Plant ID's Please

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Cichlidiot420

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my only lfs that sells decent looking plants doesnt have any of them labeled and the guy doesnt know much about plants :help: also nowhere around here sells any kind of moss wtf? i really wanted some java moss :swear:

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Cichlidiot420 said:
my only lfs that sells decent looking plants doesnt have any of them labeled and the guy doesnt know much about plants :help: also nowhere around here sells any kind of moss wtf? i really wanted some java moss :swear:
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I can't ID your plants, but I do feel your pain. None of the stores around here have a decent supply. No moss to be found anywhere. One store has a few things I would like, but they're all brown & dying. :headshake2: At least the ones you picked out are very healthy looking! Have you looked into buying plants on this site? There are several people who regularly sell nice, healthy plants at affordable prices. Good luck!
 
The second, third, and fourth plants are already ID'd, so I'll suggest one for the sword plant. Going by leaf shape, I'd say it's Echinodorus bleheri. If this is right, then you can expect it to reach 20 inches in height, with 20-30 leaves. It's easy to grow, pretty much the most common sword being sold through retail sources. Don't be shy about trimming off leaves from the bottom as it grows or it'll shade the light from everything else you're trying to grow. Propagate by cutting the rhizome. Light-Moderate lighting is fine. Most swords need a little fertilizer spike at the roots now and then to sustain all that foliage.

Your plants look great. Hope you'll take photos to show us how well they're doing.
 
The first pic could be a green wendtii cryptocoryne. Or not. Usually the edges of the leaves on the wendtii are a little more ruffly. If it starts to melt and then come back, it is a crypt. If it grows out of control, its a sword (echinodorus) plant. Sword plant leaves look.. stiffer to me, though. I think it's a crypt.
The second is bacopa caroliniana. I love this plant. Hard to kill. Grows as tall as your aquarium.
The third is a Java fern. These plants look nice on driftwood and rocks. Since the plant gets it's nutrients from the water column rather than the roots, the roots are just for holding on to something. Many people tie these plants by the roots to driftwood or rocks until the roots take hold. You will also see little "daughter" plants start to form on the tips of the leaves. The daughter plants break loose from the mother plant and float away to root somewhere else. Also, if you have the fern on something movable like a rock, it is easier to move around your tank. You just pick up the whole thing and move it like a lamp or a chair. I love that.
I think the fourth plant is called Foxtail or Frill. I think that cabomba is a little sturdier looking and foxtail looks wispier or frailer. Also a good plant for beginners as it is hard to kill.
Usually stem plants like the bacopa and the foxtail do better if the plants are put in the substrate with a little space between them. It's harder to get them to stick in the substrate, but the plants do better with a little room.

Nice tank!
 
Oh, and btw, Java Moss gets everywhere. I like to have some in tanks with small fry, and a pillow of it in each betta tank for them to lounge on, but other than that, you will be picking it out of everything for the rest of your life! ;)
 
thanks for the replys everyone, im a complete noob when it comes to live plants so here it goes. the plants came in little bundles with a claypot and some kind of foam on the roots that i removed. should i plant each individual stem seperate with little spaces in between them? or just in bunches like i bought them (like they are now)? i kinda want to spread the bunches out to fill more of the tank? and also can anyone let me know where i should place the plants? like what part of the tank thanks.
 
Spread out the bunches a bit (bacopa/moneywort and the cabomba).. The sword will get taller, so middle-back location. The java fern could be split at the rhizome if you want two of three of them (which shouldn't be buried or it'll die).
 
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