Damn, great information. I love how you present the information and actually have the plant on hand to demonstrate. Did not know they died off annually.
Thanks boys, loved the video, I panicked and pulled ot the plants that looked like they were dying, but thanks to you guys, I'm going to try again. Thanks man, your both Rockstars 😎😎👑👑
Hi , just found your channel and subbed you, I have kept fish for well over fifty years, but with this great hobby you are always learning something new, I have just planted lots of vallisneria in my new tank, and your info on keeping this plant was very helpful, all the best to you, from across the pond.
I'm honored to have a well seasoned hobbyist join our channel. Welcome my friend 🤙 Happy you found some information of value to you and you most certainly speak the truth. The learning curve is never ending. I no longer am shocked by new things that are ongoing indefinitely. Thank you for saying Hi!
😂 I love you guys !!! I died when you're smart kid btw said get up and do something about it😂😂 I bet you guys are SO fun to be around !!! And great information btw !!! Hey I'm wondering if y'all have done Italian val before? Anyways you guys are awesome and hope you guys are doing well 😁❗❗
Thank you so much! ❤️ Italian Val is another name for Jungle Val, Eel grass, and tape grass. It's planting and propagation are the same. 😁 Thanks for swinging by and Alex does get to read the comments. He says Thanks! 🤙
I am so glad I came across your channel! I am new to the hobby. I started a planted 55 gallon in January without doing much research. I just bought 2 corkscrew Val and 2 Italian Val a few days ago that started off pretty healthy and they seemed to be doing okay but I just dosed the tank yesterday with excel. Despite using root tabs, I woke up this morning to some seriously sad looking plants and was stumped. I have a spare 10 gallon tank, do you think I should pull the Val and place in this until it recovers? Doing water changes on the 55 gallon during that time to dilute the excel and prepare for replanting when the plants have recovered? I want to thank you so much for your time It is greatly appreciated! Love that you have your son involved and you are passing your passion and knowledge for the hobby on to him!
Thank you for the kind words 🤙 To answer your question, replanting your Val will only slow things down in it's recovery. Best course of action is to just get all that water out of there and replace it with new water. It can recover, just do it sooner than later. I'm sorry you're having to learn the hard way about Excel, but very glad you found us in time for the why and what you can do. We'll look forward to seeing you around in other videos my friend. 😁
@@yourtap I immediately did a large water change to get the excel out of the water column and I put some osmocote pellets in the substrate. All 4 plants died completely back to the crown but they are starting to come back just a few days later. Can’t believe how quickly it responded to the osmocote. I think it is safe to say they will all make a full recovery and will be taking over the tank in no time!
Very timely video. I’m close to setting up my new tank snd my only root feeding plant will be Val. So interesting to hear that there is an annual die off. Good to have that awareness so I don’t panic when that happens. On another note do you have a link to your other channel? Maybe you haven’t started it yet. Hoping you and your family have a great summer.
We haven't started that channel yet. Still composing videos for it. Stoked that you learned something of value. 😁 You most definitely will not be left out of the loop on anything. That Alien game is something else! We love it 💝
Hey Dustin , you guys do a great job , I learned something new and for the ridiculous amount of time spent watching fish , plants & Nature aquariums it's never been mentioned about the life cycle . So now I know , if all of a sudden my plant refuses to grow , time to get some root tabs down below & if nothing else ..in time they will be back so don't ever throw. P.S. Love the shirt , brought back some memories ~ Like when Jason jumps out of the the H2😳 & you betcha , it was in slow-Mo 💚💙
@@yourtap it hasn’t exploded yet, I’m using an under gravel filter, and the roots grew through the filter plate weeks ago ago! Just waiting for the leaves to catch up.
hello great video glad i found your video about jungel val i just got a package today the vals was really long had some bad leaves and the roots were long BUT THE ROOTS WAS ALSO BROWN? I CUT SOME OFF BUT MOST OF THEM OR BROWN so should i cut all of them off? also my tank is still cycling so i was told if i get my new plants before my tank cycle to put them in a bucket with treated water near the sunlight with a air bubble flow thang LOL.. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO DO OR IF THE BUCKET WITH TREATED WILL HELP THANKS
You have questions and I have answers! Whoever told you to stick them in a bucket, I have to disagree with them. Trim all the roots and plant them immediately. They will speed up the cycling as a leaf falls off or dies it triggers more bacteria and the plants will also be covered in beneficial bacteria. If you don't have any healthy roots and they're all brown and soggy, just trim them and get them in the substrate. I never treat my plants. It has more cons than pros. Thanks for watching and thanks for subscribing 🤙
i didnty know that they wouldnt heal themselves so im going to snip the dieing leaves off altough it has al ready thrown runners hopefully itll start looking better
I rewatched this video to make sure I didn't miss anything. You're headed in the right direction to a speedy recovery by cutting off the leaves that are melting on you. Plants automatically send nutrients to the Dead stuff. They don't have a conscious and will never be capable of understanding of not to do that. Thanks for watching and never hesitate to ask questions. This is what my son and I do 🤙
Question? when growing in like a father fish dirted tank capped w sand …will it disturb and cause issues to mess w this plant or pull out to trim and propagate ? Or do you just trim off the runners and not mess w main plant ? I need an Alex. He’s such a great helper !
Thank you for the kind words and the question! Father Fish and I follow each other. I do dirted tanks exactly as he does. You can remove the plant for propagation. Do so carefully, obviously don't go ripping them out violently and it can be done without creating a mess. 😁
I snip off the dead or dying before planting. After that I just let it do it's thing. It's completely normal. I know it can be scary watching it vanish into nothing.
The majority of plants that instantly die off on you because of acclimating to their new environment, should start showing signs of regrowth after it's first month. With that said, it's not unheard of for some to take longer. I've had bulb plants completely die and take an entire year. It can vary and how happy it is with your water can make a huge difference.
@@yourtap my (tap) water is very hard, I'm trying to softening it with peat moss, but still pretty bad. It's been about 2 months the vallisneria is melting. I'm not going to touch, hope grows better.
@@jupercio , you can soften it by mixing your tap with purified water. Peat moss will definitely make your water more acidic (soft) however, your hardness comes from the amount of calcium & magnesium in your water which can't be eliminated in the way you might think with peat. With that said, Val can grow in many types of water. Whenever you see runners, those were reproduced in your tap and will continue to do so. Good luck to you. I'm very familiar with frustration due to plants struggling to get with it.
What a fantastic video. It’s so awesome that you involved your kid. Keep this great work. Very informative.
I appreciate your positive comment. Thanks for watching and saying Hi! 🤙
Damn, great information. I love how you present the information and actually have the plant on hand to demonstrate. Did not know they died off annually.
I appreciate your interest. Have fun digging through videos!
What a cute little guy.
Thank you David! I'll tell Alex you said so 🤙
thanks, great energy and advice. subbed!
Super stoked to have you Blake! Thanks for watching! 🤙
thumbs up just for the title of your channel
Thank Stephen! I'm super happy you bumped into me 🤙
Thanks boys, loved the video, I panicked and pulled ot the plants that looked like they were dying, but thanks to you guys, I'm going to try again. Thanks man, your both Rockstars 😎😎👑👑
You're welcome! We appreciate you saying Hi 🤙
Great video, very informative. Tnx
Appreciate you watching 🤙
Hi , just found your channel and subbed you, I have kept fish for well over fifty years, but with this great hobby you are always learning something new, I have just planted lots of vallisneria in my new tank, and your info on keeping this plant was very helpful, all the best to you, from across the pond.
I'm honored to have a well seasoned hobbyist join our channel. Welcome my friend 🤙
Happy you found some information of value to you and you most certainly speak the truth. The learning curve is never ending. I no longer am shocked by new things that are ongoing indefinitely.
Thank you for saying Hi!
Oops I forgot to mention, great job Alex on the technical support showing how to prepare the plant to propagate.
😂 I love you guys !!! I died when you're smart kid btw said get up and do something about it😂😂 I bet you guys are SO fun to be around !!! And great information btw !!! Hey I'm wondering if y'all have done Italian val before? Anyways you guys are awesome and hope you guys are doing well 😁❗❗
Thank you so much! ❤️
Italian Val is another name for Jungle Val, Eel grass, and tape grass.
It's planting and propagation are the same. 😁
Thanks for swinging by and Alex does get to read the comments. He says Thanks! 🤙
That's awesomeness and again thank you so much you guys are awesome 😁@@yourtap
They're also a basic celled plant and can be affected by things like algaecide such as liquid co2. 👌
Thank you. This helped a lot.
You're welcome. 🤙
great video man 🙂
Thank you my friend 😊
I am so glad I came across your channel! I am new to the hobby. I started a planted 55 gallon in January without doing much research. I just bought 2 corkscrew Val and 2 Italian Val a few days ago that started off pretty healthy and they seemed to be doing okay but I just dosed the tank yesterday with excel. Despite using root tabs, I woke up this morning to some seriously sad looking plants and was stumped. I have a spare 10 gallon tank, do you think I should pull the Val and place in this until it recovers? Doing water changes on the 55 gallon during that time to dilute the excel and prepare for replanting when the plants have recovered? I want to thank you so much for your time It is greatly appreciated! Love that you have your son involved and you are passing your passion and knowledge for the hobby on to him!
Thank you for the kind words 🤙
To answer your question, replanting your Val will only slow things down in it's recovery. Best course of action is to just get all that water out of there and replace it with new water. It can recover, just do it sooner than later. I'm sorry you're having to learn the hard way about Excel, but very glad you found us in time for the why and what you can do.
We'll look forward to seeing you around in other videos my friend. 😁
@@yourtap I immediately did a large water change to get the excel out of the water column and I put some osmocote pellets in the substrate. All 4 plants died completely back to the crown but they are starting to come back just a few days later. Can’t believe how quickly it responded to the osmocote. I think it is safe to say they will all make a full recovery and will be taking over the tank in no time!
Very timely video. I’m close to setting up my new tank snd my only root feeding plant will be Val.
So interesting to hear that there is an annual die off. Good to have that awareness so I don’t panic when that happens.
On another note do you have a link to your other channel? Maybe you haven’t started it yet. Hoping you and your family have a great summer.
We haven't started that channel yet. Still composing videos for it. Stoked that you learned something of value. 😁
You most definitely will not be left out of the loop on anything. That Alien game is something else! We love it 💝
Hey Dustin , you guys do a great job , I learned something new and for the ridiculous amount of time spent watching fish , plants & Nature aquariums it's never been mentioned about the life cycle . So now I know , if all of a sudden my plant refuses to grow , time to get some root tabs down below & if nothing else ..in time they will be back so don't ever throw. P.S. Love the shirt , brought back some memories ~ Like when Jason jumps out of the the H2😳 & you betcha , it was in slow-Mo 💚💙
Thanks for the kind words my friend 🤙
I'm very pleased to read you found information of value on this topic.
😁
I dig Jason with a shovel 🧟
Me too, Thanks!!!!!
I moved my all my vals from my high tech tank to a new low tech tank. 6 weeks later they are starting to grow 💪
That's awesome! Don't they look epic when they explode in growth!
@@yourtap it hasn’t exploded yet, I’m using an under gravel filter, and the roots grew through the filter plate weeks ago ago! Just waiting for the leaves to catch up.
hello great video glad i found your video about jungel val i just got a package today the vals was really long had some bad leaves and the roots were long BUT THE ROOTS WAS ALSO BROWN? I CUT SOME OFF BUT MOST OF THEM OR BROWN so should i cut all of them off? also my tank is still cycling so i was told if i get my new plants before my tank cycle to put them in a bucket with treated water near the sunlight with a air bubble flow thang LOL.. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO DO OR IF THE BUCKET WITH TREATED WILL HELP THANKS
You have questions and I have answers! Whoever told you to stick them in a bucket, I have to disagree with them. Trim all the roots and plant them immediately. They will speed up the cycling as a leaf falls off or dies it triggers more bacteria and the plants will also be covered in beneficial bacteria.
If you don't have any healthy roots and they're all brown and soggy, just trim them and get them in the substrate. I never treat my plants. It has more cons than pros.
Thanks for watching and thanks for subscribing 🤙
@@yourtap thank you so much for your help and time
i didnty know that they wouldnt heal themselves so im going to snip the dieing leaves off altough it has al ready thrown runners hopefully itll start looking better
I rewatched this video to make sure I didn't miss anything. You're headed in the right direction to a speedy recovery by cutting off the leaves that are melting on you. Plants automatically send nutrients to the Dead stuff. They don't have a conscious and will never be capable of understanding of not to do that.
Thanks for watching and never hesitate to ask questions. This is what my son and I do 🤙
Question? when growing in like a father fish dirted tank capped w sand …will it disturb and cause issues to mess w this plant or pull out to trim and propagate ? Or do you just trim off the runners and not mess w main plant ? I need an Alex. He’s such a great helper !
Thank you for the kind words and the question! Father Fish and I follow each other. I do dirted tanks exactly as he does. You can remove the plant for propagation. Do so carefully, obviously don't go ripping them out violently and it can be done without creating a mess. 😁
So I just bought some and the melting away I should cut them down
I snip off the dead or dying before planting. After that I just let it do it's thing. It's completely normal. I know it can be scary watching it vanish into nothing.
How many months to wait after a meltdown of a new acquired plant?
The majority of plants that instantly die off on you because of acclimating to their new environment, should start showing signs of regrowth after it's first month. With that said, it's not unheard of for some to take longer. I've had bulb plants completely die and take an entire year. It can vary and how happy it is with your water can make a huge difference.
@@yourtap my (tap) water is very hard, I'm trying to softening it with peat moss, but still pretty bad. It's been about 2 months the vallisneria is melting. I'm not going to touch, hope grows better.
@@jupercio , you can soften it by mixing your tap with purified water. Peat moss will definitely make your water more acidic (soft) however, your hardness comes from the amount of calcium & magnesium in your water which can't be eliminated in the way you might think with peat. With that said, Val can grow in many types of water. Whenever you see runners, those were reproduced in your tap and will continue to do so.
Good luck to you. I'm very familiar with frustration due to plants struggling to get with it.
@@jupercio I have extremely hard water. Somewhere over 300+ tds. I cut it w RO and bring that TDS down .