How to trim your plants:

Your plants should grow very quickly and start to fill the aquarium nicely, over a month or so they may become too large and take up too much space. In this case they need to be trimmed.plants

    1. Stem plants should be cut about 4-5cm from the top of the stem which can be replanted to grow a new plant, the original stem will soon produce new offshoots
    2. if you cut them very short they will soon grow back thicker, doing this multiple times can grow you a very thick hedge, which looks great!
    3. Most potted plants can be divided when they get large enough leaving you with two plants!
    4. Moss can just be ripped/cut apart and thrown away or put somewhere else
    5. Java fern and anubais can be divided in two, for anubais the rhizome (the large centre piece where the stems originate) can be broken up, ferns can just be separated.
    6. When cultivating any root plants, be sure not to remove too much of the root mass as this is how they consume nutrients.
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