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Dustinsfishtanks This is Steve. Bringing it to you from Steve's
house. look at my 72 bowfront. got species Sunday today. we are going to talk about glossostigma.
we can just stand up and get a close up of the glosso here at the bottom. this is one
of my favorite plants and one of my favorite foreground plants. glossostigma has been a
long staple of the aquarium foreground plants. it was originally brought in the industry
by the godfather himself, Takashi Amano. who really brought aquascaping to a whole new
level. this is a great plant because he used it for a lot of his aquascapes called iwagumi.
it is basically low foreground plant and really no background plants what so ever. the glosso
I got here has been growing. its does require some certain things to have success with.
I've failed it in the past and I think I know why I did. the biggest thing I have going
for me on this particular tank is that I've got great nutrients in the tank. Dustin taught
me a lot of things about fish tank a lot of things about aquascaping over the years. and
one of the biggest things he taught me was Go with the Dirt!. this tank is dirted. ever
since I went with dirted tanks I've had a lot more success with my aquariums. there
is just a very thin layer of dirt covering the entire bottom of this 72-gallon tank.
and on top of it is about an inch of what I use is pool filter sand. it is cheap. I
buy a 50-pound bag for $10 at your local pool store. makes for pretty good color. the other
thing you will have required for success with glosso is CO2. I've got a large CO2 tank going
under here. its pumping down in here and I've got a ladder. the ladder increases time with
surface area with the bubbles as they slowly rise to the top. if you notice the bubbles
at the bottom are rather large and when we get to the top they get pretty small. so that
means we are getting a lot of CO2 absorption in my tank which really helps feed the glossostigma
a ton and helps you have success. last thing that we don't really have shown here is that
I have 4 T5 lights on top of here. I use light fixtures from zoomed. mostly because I like
them that they don't have little built in fans that wind up breaking and causing noise.
they are purely heat cooled. I have 2 of the T5 fixtures. they just came out with the new
fixture that's got 4 T5 bulbs. so zoomed a shoutout I want free stuff so please send
them to me. lets talk more about glosso. what you need for success. well unfortunately they
are a pain in the butt plant. you got to plant lots of them. you got to plant them everywhere.
you got to individually plant every one of those stems. they grow and they spread through
a ton. and if you look through right here you can see how they spread. they spread with
these little runner chains. every one of these runner chains if you cut these little 2 leaf
sections, you can see there are 2 little roots. you can stick that in the ground with tweezers.
but you have to trip it pretty often and you have to trim it a lot. so what I do, in order
to keep the tanks looking good. every 2 weeks you want to trim the tallest of the plants.
you just cut them off here. Just trim. you're going to get growth back from the bottom.
It's going to grow back over time. It's also going to encourage it to spread over the surface
of the low part of the tank and it's going to keep it from looking tall and mangled.
it does get there over time. so definitely trim it. I think every 2 weeks is sufficient.
It's going to take a bit of commitment with this plant. the other thing is that every
one of these you can plant back into the ground in the sand so I got my little tweezer and
just grab it here at the bottom. and get this in the back and we are done. that is it. so
you get to the point where you got your tank full after a while but glosso is a great plant.
makes great foreground plants. looks really good. its high maintenance. you need nutrients.
I prefer dirt. you need CO2. and you need good lighting. that's the secret to species
Sunday Glossostigma. Thank you.