How overgrown/thick do you let your stem and other plants get before trimming?
What about your Blyxa Japonica? It grows like a veritable weed in my tank and a single plant the size of a matchbox within a month or so turns into half the size of a basketball that can be then broken down into around 20+ seperate plants.
Glosso? a little bit soons turns into a giant mat thats pushing up against the glass and then go 2 - 3 even 4 layers high. I end up just lifting the whole mat up and cutting a few squares out and replanting them.
Broad leaf chainsword, pull up 300 (they all come up as a mat as well) pick out around 20 small plantlets and replant and off they go again.
Riccia...I'm over Riccia, looks nice, but what a PITA.
My tank never really looks the same for longer than 4-5 days, it's always in a state of flux. Going through either an overgrown look, a just trimmed look or getting to need a trimmed look!
The only thing that stays pretty much the same is my crypt forest.
What about your Blyxa Japonica? It grows like a veritable weed in my tank and a single plant the size of a matchbox within a month or so turns into half the size of a basketball that can be then broken down into around 20+ seperate plants.
Glosso? a little bit soons turns into a giant mat thats pushing up against the glass and then go 2 - 3 even 4 layers high. I end up just lifting the whole mat up and cutting a few squares out and replanting them.
Broad leaf chainsword, pull up 300 (they all come up as a mat as well) pick out around 20 small plantlets and replant and off they go again.
Riccia...I'm over Riccia, looks nice, but what a PITA.
My tank never really looks the same for longer than 4-5 days, it's always in a state of flux. Going through either an overgrown look, a just trimmed look or getting to need a trimmed look!
The only thing that stays pretty much the same is my crypt forest.
The only way to slow this down is using less light, both intensity and duration. Less photosynthesis=less growth. when using Glosso less intensity is somewhat limited, but less duration will keep your scape more stable growthwise and a lot less work.