Hi,

While browsing the Tropica website, stumble on this page about removing plants from the aquarium (scroll down a bit) as may I quote it here :

"If plants are to be removed from the aquarium, cut the plants at the plant/root transition to avoid the plant substrate mixing with the water. Plant roots are left in the bottom layer. They are quickly broken down, so providing nutrition to other plants in the aquarium."

Interesting indeed. But IHMO, your aquarium conditions must be in the top conditions to do this, filter too. Any rotting parts, will produces ammonia first, broken down to nitrite than to nitrate. Enough ammonia, algae will be the one growing instead of your plants .

What do you guys think? And one more, I wish can get my hand on those Tropica substrate, ferts etc!!!.

Best Regards