Maiden Hair plant

[Pszemol]

Do you consider this plant invasive in reef tanks ?

I got a small piece of rock with this plant to my
10 gallons nano-reef but looking at how fast does
it grow and how many different patches pop up on
this rock in a very short time of two weeks I am
not sure if this was good decision...

I like the color and the appearance of this bright
green plant but I do not want it to grow to problem
size, smothering everything else alive in the tank.

Should I control its growth somehow ?
Mechanicaly trim it with scissors or pull it out ?

What is your experience ?

10G Tank conditions before the water change yesterday:

Salinity: 34 ppt
Temp: 80-84F (family keeps the room too warm!)
Ca: 340mg/l (pretty low, AP test 17 drops)
NO3: 10mg/l
PO4: 0.14mg/l

[Tristan]

"Pszemol" > wrote in message
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> Do you consider this plant invasive in reef tanks ?

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>
> I got a small piece of rock with this plant to my
> 10 gallons nano-reef but looking at how fast does
> it grow and how many different patches pop up on
> this rock in a very short time of two weeks I am
> not sure if this was good decision...
>

[Wayne Sallee]

It might have the ability to become a problem. I
think it's the same thing used in turf scrubbers.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Pszemol wrote on 2/14/2007 10:59 PM:
> Do you consider this plant invasive in reef tanks ?
>
> I got a small piece of rock with this plant to my
> 10 gallons nano-reef but looking at how fast does
> it grow and how many different patches pop up on
> this rock in a very short time of two weeks I am
> not sure if this was good decision...
>
> I like the color and the appearance of this bright
> green plant but I do not want it to grow to problem
> size, smothering everything else alive in the tank.
>
> Should I control its growth somehow ?
> Mechanicaly trim it with scissors or pull it out ?
>
> What is your experience ?
>
> 10G Tank conditions before the water change yesterday:
>
> Salinity: 34 ppt
> Temp: 80-84F (family keeps the room too warm!)
> Ca: 340mg/l (pretty low, AP test 17 drops)
> NO3: 10mg/l
> PO4: 0.14mg/l

[Gill Passman]

Pszemol wrote:
> Do you consider this plant invasive in reef tanks ?
>
> I got a small piece of rock with this plant to my
> 10 gallons nano-reef but looking at how fast does
> it grow and how many different patches pop up on
> this rock in a very short time of two weeks I am
> not sure if this was good decision...
>
> I like the color and the appearance of this bright
> green plant but I do not want it to grow to problem
> size, smothering everything else alive in the tank.
>
> Should I control its growth somehow ?
> Mechanicaly trim it with scissors or pull it out ?
>
> What is your experience ?
>
> 10G Tank conditions before the water change yesterday:
>
> Salinity: 34 ppt
> Temp: 80-84F (family keeps the room too warm!)
> Ca: 340mg/l (pretty low, AP test 17 drops)
> NO3: 10mg/l
> PO4: 0.14mg/l

My LFS has some very attractive rocks on sale with Maiden Hair
Plant.....I'm quite tempted as I have been looking at getting some sort
of natural way of sucking up my phosphates....from what I have heard
other plants such as Caulerpa can become invasive if placed in the
actual tank rather than a fuge or sump.....now with a Nano tank you
don't really have a fuge or sump....kind of gets a bit silly......So I
was rather hoping that this might be an alternative.....I'm pretty much
into using natural methods to control water parameters rather than
adding chemicals.....

On the trimming and pruning front - I maintain quite a few freshwater
planted tanks.....trimming and pruning pretty much becomes a fact of
life and part of the whole tank maintenance regime (well if you get the
plant growth right)

Gill

[swarvegorilla]

"Gill Passman" > wrote in message
...
> Pszemol wrote:
>> Do you consider this plant invasive in reef tanks ?
>>
>> I got a small piece of rock with this plant to my
>> 10 gallons nano-reef but looking at how fast does
>> it grow and how many different patches pop up on
>> this rock in a very short time of two weeks I am
>> not sure if this was good decision...
>>
>> I like the color and the appearance of this bright
>> green plant but I do not want it to grow to problem
>> size, smothering everything else alive in the tank.
>>
>> Should I control its growth somehow ?
>> Mechanicaly trim it with scissors or pull it out ?
>>
>> What is your experience ?
>>
>> 10G Tank conditions before the water change yesterday:
>>
>> Salinity: 34 ppt
>> Temp: 80-84F (family keeps the room too warm!)
>> Ca: 340mg/l (pretty low, AP test 17 drops)
>> NO3: 10mg/l
>> PO4: 0.14mg/l
>
> My LFS has some very attractive rocks on sale with Maiden Hair
> Plant.....I'm quite tempted as I have been looking at getting some sort of
> natural way of sucking up my phosphates....from what I have heard other
> plants such as Caulerpa can become invasive if placed in the actual tank
> rather than a fuge or sump.....now with a Nano tank you don't really have
> a fuge or sump....kind of gets a bit silly......So I was rather hoping
> that this might be an alternative.....I'm pretty much into using natural
> methods to control water parameters rather than adding chemicals.....
>
> On the trimming and pruning front - I maintain quite a few freshwater
> planted tanks.....trimming and pruning pretty much becomes a fact of life
> and part of the whole tank maintenance regime (well if you get the plant
> growth right)
>
> Gill

The only nano tanks I have ever had success with have had large sumps (or
cannisters) drilled in.
heh
Spose if you look at them proper
they ain't really nano's but
the old algae farm in the sump
lit when the tank is dark and dark when tank is lit
really do work well
I have some 'sea lettuce' growing
not sure the real name
but seems to be doing well

shame duckweed doesn't handle sal****er
now theres a nitrate and phosphate eater!!
even mangroves can't hold a candle to that

if the maiden hair plant is the same as our turtle grass
I'd be loving it!
if it took over the tank
wouldn't it look amazing?
if so.....
whats the problem?
:)

[Wayne Sallee]

Algae growing over the corals is not a good thing.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


swarvegorilla wrote on 2/25/2007 8:37 AM:
> if the maiden hair plant is the same as our turtle grass
> I'd be loving it!
> if it took over the tank
> wouldn't it look amazing?
> if so.....
> whats the problem?
> :)
>
>

[swarvegorilla]

oh thats right...,
reef group
my bad :)
I can't help it
love me marine algae's
they, uh.... do it for me.
heh



"Wayne Sallee" > wrote in message
nk.net...
> Algae growing over the corals is not a good thing.
>
> Wayne Sallee
> Wayne's Pets
>
>
> swarvegorilla wrote on 2/25/2007 8:37 AM:
>> if the maiden hair plant is the same as our turtle grass
>> I'd be loving it!
>> if it took over the tank
>> wouldn't it look amazing?
>> if so.....
>> whats the problem?
>> :)