What do you do with all your cuttings?

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Zamboniman

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I've had aquariums on and off for years. During that time I've made a few attempts to keep live plants but have always failed for one reason or another, mainly due to lack of knowledge.

Thanks for forums like this one I learned about substrates, CO2, lighting, fertilizers and dosing regimens, etc. Finally a few months ago I got the nerve to try again and forked over my hard earned money once again on some plants.

Well, now I'm having much the opposite problem. My plants are growing like crazy! With the side benefit that my water quality is the best it's ever been. When it comes time to trim them I'm left with vast amounts of trimmings that I often just have to throw out.

Seems weird to be throwing out much greater quantities of the same plants that I forked over cash for a few months back. Kind of a nice problem to have I suppose!

I've used some of them to fully plant another tank of mine and have offered to give some away to people I know with tanks, but that's about it. What do people here do with all their cuttings after tank maintenance day?
 
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we have a section for members that can give away plants.

i have given away so many plants here i stopped counting. trying to get some money for live stock so i am now i am trying to sell some of them.

there is always ebay. some fish stores will give you store credit for the plants. local fish clubs are another good place to get rid of extra plants. you can even post on craigslist.
 
I toss wisteria, watersprite, java moss, anacharis

I keep anubias(several vartieties) cryptocoryne(several varieties), swords, and a few others.
 
you could always give them to me........C'mon Star rider be friendly and share the love of the plant don't toss it, pass it :cool2:

:)All ur plants are belong to us:)
 
I won't purposely ship anacharis...LOL

wisteria is a PIA..freakin weed...LOL
next time I'm thinning my tanks I'll keep you in mind...LOL
 
We have a pond at work and as the weather is warming up (except it was cold yesterday and today...), I've been putting spare watersprite in it. I think the goldfish are eatting it though. But don't fear, the plant won't get into the Rio Grande water system because the River is three or four miles west of us and the plant would have to hitchhike across a major freeway, some railroad tracks, downtown Abq and a lot of desertscape. I also think some anarchis I put in the pond last year *may* have survived, but it's hard to tell at this time; I'll keep watch.
 
DebbyS said:
We have a pond at work and as the weather is warming up (except it was cold yesterday and today...), I've been putting spare watersprite in it. I think the goldfish are eatting it though. But don't fear, the plant won't get into the Rio Grande water system because the River is three or four miles west of us and the plant would have to hitchhike across a major freeway, some railroad tracks, downtown Abq and a lot of desertscape. I also think some anarchis I put in the pond last year *may* have survived, but it's hard to tell at this time; I'll keep watch.
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You are seriously under-estimating the power of nature.

All it would take is for one bird to have one small piece stuck under a feather to transfer it to any body of water nearby. I would rethink what you are doing, IMO.
 
Thanks for the caution, DeMonZ. I understand about the idea that some foreign plant may cling onto a bird and the bird make it's way ~3 miles west to the river, but I think it's really unlikely. Our birds are mostly home-body sparrows, with the occasional house finch, robin, pigeon or crow, and they don't stay long because the company dog takes an interest, and people pass by the pond all the time. Also, as noted, the goldfish, originally cheap feeders, didn't get to their present, pretty, plump 4-5" lengths by eating algae alone (though it's probably 98% of their diet after +2 winters). However, if I get any hint at all that the WS might make the long journey to the river over our hot-sun, high-desert, low-humidity landscape (though we did get tons of snow over the winter--hooray!), and of course if the river actually has any water in it at the time, I'll pull out any surviving WS and compost it :) Ditto any snails I've introduced, though they are tiny compared to our common garden snails & slugs.
 
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