Sand Questions

[LeClownBlanc]

I emailed SeaChem about their root tabs and they said they were perfectly safe for aquatic frogs. I would not go overboard with them. My guess as to why they are 100% safe is that the fertilizers stay buried in the substrate and never get into the water column itself. That being said I would try to not stir up the sand too much once they are in place. They do go inert after several months anyways. I've broke down and redid my tank several times with root tabs in place and nothing bad has ever happened to my clawed frogs as a result of that.

I don't recall which plants you stated you wanted to grow? Keep in mind that a lot of aquatic plants have very ineffective root systems and draw nutrients from the water column, so really you may not even need root tabs. I have not replaced mine in almost a year and my tank still gets crazy amounts of growth. I really only used them for my crypt. wendtii but I moved them to another tank and planted water sprite/vals instead.. it's a jungle in there.

So short answer would be yeah, they're safe. If you keep up on ~25% partial water changes weekly as we all should, everything will be peachy.

Also I was hoping to grow anubias and some other low light plants

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[mpmistr]

Anubias does not require substrate at all. Low light plants? Vallisneria and Water Sprite grows insanely fast and but both have a rather ineffective root system. Both will root into your substrate and take hold, but they will pull nutrients from the water column. You could also look into Java Fern, like Anubias, it can be attached to driftwood, no substrate or fertilization necessary. Froggy poop will sustain all.

[elliotulysses]

Anubias does not require substrate at all. Low light plants? Vallisneria and Water Sprite grows insanely fast and but both have a rather ineffective root system. Both will root into your substrate and take hold, but they will pull nutrients from the water column. You could also look into Java Fern, like Anubias, it can be attached to driftwood, no substrate or fertilization necessary. Froggy poop will sustain all.

Are those species also effective at removing nitrites from the water and making for a happy little "eco system"

[elliotulysses]

Anubias does not require substrate at all. Low light plants? Vallisneria and Water Sprite grows insanely fast and but both have a rather ineffective root system. Both will root into your substrate and take hold, but they will pull nutrients from the water column. You could also look into Java Fern, like Anubias, it can be attached to driftwood, no substrate or fertilization necessary. Froggy poop will sustain all.

How would they be attached to decoration as opposed to driftwood. It's kind of a pain around here to get it without it being in a tank that has been already filled with fish and lots of tiny little snails. x_x

[mpmistr]

Rubberbands, black threat, even crazy glue.

[elliotulysses]

Rubberbands, black threat, even crazy glue.

Crazy glue on plants to a decoration?! Wouldn't that hurt them? I was planning on using some thread :P