The grape leaf trick🙌🤔👍 Great tip on the floating plants 😁 Thanks for explaining laterite! I really appreciate videos like this Bentley!! Always a big thumbs up and I hope you're having a blessed day! 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
@@FishmanEricRussell you too Fishman😂 I always look forward to seeing you!! Fish of scale swim together😂😂 I think that would be like "birds of a feather flock together"😂😂 I hope you're having a wonderful day my friend!! I'll be coming over and seeing what you're up to soon 😁🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
Great video Bentley! Another thing that crypts (and most slow growing plants) love are pest snails (be it pond or ramshorn); it's not directly tied to the health of the plant, but the snails eat away at anything that settles on the leaves, preventing algae from showing up on the leaves. They also love it when your substrate is deep
Thank you for sharing with us. Bentley. I particularly like your discussion of the Pogostemon Erectus. I had it in my 12" cube tank. I noticed that its root is super long. Since my substrate is only 2.5" deep, its root wraps around the bottom of the tank all the way from the back to the front, extending probably more than 10" long. Before your video I have a feeling that this plant feeds heavily from the root. Your video confirms my view. Next time I will plant it in deeper substrate with rich nutrients and perhaps root tabs as a supplement.
Thanks @Bentley Pascoe!!! This was incredibly timely since I just returned from a week-long vacation and half of my red root floaters were melting - the half under the lid that was supporting the auto-feeder! And now you've given great tips on every plant I've been having problems with. Thanks again, -Rich
Your videos are always informative. The tweaks in this one is an incredibly valuable resource for taking plants to the next level. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! 😊👍
Hi Bentley what kind of grape leaves? Ready to Stuff (in a jar with liquid ) or Dry (like Indian almond leaves)? I can’t dry or would have good with that or I need to look somewhere else. Thanks in advance.
Thanks Bentley, this was so helpful to me. I am going to do a plenum in the near future and have been ordering everything to do it with. Have been trying to get enough plants started and this addressed a lot of issues I had. Only thing that is doing good is the crypts.
Danger Noodle was having a party! Good tips. I need some plants that will do well in temps around 68F. I’d like to add some potted plants to my axolotls’ tank.
I think any plant would do well at that temperature. All of the plants we grow do really well at room temperature. You need to watch out more for high temps than anything.
As always, Bentley, great advice! A professor by the name of Niels Jacobsen recommended that I use beech leaf litter in my substrate for crypts, after I finally got some I followed his advice and my cryptocorynes have improved dramatically. Grape leaves are going to be a bit more tricky to find, but I can get hold of lots of grape juice, will that do??
If you want to go that route, just get some Mexican potting clay, make small discs from it like a root tab and insert those. Nails could bring a lot of potential problems if the plant load can't handle the excess metals
@@BentleyPascoe OK, thanks for your thoughts! I have a maple tree that I use for my shrimp tanks, guessing they may work the same as the grape leaves? Will have to look up the iron content. Thanks
Bentley,I have a 75 gallon planted aquarium that has been set up for 2 years.I am planning a complete rescape. I have eco-complete substrate. after I remove the old plants rocks,and driftwood from the tank should I gravel vac the eco-complete? Im sure its filthy after 2 years. would that destroy beneficial bacteria in it? I have to canister filters running on the tank full of biological media. Im reusing the eco complete to add my new plants too.thanks for any advice.
If you have a good active substrate it will absorb some of the iron and deliver. More inert substrate like sand, I would try my best to deliver at roots, but the crypts will absorb some liquid as well
I love these shorter videos because for some reason RU-vid doesn’t allow me to interact on live streams. Even my super chats don’t go through and get disappeared.
My red root floaters are straight turning black/brown and dying. Im dosing EI and keeping up with water changes, strong lighting (not cooking them) and topless, what am i doing wrong?
You can get some at Liquid Creations, just google hygroryza aristata liquid creations, and it should be the first thing that pops up. It's not always in stock, but usually he updates the site on Wednesdays :)
