what's up fish tank people Dustin's fishtanks and the birds bring
it to you with how to grow aquarium plants fast how's everybody doing I hope
you're doing well in today's episode we've got one two three four five
different types of aquarium plants we're gonna show how they are grown in motion
er trees both above water growth and we're going to show you blow water
growth and I've also got a six non aquatic plant you can use to suck the
heck out of nitrates in your aquarium here we go first I do want to give some
credit or some credit is due what I'm gonna discuss today has to do
with the plants growing above water in below water I first got word of this and
read about it in Diana wall Stead's wonderful both of you ecology too
planted aquariums she obviously talked about dirt immensely in here but she
also talked about how plants grow differently when they grow are able to
grow above water versus below so shadow said Diana wall stead for first bringing
this topic at hand here comes the dust inversion with five examples you see
folks those of you who are not familiar with ridiculous amounts of aquarium
plants may not fully understand what you're getting into with certain species
certain looks and that sort of thing so in today's video I'm gonna hit you with
five different types of species and show you some examples of above water both
both above water growth above water growth versus below water growth what to
look for in a couple of different varieties of species so you can know
what you're getting into when you think something looks sexy but it might not be
too green first things first we're talking about the sword speaking of
swords there's my liquid sword right there what's up brother
Josh Josh might know more about the conversion process he does know more
about the conversion process between Amazon swords between above water grouse
and below water road that doesn't mean I can't teach you a little something while
drives around here no I don't know what I'm talking about
here so folks Amazon swords are an easy one our fun one are a great one to give
you a clear example of what you what you what you want versus what you don't want
when it comes to above water and below water growth I have in my possession
here a ridiculous amount of swords and I want to show you right here first things
first just just right here just these two
never mind everything all throughout this wonderful greenhouse these folks
are Amazon swords these are beautiful elbows and this is a great shot because
this is what you see and you're like you're seeing this in the shop and
you're like you know I gotta get this plant I like it it's got these big green
growth on top here it's long it's skinny just like D and you know what this is
actually not what you want I got another example right here this would actually
be more along the lines of what you'd be looking for but let me break this down
for you with Amazon swords they are one of those plants that just has to convert
to underwater growth it will not grow underwater like this with these spoon
like leaves you'll notice the spoon leaves right here no bueno these are
actually not gonna grow that well underwater at all and they'll probably
slowly but surely deteriorate back a la this one now with Amazon swords if you
can feed them at the roots where they eat you will be better serf so you have
the decay on this one look here this is all you gots to know about look at that
Center growth right there let me put it down here so you can see it well this
little growth right here is all we are looking for so all this Amazon so all
this stuff up here you just got to cut it right here cut it right here and get
rid of it now I've got this sword these are I think a pointy sword or an
amazonica this is converting so what we do my man Josh plants them up real nice
this right here folks Oh is a marbled
queen sword now this plant right here has this plant converts easier than the
other ones so I'm loving this marbled Queen sword this has already started to
get this underwater growth right here it's got these little growth right here
and this growth right here and then these ones up
here not looking too bad now when they start to wither away or whatever you
kind of peel them off but this is ready to roll these are your regular Amazon
sorts I want to point something out too generally speaking with this type of
sword with the marbled queen sword different from the red varieties I found
that sword varieties that are either like a pointy or like a variegated with
this kind of lighter color convert better and are just faster growing
plants than the ones with the red on them I'm open to opinions on that from a
man Josh he's shaking his head yes so we're good but yeah I wanted to show the
difference on that all right so there's the plants that I sell and there's the
plants that I play with here are some of the plants that I play with this folks
is a con odorous tin Ellis that I planted around Christmas times n time
and I'm absolutely loving this plant growing under water but I want to show
you all I got a little glare on there I want to show you all the difference
there you go the difference between this plant which
has been grown under water nice little thing kind of like a dwarf sad the
Condors tinel's not quite as far as the dwarf sad but close growing under water
gets a very very thinner leaf actually a little thinner than the dwarf said right
here but let me show you the difference between this and above water go check
this out this is one of my favorite scank tanks this is a 40 breeder with
400 metal-halide on it and an aqua clear and it just runs but this is where we
got in a bunch of these Akana doors to Nellis plugs now check this out this is
the difference this is a plug that we got in Oh the drop it here this is a
plug of a Contador's to Nellis now you can see it's got some of this above
growth right here that it's already decaying and smashing down this has
actually been underwater with us for a little over a week today actually and
it's already started the conversion to look closer here you've got the new
growth here but here's an example of this plant after just actually this is
two months in so I'm going to show this right here
this is two months in that is fully underwater growth right there at econo
doors to Nellis absolutely loving it that's actually being grown in knife
Stratham and it's really really taken off really nice and thick and then I've
actually got a little hitchhiker kripp there's something in there with it but
that's what I'm talking about when I'm saying underwater Cove looks a lot like
dwarf sad it's actually a Cana Doris to Nellis the difference I'm seeing the
difference in this right here versus say a plant like this right here the
conversion process has already started that's the future that's the present and
here my friends is another example wonderful example of above water versus
below water growth I want to show you rotala rotundifolia in the mix there's
some nerdy debates between rotala rotundifolia and rotala indica and I'm
not going to get into that with you all today this was sold to me as rotala
rotundifolia please note the clip where I show this plant underwater with the
more narrow leaves narrow leaves easier to deal with but then down here look at
these leaves folks this is how this plant looks when it grows above water a
lot of the United States domestic wholesalers will grow it above water and
it'll have these round leaves Roton round and then up here you go up the
leaf a little bit more you see it's gotten the narrower leaves when it's
grown under water so there's a big difference there so if you see Rotel
like this nope all this is gonna fall off and I will
advise you to this is something we deal with too is decaying plant matter like
that's gonna foul up your tank too so you want to get that removed once the
plane has started to convert under water get rid of the above water growth is
just gonna decay do yourself the favor and get rid of it
but there's a prime example of rotella Rotunda folio the round right here
there's the bottom half and there's the top grown
below the water and here is an example of what we get from domestic suppliers
grown way way way the heck above water I hate selling it when it's like this
obviously we're selling the red stuff now but yeah wait rotella grown way
above water like you might even see some flowers on here clearly not converting
an example of Rotella grown entirely above water and
hacked versus the other stuff I just showed you night and day
alright folks this next plan I'm going to take a little bit of a tangent on
Goodson insaints PC so I'm going to show you two different times if i graph allah
the water wisteria high drop with the formas and second species is a cheering
typify Bravo first things the sexy alright we're above this tank and you're
like dusty what's up what you get a tank yeah we lined a 40 breeder by the way
with plastic liner because it was leaking problem solved this folks if I
could just have your attention for a second is a cherry type of high groffle
and I'm super duper super duper duper duper jacked about it because it's
giving me new growth in a 40 breeder underneath an LED on the floor of my
greenhouse so I'm absolutely totally stoked about this but there are lessons
in this plant as well as the graph will deform us you'll notice all this down
here this stuff dying off down here that's the above-water growth this is
converting 200 water growth and I am extremely excited about this one but
this is a more rare plant it's not on my site don't leave this video to go look
for it I'll let you know when it's up but this is a cherry red hi Gruffalo
let's look over here at high gras foie de formas this is water wisteria
plain-jane one of the fastest growing plants that I sell with above water
growth well on its way to converting let me pull it out and show you what we're
dealing with here this plant right here one of my best-selling water wisteria
high grappler deformers all you beginners in the place was style and
grace this is you right here now look this plant when growing above water has
leaves that look just exactly like this now when you see these leaves don't
worry this is one of the fastest converting plants by the way but when
you see this start to kind of get this roughly roughly effect or whatever then
you know you're in the money zone so this is hi Gruffalo
warmest also known as water wisteria grown above water and then sunk below
water and converting folks easily converting in a 40 breeder on the floor
of my greenhouse for now come out of space but check out the difference in
that leaves there though you've got the leaf right here that's right there and
then you got this leaf right here all this new root growth all day long when
you see the good root growth your grow old and gold and golden I got a bonus I
crapola for you too I do want to show this this is some of the stuff we deal
with because we're converting some of this I groffle up here notice all this
decaying plant matter falling off show you this so this is the hydraulic chair
leaf that I was so overly excited about which is converted to underwater growth
and is just about it any living without it but then this is the exact same plant
right here going through the conversion process alright so it's lost some of its
lower leaves it's not doing as hot it will be fine because it's a high crop
low but you can see what some of the stuff we're dealing with here with some
of the decaying plant matter that comes off that leaf falls off this falls off
up here that's done but it'll convert into a sexy plant like this though and
then this is just a guest cameo by groffle accord out of red because it's
just an awesome plant and it's fully converted under water growth will not
give you any problems at all and don't ask me how this variety came so hard
even though it's got the red color but it did but my grop liqueur daughter red
just not having to worry about it converted because it's fully converted
and amazing folks I got to tell you I've showed you with stereo I've showed you
rotella I showed you Amazon swords but this my friends is one of my favorite
plants of all times this is dwarf sash dwarf sash now today
I want to show you this dwarf sash that was grown above water as you can clearly
see right here this has been grown above water all day long above water growth
this is Sagittarius ubu lotta melting back it happens it's part of it let me
show you the converted version this is sad crone fully under water looking good
looking great but folks I want to show you it's sex
cousin and how crazy at is this is sad chair race now notice this is a bigger
variety of Sagittario look at these big spoon leaves clearly grown above water
but look down here when you see the underwater growth your golden underwater
growth on sad both subglottic salensus and this Therese underwater gets the
more pointy non spoon looking leaves leaves like this and I got to show you
this plant folks cuz this plant underneath the right light and the right
nutrients gets purple check it out this is that sad that I've been hidden heavy
with the fertilizers growing purplish colored leaves at its base you can see
the purple tent on there how sick is that yes folks a purple variety of sedge
I'm totally loving it I need to actually give this plant more nutrients but a
purple variety of said now no look at this one growing fully under water no
spoon leaves it's got the finger leaves not the spoon leaves sad cherries
love it underwater gross with purple the folks I want to show you all a plant
that's made to grow above water and will absorb the heck out of your nitrous
you've probably heard it before but I doubt you've seen a gigantic example of
it like I'm about to show you here I want to talk about the pocos plant right
here check this sucker out play this I'm intentionally showing you this because
it's just kind of gone wild here in the greenhouse this tank
this right here is sitting next to a 20 long and over a 125 right here and this
plant has just grown and grown and grown and grown and grown and taken off and
then it comes down into the water here and drinks and then just keeps on going
we never water it it found water on its own like it's just an epic plant right
here I love this plant I've got a couple varieties of it I've got a variegated
variety and I've got another marbled variety but this plant is absolutely
ridiculous I recommend folks get the POE tells grow
it at the top of your tank it will absorb the extra nutrients by excess
nitrogen in your tank helping everything a hoie
but wait why are you showing us the difference between all these plants
thrown above water and below water and how am I gonna grow plants faster the
answer is simple in a natural state plants are going to generally prefer to
grow up above the water line they're going to grow emerging from the water
and grow where there's more readily available carbon dioxide because they're
out of the water breathing breathing all the readily available co2 which is less
available in the water there's also a more readily available nitrogen and
other gases as well and there's more readily available sunlight they don't
have to wait on the sunlight to go through the water so that is why plants
choose to grow above the water line that's why farmers and the aquatic
gardeners all over the world grow plants generally above the water and then we
get them and we have to sink them in our aquarium that's why we are sinking our
plants that we sell alone down under the water to convert them better to go into
your tank where you don't have full Sun you probably do not have as much readily
available co2 as I don't know that mysteri
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