Your favorite plants

Impudence12

Impudence12

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Jul 3, 2007
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I've got a 20 Long tank and I'm going to add a large peice of driftwood as the center peice, while the substrate is going to be some sort of eco complete or something, with river rocks, large and small. I'm going to add a small school of guppies, 6-7, and let them reproduce as they deem fit.

I want a floating plant that isn't like hornwort. I want one that is more like a lily would be. Something that's floating but isn't a stem with leaves. Something with an up and a down.

I'm going to try my hand at C02 and fertilizers and not just hood lights. I would almost say it'll be my first plant oriented tank. I just need some advice on what to get. My water in my other tanks is 6.8-7.2 and really really soft. (still trying to figure out the best way to harden it up)


Anyway, point is I need some ideas, and the best way I can think of is to hear what everyone else's favorite plant(s) are. Then I'll have a starting point.
 
I really like Amazon swords, java fern, and anubias. The java fern grows pretty fast and is prolific in that you can pick off the babies from the bigger plants and plant them. In no time your tank will be taken over by plants. I like elodea but haven't had that much success with it though I don't know why. It's supposed to be easy. I don't like the dead leaf particles that litter the tank.

Stasia
 
For floaters, i really like the look of water lettuce.
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For a lily like plant, look for brazilian pennywort (Hydrocotyle leucocephala).

Narrow leaf java ferns are a favorite, as are most anubias. Wisteria and water sprite if you want the frilly/lacy leaf look. For a splash of color Rotala rotundifolia or Ludwigia repens are pretty easy to work with. Something that's becoming more common are aquatic clovers, which are great for ground cover.

your pH is fine. When you say you have very soft water do you mean the kH or gH? If kH don't worry about it or add some crushed coral (like the gravel used for saltwater tanks) to the tank. If gH there are Nutrient supplements like Seachem Equilibrium which contains magnesium and calcium sulfate that will boost the gH.
 
I do like the water lettuce. One question about floating plants. If there's much of a current wouldn't they just float in the current until they run into each other in a corner somewhere?
 
If you want to keep floating plants to one area, use some suction cups, fishing line, and air hose tubing to partition off an area.
 
I really like most of the anubias varieties, really starting to want the nanas. And HYGROPHILA POLYSPERMA 'SUNSET' is becoming one of my favorites too
 
ThePBM said:
is there something wrong with that?
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It would limit the aquascaping alittle. Say if I wanted to have the whole tank shaded or the "wrong" (in relation to where the current pushes) side of the tank shaded. All in all tho it's not a terrible thing.

I just see my hornwort rolled in a mangled ball in the corner of my one tank. It looks so much better evenly spread, but with the current it doesn't stay even for long.
 
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