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But unlike many other aquarium plants, it can prosper submerged indefinitely. It can be found growing on the waterline of mountain streams and waterfalls, as a wild grass in tropical rain forests, and even in coastal brackish areas. Java Fern is an amphibious jungle plant that grows attached to tree trunks, rocks, and the ground. By now, you should realize that the difficulty in keeping many aquarium plants has much to do with their genetic simplicity. This includes the popular aquarium plants including Echinodrous sword plants and Cryptocorynes. The highest order of plants is flowering plants. Many hobbyists may be surprised to learn that these plants not only reproduce vegetatively but like algae, also by spores carried by the wind. In this primitive group, we find Ferns (such as Java and Watersprite), as well as mosses and minute floating plants such as Riccia. Easily propagated by all aquarists (whether they want to or not) algae spores are carried through the air.Īt the next level are non-flowering plants.
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For simplicity lets group aquarium plants into three orders. To understand why Java Fern is so hardy and easy to propagate is to understand the evolution of plants in general.
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With slower growing plants like what you have in anubias and java fern they will take nutrients quite slow, so your fish will pretty much provide them with almost everything they need. As you really don't want to run your lights for more then 8 to 10 hours or you are giving algae a bigger window then it needs.įerts really only become a big issue if your dealing with high light and c02 as your plants will consume nutrients and ammonia and nitrites etc at a staggering speed under those conditions.
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If you don't want to mess with c02 in either pressurized or DIY, I would stagger you lighting if you can, IE run one bulb for like 3 hours both for 3 and back to one for last 2 to 3 hours of lighting. Also other fast going plants (pretty much any stem plant will do) would be needed to soak nutrients from the tank or algae can take off real fast. And yes the member who pointed out that c02 is pretty much needed at that level of light has good points (I would use less light if there was no c02 in the tank). Hey hey yes as others have stated you are looking at 3wpg, assuming you have 2 30w floresant tubes and they are not incandesant bulbs then you would actually have very low wpg.