Cheap plants, less nitrate! POTHOS

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Wow, now that's some MONSTER pothos!!

doomiedee said:
Yeah their probably longer now if she hasn't trimmed them yet. I know the that reached in my old 29 had to be atleast 30-40' . It reached from one corner of her dinning room around a wall up a beam and across the living room into the tank and out the window. It might actually be longer then 40' now I think about it.

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Mine work really good because I slow down the water a lot. My pump pumps 2200gal an hour I made it where it only pumps 1200 or so now so my pothos have a chance to absorb the nitrate. I could be wrong but it work well for my 355 gal. I use 2 large pothos I largest I can find
 
Flow might be part of it, but to me losing flow is not an option I am willing to take in my sump. about 4500gph, :nilly:

Rob3rtPhan said:
Mine work really good because I slow down the water a lot. My pump pumps 2200gal an hour I made it where it only pumps 1200 or so now so my pothos have a chance to absorb the nitrate. I could be wrong but it work well for my 355 gal. I use 2 large pothos I largest I can find
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DIDYSIS said:
Flow might be part of it, but to me losing flow is not an option I am willing to take in my sump. about 4500gph, :nilly:
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Not sure, with my baskets and roots at the top I prlly get very little flow, maybe 50-60gph, and the gravel imo helps the roots develop while the water is always in the basket. I think lower gph may be better but not by much. Any room on the top of ur tank behind your overflow?



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After school today I went up to home depot and got a pot of pothos.after I cleaned out the dirt and separated the individual plants I counted them and I had 13! ImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1349820225.247652.jpg
Then I used the pot that it came with and drilled a bunch of holes in it. Now here it is in the tankImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1349820340.970975.jpg
Can't wait for the nitrates to start dropping:)


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Tyler2012 said:
After school today I went up to home depot and got a pot of pothos.after I cleaned out the dirt and separated the individual plants I counted them and I had 13! View attachment 836640
Then I used the pot that it came with and drilled a bunch of holes in it. Now here it is in the tankView attachment 836641
Can't wait for the nitrates to start dropping:)


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Very nicely done Tyler! I also thought of using the same pots, but once I saw the hydro baskets I couldn't help myself :p

They also have floating pond planters that are awesome!

Looks great!


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Tyler2012 said:
After school today I went up to home depot and got a pot of pothos.after I cleaned out the dirt and separated the individual plants I counted them and I had 13! View attachment 836640
Then I used the pot that it came with and drilled a bunch of holes in it. Now here it is in the tankView attachment 836641
Can't wait for the nitrates to start dropping:)


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See my plant I bought from walmart was easily 5times this much and my nitrate went down quick.
 
Rob3rtPhan said:
See my plant I bought from walmart was easily 5times this much and my nitrate went down quick.
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I think you just found a very healthy plant that acclimated quickly to the water! I notice about 5-10ppm drop at almost 2 weeks In but now my n03 is still 20-30ppm, 7 days ago it was 10-15ppm, with messy piranhas I'm elated at the new additions. Plus the gf likes the look of them!



"BUT BABE I NEED THE FISH TO FEED THE PLANTS!"


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Spent $4.50 lol,homedepo have them 3/$10 right now and the CD crate from a dollar store.
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