As it is interesting to watch the underwater world – the floating flocks of whitebaits, the small fishes playing among thickets. But plants in itself in aquarium will not grow and to create idyll in the underwater kingdom, it will be necessary to work a little.
- Plants, tweezers, the encyclopedia on water plants, table salt
1. After you have bought underwater plants, it is desirable to open the encyclopedia and to look what of them loves light and what likes to grow in shadow more. Photophilous plants need to be planted under lamp. Also look what sizes will be reached by your plants – big bushes better to remove on background, or to put at side walls of aquarium.
2. Before landing of plant it is the best of all to disinfect – it will save other inhabitants of aquarium from undesirable consequences. For this purpose make solution of table salt (take one teaspoon of salt on water liter) and rinse plants in the turned-out solution.
3. Fill aquarium with water approximately on one third. Now pick up tweezers and plant. Holding it for stalk tweezers, accurately insert trunk into sand.
4. It is better to plant plants of one look together: so they will not interfere with each other grow. Therefore put your kabomba in one party, and anubias let grows in other corner.
5. Now when plants are planted in soil, fill in aquarium with water completely and put floating plants on water smooth surface. If you want them to be located in certain site of aquarium, attach to glass walls of sucker and pull nylon thread – plants will not departure anywhere.