Elatine Triandra

bobo31 · Post by **bobo31** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:48 am

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Sorry for the not so good picture.

Light: Hight light. ~3 WPG but also does well in lower lighting.

Growth: very fast in high light.

Demands: Likes high NO3.

Pruning: top and replant. Eventually you will have to up root it all and replant though. It will start to shade the lower stem and then rot and float up.

Water hardness: 4dGH. 7dKH.

Experiences: I have seen this plant fill an entire 75 gallon foreground in a matter of two weeks. The foreground was started with about a 6"x6" portion.

Robert.

Ben Belton · Post by **Ben Belton** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:36 pm

My experience with this plant is that it does not keep a lot of nutrients stored and if you let levels drop, the plant is gone very quickly. On the good side though, it puts out seeds like crazy and within a few months it's popping back up everywhere again.

That's not a bad pic. It's better than the ones I take.

Ben

Roan Art · Post by **Roan Art** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:54 am

Excellent! I have some of this coming from Singapore.

Any tips on planting?

Roan

Post by **krisw** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:34 pm

Roan, I only have a little bit of this, but Ive planted it similarly to glosso. Just take a 1-2" portion, and stick it in the gravel with just top sticking out. Repeat every square inch or so.

Jeff120 · Post by **Jeff120** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:39 pm

How is yours doing Kris? I just took the bunch that I got and burried it in the substrate with about half sticking out. It takes off like glosso!!!

Post by **krisw** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:13 pm

Well, you gave me those few stalks, and I floated them. Then, my 75G went crazy with nutrient imbalances, rocks leeching, a CO2 reactor failing to work as it should, etc. Long story short, I've just started to get it rebalanced again, and I replanted one stem that I had left. In the last week, it's tripled in size, so yeah, I can see that it grows pretty fast. I'm looking forward to having it take up a nice part of my foreground. (I'm hoping that'll happen by the time I host the meeting in a few weeks!)

Ben Belton · Post by **Ben Belton** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:15 pm

Here is a pic of my Elatine from awhile back. The way it grew into this Crypt was very great looking, but could never get a good pic.

Post by **krisw** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:46 am

That looks pretty cool Ben. It almost looks like the ET is floating in-front of the crypt, but I can't see any roots, so it must be an illusion. I'm really looking forward to having this stuff spread out for me. I love the look of it.

Roan Art · Post by **Roan Art** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:20 pm

Kris,

Thanks for the advice!

Mine's growing nicely in my 20g, but the clowns have uprooted a lot of it in my 75g looking for snails. Dang loaches! I knew they might do that, but I was hoping they wouldn't

I'm going to add some more in here and there and probably move the clowns to another tank while it grows.

Roan

Post by **krisw** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:33 pm

Yeah, those loaches are hit or miss.. I have two ginormous (i know this is not a word) red-tailed blue botia loaches in my 75G that thankfully leave my plants alone. Honestly, I wouldn't know they were still alive except for the occasional bi-monthly sighting.

Not to get off-topic, but if you like loaches for snail control, but dislike having big loaches, I highly recommend the botia sidthimunki dwarf loaches. They're cute, don't hide like some other loaches, full of energy, eat snails, and best of all, stay 2-3" in length.

Elatine Triandra

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