as much roots into gravel as you can, then put a few small rocks or those tacky aquarium ornaments around it. After a few weeks you can remove them if you do not want them.