Hi again! Thanks for all the info! I am hoping to get to the lfs today (not Petco) to restock my Prime and will look around for some better plants. Look for pics soon! :dance:
"Tube" plants from Petco...
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I'll add that I've bought java fern in those tubes (they call it another name for some reason) and they are doing gangbusters! Growing baby plants all over the place. You have to know what you're doing before buying these, some ARE aquatic. Don't trust the sales droid.
Tom
Tom
For my then-new 10 gallon tank, back in September I got PetCo's mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonica), amazon sword, and java fern. I found out the mondo grass is terrestrial, so after overnighting it in the aquarium, I stuck it in a pot with some cacti; it will go out in the sun in the spring. The amazon sword was actually easily divided into two and they are still going strong; one even put out a runner with a baby on it not long after being planted. The baby is now in another container (I put all the swords in glass "pots" in the aquarium to contain the roots). The java fern I tied (using a strand of dental floss) to a craggy rock and within a few weeks it was having babies, some of which are now growing in another tank. So two of the three buys worked out fine, and maybe the mondo grass will, too.
The aquatic plants in the tubes are amazingly strong considering how their packaged. I personally have no luck with the terrestrial ones though.
Oh I have a HUGE green thumb with regular plants. I have a TON of them IN the house. Once last frost date has past I get even MORE crazy!
I even grow carnivorous plants. Venus fly traps, American Pitcher plants, Nepenthis. I'm a plant freak!
Tom
I also bought some of these "tube" plants, hehe.
I had luck with the java fern - divided one tube's worth into several plants.. all of which are doing great and reproducing all over.
The wisteria I bought, however, continually gave me grief with the stems all seemingly rotting from the bottom up one section at a time. I assumed that this was because the required high amounts of CO2 and at the time I wasn't adding any into the tank. I eventually threw them all away.
I had luck with the java fern - divided one tube's worth into several plants.. all of which are doing great and reproducing all over.
The wisteria I bought, however, continually gave me grief with the stems all seemingly rotting from the bottom up one section at a time. I assumed that this was because the required high amounts of CO2 and at the time I wasn't adding any into the tank. I eventually threw them all away.
