The choice, disembarkation and cultivation of aquarian plants — seaweed — demands rather serious approach. Before buying plants, it is necessary to specify as far as they are compatible with each other. How to plant seaweed in an aquarium?
It is required to you
- - tweezers;
- - nylon thread;
- - suckers
Instruction
1. Prepare plants to posadkevnimatelno examine seaweed. Remove the begun to rot or sick parts. Clean roots from dirt. Prepare weak hydrochloric solution at the rate of 1 teaspoon of salt on water liter. Carefully rinse each plant, and then leave in solution, at least, for five minutes - it is necessary for destruction of harmful organisms. Wash with flowing water. Truncate excessively long roots.
2. Choose a way of landing vodorosleysushchestvut two ways of planting of the plants which are taking roots in soil. It is possible to plant seaweed in the aquarium which is already partially filled with water, and it is possible to plant at first plants in soil, and only then to fill in water. Each of these ways has the pluses and minuses. In the first case it is much easier to give seaweed the necessary situation, in the second - it is simpler to fix a plant in the soil.
3. Think over the place of disembarkation vodorosleysledut to remember that plants, as a rule, have to occupy no more, than 1/3 areas. Dense and large seaweed are recommended to be planted at a distant wall. If to plant them forward, then they can block a look and press fishes. Plants of the average sizes well will look on each side and in the middle of an aquarium. Free-standing seaweed are recommended to be placed in the center. Into the forefront plant undersized seaweed, having left a part of a front wall free. You watch that photophilous plants were located as it is possible closer to a light source and did not shade each other.
4. When landing seaweed in a dry aquarium, it is necessary to do small deepenings in earlier planned places of soil. Accurately lower a plant in the formed pole and make sure that its roots are directed down and do not come to a surface. Slightly stamp soil around the planted plant.
5. In order that it is correct to plant seaweed in already filled aquarium, you will need tweezers. Accurately clamp alga roots tweezers and insert into soil. Unclench the ends of tweezers and take out it, holding at an angle to a plant. If the plant emerges, then it is recommended to tie its roots to a stone by means of a nylon thread in advance. It will be possible to remove thread after the alga finally takes roots.
6. Floating plants start in the aquarium filled with water in the latest turn. To limit the area of their placement, it is possible to use a nylon thread, having tied her to the suckers fixed on aquarium walls.