Trying to decide on driftwood plant

[texasguy]

Well i recently got my driftwood to sink and now i want to cover it with plants as it doesnt look very good in my opinion. I found it in my back yard and went to town with my leatherman and now its got brown splotches mixed with the tan and its not very naturally shaped anymore. So anyways back to the plants. I have a 5.5 gallon with a 13 watt CFL and ive got some Lilaeopsis Maurtitius that im going to let take over the substrate and i want something to put on the drift wood. I was thinking maybe flame moss or christmas moss but these are both semi hard to find so i though maybe riccia "dwarf" but it seems that that would be hard to keep on the wood. What do you guys think?

[customdrum]

moss is the easy thing for wood. ricca is a pain to me personally but it looks good when its full and lush. seems like moss,ricca and anubias are the main things i see on wood. the moss will be the easy way out for sure compared to ricca.

[stephcps]

I always love the way riccia looks....but every time I've tried it..it is a ROYAL PITA!!!!

Go with moss.

[Bk718]

moss all the way.. I finally got the upper hand on growing lush green flame moss :)

You should also look into fissidens.

Riccia is probably the worst to use since at first it will look pretty but as it grows it will require constant trimming and if you dont trim it on time it can rot at the base and become a floater (what it normally should be)

[bazil323]

I'd do anubias nana petite and moss. Java is a favorite, and it is very easy. But, I really like my flame moss. If I can grow it, you probably can too. It grows great in my 75g community with 1.7wpg of compact fluorescent. I don't dose with anything. For a while I was dosing Excel, but I always forget and sometimes go months without dosing. I still dose every so often, maybe once a month if I'm lucky. I don't do anything with ferts either. Just fishy poo.

[jpappy789]

Java fern and anubias for me.

[Jspigs]

I would go with some kind of java fern and maybe some java moss.

[chonhzilla]

fissidens fontanus

[67chevelle]

I've got some driftwood that has so much java moss and java ferns on it,you can't see the wood anymore.Those 2 get my vote.

[dundadundun]

thin wood i'd go with moss.

thick wood i'd have to stay with old faithful and say anubias or java fern.

[texasguy]

yeah the wood is pretty thin so i think im gonna go with moss