Beginner Care: Hornwort Plant Guide

Hornwort Aquarium Plant care starts with giving the plant nutrients to feed on. This plant is super easy to propagate and grow in your fish tank. Hornwort is arguably the fastest growing aquarium plant in the hobby. This plant prefers medium lighting requirements. It’s a perfect plant fro ponds as well because it consumes nitrates like crazy.

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Be gentle with me I’m still a bit new. However, I am learning ALOT from you guys. My blue orchid has been struggling pretty much all week. My Nitrite levels were a little high. I do not have the master kit to test the water. I am using strips. I did 20% water changes every other day and it was helping to regulate the nitrite level back to normal. Yes my tank was cycled before I put him in. I’ve had my tank with other tank mates for about 6 months. I currently have him in a hospital tank with a heater. Before I moved him He hadnt been eating much and would mostly stay at the bottom of the tank. He will swim around a little bit but that’s pretty much it. Also his fins are not opening anymore so I could tell he was under stress. What can you guys recommend I do to bring him back to his normal self. He’s still pretty active I just want to take care of him before he gets worse.

Air stone will not be needed unless you have other fish in the tank that does not breath air. sponge filters are great because they function as a air stone as well. I would recommend also getting live plants. They will help clean up toxin build up your tank.

Do you need an AirStone no do you want one maybe ( I highly recommend them) I mean it’s really good for air circulation & whatnot but you could also go the other route & go with a Sponge Filter which does both cleaning your tank & circulating air LOL. This is my split 10gal as an example (all real plants).

My guppies REALLY need their bubbler. Idk why but with it, they’re happy, without it they’re miserable and one died. Dont need a fancy one, just bubbles. Unless you have a beta, then put your filter on low and you STILL might piss it off. They do not like high flow.

Then, why the need for the snail? Also, each tank has its own set of bacteria/etc. and the betta in its tank has developed immune for them. Moving something, especially a living thing, from one tank to another introduces unnecessary risks.

Nerite snails will help with algae especially on the glass. Different bettas will react differently so some or all might be aggressive towards a snail, and I’ve also had their temperament change over time. Start with one snail, treat/quarantine them and then try them for a week or less in each tank. If the fish don’t bother them much after a couple days, then get a snail for each fish that will tolerate them.

Hi! I’m currently cycling a newly planted 12 gallon tank. The substrate is Fluval stratum with a layer of eco complete on top. I’m planning for a betta but was wondering if there were suggestions for tank mates (species and #), especially ones that will help clean by eating scraps.

If you want to get other species, find compatible ones to betta and be sure that the numbers are not going to overwhelmed beneficial bacteria or the betta. However, you don’t get other fish to clean up scraps: you should be feeding your betta one pellet/morsel at a time and not let food falls to the bottom or not promptly remove uneaten food in the 1st place; other fish might not eat scraps or betta food plus who/what cleans up after them.

So it’s going on 2 weeks my fish has been floating and swimming on his side. He stays in his log a lot but just came out earlier. I’ve been fasting and have assumed he’s had swim bladder but I’m wondering if this has lead to something else? Was thinking did he rip his fins but they don’t look torn. He looks great besides the small bit of yellow underneath his fins, I think that was always there? Not sure…. I don’t have a hospital tank currently and have not gotten any medications if any to help this. Water parameters are good and everything is safe, my other fish are thriving. Will he ever get better?

Can anyone help me on how to remove the algae from the back of my tank? I’ve scrubbed and scrubbed it as well as got a scraper tool and it won’t budge.

Also looking for suggestions on which plant ferts and how much I should use for my 15 gal tank. I just added 3 new plants and increased the light intensity a bit. The other plants aren’t thriving but when I do this the algae gets out of control so not sure how to manage both. The plants stay alive but don’t grow much. Try keeping aquarium hornwort plants in your tank.

I currently have 2 Otos and 3 shrimp. I had a snail who just recently passed. It didn’t help much with the algae on the back of the tank though.

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