Tropica Plant Substrate
January 18th, 2010
Tropica Plant Substrate acts as a long term nutrition store for aquarium plants, so ensuring magnificent and healthy plant growth. It is a natural concentrate of clay and sphagnum, laid at the bottom of the gravel layer when you build your aquarium. Clay and sphagnum slowly release nutrients to your aquarium plant roots and binds nutrition from the water into the bottom layer. Removing nutrition from water reduces the risk of undesirable algae growth.
Use :-
Tropica Plant Substrate is laid in a 1 cm thick layer on the bottom of the aquarium, when the aquarium is built.
A layer of gravel of minimum 3-4 cm thick is then laid over the substrate. The gravel acts as a barrier between the concentrated substrate and the water. Plants are planted in the gravel in the normal way and new roots quickly form. When planting, disturb the substrate as little as possible, to avoid clay and sphagnum particles being mixed into the water.
The table below provides recommended amounts for a number of standard aquarium sizes.
| Aquarium size (L) |
Depth x Width (cm) |
Recommended Substrate (L) |
|---|---|---|
| 63 | 30 x 60 | 1.80 |
| 85 | 35 x 70 | 2.45 |
| 128 | 40 x 80 | 3.20 |
| 180 | 40 x 100 | 4.00 |
| 250 | 50 x 100 | 5.00 |
| 325 | 50 x 130 | 6.50 |
| 530 | 55 x 160 | 8.80 |
| 720 | 60 x 200 | 12.00 |
| 900 | 75 x 200 | 15.00 |
Contains :-
Unfertilised sphagnum (0 – 35mm)
Clay granules (2 – 6mm)
Plant Substrate is manufactured in the EU by Tropica Aquarium Plants, Egaa Denmark
Available from our eSHOP
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