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Originally Posted by arvin555
Infurita thanks for sharing, we have almost the same growing conditions, though I have some Horse tails and cattails in my small container as "monocots" companion plants
I too have problem with U Gibba, in fact I hate them being in the same container as the Aldros as they can dominate the whole container, I had to tear them up to trim them off.
Why do you put Mossie Pellets in your container? Is it precaution?
The reason I ask is because I am 100% sure that Aldros can eat Mossie larvae. All my containers that have Aldrovanda, never, ever had Mosquito larvae in it. Aldros also eat waterboatmen beetles very well.
If you are up to it, try not putting any mossie pellets in the water and see if there are mossie larvae that will grow, chances are they will never reach maturity. My containers also do not contain any fish only plants and snails, snails also make good food for aldros. Never have had them flower myself and mine are all green 
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Arvin |
No luck on my part getting rid of U. gibba. It kept coming back even after removal, so I stopped trying in the end. The mozzie pellets are more for the benefit of the AVA personnel who come to check every now and then. When the see pellets, they get less cranky and won't try to pour the water away even though there aren't any larvae there. My Aldrovanda have not flowered for me before either, but then again, they're fighting for space, so many of the strands aren't too long. Wish I could get cattails to plant, can't seem to find any in any nursery around here. Perhaps you've got a green strain of Aldrovanda instead? That might explain why they're still green.
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Originally Posted by rsivertsen
Cool! The Australian strains are a LOT easier to grow than the green Japanese strains! Just give them plenty of monocot companion plants so that their roots give off enough CO2 and have the excess nitrogenous waste matter quickly absorbed and assimilated before algae attacks it, and enough zooplankton to supply a steady meal for them, which includes snails that pull out the spent and digested carcasses which also gets hit with algae. You might try to throw in some clay when you get the chance. - Rich
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I've not tried the Japanese strains before, but the strain I've got is relatively easy to keep alive. Giving them companion plants, zooplankton, snails and clay...that's the tricky part. I can't seem to get any of those...and on the rare occasion I can get some zooplankton, I can't seem to keep them alive. Gah.