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Looking promising

Week 3 passed. Still OK.

Easy to find this plant where you live?

Yeah! I got it from the local store! They didn't even know it is suitable for brackish

I wonder if the brackish water does a kind of 'preserving effect which causes some plants to die slow painful boring deaths?

Owlbit wrote: ↑23 Aug 2019 17:37 I wonder if the brackish water does a kind of 'preserving effect which causes some plants to die slow painful boring deaths?

I don't think so I think it has more to do with biochemistry. This is my 4th try and this plant seems to go strong so far. I really know way too little about aquatic plant biology tho!

That is interesting. For my freshwater shrimp tank I add dreid guava leaves. It decays at a resonable speed and the shrimp and snails devour it until there's only the veins left. I threw some in my opae's tanks. It sat there for months. I eventually pulled it out and stuck it in the freshwater tanks. For some reason it took a lot longer in brackish to break down.

Vorteil wrote: ↑27 Aug 2019 17:32 That is interesting. For my freshwater shrimp tank I add dreid guava leaves. It decays at a resonable speed and the shrimp and snails devour it until there's only the veins left. I threw some in my opae's tanks. It sat there for months. I eventually pulled it out and stuck it in the freshwater tanks. For some reason it took a lot longer in brackish to break down.

No absolutely! But I guess @Owlbit was more talking about live plants dying due to being conserved right? That's at least what I thought is going on

My trumpet snails dig up the roots of my plant!!! They got power! I guess I will have to glue them to a stone or something. The plants. Not the snails.

Ok went away for some days and the plant is losing leafs and does not look too good. Not sure if it's the snails digging around or if it's the water salinity... the roots are mostly dug up tho... it looked so promising at first...

Also my hair algae are going crazy again

Damn

PS: Do you spot the floating Soechting Oxydator which run out of liquid?