to start off is it better to have...

[Rockin_Sunset]

what kind...

of plants do you guys suggest ? i like really bright things so if they're are any plants that are bright i would like to know.

 

[TKOS]

Well java fern has to be the dead easiest plant to have. Nice big fern leaves, just stick the roots in some gravel or tie it to a rock.

If you have more light (2-3 watts per gallon of flourescent) then water sprite is cheap, easy to come buy and great at reducing the cycle but sucking up nutrients. Hornwort as well.

 

[125gJoe]

Originally posted by djlen
Plastic fish.

Len

Forget the fish food ! And relax...

 

[Chicago_Cheech]

These live plants are pretty easy. Stemmy stuff, swords and some of those bulbs you just push into the substrate. I added laterite. The plants are doing well on just one 40W flourscent tube in a 55G tank.

 

[plantbrain]

Live fish are too hard to keep alive and are too expensive.

Plastic fish come in all sorts of neon dayglow colors.
Many are very life like.
I can paint them
They never jump out of the tank
Dosing them food is not an issue(too complicated anyway, protien%, ash and fat%, too much stuff for me)
They don't bite my arm hairs when I prune
They don't ever eat plants
They never eat each other
They all get along
They never hide when I come up to the tank
I can ship them easily
They never get diseases
They don't mind bright or no light
I do not have to get house sitters to take care of them when on vacation(I do feel a little guilty though)
PETA does not care how I treat them
You can recycle them
They don't smell
You can pet them and they don't mind/they are not slimy
Your cat will not stare at them or try to eat them(well maybe a very frisky cat)
They live a long time.
They are actually "made" from "really" old plants.

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

[SpankyPlants]

LOL hey plastic fish sound great! And here I was taking care of real fish like a sucker.

In my experience, java fern is really easy to grow, as is anacharis. Anacharis grows so well, it's annoying. I finally got rid of mind because I was tired of it taking over my tank. Amazon swords have also been pretty easy for me, but they grow tall so they need a tall tank. The anubias barteri and nana are as simple as pie: tie one to a rock or piece of wood and voila! You have yourself a pretty, hardy plant. My nana flowers all the time, too.

 

[Spclk1981]

of plants do you guys suggest ? i like really bright things so if they're are any plants that are bright i would like to know.

Any of them in my sig is are just cake to take care of. Mine are flourishing, and I am not a well-established tank. I've used no fertilizer or special substrate.

I am also only at 1wpg, and they are doing well. They actually need some pruning soon.

 

[Galaxie]

My hornwort grew about an inch a week in the oscar tank, but he'd brutalize it and it clogged up the filters. Overall, it was growing faster than he could tear it up, but became too much of a chore to keep fastened down. Nitrate is always high with 2 11-inch fish, so I suspect that is a reason the hornwort grew like crazy.

I'm experimenting with java fern in there now. It was growing a beard type algae in the betta tank, so I transplanted in where the pleco lives. Will he eat that nasty algae? ....we'll see I guess. Love the java fern, just weight it down and forget about it.

 

[rosita]

These live plants are pretty easy. Stemmy stuff, swords and some of those bulbs you just push into the substrate. I added laterite. The plants are doing well on just one 40W flourscent tube in a 55G tank.

Absolutely champion tank, Cheech. It is my eye=deal. :bowing: Can you transport one to North Carolina?????????? I can pay, I make big bucks, I'm a teacher LOL

 

[led_zeppelin]

look at the date of the first post.....lol