what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing
it to you on Sunday baby how's everybody doing I hope you're doing well
your boy D learned a couple things when he was chillin on vacation think one
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listen to them this videos for you all we're talking about the aerial advantage
today that's right poking about how plants grow above the water line and the
benefits and the downsides of that but it's Sunday it's specie Sunday I'm gonna
bring it to you all with one two three four five species of plants and how they
grow above the water line how you can benefit with them but first I gotta take
a step back your boy deals a lot of knowledge from
the aerial advantage to our girl Diana wall stood there's no way in hell she is
watching this YouTube video but if you do Diana you made a hell of a book you
all should go pick this book up she talks about it in great detail along
with how to dirt a tank and a whole bunch of great biology in here wouldn't
recommend it for anyone like hundred fifteen I picked it up when I was a kid
and immediately put it down there's not a lot of pictures but there's a hell of
a lot of get info so definitely check this book out Diana Halstead you college
of plant aquarium biomass book so here's a dust inversion of it okay so plants
grow above the water line in nature when they grow above the water line they grow
dramatically different to give you an example of this pie graph Allah poly
sperma grows four times faster when it is allowed to grow above the surface of
the water emerging from the water emergent submerged under the water okay
so I want to talk about that today with your aquarium when plants grow above the
water line they are able to more easily absorb co2 from the co2 rich atmosphere
than they are under water even if co2 concentration levels are
high in indoor in your actual water that's still easier for them to absorb
co2 above the water line in the air than it is in water it's just the fact even
when you're dosing co2 okay the other thing and I can't wait to
make a video about lighting is that they have way more light available to them
because it's above the water line something called the inverse
a blob which we'll get into in a whole other video about lighting plate Iran
can't wait for that video but when plants grow above the waterline they can
work harder they can grow faster okay they can absorb nitrates way quicker
from your aquarium and ultimately make your aquarium healthier by growing
exponentially faster when they're above the water line okay so you got to keep
this in mind behind me here I have one two three plants that are hitting the
surface and I want to talk about these three species as well as one species
that I love to hate and other species that all at y'all hate so we'll talk
about the Krenim first this credit tans behind me is using the aerial advantage
growing above the water on just because these tiny little tips are able to hit
the surface I can tell you for a fact this sucker is growing way faster
growing on with leaves able to hit the surface because it can bring all the co2
from my skank basement down here same thing can be said with this little red
tiger Lotus behind me right here you'll notice I got like three of them hitting
the surface they're red tiger Lotus lotus in general love when they hit the
surface they're like oh man check out all the co2 what's the bomb the problem
is if you let these plants particularly red tiger Lotus and some others keep
growing to the surface they're going to say twice easier up here I got more co2
I got more light I'm ready to roll and they won't produce as good of a mass
down here so I'm actually going to trim those down but if you want rapid plant
growth let them grow above the surface the last plant I want to talk to you
about with these three in my 220 is the Crypt boost Arianna
by the way crypts just read the Crypt nerds out there are only able to be
officially identified when they're spaced the little reproductive Spade
comes up not the leaves of the crypts so this crypt right here is a crypt to
stare Jana it hits the surface of the water and once it hit the surface and I
learned this from my girls Salish she's got a beautiful tank with krypter story
on and growing like crazy which I could never get to grow until this happened
when this hits the surface right here breathing heavy loving it the plant
grows like crazy it's putting off new growth it's not an easy plant to get you
can't doesn't tissue culture well it's hard to find so this is one of my babies
right here and it's growing exponentially better because it's
directly underneath the light and able to get all the co2 at once from above
fine but I got to plants I also want to talk about today because it's Sunday and
it's PC Sunday the first one I'm gonna go on a little rant about dwarf hair
grass everybody wants to warp paragraphs from the gonadal oh man I want grass I
want a carpet okay dwarf era grass guess what dwarf hair grass in nature grows in
about this much water let's go back to the aerial advantage what's the aerial
advantage sometimes it goes above the water line we can readily absorb all
that co2 and readily absorb all that light because it's got you know it's
growing in like two or three inches of water okay which is why a lot of people
recommend I've never actually done it personally but the DSM or dry start
method where you run it with a dry start so it can more readily absorb all that
co2 that's why you have these tanks that are sealed up they keep them barely wet
and there's all kinds of really available co2 the downside with that is
when you get these plants in and they're grown above water block plants they have
to adjust to that so they got life is easy we're growing above the water line
we got full Sun we're cool oh you're going to put me all the way underwater
it's a heck of a lot harder for plants to make that transition you see that
with Amazon swords you see it with crypts you see it with the dwarf hair
grass dwarf baby tears all day long baby tears right so you have to understand
that sometimes this aerial advantage these plants are using the aerial
advantage then you're putting them under water sometimes people ask me like what
can I do to get a carpet fast or whatever if they've got no fish in the
tank I recommend drop the water level down to just barely covering the plants
or whatever so they can get like you know all kinds of light and co2
available from there and then fill it back up once you want to add fish so I
got one last plant that I want to talk about with the aerial advantage it's the
herpes of aquarium plants diana walleston talks about it she doesn't
call her bees of recording plane I'm gonna talk about duck weed okay duck
weed you grow it on the surface of your aquarium what happens it grows like
crazy it gets into your filters it's all over the place however it works like mad
reproduces like mad grows like mad shades out the rest of your aquarium a
little bit can always reduce the duckling better
than me duck and allows you off your stuff and it grows exponentially faster
because it's right at the surface of the water both Sun Bowl light whatever you
want and all the co2 you can handle as well drop me a comment on what you want
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