KittenFishMom Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Last night I was looking at some white ceramic rings that came out of a filter. I found I could carefully stuff an air hose through the ones with wider holes for my scud and brine shrimp tanks. I also pushed stems from floating plants through the rings with smaller holes, and now have a forest of hornwort and other plants growing from the bare bottom tank. They will look much better once I cover them with soil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Native Keeper Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 I will have to try this, I tried growing hornwort before, but the messiness of its shed always discourages me from trying to grow it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenFishMom Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 @HydraSlayer Scuds LOVE hornwort. They will clean up the leaves that drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Native Keeper Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 @KittenFishMom, do you know of any fish that will eat the dead leaves? If not it's fine, cuz I have collected those before, never knew they ate hornwort! Might set up a native invert tank with them in there and some hornwort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atitagain Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Really good idea , I’ve tided Java moss to them and they work great. But never thought of using for stem plants. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenFishMom Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 I would guess that algae eaters might eat them as they break down. Scuds to help keep tanks tidy. I have them in 2 tanks. (unless the bullheads wiped them out.). I have several scud colonies right now because I wasn't having good luck in the beginning. I feed them hornwort and microwave sliced pumpkin. We sliced and froze the fresh pumpkin around Halloween. I also toss in bits of fish food. They really seem to do well in my slope buckets I use for cleaning sponge filters and vacuuming the bottom of the tank. I keep a sunken air hose with light air going. Also a bit of banana now and then. They hide in the bottom. so I put small pebbles in the corners of the tanks, covered with larger flat stones to protect the scuds from the fish. The fish like snacking on them as a live food supplement. The scuds learn to hide very quickly, I don't know how they know it is safe to swim around in the buckets and not in the tanks with the fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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