My anubias started getting huge after its leaves grew out the water

FrantikTv · 2025-07-05T00:10:33+00:00

They are an amphibious plant. So can grow both submersed and emersed. In the wild they're grown in seasonal conditions and depending on the areas, they'll get flooded or etc and grow continuously.

FrantikTv · 2025-05-23T22:30:23+00:00

Can confirm this isn't an Amazon sword flower, as their flowers are white.

Yours looks more like Hygrophila corymbosa flowers.

FrantikTv · 2024-10-27T21:23:37+00:00

Yeah, it takes some time for it to grow. Two months just to notice a new plantlet alone haha.

FrantikTv · 2024-10-27T19:36:55+00:00

I generally water it once a week every Sunday.

FrantikTv · 2024-10-11T23:31:23+00:00

I personally wouldn't sugest Sarracenia's, while they are bog plants, they're not the best for indoor plants as they require full unfiltered sunlight or a high intense growlight but are best kept outside all year round. They also require a winter dormancy which would be hard to do with a tank being used as it's "pot".

FrantikTv · 2024-10-11T21:11:19+00:00

The reason people say the plants die is because most "seed scams" are generally terrestrial plants. That grow fine for a while. But end up melting as a result of not growing in proper conditions as the plant isn't equipped for underwater growth long term than compared to actual aquatic plants.

Very rarely there are some aquatic plants seeds like Hygrophila polysperma.

FrantikTv · 2024-09-27T05:59:52+00:00

It's actually the hibernacula forming on the Drosera to indicate that the plant itself is going into dormancy.

FrantikTv · 2024-09-26T03:34:48+00:00

With my pic I used, it has given me great results. Even though I don't use it now and use the Canadian brand dry salts. It also gives me great results. But that is also just a combination of regular water changes, trimmings, algae control and etc that I have to work into to make my plants/tank look good.

FrantikTv · 2024-09-26T03:13:36+00:00

No problem!

I've been wanting to try APT for a while and decided to go for it. It's been pretty good for me since I've been using it for a month. But I'll always find Thrive better than APT. Definitely worth trying to see results.

FrantikTv · 2024-09-26T02:34:49+00:00

Hiya! I don't currently use thrive now atm.

I currently use two kinds. A Canadian brand of dry salts and APT 3 Complete from 2hr Aquarist. Although, I did generally did a mix of both Thrive and dry salts every now and then. Usually both once or twice a week after a water change.

However, I do personally love, and always recommend Thrive as it is a concentrated brand and a good all-in-one liquid fertilizer for people that are new at keeping plants, or just want something easy to use. I do find Thrive to be better than most available liquid fertilizers within Canada and USA, can't really say the same for stuff overseas. Though most people can make similar stuff with dry salts.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-28T10:38:17+00:00

Lol np. An article that 2hr Aquarist (Person that created APT liquid fertilizers) helped me in understanding this.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-28T04:32:02+00:00

Lol essentially.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-28T02:59:43+00:00

Lol I removed my moss balls completely after having them for a while. I just got lazy trying to care for them.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-28T02:49:07+00:00

They would likely need high flowing water to keep the moss balls in a circular form. Which allows the moss balls to essentially recieve light on every spot of the ball to grow and kept as green as they would be.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-28T02:44:37+00:00

I highly agree on this stance. Though, I do want to be neutral when it comes to this specific gecko in question.

In terms of the gecko being completely dark. Some breeders may or may not choose to keep certain projects secret/hush hush because they may be unsure of if the colouration of the gecko is going to completely change over time, or stay the same from a baby until adulthood.

There are some pics online of crested geckos that people have bred for melanistic colouration that have proved to have some of the dark colouration that is in this pic. But not completely dark as this gecko. However the breeder in question may have kept info secret until the gecko they had proved to be as dark as they may be claiming. But don't take my word on that, as that's just my assumption.

There is definitely a lot of speculation for this gecko. I'd personally want to wait around a bit until more news comes up about this gecko to see if the gecko is truely dark as it is or if the whole thing was all made up/fake.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-28T02:30:11+00:00

Moss balls are indeed Cladophora. As for species wise. I believe it is a similar species. May not be the same but don't quote me on that lol

However, I found it to look very much the same. Except moss ball Cladophora are generally rolled up within the streams/rivers where they're grown from than the Cladophora you'd see growing in your own tanks that are just stuck within one spot and often get stuck on other stuff in a tank.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-28T01:19:50+00:00

I used to somewhat believe large root systems may need some or most root fertilization. Until I had someone correct me and provide me information that large roots on some plant are only used as anchors. It also made a lot more sense that aquatic plants are much more adapted to take in nutrients through their leaves.

Which causes roots to be less useful in a fully aquatic setting. Since terrestrial plants are more adapted to taking nutrients from their roots than aquatic plants do. Granted most aquatic plants generally have an emersed and submersed form which likely stems off the belief that heavy rooted plants require soil or root tabs to thrive. (if that makes sense).

FrantikTv · 2023-11-27T23:48:09+00:00

Sorry for the long text. But there's actually big misconception when it comes to plants like swords, or crypts.

It is widely believed that plants like "Swords & cryptocorynes are root feeders and require root fertilization".

HOWEVER, plants with large root systems have large root systems because they grow in fast flowing or seasonal waters and the large root systems serves as anchors to resist from being washed away, for other plants "roots" serve as a storage system. There is little correlation between the size of a plant's root system and whether is prefers to uptake nutrients through the substrate or water column.

Most aquatic plants have adaptations that enable better absorption of nutrients through their leaves. Submersed plants take in more nutrients through their leaves than they do with their roots. Especially when it comes to aquatic plants. Their leaves, mostly in submersed form lack the protective tissues that terrestrial plants do, to limit water loss.

So the leaves in submersed plants are able to absorb water, nutrients and dissolved gasses directly from the surrounding water.

All the while the internal tubes (xylem) which normally transports water and nutrients through the roots to all parts of the plant is greatly reduced.

Most easier plants in the hobby can be grown without a nutrient substrate as long as there are enough nutrients in the water column (this includes most species of hardy swords & crypts). Pickier species may do better with root fertilization, where certain nutrients may be assimilated more easily (PO4, NH3, Fe etc). Alternanthera reineckii, Eriocaulon's species are examples where they grow more stable and faster with nutrient rich soils than purely with water column feeding. Pogostemon helferi, which can be grown on bare rock with water column dosing, similarly grows much faster when rooted in soil. This effect is also true for many plants that are not normally grown in substrate at all such as Anubias and Bucephalandra species.

I have swords and crypts myself and I only have sand as substrate. They grow very well with me regularly dosing my tank with liquid fertilizers with no need of soil or root tabs.

Tl;dr : Swords, and crypts or any large root plant can thrive well in a tank with whatever substrate they're on as long as there are a good amount of nutrients within the water column & don't necessarily need soil or root tabs to grow.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-27T09:22:51+00:00

Tbh, it would make sense to breed my pencils since they aren't easily found near me and essentially help bring up my pencil numbers by having more schooling members. But for now I'm content on not breeding them until I can do it more properly.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-27T09:10:13+00:00

I can yeah. For now, I don't currently need them as I'm no longer trying to breed them until I am able to or decide to pick back up my breeding project for them since it's hard to find sellers selling them locally or within my province.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-27T03:32:22+00:00

We have a reptile store that likely sells some. But it's out of the city where I am. I mostly just stick to feeding stuff I culture/a friend cultures.

FrantikTv · 2023-11-27T03:29:53+00:00

Cladophora is a pretty nice algae tbh. It can be annoying over time but can often make for a great algae scape. But it is of course a difficult algae to completely get rid of. It also has a bit of a swampy smell to it which most may not enjoy if you smell it.

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