Monte Carlo only have inert Mulm under it…Now this is why you are dead wrong! 

My pleasure!

The video was only made to show people that you have to keep up with carpet plants getting all the detritus and fish waste out of them. In fact there are several RU-vid videos showing the same thing as I do in my particular video so I guess it's nothing new.

That sounds like a good idea.

Been growing both plants for years. I have never had any issues with nitrates building up. In fact in some of my tanks I have had to add KNO3.

Ammonia/ammonium not nitrates is the preferred fertilizer for plants. Plants will use nitrates only when ammonia is almost depleted out of the water column/system. Taking in nitrates is work for a plant. Plants must convert it back to nitrites and then back to ammonia in a two step process in order for them to use it. This can only be done during photosynthesis. When photosynthesis stops so does the plant stop taking in Nitrates. However, ammonia/ammonium is always taken in as a food for plant night and day. Because it’s easy for the plant to make it’s proteins and amino acids out of it not DNA that is made by cells because Deoxyribonucleic acid, is a self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.

Thanks! You too!

Google Search: Journal of Experimental Botany - The intersection of nitrogen nutrition and water use in plants: new paths toward improved crop productivity (As Google REMOVES any direct article links)

N2, that is the gas that gets expelled into the atmosphere. Nitrogen is 78% of the air we breath.

@@anoxicfiltrationplenums Why do we not see the nitrogen gas off gassing from the Anoxic Filtration baskets? (Similiar to the way Oxygen pearls on aquatic plants.)

Monte Carlo is a great carpeting plant. I have it in my aquarium with NO ISSUES whatsoever. This plant isn’t meant to be grown in large unmaintained bushels. Keeping it trim and having shrimp or other grazers around to clean the plant avoid this issue altogether. It seems as though he created an issue, just to have something to rant about. I don’t care how educated he is on aquariums, fauna or plants, he obviously lacks common sense. Which completely makes his education on the topic null.

Monte Carlo is a great carpeting plant. I have it in my aquarium with NO ISSUES whatsoever. This plant isn’t meant to be grown in large unmaintained bushels. Keeping it trim and having shrimp or other grazers around to clean the plant avoid this issue altogether. It seems as though he created an issue, just to have something to rant about. I don’t care how educated he is on aquariums, fauna or plants, he obviously lacks common sense. Which completely makes his education on the topic null.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You are awesome! Thanks, hilarious.

Agreed. He’s poisoning people’s minds with these videos going on and on about Monte Carlo, and neglects to tell his subscribers that it was indeed HIS mistakes that brought on these issues and not the plant. And it’s sad because he’s obviously educated on this topic, so he’s leading people astray. His maintenance, or lack thereof, of this plant is what caused his issues. Not the plant itself.

This guy is so smart that he’s dumb. I hate to say it, but he’s going on and on about a problem HE CREATED, not the Monte Carlo itself.