r/nanotank 12d ago

Any recommended additives to keep the plants healthy and growing? Help

These are our nano tanks we’ve put together.

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u/LazRboy 12d ago

Lighting, CO2, fertilization

https://www.aquasabi.com/aquascaping-wiki

This site has a lot of valuable information on the topics.

Sadly they don´t ship to the US but their their shop allows to filter for literally anything so you can get a good feel for which plants will work in your tank.

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u/MoneyEar3800 12d ago

Awesome thanks!

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u/bloodyfingerbingbong 11d ago

You can keep it real simple, as long as you have decent lighting just use root tabs and something like api leafzone, no need for co2 imo

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u/former-kiwi 11d ago

Aquarium co-op has a good fertilizer you can add

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u/jaybird4234 10d ago

If you got the right number of fish in there, you do not need fertilizer or CO2 just quality lights. The plant that I see in their require requires it they look healthy to start with. Just thin out your floaters a little to let more light down. Looks like you know what you’re doing. Plants look awesome.

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u/MoneyEar3800 10d ago

Thanks. I thin that water lettuce out one a week, those things multiply like crazy lol.

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u/jaybird4234 10d ago

Yeah, they do. If you’re on Facebook, there are a lot of aquarium, rehoming groups, where you can trade plants for fish and such. You might want to check it out. Just type in your state and aquarium rehoming. Especially since dwarf water lettuce is hard to ship it dies easily.

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u/MoneyEar3800 10d ago

I’ll check that out. I’ve been tossing it in the compost pile lol. Thanks a bunch

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u/nastipervert 9d ago

Trimming them back regularly

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u/Substantial_Mail_592 7d ago

What’s the name of the floating plants?

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u/MoneyEar3800 7d ago

Those are water lettuce. They spread like crazy but we love them.

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u/Substantial_Mail_592 7d ago

It looks great! Thank you

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u/MoneyEar3800 7d ago

I think I ordered them off eBay.