Plant N00b Question

[Tanyoberu]

Hi,

I'm not new to keeping fish, but I want to try my hands at keeping plants for a specific fish. Right now, I'm a plastic guy, but I'm trying to correct my ways.

My situation is this. I have a 35 gallon where I keep Belonesox Belizanus' a predatory livebearer. His companions are, well, other livebearers who's purpose is mainly to produce more fry for the consumption of the baby BB. So now, I would like to add live plants to the tank for several reasons, but primarily because they help with filtration. You see I house several other larger tanks and I'm accustomed to siphoning out the gravel, but when I do so here, I tend to lose valuable fish. Also, these species tend to reside around plants in their natural habitat. So I guess now is where I'll post that question.

I'm looking for plants that are easy to maintain, that can live in normal aquarium light or low light situations, can anyone direct me to such a specimen? Also, this tank will have salt added as it is a brackish tank, but I keep the salinity relatively low 1.005 to 1.008 max.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Tanyoberu

 

[knashash]

Java Fern, Java Moss and Crypts should work pretty well

 

[phanmc]

Java Fern, Java Moss and Crypts should work pretty well

Anubias, anacharis, hornwort, and water sprite are also adaptable to the lower level brackish water. All mentioned are easy to care for.

 

[Tanyoberu]

This is great thanx

 

[reiverix]

I've heard about people having some success with the above listed plants in low end brackish. The only one that "worked" for me was jungle val. Even then it just hung on to life by a thread and I'm only on an SG of 1.005 too. I ended up going with the artificial silk plants but I hope you have better luck than me. If you do, tell me the secret

Now, there's always mangroves for brackish. They do require higher light though.

 

[TheDeerslayer]

Here is plantgeek.com's list of brackish adaptable plants:

http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_list.php?category=8