Plant Pruning

benitahigg · 06-04-2011, 10:51 AM

Where can you get a tool to prune your plants, without sticking my hands down in the aquarium? What would be the best tool for pruning? I need to get the leaves that turn yellow and brown out of my tank.

majerah1 · 06-04-2011, 01:29 PM

There are sellers on aquabid who have scaping tools for a good price.I use scissors myself,stainless that are angled a bit.I dont know where I got them but I love them.Let me link you to one of the auctions,and just browse around there to find what you want.AquaBid.com - Your Aquatic Auction Website
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Donald Hansen · 06-04-2011, 02:16 PM

Try doing a search on Hagen A1012 Multi-Tool. I bought one at my lfs and I really like it. Comes with 2 interchangeable heads. A pair of pinchers for picking up stuff and a scissors for trimming. Not cheap, over $20, but maybe you can find it cheaper on the internet.

DLH

susankat · 06-04-2011, 02:54 PM

I got one of those multi tools from petsmart for 14$. Great for deep tanks

jrman83 · 06-04-2011, 06:50 PM

I got one of those. It doesn't help for planting plants much though. My arms stay in my tank.

NoMoreToys · 06-04-2011, 07:34 PM

I bought one of these. Works really well for me. Has two interchangeable tips.
Planted Aquarium Plant Care: Aquarium Plant Pruning Tool

Donald Hansen · 06-05-2011, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by jrman83

I got one of those. It doesn't help for planting plants much though. My arms stay in my tank.

I agree with you on that. When it comes to planting nothing works as good as getting your arms wet.

DLH

holly12 · 06-05-2011, 06:50 PM

I know they say not to put your arms and hands in the tank, but I do it almost daily, lol. I've got to hand feed my ADF's. I've got 10" tweezers for that, but I still end up with a wet arm. As long as you don't have any body lotion or soap on your arms and hands, you should be ok.

As for pruning plants, I used regular scissors...... nothing bad happened, lol.

majerah1 · 06-05-2011, 08:14 PM

Haha,my hands are in the tank constantly.Whats worse,is that duckweed is clingy,lol.

automatic-hydromatic · 06-05-2011, 09:00 PM

yeah I just go elbow deep and deal with it, lol. I do have a pair of stainless 10" tweezers that I use to pluck out floating debris and push the smaller plants into the substrate when planting them, and a small pair of stainless scissors to trim the Anacharis and some others. Most plants though just reach in and try to grasp the plant leaf as far down as I can, and try to get it to pluck right off the root structure if I can, that way there's no stub sticking up that's just going to die off too

mk4gti · 06-05-2011, 09:03 PM

I got one of those tools and sometimes i cant cut through the thicker anubias or it gets jammed, i just uses stainless steel scisors. I always make sure that i dont have any deoderant on when i dip my arms in the tank cuz sometimes i get in there pit deep.

holly12 · 06-05-2011, 09:44 PM

I hear what you're saying about clingy duck weed! My water lettuce does the same thing - quite annoying actually!

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