Red Root Floaters. A Beautiful & Useful Plant. Great for Shrimp, Fry & Aquarium Aquascapes!
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- Red Root Floaters. A Beautiful & Useful Plant. Great for Shrimp, Fry & Aquarium Aquascapes!
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I mail plants from time to time. A ton of people want red root floaters, so i think ill be selling off some of this tank. Maybe ill trim up 3 rare plants and floaters and then just charge a flat 20 or 40 for the bundles.
Is this something you would dig? I can do a live stream on all of this, and look through tanks for easy, but rare and beautiful plants.
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium do you ship to Canada???😃
@@fishgirlforlife937 i wish....both shipping rates, and the fact that plants are an "agricultural product" means there are extra fees but also they can and do seize packages frequently. But if you ever visit the USA - ill gladly send you some plants to a USA address or PO box
Sign me up! But leave out the duckweed. Just kidding.....I already have it. ;(
Sounds great!!!
I looove this plant! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Going to use your airline tubing corral to grow these in my 20 gallon betta tank.
I bought a package of 30 Red Root floaters on Amazon for about $15 just about exactly a month ago. They included one or two Water Lettuce for free. They all merely survived for two weeks or more as I didn't have good light, but now they've had good light for about 2 weeks and they have exploded and are now covering about a third of the surface of my 20H tank. My betta loves to hang out among these floaters.
Right on. Let there be light!
Goldfish love duckweed. It’s fiber for them helps move things along. 😁👍🏻
"take care of your critters, the people around you, and yourself"
Indeed! Thank you and i hope you're having a happy start to the Holiday season!
I did the opposite hoop trick in a couple of my tanks, I use the hoop for feeding and let the rest of the surface grow over. I found regular air line would flex and let in the plants but clear hose cut off a siphon hose works well and keeps the weeds out.
I still love Watersprite aka Indian Fern. Self cloning of daughter plants, makes lacey fronds above water. Its roots are edible for most Gourami species. Sucks up nitratesm nitrites and ammonia out of your tanks quickly. Can survive in moderately flowing water. Excess plants can be composted or even fed to chickens, ducks, geese, and other animals
Do you sell the watersprite please or if you have other floaters I'm interested Tia
I just got mine in the mail today!
Great vid on the red root floater, lots of great info Alex.🤘
I was actually learning about this plant yesterday
Thanks for the tips ✌
I like red root floaters. It can be a little picky though. It doesn't like water flowing around it, lighting has to be fairly high, and it does better with an iron supplement. But if you meet it's basic requirements, it's a beautiful floating plant that will multiply and thrive. I just would not include this plant on an easy or beginners plant list.
👍💕👍
If you have moderate to high light...and no HOB itll go nuts in most people's tanks...but you do need fish to poop and fertalize the water. I have had it die due to random things like flourish excell / certain all in one fertz....so there is some issus with it becoming overdosed in fertz of one sort or another, it seems. To be honest- i add no iron and can still get blood red roots
@@Fishtory My experience with it is probably not typical. My water out of the tap is 5.5 ph and 16 tds...almost RO out of the tap. I have to add crushed coral and wonder shells just to keep plants alive, and some light all in one ferts at half strength every couple of weeks with some half strength iron...trial and error to keep "easy" plants alive and thriving. I wish I was back on well water at my old place. This town water is a trip. Red root floaters thrived on the well water, can't keep it alive with this town water, at least not yet.
Doing research on red root floaters. Glad I found your video for my 55g shrimp tank.
A good light is my bottom line "best tip" for them. Best of luck to you, and thanks for checking out the channel. Take care.
-Alex
I use excess duckweed from my shrimp tank as a tasty treat for the Lemon Tetras & GBRs in my community tank.
great plant
Indeed
Thanks for the info. I’ve had these plants in my newer nano tank for 2 weeks using a stingray light and they are surviving. Added some Easy Green too. Hoping they will propagate!
Right on! Best of luck to you!
Im starting to collect floaters much easier to manage than stem plants and shrimp LOVE them
Yes they are!
How does the light reach below the layer of floaters ?
My husband loves your videos and since I've been watching I do too!! We shipped an order from Toronto to Vancouver Island and had great success with everything but the red root floaters. We have only 2 left in our betta tank. Small areater on the otherside of the tank and some rams horn snails. The tank is heated as well with a very goot light. They are keeping the red colour but the roots are vanishing and we aren't sure what to do. Any advice?
So they want soft water with strong light. The best thing would be some drinking water from a bottle and a strong light, to float them in a dish and try to save them. When they lose the roots often it's too late... either nitrates got high, the plant got too dry, or it got too much water surface movement... or the water was too hard with carbonates. Basically those are the known killers of RRF. best of lick saving them!
Hello @Alex I wish i could get lush tanks like that.
Any South-American plant that you can recommend? The more, the better. I want the aquarium to look as random as possible
Was going to make a comment before watching all the way thru. Airline tubing works great.
I respect you so much....thank you for watching it through. Half the comments I get are things I say in videos ...sometimes within a minute or two...i understand when i drag things out too long, but sometimes as a creator you feel like you're losing your sanity
@@Fishtory No worries bud, alot of the information you were speaking of was new to me. New Sub and I have to say you're doing a good job bringing in a variety of content.
I was wanting a low maintenance, slow growing floater. I've got med/high light (AI HD Freshwater) on a 20 cube. Would you recommend Red roof floater over Frogbit?
Yeah they're both great. Giant water lettuce would work as well. Good luck
I want one Alex !
I mail plants from time to time. A ton of people want red root floaters, so i think ill be selling off some of this tank. Maybe ill trim up 3 rare plants and floaters and then just charge a flat 20 or 40 for the bundles.
Is this something you would dig? I can do a live stream on all of this, and look through tanks for easy, but rare and beautiful plants.
@@Fishtory yes, I would like that. Plants that don't need CO2.
Would you consider selling a few Red Root Floaters to your fans. Come up with a price that would profit you! Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed watching!
I mail plants from time to time. A ton of people want red root floaters, so i think ill be selling off some of this tank. Maybe ill trim up 3 rare plants and floaters and then just charge a flat 20 or 40 for the bundles.
Is this something you would dig? I can do a live stream on all of this, and look through tanks for easy, but rare and beautiful plants.
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium -I’ve been trying for years to get Echinodorus “Purple Knight” Sword Plant. I’ve only seen it as Plant tissue sales. I’m not sure about getting this plant as a tissue culture. I’m still interested in obtaining some Red Root Floaters from you, so let’s get the ball rolling on getting a bunch from you. Thank you for sharing!
great video! I love duckweed but cant keep it because my axolotl thinks it is delicious and eats it all. LOL
Ahhhh ...some people would love to have a living duckweed destroying machine....I sure would!
Is Phyllanthus Fluitans convoluted enough??
For o2 exchange? No but Riccia fluitans is!
Just got a batch of these,almost doubled in three weeks,leaves are turning red under my light, got a little duckweed in the batch,caught it early,think I have eliminated it
Solid!
Duckweed is going to war with red root
I have red root floater that lost their leaves and only roots remain. Can these roots regrow leaves or just throw them away??
Yes they can...its a 50 50 chance that they come back usually
I bet the nitrates in that aquarium stays below 5. I would argue it’s an aquarium that wouldn’t need all to many water changes. Just ones for aesthetics and nothing more. Goldfish love duckweed, so I feed my access to a friends goldfish.
You are 100% correct... only evaporation causes enough of a change, so that i will add 3 to 5 gallons once a month or every 6 to 8 weeks. :)
Got 4 pots today and they grown very wierd inside the pots and stuck together. Any concern or shall i cut them apart? Only a few have long roots and they are just white.
Yeah just cut em 👍
@@Fishtory Thanks! Wasnt sure if its ok.. but i guess as long the leaves have some roots it will recover. A lot of the leaves are under water due to growing down and upwards in the cup.. hope they dont melt being like that :D
How do you keep oxygen circulation like this? Do you use internal filters?
HOB does fine..they have loose enough coverage that it doesn't choke the O2 and co2 exchange, like duckweed can
@@Fishtory thanks for the quick reply!
how is there even any light below the surface on your tank. its so thick at the top
I know, i was wondering too..but the fluval 3.0 is fairly awesome
I just bought some of these today.... and some duckweed for my daphnia tank. I already regret the duckweed.
Bahaahah yeahhh...sorry
I bought some red root floaters but unfortunately, I don't know what is going on, but instead of growing up and propagating, they are dying and the roots are turning brown....very disappointing. Can anyone can give me any advise for the very few I have left before they die as well?? Please!!!!
Either too much flow and movement....or nitrates are possibly too high (they don't like over 30 or 40ppm
How can i buy to you:( I like to have frogbit, red root floater and water spangles. Do you still sell? Do you ship to New Zealand?
I do not ship to N.Z. the laws are far to strict and shipping takes ages right now. It would likely cost $200 to get Even a small plant order landed right now. Sorry
Where can I buy some of your plants? Your tanks always look so well put together. Thank you
I mail plants from time to time. A ton of people want red root floaters, so i think ill be selling off some of this tank. Maybe ill trim up 3 rare plants and floaters and then just charge a flat 20 or 40 for the bundles.
Is this something you would dig? I can do a live stream on all of this, and look through tanks for easy, but rare and beautiful plants.
Will they work with a HOB filter?
Not well usually
yes, i have a 20 gallon long with a hob filter, i put a complete circle of airline tubing around the filter modified the output with a cut up plastic bottle and they’re multiplying like crazy
Oh right on...nice solution!
omg you pronounced riccia correctly O_O that's a first.
Haha do others mispronounce it? Ill have to listen. I try and see what's common here in Europe and go with that. But 2 im still stuck on... rili (really v. Riley) shrimp and then crypta (corn v. Corinne)
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My red root floater started melting and I hadn't changed water for 1 month,what to do??
You need to try and get nitrates to 0ppm and also organic debris needs to be at a minimum...so clean out any dead leaves in the tank and do some water changes... oh and high light helps. Good luck!
@@Fishtory thanks brother
Do all floating plants require the aquarium to not have a lid?
They just need a few inches of space under a lid I suppose.
Clear lid is recommended
Hey Alex, could you send me some of your red root floaters? I lost mine that I was growing
I wish but I lost mine as summer ended this year, also. Sorry
@@Fishtory me too, what happened to yours? Mine seemed to melt away, even with ferts.
Hi, i have red roots but they keep dying.
They probably need less movement on the surface water. That and more nitrates possibly? Do you fertalize the water, and or do you keep a lot of fish in a small space? Because sometimes overcrowded tanks actually benefit from floating plants....however if you do lots of water changes and have very low fish waste adding to the system as plant food, then you may need to add an all in one type plant fertilizer (easy green, seachem flourish, 123 grow, uns ) etc...
Also make sure they get good lightning. Red root floaters want strong light....theyll survive all the way in low light if need be...but are far more healthy under strong lighting....and they like 0 water motion if possible (basically if you habe a HOB Filter, place it so that the current doesnt move the plants at all.
Good luck!
@@Fishtory
Thank you for responding.
I have beamswork full spectrum. I fertalize with seachem advanced and seachem nitrogen but still my nitrates are in 0. I have a planted tank and the rest are doing great except for this ones.
I don't have a lot of agitation. I have my lights for 6 to 8 hours a day.
Maybe increase lights and try the iron added. So with 0 nitrates iron helps...if nitrates are high then iron tends not to be needed ...at least in my tanks
You need to remove the light so that it does not grow so much.
Yeah but I like the crazy jungle too. But it would make a big difference if I turned the light down
I Know you Post Some Dank videos bro, knome sayin
Thank you kindly hahahaa
@@Fishtory Any day Boss man!
Will red root floater survive threw the winter like duckweed? anyone?
No, not in my experience...they dont handle frost anyhow
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