Claybo

I found this plant at the beach a few months ago and thought it looked super cool so I put it in some water and took it home. I don’t know if I posted about it but it’s been growing well and putting out a ton of roots. I however still have no idea what kind of plant it is. I found this plant on a beach in southern North Carolina growing right at the edge of the sand which made me assume it’s pretty hardy. I’ve tried using the image search on Google and searching native nc plants but I still can’t find something that looks the same. The closest I’ve been able to find is possibly some kind of bacopa? If anyone can help me identify this I’d be glad. (it originally started with a darker more woody stem I assume to survive the beach conditions if that helps with identification) it’s really hard to get the iPhone camera to focus on the whole thing btw. And it’s growing squiggly because I knocked it to the left one day and then to the right the next day and it’s still straightening out.

I didn’t plan to start the plant in the tank, I meant growing it normal and then trying to adapt the plant to live in water. The variations I plan on trying is more pertaining to time I let it grow out of water and also whether I’ll “float” it or plant it in substrate in the basket

That’s true if it’s planted in soil but the plants adapt differently to grow in water and I’m sure you’ve seen cuttings root in water which is extremely common when propagating house plants. You can also find a lotttt of people who grow peace lily, pothos, monstera, barber palms, and plenty of other plants with no root rot. A peace lily seems to really thrive in an aquarium at long as you keep the roots out of the water and use fert. My peace lily roots are looking super healthy and it’s growing every day. edit: oh I thought this was on the other post with the peace lily and red root floaters when typing that. Well now I’m much more sure of my chances being very low and now that I’m thinking about it, it could be toxic to fish even if it did work. I’m gonna have to look into it more

Will do. i think im gonna try a different method for each seed. Id ont even know if they're viable seeds tho

I think they do, im sure all these plants are clones of eachother but i might to to cross pollinate them by hand but idk how the seeds work

I got this peace lily as just the leaves about a week or two ago and clearly there was a flower just ready to pop! I also had no idea that red root floaters flowered under high light.

Alright thanks, I already have a peace lily growing like that I just didn’t know if it’s be different with a hibiscus

Hello, I know very little about plants but I seem to be having success so far. So, I’ve decided to try to grow the free purple hibiscus seeds I got from an eBay seller. I don’t know how to start the seed but once I have a little plant I’m gonna try to fill my hang on side poth-o-carry low profile thing with an inert substrate and maybe one root tab to grow the flower out the top of my tank. I kinda like flying from the seat of my pants with this plant thing because I was so careful with finally getting fish and stocking and at this point my plants are doing well so I just kinda wanna see what I can make work without just copy and pasting something from the internet. Does anyone have any tips that they think would help me with any step of this future project.I’m either going to use a slightly larger gravel or use some kind of painting mesh to hold in a smaller gravel with all those holes

The thing covering it is a little door the snail keeps itself safe with and I’d just give it a couple days and see what happens. I don’t think the bio load of one little dead snail for a couple days would hurt anything and I’m learning it’s best to just give stuff time in the hobby.

I agree, it’s so hard to find any amount of deeper info on the subject it feels like no matter where I go. The secret history living in your aquarium (now fishtory) is however a good source but he still doesn’t have all the info and it’s also a bit dispersed through his vids

Carolina bio is a local company of mine and I know they source most of their stuff from outdoors and I’ve gotten a lot of hydra from them when I ordered isopods. I was just looking for some like captive cultivated creatures for an eventual ecosystem where I don’t want a lot of nasties from outdoors. I ended up ordering from aquatic arts because I know they breed the stuff there and fishtory suggests them.

I want to add a lot of copepods and rotifers and daphnia to my fishless experiment tank but I’ve already had a bad experience with pond sourced isopods and a lot of hydras being introduced with them subsequently killing everything. Any good places to buy captive cultured ones or any forum member suggestions would be nice, thanks.

Yeah it is right up against the glass, I’m a dummy. Thanks for the advice. I’ll probably have a friend hold my water change tube right above it when I pull it away and scrape it. I haven’t had to scrape any algae yet because I have a lot of plants and have had very low bio load.

I’m a new fish keeper of about 4-5 months (+about 3 months of research) and I have apparently put one of my large sponge filters up against the glass right next to a window I leave open to give my plants morning sun. I just stuck my head between the tank and the window and notice the part of the sponge filter I couldn’t see is completely green and filled with a few large bubbles. My first thought was it being algae and oxygen bubbles but then I had the thought that maybe there is not oxygen getting there and it’s possibly anaerobic bacteria that could be producing ammonia and sulfur gas bubbles right? I’m sure I’m being totally paranoid but if someone can confirm that I will not kill everything in the tank with sulfur if I pull the sponge off the glass. I plan to just leave it there if it’s not an issue because I really don’t mind algae and other little natural parts of my tank as long as it stays manageable.