what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks.com rocking the hoodie
today bringing it to you on a Sunday baby how's everybody doing hope you're
doing well hope you like my new haircut and family photos today rocking the new
Dustin's fish tank tea stink hoodies and I'm having a blast folks so it's Sunday
baby it's PC son I got one two three species for you and I'm excited to share
but first I want to talk about a little something while I show you a little bit
what's going on in the greenhouse I've been debating about throwing down a
podcast fish tank people podcast what I'm talking about I mean John / kg
tropicals is rocking a sick podcast I'm rocking some Crips with purlins and he's
having a good time they might be like a little shorter you know 15 minute
interview if you believe you'd open up the salt let some salt water people when
they're talking about I feel like a pizza my format frankly I'm a lonely
dude so that's something I'd like to do I'd love to know your feedback on me
doing a podcast any podcast I should check out I had a good time on John's
had a good time on blues I thinking about doing my own but if you're gonna
do it you got to do it right and I'd have to have a hundred guests so do me a
favor in the comments people on the Facebook fan page have already done this
but list people that you would like to have on the podcast okay list people you
would like to have on the podcast all right here's what's going on I got one
two three species for it today I get asked constantly about what kind
of foreground plant what kind of carpet plant how can I get a carpet Dustin I
want to carpet in my tank everybody emails me all day long I'm
gonna give you my one two three favorite foreground plants here we go okay number
one baby cheers I'm gonna start with baby tears I'm talking about baby tears
not dwarf baby tears okay I'm talking about regular babies baby tears hc'
there so I'm just growing just rampantly in its own setup in one of my 75 7 full
Sun quick note who saw this PC sunny last week I talked about high groffle
and I put it under water that's a growing you can see the difference there
you check out the video here as well on that so uh yeah regular baby tears
absolutely love it here's why I love it look I've seen this stuff growing wild
in South Carolina I'm sure it grows in the southern states great great plant
nice stalk okay like thick enough stock loves dirt okay you can see the video
here where I talk about how it's growing I've showed you actually how it's
growing in a 40 tall I really really like it I mean this plant can handle the
abuse it likes to be done with some substrate I don't have that great of
roots and herbs you can see super healthy super great I really recommend
this it needs trimmed as you can see in that video over there so baby tears is
definitely definitely one particularly a dirted tank like say a finer substrate
though because it's got smaller roots so we can push down through the finer stuff
should definitely dirt underneath it okay number two all right
star of gyne rippen's now look folks I was late to the game on this I'm not
going to act like I was the first half as playing up you know it's a sick sick
sick plant though hearty beefy like nice little stem I've only seen it get about
that tall which is real hot by the way side people that was on backorder for a
while I got a ton of them now though but yeah star Gani rippen's wicked you can
see a photo of it in the legendary Tom bars tank right here just super hot
little plant beefy you know great root structure I believe it's related to high
groffle which is a hell of a hot plant and hearty plant so that's awesome and
then finally here I want to talk about my favorite dwarf sach you can see a
link to the original species Sunday I did when NOLA was just a little baby
now she's five but yeah dwarf said sure folks this plant right here is like the
og plant I've seen people growing it obviously in dirt and it grows like
crazy without dirt you can grow it okay just an amazing amazing plant like easy
just start off with the simple stuff folks start with the easy stuff when you
master the easy stuff move on to the hard stuff and I just want to make a
quick comment on this - okay everybody wants the carpeting plants they want
that effect they see those sick award-winning aquascapes and they're
sick as hell okay but I want you to think about something here's the way you
think about carpeting plans short plants come from shall
little-ass water generally speaking case shallow shallow water okay so what is
shallow water do for us well we've got this much water and I've seen baby tears
growing in the natural state okay very very little water which means what which
means an assload of sunlight a sload of sunlight okay so like ridiculous
sunlight like I'm growing them in a greenhouse here okay so you got to
duplicate that in your tank you got to do think that with intense light and
then more importantly you got to duplicate the little plant might
actually come up out of the surface and get that co2 rich oxygen or co2 you were
talking to co2 out of the air okay so what do you need for the plants like
glosso dwarf air grass um dwarf paragraphs of gloss so dwarf baby
tears particularly those three driving me crazy in my opinion those need high
light and high amounts of co2 you know look you can grow them if you have
ridiculously high light but you just have them like you know very like the
lights like directly on top of them so that's what I want to talk about today
folks so my top three baby plants again here baby tears really is regular baby
tears not the dwarf baby tears star gynie rippen's love it oh and then dwarf
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aquatic experience November 7th through the 11th in Schaumburg Illinois let me
know your favorite foreground plants and why and what are your thoughts on me
doing a podcast make it an awesome week folks take one what
you