Aquarian seaweed are at all not those plants which decorate your house vodoyemchik and which aquarians seek to grow in the underwater garden with small fishes. It fouling on walls, soil, and other plants, the having unattractive appearance, color, and, often also began to smell. It is not necessary to grow up them, they appear, as a rule in aquariums with the broken biological balance. Aquarians from such vegetation take great pain to get rid though it is not always simple. And here pleasant aquarian plants need care and attention.
It is required to you
- - fluorescent lamps or glow lamps;
- - device Kippa;
- - nutritious substrate or radical tablets;
- - basalt, granite or quartz soil;
- - tests for determination of level of acidity.
Instruction
1. It is more difficult to grow up aquarian plants sometimes, than small fishes. That your underwater "garden" was pleasing to the eye it is necessary to provide it certain conditions. Pay attention to the illumination of your aquarium. Duration of light day has to be within 10-12 hours. Besides it depends on lighting brightness. The it is brighter, the light day is shorter. However, if duration of lighting is small, there is dystrophy of plants. Too long light day leads to development of seaweed.
2. Install lamps. Their choice is caused by the aquarium volume, and type of the grown-up plants. If lighting is conducted by glow lamps, then on each 1 liter of volume 1.2-1, 5 W are required. If luminescent, then 0.4-0.5vt. For photophilous plants increase power to 0.8-1.0vt. For unpretentious enough 0.4 W on 1 l. The range of lamps matters too. During growth of plants – red-yellow. For blossoming and fructification – blue.
3. Carbon dioxide is necessary for plants. If the population of your aquarium corresponds to its volume, and illumination does not exceed 0.5 W on 1 l, then that quantity which arrives from the external environment and is formed in the course of activity of fishes suffices. Otherwise carbon dioxide has to be supplied forcibly. Get or manufacture the device Kippa in which carbon dioxide turns out as a result of chemical reaction between chalk and acetic acid. It is the cheapest option quite capable to provide with gas small aquariums.
4. Quartz, granite, basalt most of all is suitable for aquarian soil. Optimum size of fractions the 1-5th. When using fine sand the roots of plants are pressed and decay. Stack soil with an inclination – at a windshield of 4 cm, at back 7 cm.
5. Buy nutritious substrate for plants. Place it under soil. If it is a little plants, it is possible to put clay or radical tablets.
6. Under the influence of living organisms in water the acidity level changes. Its sharp change has negative impact on living organisms and even to lead to their death. Acquire special tests by which you will be able to control the level of acidity of water in an aquarium.