This is interesting.... low-light pearling?
Here's the backstory... I was buying all the Nymphaea zenkeri I could find at one of the local petco's because I've got some CF lights coming in a few days, and I wanted some that were already sprouted.
So, in the tank they also had what looks like cabomba, which required high light, but they had it floating in a twisted mass, and I asked the employee bagging my plants how much of the cabomba I would get for the $2.29 price tag, and he said:
"well, usually we only give you a few strands but this stuff is all floating around together, tell you what, I'll give you half of what's floating"
:dance: I got about 2 or 3 bunches worth of cabomba for one!
Anywyas, since my CF lights aren't here yet, I decided to let the stuff float under the 40w NO tube on my tank, and keep my fingers crossed that it makes it till the lights show up.
So the zenkeri is doing great... couples leaves already after about 1 week.
Today I did a water change, and left my filters off so I could rinse out the sponges, and just decided to plant the cabomba on a whim.
Low and behold the darn things are pearling, along with a couple of the zenkeri, and the apongogeton natans! They've been going for well over an hour now....
I can understand why the cabomba would pearl for a while, but the other stuff?
The plants are 24" below the surface, only a 40w NO light above them. No CO2 right now (I have the hagen DIY system, just haven't got it started yet)....
Anyone else experience this before? I'm expecting it to stop in time, but wow.
Here's the backstory... I was buying all the Nymphaea zenkeri I could find at one of the local petco's because I've got some CF lights coming in a few days, and I wanted some that were already sprouted.
So, in the tank they also had what looks like cabomba, which required high light, but they had it floating in a twisted mass, and I asked the employee bagging my plants how much of the cabomba I would get for the $2.29 price tag, and he said:
"well, usually we only give you a few strands but this stuff is all floating around together, tell you what, I'll give you half of what's floating"
:dance: I got about 2 or 3 bunches worth of cabomba for one!
Anywyas, since my CF lights aren't here yet, I decided to let the stuff float under the 40w NO tube on my tank, and keep my fingers crossed that it makes it till the lights show up.
So the zenkeri is doing great... couples leaves already after about 1 week.
Today I did a water change, and left my filters off so I could rinse out the sponges, and just decided to plant the cabomba on a whim.
Low and behold the darn things are pearling, along with a couple of the zenkeri, and the apongogeton natans! They've been going for well over an hour now....
I can understand why the cabomba would pearl for a while, but the other stuff?
The plants are 24" below the surface, only a 40w NO light above them. No CO2 right now (I have the hagen DIY system, just haven't got it started yet)....
Anyone else experience this before? I'm expecting it to stop in time, but wow.
