Good plants for a 20L tank?

Personal experience, avoid silver dollars and tinfoil barbs, which get waaaay too big for a 20g anyway. They will eat plants. Personal experience with silvertips, they are hyperactive. I love them, but had plastic plants at the time. They were more interested in chasing each other around the tank. Khulis, bettas, mollies, and ADFs are plant safe. Khulis rummage around the substrate, so can dislodge plants that aren't well rooted. And most fish will eat fish fry - including the parent fish. You need to provide some very good hiding places if you want any molly fry to survive.
 
Well, I have 2 backup tanks, one is a half gallon, other is a 2 gallon tank. We moved the molly fry that survived ( we named her Lucky ) into the half gallon until adulthood, and I will do the same with my other molly fry if there is more. Thanks for the info!
 
None of the fishes that you are planning on getting will eat plants. So any "True Aquatic" plant will work. Now it will depend on your lights, ferts, and/or CO2.
 
Right. Good. I'm glad to hear that. Thanks!
 
If you want low light/low maintenance plants I always recommend Anubius, java fern, and Crytpocoryne. The first two grow relatively slowly, which means not a lot of pruning and fuss. Crypts grow a little faster, but IME don't require any more than stock lighting to get a good crop coming in. They are also hardy AF mine survived, I don't even know how many, trips moving across the state. Both in hot and blizzard conditions. A couple of times I even forgot about them and left them in the bed of my truck, they froze and most of them came back from that. I've also took some home from work that were nothing more than a single leaf and a couple of roots and within four months had to have people take my cuttings.

I don't have any pictures of my 10 gal, but I do have one of everything that I moved from the 10 into the 34 when the dust settled after planting. The 10 gallon had a stock fluorescent tube, and the only thing I dosed was Excel once a month. Apart from the moss balls, these are all just the three plants I mentioned.

All of these (minus the driftwood) were squashed into my 10 gallon three days before.935511_10152130143467159_670160132_n.jpg

Here it is 3 months later after running a dual T5 fixture and dosing Excel once a week. 10325604_10152379291742159_3926959803258587640_n.jpg 10366008_10152379291682159_6427301863607307093_n.jpg

Excuse the tannins and blurry iPhone pics
 
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Ok I will try those first two you mentioned. So they are hardy, yes? Which is good cause my tank is still cycling and stuff. Thanks!
 
Great. I will see if my local pet store carries those.
 
Really? Cool.
 
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