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#1 9darlingcalvi

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Posted 08 February 2016 - 03:39 PM

I want to have a 10 gallon for either three-spined or brook sticklebacks, I will get them for a private pond or bait stores. I will have an aqueon T8 plant growth floresent tube light and the hood for that light, a sponge corner filter. plants im thinking hornwort, algea covered rocks, fissidense, val americana and this plant.

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#2 gzeiger

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Posted 08 February 2016 - 07:02 PM

Vals need a very good soil. They don't do well in sand even if fertilized.

 

The plant pictured looks very like one I found in SC. I never did get a positive ID, but it was one of the most abundant plants in several waterways. In an aquarium it likes to trail the stem on the surface to maximize availability of light and CO2, which tends to make the submerged portion ugly. With very active trimming it can probably be made to work. It did seem to mostly stay submerged in the wild.



#3 9darlingcalvi

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Posted 08 February 2016 - 10:13 PM

Okay, so trim and it won't go to the surface

#4 gzeiger

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Posted 09 February 2016 - 06:37 PM

Likely needs fairly high light also to stay small. That's not too hard to do in a ten gallon, but definitely more than just room light. I always found them growing in shallow water in full sun.

 

Not completely sure you have the same plant though.



#5 MtFallsTodd

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Posted 09 February 2016 - 07:59 PM

That looks like a Heteranthera of some kind. Maybe H.dubia.
Deep in the hills of Great North Mountain

#6 gzeiger

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Posted 09 February 2016 - 09:12 PM

That is what I thought I had at the time.



#7 9darlingcalvi

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Posted 09 February 2016 - 09:17 PM

Okay, thank you. So I have two small 2.5 gallon critter keepers, could I put the fry of the sticklebacks in those tank? Or maybe the females after breeding with the male or males

#8 9darlingcalvi

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 03:37 PM

also I think the plant is slender pondweed





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