my planted tank

[Rbacchiega]

Any other suppliments? I started using Seachems planted line and BLEZAH! Growth and colour like you couldn't imagine. I'm trimming my 4ft discus tank every 2nd week....and I'm not using CO2

[hershey]

Originally Posted by BlueAbyss

Hmm I think I see some Rotala spp. (the olive-toned small leafed stem plant on the far left hand side?). Nice, never had any manner of luck with it myself, I eventually started collecting Cryptocoryne

those are Rotala rotundifolia they grow very well in my tank

[hershey]

Originally Posted by Rbacchiega

Any other suppliments? I started using Seachems planted line and BLEZAH! Growth and colour like you couldn't imagine. I'm trimming my 4ft discus tank every 2nd week....and I'm not using CO2

hmmm ill have to try that product, i only dose seachem flourish and flourish trace usually once a week

[Rbacchiega]

I would avoid excel. Even though I'd consider my tank "heavily planted", my jungle val was melting...so I tossed that idea, but I'm a big fan of the iron suppliment as I have alot of high-iron plants. It'd do your ratalla well...

[BlueAbyss]

Yeah it doesn't surprise me your Rotala is doing well, you supplement CO2 and I never did. I also used tapwater to top off and water change, which is generally bad... but I never had algae problems, and everything else I tried grew well save a couple of Echinodorus boliviana that lost the tissue between the leaf veins within days of being planted. Strange, and never had it happen to any other plants I tried. Mind you, I never did try Echinodorus again