Brackish plants?

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My GF just got into aquariums, and she's been great with our 55gal. FW setup. It looks fantastic, thanks to her.
During one of our visits to the local FS, she liked the figure 8 and spotted puffers. So now we have a 10gal brackish tank with two puffers. She wants plants for the tank, but I'm not sure which plants are compatible. I assume marsh grasses, etc. would be a good bet. Thanks for any help.
 
I've tried all sorts of plants in brackish and none of them thrived. Most died, the jungle val went into hibernation and never grew but just stayed the same way. I ended up going with silk plants for now. Mangroves are the only true brackish plant I know of that is available in the hobby.

Did you put a figure 8 and spotted puffer (GSP ?) in the same tank? If so, it's a bad combo.
 
Thanks for the reply. Why is the figure 8 and GSP a bad combo? It's been 3 weeks so far and they haven't hurt each other. They eat frozen krill right from my GF's fingers.
 
The GSP needs a 30g tank and requires the salinity to be raised as they mature. Eventually it will need full marine. They grow to around 6 inches so it might end up taking out the figure 8.
 
I've had luck with Jungle Val and some kind of dwarf chain sword in brackish.... the chain sword didn't get runners in the brackish though, but the val grew a bit.
 
A list of reputedly brackish plants can be found here
Personally, I'm trying the anacharis, anubias (coffeefolia), cabomba, crypts (red wendtii, green wendtii, petchii, lutea, ciliata,balansae?) , hygrophila(giant), hornwort, dwarf chain sword, and an amazon sword plant.
 
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