FLFishChik Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 (edited) … is being able to plant other tanks with cuttings and plantlets! I have a 29g community tank that I purchase new plants for, but my two 5g Betta tanks are planted solely with cuttings and plantlets except from the main tank. Even got a Red Dwarf aquarium lily “pup” and transplanted to a Betta tank! I just did a major trimming in 5g with natural substrate, so it looks a little bare(top photo). The other is going incredible (2nd photo). Bottom photo is main tank. Edited February 5, 2023 by FLFishChik 5 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 The thing I love about live plants is my landscape is constantly changing - sometime they go up and sometime they go down.... and sometime they go up and sometime they go down... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 agree'd. ive been spreading out the same anubia's, and crypts from tank to tank for a good 15 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLFishChik Posted February 6, 2023 Author Share Posted February 6, 2023 I’m about to make another biggish purchase from ACO of some different plants. Hopefully they’ll do well and I can share them between tanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeQ Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 I agree, the most enjoyable aspect to me is plant rehab. Either taking a dieing or struggling juvenile plant, and restoring it to a thriving specimen! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 I just enjoy growing plants, but I think my favorite thing about them is that they make more plants, which I can sell to pay for the hobby (and maybe a little extra). Raising shrimp and fish to sell is fun, but plants pay better. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohad Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 I love that moss you got going on the wood , what kind of moss if that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyM Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Yup! I toss all my trimmings in my hospital/holding tank - make the fish feel comfy, help clean the water, and I can pluck some out whenever needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebSills Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 your anubias is amazing! I have several, but they inevitably end up with algae on the leaves (I need more ramshorns), yours are awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLFishChik Posted February 8, 2023 Author Share Posted February 8, 2023 (edited) On 2/7/2023 at 12:34 PM, Ohad said: I love that moss you got going on the wood , what kind of moss if that ? Believe it or not, it was a faux piece of driftwood I picked up at Petco by a company called Penn Plax. Supposedly, the fake “moss” contained seeds and would sprout in water. It did, but no idea what kind of plant it was, but the little seedlings would eventually get loose and be floating around the tank. I ei got tired of chasing the things around the tank constantly do I pulled it out, dried it out, cleaned all the seedlings off and put it back in the tank. The ghost shrimp love it and its pretty much just decorative now. Edited February 8, 2023 by FLFishChik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLFishChik Posted February 8, 2023 Author Share Posted February 8, 2023 On 2/7/2023 at 3:17 PM, DebSills said: your anubias is amazing! I have several, but they inevitably end up with algae on the leaves (I need more ramshorns), yours are awesome! I had an algae issue with mine at one point. I took it out of the tank about 2 months ago, used an extra soft toothbrush dipped in hydrogen peroxide and very gently “scrubbed” each leaf, rinsed the heck out of it and put it back in the tank. Lowered my lights a tad and in a couple days it was gone and so far hasn’t come back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Brutting Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I love how plants bring out natural behavior in my community fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube_Goldfish Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 I also love gifting and trading plants with friends. It's like trading baseball cards except you can just make more of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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