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Sarah

Need Help! I got a Peace lily, it’s my first one ever! she’s not doing very well and im not sure why! She doesn’t get much sun, is at least 10 feet from a window, and always indirect sunlight. i haven’t moved her into the bigger pot that she’s in (her nursery pot is sitting in it for now) because I read they prefer small pots that their roots can take up! please help! watered yesterday! also i did have her too close to a window before which is why the leaves are browned but now that she’s moved, she’s just not thriving… any help is greatly appreciated 🩵

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  1. Dory

    My peace lilies all grow in my fish tanks🫣🥰

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    • Sarah

      will be stealing this thank you!!

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    • Dory

      These are the babies from my mother plant. I’ve gifted about 5 or 6 from it as well.

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    • Dory

      Side note, these are actually getting more light than they need. As a bog plant, peace lilies thrive in “shady” areas.

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  3. Dory

    This is my mother plant. Shes already showing new growth. She lives in leca atm and watered with “clean” dirty fish tank water.

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    So my methods… (I do whatever my plants tell me they want😅)… I water any plant I’m intending to transfer to my fish tanks with the dirty tank water first. It’s cycled into a clean bucket from whatever tank I’m working on. Once those plants are watered… the rest of the dirty tank water goes into a bucket with the rest of my “special sauce”. Cinnamon sticks & some cinnamon powder, a mosquito dunk, every other bucket fill I do a low dose of insecticide as preventative (I have plants that spider mites and such LOVE), I use aquarium grade potassium and iron, a flourish tab (aquarium grade), and once a month I add rice water. When I have them, I bake banana peel and grind them into a powder and I’ll add a couple tablespoons once a month. That’s what I use to water my soil potted plants. It’s already in a 5gal bucket so I can drop the pot in to bottom water and then drain it over my dry box. Pop them back in their cache pots and it takes a lot of the work out. For pots I can’t bottom water that way I just dip my water can into the “magic poop water” and give them a drink or I even fill my mist bottle with it

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    • Dory

      The proof is in the pudding 😅🤭

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    • Sarah

      oh my gosh, thank you so much! do you find that you have to refill the aquarium more often because of how much water her roots absorb? Because maybe i will set up an auto top off system on my tank so she doesn’t run low!

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  5. Dory

    I haven’t had my tanks going long and I never had them set up without plants in them… I used my emerged root plants like pothos, philos, a monstera and my lilies to help cycle them faster. I don’t tend to top off rather I do a quick floor clean and then top. So basically a water change. Happens about once every two weeks. I probably only lose a half inch of water during that time

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    • Dory

      I also don’t use tap water at all as ours here in FL is super hard with really high ammonia and ph levels. I usually get a fresh bucket of “filter fresh” from my aquarium shop. You can use tap, I choose to take the lazy way out and not have to play with balancing with up and down etc…

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