Mixing Green/Red Wendtii...or not?

[beviking]

I was wondering if Green and Red Wendtii are similar enough that mixing the two in an area would have a nice effect. Or do you think they should be kept seperate...go with one or the other?
Just looking for experience and opinions. I haven't had either and from pics it seems it may make a nice contrast within a similar group...if you know what I mean.

 

[Ramirezi]

i think they would look good together. i have the red variety. my lfs used to keep both together in their aquatic plant tanks....they dont carry plants anymore... so now i have to get all my plants from petsmart. oh well.
i have a variety of red and green plants. i think it adds some contrast. having just all green can be boring.

 

[Leopardess]

No reason not to. Green and red are mixed frequently in the aquarium and those two shades are quite complimetary of one another, in my opinion.

 

[RTR]

I have some mixed, in fact there are three C. wendtii varieties together. They were leftovers from a club meeting here where the owner left before the sale and they were forgotten on a kitchen counter. I filled in a corner of a 30 and rather like the effect. It would be better if I moved the pinkish one to the front and left the red and green mixed behind - that form is shorther as it holds its leaves more horizontally, but a "move and sort" has not happened and may not until the whole planting needs dividing in a few years.

 

[Leopardess]

Though not specifically what you're talking about, I think this is a nice crypt-based tank with a mingling of reds and greens. I like the reds of crypts because they aren't so jarring as some other red stem plants.

Thats Jeff Kropps tank.

 

[beviking]

Thank you all very much! Robert, doesn't it just irk you knowing you should do something to make the tank look nicer? I can't stand it when something like that happens...2, maybe 3 days and Ihave to deal with it. Of course, it's easier with only one tank I guess!
Thanks for the pic too Leopardess. I know I've looked over that pic, I've seen so many of those contest pics looking for the "mixing" but all I've seen so far is a "patch" of one next to a "patch" of another. Not that I have to see a pic of it before I do it.

 

[RTR]

I confess that I tend to stands of a type of plant. This is my first mix, and it was just to do something to save the plants. But as I like the effect now, it is likely to stay, perhaps someday to be slightly sorted, but perhaps not. I do not normally use many different plants in a tank - above 5-6 plant types in one tank I start getting ansy and have to remove one or more - that does bug me. Obviously I am not in any way a collector, nor a follower of the Dutch style. It curls my toes, to be honest. I just redid the 29, formerly all-Anubias (but 4 types of Anubias) and now it is other plants, 4 types again. Nobody has ever seen an underwater patch with two or more dozen different plants in it - to me that is not gardening, it is collecting. But it takes all kinds of folks and all manner of tastes. If everybody's tanks looked the same, visiting others tanks in person or by pictures would be boring.

 

[ergo sum]

It is funny at times. I remember once seeing a tank that cost a fortune with all the lights the co2 fertilization and such and thinking I have a tank with most of those plants, a shop light and I haven't even changed the water in the last three weeks. (not that mine was as nice.)

I do like planted tanks as gardens, however, collections of plants with a few fish. I think that is because I kind of went from making terrariums to keeping fish at one point. I don't think I really understand how you would keep a tank without plants. And I have to say I can't figure out how people end up with overstocked tanks. But that is just me I guess and what I like.