I collect a lot of my plants from public waterways, I have so many different kinds. My favorites are: Red tiger lotus, Rotala indica, amazon sword, any kind of Cabomba, Cryptocoryne beckettii, melon sword, Eriocaulon setaceum, Java fern, narrow leaf java fern, parrot feather, water spangles, najas guppy grass, lots of annubis.
nice XD I wish i knew all the scientific names of mine. but seeing i usually get mine from traded and stuff... it's usually the least of my concerns XD..
Last time I went to San Marcos was a year ago.. Before I even knew about collecting plants.. There was all types of stuff.. We should go around thanksgiving or any other weekend!
We could but I would much rather go in the spring when everything starts to grow again. I don't have enough high light tanks to house the amount I want to collect.
Hey. Don't forget about all of that hornwort I gave you a while back for a female. You might not have been there Alex but I traded A whole lotta plants for a Blue Dragon female that I still have with Rachel. How's the hornwort doing now?
Yeah. Spring sounds way better to me... I hate the cold and I doubt there will be a lot of plants
Oh yes I sold quite a bit of it this year, it was growing like crazy in our grow outs outside. During the winter I cut back a lot on the amount of plants I keep, I just don't have enough lights.
I have the following in a npt:
- water wisteria
- moneywort
- anubias
- dwarf hairgrass
- java fern
- 2 other unidentified plants lol XD I was wondering oif any one has java moss or any other kind of moss they would be able to sell / give to me.
I just got some Duck Weed but I don't think it is doing well. I also have:
Java Moss
Java Fern
Water Wisteria
Anacharis
Round Leaf Anubias
I think the Java Moss and Java Fern are doing okay. No growth yet that I can tell but they are not dying. The Water Wisteria and Anacharis look like they are doing well. I think my Round Leaf Anubiasis dying though...
I have a very low tech set up in a 5.5 gravel tank. I have a 6500 bulb and I add Leaf Zone once a week. I really love the look of planted tanks so I hope mine does well. Bradbury seems to like it.
About a week or two ago I added some more Java Moss, more Sagittaria, some Frogbit, and some Crystalwort which I just have floating at the top for now.
In the 20G:
cabomba
green foxtail
java moss
bacopa carolina
amazon sword
some random floating things - duckweed??
dwarf lilly
anubias
water sprite or wysteria - not sure but it has grown alot recently
somethng german sounding - seaweed like thing
I had some others but they went all gooey
Giant hygro?
anacharis
pogo erectus
The foxtails, dwarf lilly and water sprite thing do the best. Amazon sword and anubias also do well. The bacopa carolina - i find it floating every day. I think my snails knock it out of the sand
I want something to carpet the bottom...but i need something that is easy and not a high light plant
i do suggest dwarf saggitaria. micro swords also do well if your lightin is good enough. usually carpeting plants need co2 and highlight considerations, otherwise they wont carpet and will grow upwards instead.
Yeah I love my dwarf Saggitaria, it looks great around my rock cave and it grows fast. My hornwort grows like its going out of style, I need to trim it like every other day.
Everyone has so many plants.... i just upgraded to a 10 gallon tank but its a bit bare of plants at the moment only a few here and there and 2 more to come.
Any recommendations of plants that thrive in low to medium light and are easy to care for???
There are many plants that are low- med light.
Crypts propagate fairly quickly. And are low-med light. They also look pretty.
Anubias and Javafern and Java moss grows slowwwww but are also lowlight
Brazillian pennywort can be fairly pretty and add some variation.
Tiger lilies banana lilies are great too.
Rotala and some stem plants ...
Naja grass, Hornwort, fanwort, Elodea do pretty well
the list goes on....
I only have Hornwort and Anacharis but lots of it and a little Christmas moss. I would love to get more of any kind moss if anyone has any for sell let me know..Thanks !
wow theres so much choice but my local store only stocks the same 5 plants usually so may have to branch out to get some more.
All mine are green as well so which would add some viberant colour to the tank to give it more appeal.
Theres a lot to take in with learning all the correct names...... they arnt labelled well at the store either just coded so i cant get names from the staff -_-
I either got the plants from members here or I ordered it online. Not much selection locally - sometimes I find an actual aquatic plant in a tube at petco but even then - its usually dead or dying.
i do suggest dwarf saggitaria. micro swords also do well if your lightin is good enough. usually carpeting plants need co2 and highlight considerations, otherwise they wont carpet and will grow upwards instead.
would liquid Co2 work? I have a bottle of that and a bottle of API leaf something and a small bottle of Aqueon's plant nutrient stuff.
Lighting is a basic T8. Is there a better bulb to get? I don't want to buy a new or expensive light strip and I know zoo med has a bunch of different tube lights but I dont know if they are for reef tanks or what. ALso I am not sure of they work with the aqueon light strip I have (current bulb has 2 prongs if that means anything)
...lighting confuses me
To add CO2 to my 10gal tank I use one of the Nutrafin Natural Plant System kits. It's basically a canister that you put sugar, water and two different packets the kit comes with. The canister hooks up to a bubble-holder with some tubing and the bubbles hang out in it inside the tank. I believe you can just buy some yeast and some other ingredient from the grocery store to refill the canisters monthly instead of buying the packet refills from Nutrafin.
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