What do you use to sink your veggies?

[FreshyFresh]

Food for snails and other aquatic critters that eat vegetables that is.. Some kind of sink on their own, but things like disks of zucchini float all too well. Man do my mystery snails and siamese algae eaters LOVE zucchini. They eat the whole thing, skin and all.

Anyway.. lately I've been using stainless-steel screws to keep blanched vegetables on the bottom of the tank. Just thread the screw into it shish kabob style and let it sink.

 

[OrangeCones]

I bought a set of Screwcumbers at a fish show long ago. Same thing! Screwcumber by Opti-Fish - Home

For lettuce or kale, I use the plant weights that come with stem plants.

 

[FreshyFresh]

Dangit.. I knew I should have held onto the soft metal wrap-around things that came with some anacharis (yuck) I bought months ago. Thinking they were some horrible type of metal, I tossed them.

Pretty sure I'll never buy anacharis again anyway. Still have a small amount floating in my 10g. The rest has been tossed out of shear frustration.

 

[OrangeCones]

Pretty sure I'll never buy anacharis again anyway. Still have a small amount floating in my 10g. The rest has been tossed out of shear frustration.

I don't like anacharis myself. Why do you not like it?

 

[FreshyFresh]

Had a hard time keeping it put. Never got it to bunch-out any as strands would just grow long. All I've got remaining is a few short floating pieces in my 10g. None in my 55.

 

[OrangeCones]

It is a hard plant to manage, since it grows so quickly. If you want it to be more branchy, you have to keep trimming it. The cut top part normally will branch into two 'main' stems. When I was breeding fish, I used it as a floating plant in spawning tanks and to keep water clean in grow-out tanks. But for the 'main' show tanks, it takes over (light and nutrients) from other plants too easily. I don't have any of it, currently. Guppy Grass serves the same function, and is easier to 'control' but it also is a pain (to me)!