TAKASHI AMANO - how to trim a STEM PLANTS AQUARIUM 🍃✂️🌿
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- čas přidán 7. 02. 2019
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Takashi Amano was a true master of Nature Aquarium and Aquascaping and there is so much you can learn from him. Whether it is through old prints or videos, or maybe you have been lucky and fortunate to join one of his rare Nature Aquarium Seminars and demonstrations. I have been following his advice with great success and today I want to share a Pro Tip with you - I learned from the Sensei Takashi Amano:
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In one of my recent projects, I have reworked a customer 45cm Aquarium after 1 year period time. I first trimmed the plants back - as I usually do, following the line of the Hardscape. But after seeing all the bare bottom stems, I realized it would take forever for them to recover and that is about time to replant the entire background.
Usually, in Aquascaping Stem Plants are trimmed back along the Line of the Hardscape to create a nice background. Every time the cutting line is set a couple cm higher. This allows the stem plants to branch out and they become bushier. However, after trimming the stem plants back a couple times - the cutting line becomes visible and one has to cut the plants back more often as they very quickly reach the surface.
Now there are 2 things you can do:
1. You can cut back hard, below the older cutting lines. This means extreme stress to the plants and it takes a lot of time to form new growth
2. You cut the stems back to the ground, and replant them. This technique is less stressful for the plants and they simply continue growing, which will give you again healthy and bushy stems in no time.
This second technique is what Takashi Amano has always said to do. Cut your stems back 7 times and then replant them. This way, you get rid of the bare bottom stem and you can maintain a nice healthy and bushy stem plant aquarium.
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Jurijs
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Another awesome tip, Jurijs! I love these short little sound bites of knowledge, they’re really useful and never repeat stuff that you see elsewhere. Keep it up, your stuff is always original and always interesting!
- sounds great Jurijs, just do what you do, we love it.
Thanks for sharing a few old Takashi Amano storys with us :)
What a beautiful snails! Never seen them before.
You and george always got the best tips! Bring on the knowledge😆
Thank you for the pro tip Jurijs! I watch all your videos and love them! Very creative and tons of information! Thank you for what u do!
Takashi and you is right! Thank's for tips
Pretty awesome tip! Thanks for sharing Juriis 🤗 🤩
Great tip, put it into practice today 😃👍
I'm so glad I subscribed to your channel! I really needed this information. Thank you!
Both you and your Nerite snails are looking great 🤘😜
Hi Jurijs! I appreciate that so much. Keep your dynamic :)
Super idea.
Great tip. RIP great master!
Really short and to the point. Good tip. Works well with rotala!
Nice tip will use this with my temple plant.
Thanks, Jurijs! I have a 25 gal. nature aquarium that's been running for about 1.5 years, and, after all the regular trimming, the background plant are starting to look a bit weird. Maybe it's time for an aggressive cut-back and replant. I appreciate this tip and your ongoing contribution to our hobby. Cheers!
Just a quick update,@@JurijsJutjajevs . I followed your advice, took a deep breath and whacked the stem plants back to the substrate. I sorted them by length, replanted and added some root tabs. It was a big change, and some time is still needed for regrowth, but I can already tell it's made a big difference. Things look better already. Thanks!
Great tips.. thank ya for sharing
Great nice tip. Thanks 🙏
I always wondered if there was a good technique for stem plants as mine always end up looking leggy and sad. Really good tip!
Thanks for sharing
Ich werde gleich mal ausprobieren. 👍👍👍
Ich glaube so werde ich das ab jetzt immer machen 💪 danke :)
Always afraid to do that but being new to hobby. I see when I cut something even up high it sends more shoots. I’m gonna rescale everything now!
Another useful tip Jurijs,although it will be a while on mine as I’ve only just set it up
Thanks j.
Do you leave all the old roots in the soil after cutting to the ground?
i want to know the answer too
My fish trimmed for me LOL....everyday I plants floating.
Do you have to pull leaves or foliage off bottoms that will be in the soil? Or just cut and plant
Hi sir. Which co2 option is best liquid co2 or diy co2 ???
Jurijs I love your videos, very informative. It looks like you left the bottoms, which I would assume for these plants will branch at that point or at the nearest node below. When do you discard bottoms and when do you leave them? Also often times I get ugly white roots branching out higher up (sometimes in the middle), I read somewhere it was the plant trying to stabilize itself, what do you think about this?
@@JurijsJutjajevs In your video it would appear you kept the bottoms and replanted the tops. The issue I have is with branch points, and the plants not growing upright, especially with Rotala Rotundifolia. I guess the 7 times trim is because the bottom get too branched or 'ratty' after enough trimming?
I am thinking of doing the same on my tank.
GOOD👍👏👏👏😄
correct me if i am wrong but i see that ada has another guide to trim. Three trims guide. First trim at the lower point of the plant , second at the middle and after that you trim the tops everytime...
Another video, please
Good tip.
Yes, that is a sexy light, lol.
hi juris. fan of your content, great videos! i have a question: why not remove the bases with their roots entirely? will they not grow out/rot once the tops cover them completely? thanks!
this will disturb substrate too much
Every plants cutting and replace and growth
hi Jurijs, thanks for sharing,.
my "hemianthus micranthemoides" some leaves that look transparent, what is your short opinion about this? I'm a beginner, thanks before
Ok@@JurijsJutjajevs , many thanks. I'll be ensure and try it. 👍
Hi Jurijs, so you don’t remove the old roots from the older stem plants from the soil? Won’t it rot ?
I am also waiting for Jurijs response to this query..
Will the ones trimmed down to the base eventually re-grow and become even more bushy?
that, or rot away
@@johnfadds6089 so just let it rot on the soil? or we have to remove it before replant?
Hi. I have some issues regarding my drop-checker. My drop checker show blue color after 7 hours of CO2 injection.
I am using tropica co2 diffuser and one bubble after every two seconds and my Aquarium is 49 litres with a powerful hang-on back filter. Can you help!
@@JurijsJutjajevs Thanks for listening to your religious follower. Will get back if it doesn't work!
Bit late with this question, but it seems you don't remove the old stems/roots leftovers after the heavy trim? Is that correct?
no I leave them in the substrate, its food for new stems
How do you keep nerite snails in a high tech tank?
😂
We don't have to take out the roots? Isn't that going to rot? Or will just be more messy pulling them out?
Good question! I have been wondering about that for a long time as well!
depends on the substrate
@@johnfadds6089 for clay based soil granules (e.g. Amazonia)?
@@marlonallansupetran7120 that could release amonia into the column, should be ok if you do it before a large water change.
I wish you further elaborated the trim 7 times and cut from the bottom
After you cut them to the bottom, you leave the roots in the substrate ?
Yes, they will decompose over time
@@JurijsJutjajevs they wont grow new stems? I mean would it jsut be better to remove the old roots than let them rot? Educate me 😄
Hi Jurij, what are those red snales? They are nice
@@JurijsJutjajevs thanks:)
@@adamek1xd i can't see the answer
What will happen with the old plant, will it produce new leaves?
Yes
Jurijs Jutjajevs thanks
Wouldn't it be better to remove the old roots if they will die?
Hey, I just started with the channel, can you look there and tell me what you think?
Such a sexy ONF 😂🤣😂 You caused a smile on my face😁
This method should be repeated until 7 times?
@@JurijsJutjajevs thank you for the advice
You have to take out the old roots, they will rotting.
Very funny. Faster snail 😂😁🤣
@Jurijs Jutjajevs only at soil or gravel too?
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Interesting. Seems like you might introduce a new source of algae with ll the old roots rotting in the soil, but maybe with the more times and more water aquascapers change their water it would be fine
That is why you have a filter, taking care of that ammonia.