Before You Add HORNWORT - WATCH THIS!

[@BenOchart]

Thanks for watching! Here's a link for that Aquarium Co-Op Easy Planter Planter: www.aquariumcoop.com/products/easy-planter?sca_ref=3301874.0yH4KEHjB2

[@paulneuman6021]

Great tip on the hornwart 😊👍

[@markfranklin8831]

Good tips

[@mk_cichlids]

I always pull the majority of it out when it starts to block my light. It usually gets to that point before it starts to fall apart anyway. I just leave a couple of newer healthy strands, and it always grows right back. Great plant for top cover and nutrient export.

[@alekkoomanoff7281]

Good in Tanganyikan tanks. I used it in my overcrowded Shubunkin goldfish tubs for nitrate export. I would harvest the rear sections, throw them in the worm pile and keep only the front 6-8". Most aquatic plants like potassium, potash, K2O5 so a little fert would not hurt

[@HalfManHalfCichlid]

Aquatic plants absorb 90% of nutrients (ammonia, nitrates, etc) through their roots. Since hornwort essentially has no/minimal roots, it falls far short of floating plants like water lettuce and water sprite in purifying your aquarium water.

[@Ali-Muscle]

I love hornwort because it’s so easy to grow

[@BenOchart]

Almost too easy🤣🤣🤣

[@Ali-Muscle]

@@BenOchart 😊

[@andytchir8601]

Great video Ben. Did the hornwart end up surviving your severums or did they eat it?

[@BenOchart]

I dropped a hornwort test piece in there and it was gone in 2 days, LOL!

[@andytchir8601]

@BenOchart so I guess the rumor is true they eat all plants and even try to eat plastic plants haha

[@razinfishes1918]

Horn wart sheds like a long haired dog😮 and because I have a lot of surface agitation is why I don't use floating plants. But good point on attaching somewhere

[@PaulKingMetal]

I don't know why, but it struggles in my tanks. I have also a bunch of different plants, and they are fine.🤔

[@mikemcguinness1662]

Ben : do you have a video on setting up an Xpertmatic AF-2000 internal filter? No manual came with it. There is a website listed on the box but it says no longer available. I have not used a filter like that before and am concerned that I will have water spraying all over the place if I don't install it "by the book". Thanks!

[@jamesdoyle7317]

Happened to me also. Hesatint to get more live plants after I got an invasion of snails. I am new live plants.

[@BenOchart]

Some fish, like loaches, can help get rid of those snails.

[@Brensters63]

Yup, this happened to me once and I’ll never get it again. Just not worth it. There are so many other plants out there.

[@twitteringothers5059]

Same. It was a nightmare for me. Now I keep a combo of water sprite, wisteria and brazilian pennyworth.

[@gardenmatic8178]

I wish I could grow plants😅

[@twitteringothers5059]

Oh, do they melt in your water ? Vals do that in my tank. Now I keep mostly column feeders like wisteria and water sprite. I use liquid fertilizer and that's about it. Just find low-light and low-CO2 plants that work for you and you should end up with a beautiful planted tank😊

[@i_nvade8098]

How about filter instead of sponges. Like a pro Marine filter.

[@carlam.9529]

I hate hornwort for that very reason.

[@wcdeich4]

Every time I bought horn wort it dropped its needles and died.