New project - 2 gallon shrimp tank

[Chester]

Hygro sunset grows well in any light. The one in my tanks start going pink at the top of the plant. You could probably split the plant I gave into three stems and they would do great.

[suicune]

hygro sunset is shooting out pink leaves!!! Ludwigia is kinda orange right now.. but I hope it'll go red.

[suicune]

Ah nice, i'll retry that

[mistahoo]

make sure you dont divide them into too small of a portion.. i think that's partially why mine died

If you gassed it with real CO2 they probably would've had a better chance. OOOOr you could've acclimated them to your tank with no CO2. What I do is either gas the tank with CO2. Plants usually never melt. If you don't have CO2, you can float the plants for a few weeks and then plant it into your substrate. I recently got a 20x20 patch of glosso grown emersed. The floating patch hasn't melted at all and I'll be planting it later.

[Chester]

yeah i kept like 2 or 3 plantlets together

[suicune]

make sure you dont divide them into too small of a portion.. i think that's partially why mine died

[Chester]

lol i just bought two more packages... hope these make it... i may try to grow some emersed to test them out

[LooksLater]

I'm always afraid to buy emmersed for that reason... :(

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[suicune]

but i'm down to my last piece of downoi , I will never buy another emersed downoi again.

[LooksLater]

Glad to hear the chain sword is working out!!

[suicune]

downoi melted badly I have like 1 portion left still survive.. even though I put a lot of root tab underneath the substrate.

On the other hand, dwarf hairgrass is starting to send out runners as soon as I remove the old moss carpet. Pygmy chainsword is also doing great, I haven't seen the goldfish uprooting them.

[mistahoo]

hmm I could use more excel I guess... but I'm not going to mess with CO2 set up right now

Not quite the same, but you could try that.

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[suicune]

hmm I could use more excel I guess... but I'm not going to mess with CO2 set up right now

[mistahoo]

I've noticed pumping a lot of CO2 into the tank helps minimizing the melting. When I flooded my HC tank, I pumped it with a ton of CO2. None of it melted. In fact, they turned greener!

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[suicune]

On another note, half of the downoi I got from petsmart is just kinda melting.. I know they were grown emersed so that's kinda expectable.. but I'm hoping to see them bouncing back and start growing soon, as they look kinda depressing now.