Subject: Thinning Your Aquarium Plants

Superseding and correcting the landscaping is part of the monthly care of your aquarium.

Using a scissors or your fingernails remove any dead or brown leaves from the plants.

Shorten plants that have grown too tall by cutting them below the stipules (joints of the plant), removing the lower leaves, and replanting the new shoots that have been formed by this trimming.

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The less attractive lower leaf can be removed unless you wish to grow more of these plants -- in which case you should leave the stem parts in the soil, as they will usually grow new shoots.

Verify that individual groups of plants have not sent stringers into other groups of plants and become twisted.

The purpose of thinning your plants is to allow more light into the aquarium, thus allowing the plants to grow more.

Remember that each time you transplant a plant from one location to another it needs time to acclimate to that location. The thing to remember when your aquarium is well established is to transplant only when it is really necessary.

The plants that float on the surface absorb a lot of the light, and the plants in the lower layers have to fight for light. As pretty as floating plants are, they take away a lot of light from the lower plants and should be kept to a minimum.

Thin only when it is absolutely necessary, usually because you have too many plants. At the same time try to preserve the combination of the plants as you originally planted them.

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In the first few months after planting, it is important to touch the plants as little as possible. But once your aquarium has become established, you can exchange those groupings that you don't like or are not attractive with other, more decorative plants.

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Bill Anderson
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