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Happiness is new plants.

I stopped by Petsmart (they do have a rather nice plant selection, and for a decent price) and selected a few different plants to try in my tank.

I've got Giant hygrophylia, ludwigia repens, rotala indica and moneywort. We'll see how things go... Hopefully it doesn't get killed off by algae... I'm hoping they'll be fast growing enough to outcompete the stupid algae issues I'm having.

Question... you can trim down giant hygrophylia, right? Cause, like, the tag says you can, and I'm hoping it's right, cause my tank is a 20 long and only about 12" tall.



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you can trim all stem plants
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Alex

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Unless I am wrong you should be able to trim at both ends without any problems at all.

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Yay, was hoping that was the case... now to hop on over to Aquascaping to get some ideas on how to set this up.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

I just went out and bought new plants too!

*grins* Aren't plants fun? I found another one today, only this one needs an ID. LCPS employees aren't terribly helpful sometimes!

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Congrats, I've been playing with plants the past few days too The local PetSmart has some awesome hornwort, I've been soooo happy with it /:'

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Is that top one really Hygrophylia? I have been looking for different types besides wisteria. My Petco occasionally gets them in.

i got all the bottom plants in my tank and i do trim them regulrly....they grow bigggg...and now..managed the spread the trimmings to my other tanks...

have fun with ur new plants

i know elodia will reproduce by cuttings and perhaps these ones will too but i'm not certain

clownloachfan - Yes, that's hygrophylia... or, that's what the lil sign in the pot says. *runs quickly to tropica to make sure* Looks like it. [link=Take a look at Tropica.]http://www.tropica.com/productcard_1.asp?id=050" style="COLOR: #00A0AE[/link]

tankie - glad to hear that... I really want to see this tank fill out, so I'm happy to hear that they grow pretty fast. I just hope my light is high enough to keep the two pink/red ones nicely colorful.

goldfishkeeper - I think we've figured out that they can be trimmed... I just wasn't sure on the hygro, because I've never really gotten a stem plant in a pot, so I wasn't sure what I was dealing with. Thanks though.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~