Here are some pics of my plants


This is my 10g planted with 4-4.5WPG of light, co2 and ferts feeding my plants.


23" red tiger lotus in my 55 gallon.


Hygro


Some of my Sunset/Green Hygro that one lucky person got for $15 shipped!

I've never seen that Hygro stuff before. How sturdy is it? Is it a fast grower? If you end up with some extra again, let me know I'd be interested to try it out for some variety down here.

I have mine under 4-4.5wpg so they grow extreamly fast. I have 3 types of hygro, Green, sunset and Giant hygro. All of them are easy to grow and they need medium low light to grow. The giant hygro has a thick stem and is verry sturdy. The others are not so sturdy and can break easy if you pull on them to hard. I'll gladly send you some when I more to spare. With the green and sunset make sure your state doesen't consider it to be a noxious weed.

My state considers Red Ear Sliders to be a noxious weed and they keep giving me them to find homes for.

One of my bigger tanks still has a UVB bulb in it from a turtle that was in there, so maybe I'll move out what's in there and try and set that up as an actual plant growing tank. I think that should work good right?

Yea! What size tank is it?

It's a 30. I was patching up an Asian Box Turtle in it. Actually I think I'll need to move the clown loaches in for a little while. I know there were a good bunch of little snails in there last time I looked. Tho maybe the remaining comets got them..

I'm so lazy sometimes.

Clown loaches shouldnt bother the plants. If your going to do a planted tank I would upgrade the lights from the normal tank lights to one of these Lights.

Just keep in mind how many watts per gallon you want and make sure the bulbs are 6500k for color temp.

So what's the difference between those and the UVB bulbs?

My uvb bulb boxes don't list the color temp on the package but seeing as they're trying to mimic the sun for reptiles I would think they'd be as good as the ones you linked too right?

If im not mistaken the uv lights will emit a different color spectrum than the bulbs used for plants. What does the UV light do for the reptiles? Im not familiar with reptiles.

UVB bulbs are essentially sunlight in a can. They're a pretty good approximation of sitting outside on a sunny day. Most reptiles need 'em so they can produce vitamin D3.

I haven't tested them on plants, but I would think they'd work out fairly well.

Humm. Give it a shot and let me know how it works out. I would do it to a small amount of plants at first that way you dont spend alot of money on something that would die in 3 weeks.

Nice looking plants, I like the ones that look like caladiums.

Thank you! I'll have to update these pics because I moved a ton of stuff around.

Nice...how am I missing these threads~

Dunno. I'll post a pic of my 20 high when I get home. I wish my Pleco would stop up rooting plants in my 55g that thing would be mint! I dont think hes going to move into the new tank with the rest of the fish.