Biotope19 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 I have Val in a 20g with two female Rainbow Cichlids and two olive nirites. I noticed this spiral shoot today, is this a flower or what am I looking at? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 How cool! Yes they are flowers. I read about them before I bought my Val but I never got to see any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 its telling you it is happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotope19 Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 Awesome! Thank you. Here are the stats for my tank if anyone is interested. 20g high, gravel substrate, Nicrew light, light is on a timer, 9.5 hours a day, tank has been set up for 16 months. Only plant is Val, I fertilize .5 mL twice a week with Synthesis for plants. The tank runs at 7.6, 0 Nitrites, 40 Nitrates, 77 degrees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenman Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Val is one of those plants that either grows like crazy or melts away to nothing. Yours is in the grow like crazy stage. I wouldn't change a thing you're doing. Your plants are very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 (edited) What is your gh. Your parameters and setup is similar to mine and mine did an artificial plant impersonation. I didn’t use fertz though. Maybe that was my issue? Edited February 6, 2022 by Guppysnail Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotope19 Posted February 7, 2022 Author Share Posted February 7, 2022 My GH is around 215. It must be the ferts. It’s the only thing that’s changed recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenman Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 On 2/6/2022 at 11:52 AM, Guppysnail said: What is your gh. Your parameters and setup is similar to mine and mine did an artificial plant impersonation. I didn’t use fertz though. Maybe that was my issue? Vallisneria is an interesting plant. It's very much a boom or bust plant for me. If it doesn't melt, it will likely eventually thrive and grow like mad for you. I bought 25 jungle val plants about a year ago. Most melted away to nothing. One lone plant survived and just sat there for about six months then it started to grow. It's now about twenty or more plants and goes from the bottom of my thirty high, up to the top, across the top and back down the other side of the tank. I'm not doing anything to disturb it. I had a similar crop in that tank four years (or so) ago and added a Madagascar lace plant and all of the val melted within a week. It's a very easy plant to get to grow when it wants to, but it can also decide to just go away when it wants to. If yours is just sitting there like an artificial plant, it will likely boom in the not too distant future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotope19 Posted February 7, 2022 Author Share Posted February 7, 2022 Yeah, I’ve had a lot of luck with this plant in a couple of tanks. I’ve found provided you have enough light it will start spreading. I do trim it a little so that the longer leaves don’t completely block out the light to the lower leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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