Show me your “HeavyRoot Feeders”

[Pepere]

11/30/25


+1 week

+2 weeks

+3 weeks


+4 weeks

+8 weeks

 

[BranchScape]

But here is the kicker…

Looking for photos of plants grown in inert substrates only, with no under gravel filtration, root tabs use, and substrate is less than a year old.

Specifically would love photos of thriving Amazon Swords grown in inert substrate without root tabs…. But also crypts, val, pogostemons, tiger lotus…

Just looking for examples of what many people say is impossible…

Here is my tank with the a UNS Kona substrate with 3 Nymphoides aquatica and 2 Nymphaea zenkeri. The tiger lotus are actually doing better. No root tabs etc. the picture tonight is a few weeks from the first and you can see the growth. I do dose apt 1 and 3 in a rotation.