Fishtanktv.com Dustin's Fish Tanks
With my beautiful daughter whose been fussy all afternoon. Got to show you guys something.
People have been asking me about roots. Everyone wants to know about roots. I got a comment
on my channel saying " hey man what do you think about trimming roots" a couple people
actually about trimming roots. This man right here in all these fish tanks, maybe once I've
trimmed the roots on my plants. I think its because I use dirt so I want a big ass root.
So I can get my finger on it and I can just push it way down in the dirt. The deeper it
gets in the dirt the better its going to be. So that's my thinking. The big root that I
push down might actually just help other roots come in so I don't trim my roots. I might
do an experiment on it but I've never done it and I've had good success. That's not to
say it might be better, I don't know. If people have reasons to believe that trimming your
roots helps them more sure. but I've never done it. Don't really believe that's necessary.
I want to show you the importance of roots. I've said it once and Ill say it again. Plants
absorb 4-400x more nutrients through their roots. Greg Morin at Seachem said that 2 years
ago at the Aquatics Gardeners Convention. I've never forgotten it. I've done dirt. I
was doing dirt before, I'm doing dirt now, and obviously going to continue to do dirt.
That's so so so so so so important. Root tabs will not cut it. They might but you're going
to have to keep doing it. The proof is in the pudding. So I'm going to show you the
pudding. You ready Nola. Watch this folks. See this light, this is under my 220 gallon.
Alright that's what my roots look like. There's big chunks of clay. There's my roots going
all over. You get the idea. That's underneath the dirted tank. That's how you know your
tanks are good. You have to have your roots as big as your plants themselves. You can
see the chunks of red clay. That's what I'm doing. That's how you do it. That's really
really like roots. Nola is pulling right on my scar ugh. But that's what's up. BIGGG ROOTS.
ROOTS ROOTS ROOTS. They are so important and overlooked often. Definitely, I mean I had
3 guys convert to dirt. If you have converted to dirt recently, comment on here and tell
people how to do it. Some people think I'm crazy for talking about it. But I'm on a mission
to convert people to dirt. Really really excited. 220 got some great lights on it. Plants are
good. Roots are good. Oh I want to show you one other thing on roots. As I crawl out from
underneath my tank. Where am I going to find some ludwigia. Lets see here. I wanted to
show ludwigia repens, why it's such a good plant. On ludwigia, it's a great plant because
its roots, I'm going to pull some of it out of here. It grows roots off the side, see
those, and see how it grows off to the side a little bit right there—that's one of the
benefits of ludwigia. Its got good roots and the roots kind of grow up off the stem a little.
That's one of the reasons I really like that plant. You can see that with easy to grow
plants like that pennywort right there. see that root growing off right there. Look at
that stuff it's bumping. So that's what's going on. You can see that right here. The
roots on that narrow leaf I had not put away yet. A lot of plant orders going out tomorrow.
Excited. I had a lot of fun this weekend with the tanks. It was a blast last night. I was
just sitting around putting plants in my tanks. I got a lot for sale fishtanktv.com. More
importantly though I'm trying to help people get plants growing the right way. There is
no need to struggle. Do it right. Do it in the dirt. BOOM