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Cheap plants, less nitrate! POTHOS

Recently turned my LFS on to Pothos and Philodendron....

The 110 gallon Discus tank at Fishy Bizness in Merritt Island, FL.

In the last month the nitrates were reduced from 20ppm to 10ppm without a water change. Ph of this tank is kept at 6.5. Under water plants include several species of Anubius but not A. nana and Java Ferns. No plants in the sand bed. All are glued to wood with coral glue until they are rooted on the wood. The discus LOVE the plants and are no longer scared and always hiding but out and about and looking happy. This fish store now gives me lots of free stuff and has asked me to design more tank systems for them....

(forgive my using size 4 text, I have poor computer vision.)



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krustyart said:
Recently turned my LFS on to Pothos and Philodendron....

.... Under water plants include several species of Anubius but not A. nana and Java Ferns. No plants in the sand bed. All are glued to wood with coral glue until they are rooted on the wood. ...... This fish store now gives me lots of free stuff and has asked me to design more tank systems for them....
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krusty, great report. Gee, congrats on the store benefits!
Did you only mean they glue the underwater plants to wood for roots attachment, or did they do that to pothos stems too?
oh, and did they start out with just clippings or pothos in already rooted? that's fast nitrate reduction.
 
Giving the pothos a try myself... Not really happy with the mounting method on my 29 gallon at the moment, but we'll see what happens...
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Sorry about the tiny pic... Found a plastic shower caddy at Wal-mart, suctioned to the glass on the left side, and trimmed the back cover on the glass canopy to let it come through... No gravel in it right now, just the roots resting in it.

On my 75 gallon, drilled two holes in the back plastic cover between the glass canopy and back wall, and stuck them through, my background in it has a 2.5" gap to the back tank wall, so just letting the roots hang free there. Just did the left side right now, if it takes off well, will do the right side.
The stand on my 75 has a framework for another shelf overhead with nothing on it right now, so I figure when the Pothos takes off, I can tie/wire it to the frame and let it vine overhead....

edit: Pic in the actual post came up bigger than on my screen, lol.

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My roots in my basket started rotting for some reason and screwed with my water quality and I trimmed them down mad and used an HOB for strictly pothos with some scrubbers for the roots and my tanks a bit over stocked and after one week with no WC my nitrate is just now hitting a little over 40ppm so I now an doing once a week WC rather than 2 or 3 like before :)


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My extremely DIY pothos has grown some nice roots, now to find a way to secure it... And make more of them :D
 
Too many pages to go through. Sorry if its already been asked, but can I put it in a HOB filter and habe the roots kinda hanging?

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koi9 said:
Too many pages to go through. Sorry if its already been asked, but can I put it in a HOB filter and habe the roots kinda hanging?

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On the same note as there are way too many pages full of info to look through but is there a mesh bag I can use to contain the roots in my sump?

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Update pothos neon is going crazy! Nitrates are staying around 20 ppm. uploadfromtaptalk1370207243324.jpg

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