Might I add a suggestion for keeping your aquatic plants happier for much longer? If you will plant it in your pot with organic potting soil and cap it with an inch of small gravel before submerging it in your vase, the plants will uptake nutrients 4 to 400 times better. A root tab in the soil will mean you don't have to use Flourish at all.
By the way for anyone who wants to try this I recommend using a plant called Anubias which is a plant species, there are multiple types. It’s a water column feeding plant that doesn’t need soil at all. You can attach it to anything like a rock with a drop of super glue and it’s roots will eventually latch on. Plants like amazon swords are heavy root feeders so it prob won’t survive very long without somewhere to dig it’s roots into 🤷🏽♀️. Java fern is another one that works like Anubias.
YOU ARE FUNNY... 🤣 I started my fascination for water plants with three marimo moss balls as a joke... now I have 3 nano aquariums, a normal aquarium and 3x 5litre bottles all planted up with a variety of aquatic plants and fish also ... keep spreading the phyto and riparian love 👍👍👍👍😊
Pothos is the best and easiest and most fun to put in fish tanks or a cup of water or anything it's so hard to kill unless it's drying out in air with no soil or water
Plants don't breathe in and out using lungs, but it is an analogy nonetheless. Oxygen and carbon dioxide pass in and out of the stomata in the plants through diffusion. When the plant is submerged in the water, bubbles of oxygen or carbon dioxide released are trapped and they stick on the leaves or petals temporarily.
Think of plant food like steak and potatoes and plant nutrients as like a multi vitamin or an amino acid supplement. Usually plant food will literally say "plant food" on it in big letters
flourish is not food its plant nutrients more than food it works in combo with flourish advance. If you have red or pink or purple plants you also use flourish iron and potassium. Flourish is really not plant food though it has plant food in it witch i believe is potash.
@@diana_bufalo_green well it's kinda obv that my question gets ignored cause all other ones get a like from him. He is fully aware of it or didn't think about it 😂😂 nothing to be mad about haha I'm just joking
haha definitely not a hard one to answer.. the water will need to be changed about every 2 weeks or as needed. You’ll need to keep an eye out and change it as necessary. I haven’t changed the water yet as it doesn’t need it. I had one of these for a few years and they’re very straight forward. Just keep an eye on the water 😁
@@bradcanning Also, reducing the number of photo hours will reduce algae, (whereas a water change might give algae nutrients and it will actually grow faster) you can actually provide light to most of these underwater plants using a desk lamp or LED light, instead of the sun. Therefore you can give them 6-8 hours of light every day and a regular lightbulb or LED light is sufficient. (just watch the water temperature for some light bulbs will make the water too hot. You don't really want the water to be higher than 30C/80F. This will reduce algae. Also if you let your water stand out for 24-48 hours to remove the chlorine before your water changes, you can get one little snail inside to eat the algae as well. Watch out for the water temp because a snail will cook. Ideal temp is between 23C and 28C
Also I would like to note to anyone thinking about it (not that Brad suggested it, just because people think fish just need water). These vases are not big enough to house a fish (yes even a betta fish) the minimum amount of water any fish needs is 2.5g/10L and even then, if you want a fish to thrive you need 5g/20L minimum and different fish have different tank size requirements. But this little plant set up is great for keeping snails and shrimp and they will eat all your algae. :)
High levels of dissolved oxygen promote healthy root growth. ... When there's less oxygen in the water than there is in the plant, this reduces the permeability of roots to water, therefore reducing (even reversing) the absorption of nutrients.
I have the same question just like the avocados. When I have them in the water they turn into black muldy mess and it is discusting. What can I do? Change the warwt more often? Please help me :)
