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Would hornwort work in a paro tank? I know that it is usually considered a very easy plant – my main worry is that it would not have enough nutrients from the paros, knowing how low nutrient their tanks tend to be.
They can do fine.
I use it quite often, and in some tanks they just grow and grow as in all tanks, actually they can become pretty thick.
BUT … theres is one problem, – they dont like too low ph. Or at least they will need some time adjusting to a lower ph.
You will find that if you take some hornwort from a normal tank and put into a low ph tank, it will loose all its fine leaves, or needles. That is if the difference is too big.
But if you acclimatize it slowly it will settle and then it will tolerate it good. If I want to have hornwort in a low ph tank now, I take some from one of the other low ph tanks.
And of course also, they do need light. They will grow better with more light, – and I actually dont think that light as such bothers the paros, – the thick growt of the hornwort can provide just as much cover and shade as less light but no plants.
I never thought about or worried about nutrients being too low, I think its a sturdy plant that will do fine even with little.OK, good. Also, would house plants commonly used as emersed plants (I.E pothos, dracaena, etc) work in a paro tank as long as they were able to get their leaves out of the water?
That’s nonsense. Think of the minerals und nutrients in the pot of those house plants; they change your water, forget it.
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