7 Tips for Buying New Aquarium Plants

The tips listed in this video are:
0:00 - Introduction
0:34 - Some Plants Aren't Aquatic
1:34 - Try Loads of Different Types of Plants
2:15 - Buy Lots of Plants from the Start
3:24 - Try and Buy Plants from Other Hobbyists
4:25 - Trim the Leaves of Some New Plants
5:51 - Float Plants to Grow New Roots
6:42 - Don't Let Fish Ruin New Plants
7:35 - Set and Forget

Thanks so much for watching!

[chiralvandal]

“Leave it alone” is actually a GREAT tip. Thanks for the other tips too. Will try floating my stem plants for propagating them.

[BobMossNanoTanks]

How am I just discovering this channel?!

[Toneloke-]

Tip 10, I find that when a tank matures, in a low-tech tank, plants that didn't work in the beginning may work now. Great video! Can't wait to see the next Studio update👍

[JVL]

Cheers mate!
This is excellent and very helpful, thank you! 🌟

[familiadiaz]

You are so under rated. You are really helpful and you know a lot of stuff. Keep up the good work👍

[mjtejro]

Thanks for the tip gonna try it with my new plants❤

New here in the fishkeeping community btw😁

[markanthonyfelomino]

Nice, Informative video
From the philippines🐟🐟🐟

[blobyou]

Hey man, just wanna say your videos have helped me so much, you have some great content Im really enjoying it and hope you keep it up

[pezpythons]

Got some expensive potted plants from Poland and planting them today!

[Natquascape]

Hi there, just discovered this channel, as a fellow youtuber this is great to see such good advice on planted aquariums. I too believe that plants need to be planted and left alone.

[vanissaberg]

I just got my first plants in and as soon as I put them in the tank my fish decided they were food. So what I did was place a glass flower vase upside down over the plants so the fish can't mess with it while it's getting established putting out more roots. While it looks kinda funny now I plan to remove it after I see new leaves and stems starting to grow.

[happyhobbyist]

Nice video, wished seen this earlier :) But there is never a stop for learning i guess ! I liked the tip of trying different and leaving it alone....

[tjae]

Unrelated but i'm watchong this in 1080 and your skin is flawless! Please do a skincare routine video

[adelbouamama]

Very informative video. Hello from Algeria 👍

[danielingalls]

Super easy plants are the best for low tech. Dwarf Sagitaria, anubius, amazon swords, java fern and moss, hygrophila, and most valisenaria. All of these plants look great and require very little to grow aside from planting them properly and a good substrate. My tank has all of these plants and they all do great, no fertilizers or root tabs. All I did was cap dirt under gravel and sand.

[paulskillman]

Knowing the PH of a fish tank is very important. For instance the water in Los Angeles is ph. 7 or 8 straight from the tap. There are a lot of beautiful aquarium plants that like a soft slightly acid water. There are conditioners you can put in your tap water that do not shock new plants you want to put in your aquarium. All plants go through a shock when they transplanted. Some times growing them in small clay pots and just moving the pots around is better.

[mezserpent]

Haven't commented on your channel in a while!

[GoodSamaritan]

Can you please make a video on how you would quarantine your store bought plants please?

Do you disinfect your plants ?

Please mate...i have really been pondering on this for a long time now. And no one seems to have addressed this issue at all. There is one video that suggests hydrogen peroxide dip but the last time i went down that route, i lost most of my plants...except the buceps and anubias and some staurogynes

[alyssadavis]

Hey nick would you ever consider getting a “My Aquarium Box”? I’ve heard of them but don’t know if It would be worth it. If anyone here in the comments has ever gotten one of these, please feel free to chime in.

[ryanwinters]

I have a question for anyone who knows the answer to it I have a planted aquarium and I noticed that it looked like sludge was coming out of my filter then I opened it up and it basically had a layer of slimy dirt/mud covering it my substrate is gravel so I know the filter didn’t suck it in and I can’t think of anything else that could’ve caused that does anyone have an idea of what it might be and if so how to stop it from happening again