Reply To: Rant on live plants!
pest’s i find the best way to get rid of pest snails etc is a bleach dip
use a ratio of 1:21 (1 bleach : 21 water)
1)get 2 buckets one with the bleach in and one with 3 times the recomended chlorine remover
2) dip plants into bleach solution for 30 seconds
3) rinse of uunder the tap then place them in the water with the chlorine remover.
4) empty the bleach soloution and fill with fresh water and 3 x the recomended chlorine remover
5) rinse plants under fresh water again and place in the new bucket of water
6)plant plants in tank
this is the way i do it and dont have any in my planted tank however some plants dont like this but most (95%) will be fine
there alot more to live plants than people think
do you know what type of plants you had (names)
do you have any co2 or dose ferts?
do you have any other substrte other than sand?
how much light do you have? (wattage and us gallons and ill work it out for you)
the easyest plant to grow is polysperma (carnt remember its first name but it begins with a h) will grow with little light levels and is not demanding
chris