This is very beautiful! I’m inspired to create something like this. Right now I have a couple of house plants (mini monstera and pothos) in the back of my nano aquarium.
I’ve watched many riparian videos and this is the exact information that’s hard to find. Great content and very well explained. Thank you. I now know the big bushy plants my mom had in the 1980’s were Spear Ferns. I’m going to try this in my 200L.
Thanks for the video. I’ve been struggling to accomplish attaching my plants. Very hard to find. I was thinking of S hooks so the plant rests on one end and tied and the other over the back. Beautiful tanks by the way.
Absolutely beautiful setup! I love this! I’m just now experimenting with a riparian setup in 2 of my tanks. You gave me an idea with using the suction cups to attach the plants! I would rather not use the planters if I don’t have to! I also never knew monstera would grow almost like an epiphyte and attach its roots right to the driftwood!
I watched many of your videos an got a lot of questions answered for me. But there is one thing I really want to know. I plan to heap up the substrate in the back of my tank with lavarock and some humus, cap it up with gravel and sand until it reaches over the surface. Will the riparium plants root in that system or will it all rot? Sorry for the long question but I would appreciate your answer so much. Have a nice day and thank you for your content🙏❤️
@@Raphael.P. Thank you for watching our videos! It means a lot! Your idea to create some sort of a wet marshland for riparian plants should work. I have seen people doing that. The main challenge here could be keeping your soil from polluting your tank, some people use a piece of pond liner to separate that coastal area from the rest of the tank, hidden with rocks on sides. The other important point is that water should come in and out of that area so that it doesn't become completely stagnant and eventually rot.
Great video! I have only just begun experimenting with growing ferns as riparian plants and I concur with the the use of sphagnum moss and keeping the roots about halfway in the water. They seem to prefer this method. Also, I like your method of growing the plants on the driftwood! I’m curious to know if you use liquid fertilizer in for these plants? I have found that I need to use it in tanks with many riparian plants and low stocking levels.
Thank you! I am adding fertilizers to the blackwater riparium because it only has a few small fish and the plants seem to grow like crazy there. I'm not fertilizing my other tank as its quite heavily stocked; when I had canister with seachem matrix on that tank plants were seemingly deprived of nutrients, but I have now replaced it with a sponge filter and they started growing lush.
Great video! That is the thing about youtubers chasing big channels and the answer lies here. I have been trying to grow ferns in riparian for years with no success(devils ivy and peace lily no problem). I saw others on RU-vid looking like mine so concluded that it is not a riparian plant. Now I know why! I would try your sphagnum moss and half root submerged method. Thank you.
I normally place them on bogwood next to tank sides, making sure that they don't fall off. Roots will attach themselves to driftwood in a couple of weeks or so
hello i was wondering if i could use arums plants ( i have a lot in the woods in here, belgium ). i know their leaves, fruits and flowers are toxic for human but does the toxicity go in the water from the root or no? i saw u got a kind of arum
Are there other mosses that you could use to wrap around plant roots? Sphagnum moss isn't safe for amphibians, and I want to do this with my axolotl tank.
Do you train new plants to cling to the driftwood? Would you use filament fishing line, or what kind of lashing. Maybe zipties? The driftwood must be heavy or wouldn't it float? Hard to keep it staying down in water? Do you weight it?
I'm just using plant roots to attach it to driftwood, sometimes I use black wire, and sometimes sucking cups, depending on the plant. I will always use presoaked driftwood that sinks
