Beginner Care: Hornwort Plant Guide

Hornwort Aquarium Plant care starts with giving the plant lots of lighting. This is one of the fastest growing plants in the hobby. It needs bright lighting at a color spectrum of 6000k or above. I advise you raise your aquarium light 6-9 inches above the aquarium. This helps spread out the lighting and it stops you from burning the plants. You can also provide this plant with a liquid fertilizer to feed on.
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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 for ponds as well because it consumes nitrates like crazy.

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[@mariofilippi3539]

I have a small pond and will add these thanks to your video. Thank you!

[@aarikanherfish]

I ordered some hornwort that should be here by Friday, also ordered crinum calamistratum today. I'm battling nitrates in my Oranda tank, but soon to be winning! LoL Thanks for this awesome video. Love the plant rack! In my live plant adventure, I finally found golden pothos and want some planted around the house and not just in the tanks. Plants are taking over my life. LoL

[@yusra1519]

Oranda will eat hornwort

[@jasongoodwin8702]

Every time I plant hornwort, it rots at the base. Then I come home and find it floating. What I did to counteract this, was to use fishing line. I loosely attached it to the line and the attach the other end to a lead plant weight. This keeps it from rotting and from floating. It does grow incredibly fast and requires more trimmings.

[@raisinggoldfishonabudget7058]

That's something I haven't heard or tried maybe that will work the next time I get some cause other wise it doesn't grow in my tank floating or planted so maybe that's the trick , thank you for the info.

[@jase123111]

I am in Thailand and the hornwort here is a different colour to yours. Ours is much darker green and only light green at the growing points. Your one looks nicer!!!

[@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121]

Same here in Australia, is bigger too

[@jakesaquarium199]

​@@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121 I'm in the state of Wisconsin we have this stuff in the mississippi its native up here I can get it for free

[@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121]

@@jakesaquarium199 wee can get it for free out of almost any flowing waterway here too, it definitely needs the flowing water to get this big.

[@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121]

@@jakesaquarium199 it's invasive here but it's in almost every waterway there is. Soo, me too I guess.

[@al197861]

Love this plant , keeps my tank automatically clean

[@flamboyantpotato4004]

I planted four stems in my tank and a month later it completely took over. I'm talking like took all the surface space and then spread downwards and took space in the middle of the tank too. My shrimp love hanging out on it but omg it shocked me how fast it grew. been trimming a lot now and it is still everywhere. the good thing is that I now have my second tank planted with a bunch of hornwort but the bad thing is I know one month from now I will no longer have space in either of my 10 gallon tanks. He didnt mention this but they can grow a couple of INCHES each week.

[@blairw1695]

Idk i cant keep my hornwort alive. Like it goes through phases where it blooms really well, and suddenly most of it will die. I trim what I don’t want, but I have livebearers and want a floating plant over the whole top. I didnt realize that theses parts were dying/dead, so its caused a huge ammonia spike and killed all my fish 48hr after the hornwort started dying… It’s within the most well lit room of my apartment, and I supply fertilizer and CO2. I think I’ll just remove it entirely, and just get a couple more amazon swords. I think my 20gal has too much surface turbulence for this species.

[@CarlosGarcia-tv4rk]

Did you have a light over it?

[@amj.composer]

I found some in the Mississippi River. Didn't pick them, didn't want to disturb nature. But was excited to find some

[@amj.composer]

@KassCeeBee Damn now I should've lol

[@alcid2466]

wow your hornwort is awesome and real green! and bushy. gosh my is all mess up, dying and all that lol. so not sure what is going on lol. going try putting some outside for the sun lol. thank for sharing information thanks.

[@aronmcntre2317]

this guy has so many tanks, a wall of tanks around his tv.. thats cool

[@gregghorner9107]

I always just float my hornwort. I had no success planting it in the substrate. It would lose needles and not flouish when planted but is amazing when allowed to just float.

[@DMike54]

I love hornwort for my livebearer tanks. The fry hide in it.

[@eddieandre-theraven5008]

Eaps. the first Hornwart I bought looked brown and nearly dead so I bought some more and used liquid fertiliser and some more hornwart from a different supplier. Los seems it was just transplant shock all of it sprawling nicely.

[@jwstanley2645]

With all those fish to watch, why do you even have a television? Oh, and yeah, I want this plant.

[@P.C._Thingh]

Do we need to use water conditioner to plant a aqua plant in a bowl ?? Or just plain water is fine for now? I got this type of plant and a reddish colour without a substrate planning to plant in a bowl. Bless your aqua studio.

[@reevecallen134]

That Java moss was covered in hair algae… did all the Java moss die? I had the same thing, booming Java moss then it all died from hair algae

[@joerizdanediscaya4318]

After i acquired it from the pet store i put it my tank as a floating plant and it melts

[@Cindy-ng6sx]

I just put some in my tank, i am worried now will it kill all the other plants in my tank? I put liquid fertilizer in my tank will that help out my mosses and Anubias in the tank? Or will this plant kill everything?

[@MilwaukeeMax]

How often do you need to trim hornwort?

[@paulateixeira7033]

Definitely like the plant rack

[@jasonstouder]

i noticed that one of the stems is "planted" upside down, in the first example tank. cool.

[@PalmerAquatics]

Your wrong. Does that help?

[@markdixon7187]

Love stuff grows crazy fast ...👌

[@TheGuccimane234]

Just found your channel, really enjoy the videos !

[@thelittlethingsinlife239]

Hornwart grows like crazy

[@CasualAquatics]

💪💪💪💪 happy birthday big guy !

[@riddlebawx]

I started with 2 stems of hornwort and 2 years later I have over 100, now all of a sudden I am seeing a lot of brown stuff at the bottom of the tank and some stems are also turning brown. I did not change anything as far as I know and as for fish, I bought 12 guppies, they all died within a few weeks only 4 or so fry are still alive. Any tips? I am so tempted to just throw everything away but the only thing that is keeping me is the growth I have seen from 2 stems to 100+.

[@maestrooscuro5299]

Very informative!

[@epiphgd4302]

Helpful. Thanks.

[@raisinggoldfishonabudget7058]

I don't get any sun when I have a bazillion trees surrounding me so what do you do to make it grow (high to med) light, okay got it.

[@veteranspridellc684]

Awesome video. What is the plant in 2 tanks to the right of the tank against the wall it destroyed ?

[@lordbizcuits]

Mine are dying brown stems, what the hell am I doing wrong

[@johncameron4194]

Thanks for the tip

[@teriturnbull8859]

will this survive in the pond in zone 7 in the winter?

[@TomCecchetti]

will this plant survive the winter in Pennsylvania in a half acre pond

[@KatoKrazy]

I assume you have the super hard MN water too? I was unable to get guppy grass to survive in the hard water -- would hornwort be better for a floating mass for my guppy fry to hide in?

[@FG-hw5ep]

Hey Chris, I just bought some hornwort and half of it is covered in a white film. Any idea what this white stuff is?

[@roberteisenman4173]

My planted Hornwort roots? Will die and the rest of the healthy plant always floats to the surface, it wants to float😅

[@PULAG]

I ordered some but it came in frozen, is it doomed or will it survive now that is in my 78°F tank?

[@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073]

I just got some today & have it in my 110 gal stock tank with bluegills on my back porch deck & just wondering if it would be good to put in a goldfish pond?

[@k9feces]

It’s a popular goldfish pond plant.

[@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073]

@@k9feces I have a lake carp in with the goldfish can I still put it in the stock tank with them?

[@k9feces]

@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 A lake I fish in is loaded with hornwort, the carp don’t seem to eat it.

[@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073]

@@k9feces hum? "don’t seem to eat it" I'll try some & see what happens thanks

[@mraquaticnews5676]

Cool info 👌

[@stevensondwayne]

Does this plant shed or drop the needles in the tank

[@teemohnay]

I think mine is dying and I dont know why.

[@user-jn8kn2ki9g]

A competition to rotala I guess😅

[@animablo]

Cool

[@simpsonpainting1]

Super Super Super Super Super Super Super Super Super

[@ballistic350]

Damn how's your electric bills?

[@lastdays7855]

I hate this plant! All the pines come off and it gets all over the place! 😩

[@felixortiz6777]

I keep it alive I have killed it over and over kerp buying keep dieing

[@Fisherman6383]

You're so metal