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Freshwater aquarium plant growth tips

Posted by on June 19, 2011 No comments

I believe strongly that a healthy aquarium with healthy fish requires healthy plants. Below are my tips on how I try to see to it that my freshwater aquarium plants grow as well as possible. I’d like to share these tips with anyone who is interested in them and of course get some feedback on what you think. I hope with the things below also your plants will grow well!

Even if I speak of some specific products in this article, I am sure there are many equally good or even better ones. It just very hard to compare the products on your own, so I am more than happy to receive feedback on some products that you have used and that you think work better than the ones here.

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Our freshwater aquarium, 19.6.2011

Posted by on June 19, 2011 No comments

Our Juwel RIO 180 tank is now 8 months old and has grown from what only had content from our old 100 liters aquarium such as one stump (or rhizome?) and just a few plants. Now the plants have grown so much and I need to cut them at every water change. I really try to take care of our Amazon sword plants (Echinodorus bleheri) which there are multiple of in our aquarium. As you can see from the picture, I have some Amazon sword plant sprouts growing which is an indication of healthy water. Plants are in general very important to me, so as you can see in the upper left corner of the picture, I also have a CO2 dispenser that makes the plants grow really well.

The aquarium in the pictures below has had water changes every three weeks and to me this is the perfect cycle. All the important metrics (NO2, NO3, pH) are still within good numbers and I can keep the bottom clean as well.

In case you have any questions related to the tank, what I do with it or what I have in it, just leave a comment and I will get back to you. You can also send me an email with your question. You’ll find the email in the About section above.

The secret to good plant growth?

Posted by on October 2, 2010 1 comment

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In my opinion the plants in a freshwater aquarium is equally important to the fish. The plants make the aquarium look alive and more natural. It also of course fills the void in in the tank and give shelter to the fish. I want tank to have many plants and them to grow well so we try to do everything we can do ensure good plant growth. I don’t say the plants in our aquarium are in bad shape, but since I try to focus on them very much, I think they could look better. Some of the plants are from the old tank, but since it was a lot smaller than the current one, we had to buy new plants. Read more »