Just saw this at my local Petco store...Anyone else seen them? Seems to be dwarf hairgrass, moneywort, scarlet temple, and some others I forgot. They're also i believe fully aquatic unlike some other plants they have in tubes
Interesting! I'll have to look to see if mine are participating, so far though I'm pretty sure we're still doing the Tubes and the Packages like this, only they stand on the shelf.
Our Petco and Petsmart has had them for awhile but they always look to be mostly mush. I've had no luck from anything out of a tube or package from there - they all melt and die almost instantly. I swear if I watched it for 24 hours i could literally see the plants screaming "I"M MELTING, I'M MELTING". Not sure if it's my water or the additives they put in the tubes and packages combined with real water but they seem to be a huge waste of money for me.
On another forum, they warn those plants are treated with copper to rid them of snails. So be careful if you have shrimp. Also, as Lil says, they grow a lot of their plants emerged and submerging them kills them; or severely sets them back.
I bought all of those packages from petco. The moneywort is doing amazing. The scarlett temple is mushing on me and I am about to give up on it and remove it from the tank. The dwarf grass is doing great too. I don't know what happened with the scarlett temple. I split the pack and planted it in 3 places. They all started out real good, I had all kinds of little shoots coming off of it and then it started to turn mushy. Two of the 3 plants are mushy and the third is doing ok but it does not seem to be thriving anymore. I will probably pull it from the tank and get more moneywort.
I have the dwarf hairgrass, and it is doing amazingly well. Totally carpeting my tank, and the leftovers I planted in two tiny glass cubes are ready to be trimmed for the third time in a month.
I got mine from PetSmart and they are snail free and do really well : tubes and bags are both great products. I did QT them in tank water for 2-3 days just to acclimate them and allow the gel to get loosened up to be removed.
If there is a chance that since that they can die from the shock of being submerged, is there not a way you can acclimate them to submerged conditions?
I had great luck with just rinsing well, letting sit in a bowl of water for a day (I couldn't get to planting until the next day), then using a chop stick to make small holes and dropping in a "plug" of hairgrass. I put mine about a 1/4 of an inch away from each other.
I frequently see pictures of hairgrass being planted almost stem by stem. I am sure there is some benefit to that method of which I am unaware, but it would drive me batty.
I have noticed that areas that receive less than very direct light are growing slower and are more prone to diatoms (new tank syndrome).
I got the dwarf hair grass and the pink leaves one. Pink leaves were great! But the grass was beyond difficult to work with so I gave up on it. Pink leaves are doing great however. I do believe they are the bottom two in your pic.
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