What do you grow in your HOB flow?

[Torrey]

I love your sense of humor over this🤣

I frequently plant intentionally into makeshift foam/sponge filters, eventually removing the airstone, and gluing the sponge to a rock once the sponge is fully covered. 

 

Good to know that this is a reasonable method of growing the subwaßßertang, lol.

Hornwort requires crazy hard water and either a steady supply of calcium via liquid rock water, or it needs a wondershell to rest on.

It's also a butthead about changes in light and changes in calcium. Everyone in my local NMAS club complains about it melting, I have it growing ~3" a day in the tanks that have the white rocks leaching calcium into the water, and fish and guppies nibbling on it.🤷‍♂️

Now, if I could get my dwarf hairgrass to grow a little thicker🤔

[Odd Duck]

On 9/19/2021 at 12:33 AM, Torrey said:

I love your sense of humor over this🤣

I frequently plant intentionally into makeshift foam/sponge filters, eventually removing the airstone, and gluing the sponge to a rock once the sponge is fully covered. 

 

Good to know that this is a reasonable method of growing the subwaßßertang, lol.

Hornwort requires crazy hard water and either a steady supply of calcium via liquid rock water, or it needs a wondershell to rest on.

It's also a butthead about changes in light and changes in calcium. Everyone in my local NMAS club complains about it melting, I have it growing ~3" a day in the tanks that have the white rocks leaching calcium into the water, and fish and guppies nibbling on it.🤷‍♂️

Now, if I could get my dwarf hairgrass to grow a little thicker🤔

Stupid stuff didn’t like my hard water!  I’ve had hard to extremely hard, liquid rock chock full of calcium, with chunks of cuttlebone in the tank for the shrimp or snails (depending on the tank) everywhere I’ve ever lived and kept tanks so it should make the stupid hornwort happy (now I’m resorting to calling it names 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️).  Yet, still it mocked me one last time.

I’ve never tried dwarf hair grass.  I tend to like beefier plants.

[Torrey]

@Odd Duck look at my banner photo, with my signature in the lower right corner. 

Then scan over to the far left. The white sand side.... with "puddles" of brown.

That puddle of brown would be my hornwort. It had a temper tantrum.

I can't remember if the temper tantrum in that picture was because the water temperature changed, or if that was the temper tantrum when the kH dropped 10 ppm because hornwort is a ridiculously hungry plant.

 

Regardless, the hornwort dropped every single needle. I was pretty sure it was dead.

This time it melted because the floating plants hogged too much light🙄

 

Please notice that there are now *more* floating plants? And the hornwort is growing back.

It's okay to call hornwort names, it earns them. 😅

I have learned to just drop it in, and accept that it is going to be a butthead.

 

If I ignore it long enough, it will magically come back...as long as I leave it alone😅

 

 

[PaigeIs]

I'm sorry this happened to you (Hornwort killer) but on the upside, finding your post made me feel better about me.  🙂  I cannot keep hornwort (or floating plants) alive.

[Expectorating_Aubergine]

Not really an HOB, rather the built in filter/refugium area of the tanks...

[Guppysnail]

In the past few months I have upped my emergents game.  Each tank has a hob. Growing in the hobs are Calathea, peace lily’s, anthurium, dracaena, spider plants, inchplants, polka dot plants. Growing out of the back of the tanks are a host of various other houseplants as well as lucky bamboo and red mangrove.  I have so far found most houseplants that do well with water propagation do great in tanks.  Each I’m certain consuming a different amount of nitrates.  

[Expectorating_Aubergine]

Noyice....