Setting up a bare bottom tank with plants

[Leopardfire]

I am setting up a planted 10 gallon for my ACF. Because he is so messy I wanted have my tank bare bottom to make it easier to clean. I also don't want my frog to eat any gravel or sand and die. I really want to have live plants so that it feels like a pond to him and because they will help with the ammonia and nitrates.
What, if any, live plants can live in a bare bottom tank? I was thinking maybe there were some floating ones that could work. I had live plants in there before with some gravel, so I know that the lighting in the tank is good enough for plants.
Also, is there anything special I need to do to care for plants in a bare bottom tank? Do I need to add some kind of plant food or can I just leave them in there to absorb the ammonia and waste.

[ChoclateBetta]

Marimo, Anarchis, and hornwort and liquad ferts/CO2 will be fine java fern and anuibus work too.

[ChoclateBetta]

P.S. your lucky in most of the U.S. ACF are banned.

[Leopardfire]

Marimo, Anarchis, and hornwort and liquad ferts/CO2 will be fine java fern and anuibus work too.

Do I need to get something for their roots to hold onto like a rock, or can I just put them in the tank without anything?

P.S. your lucky in most of the U.S. ACF are banned.

He's not really an ACF, but they are his closest relatives. He came from Grow a Frog so he was made to be see-through as a tadpole. Now he looks exactly like an ACF though so I call him that so people have an idea of what he is.

[ChoclateBetta]

Do you mean this if you mean this he is lucky someone got him who will care for him as an adult http://www.growafrog.com/quesclass.h...r-Tadpol-58419 and java moss/fern and anuibus grow in lava rock marmo is a spere of algae so anarchis and hornwort grow floating and attach java fern/moss and anuibus grow on lava rock or driftwood and Marimo take it out and squeeze it ounce a week.

[Friendlyfishies]

why do squeeze a marimo once a week?

[ChoclateBetta]

It picks of degree a lot so squeezing it gets rid of it plus if kept on one side it stops growing in a spere.

[Leopardfire]

Do you mean this if you mean this he is lucky someone got him who will care for him as an adult http://www.growafrog.com/quesclass.h...r-Tadpol-58419

Yes, that is where I got him from.

and java moss/fern and anuibus grow in lava rock marmo is a spere of algae so anarchis and hornwort grow floating and attach java fern/moss and anuibus grow on lava rock or driftwood and Marimo take it out and squeeze it ounce a week.

I am slightly confused. Do the java fern and anubis grow on a lava rock with the hornwort and anarchic attached to them? Is the marimo attached to this set up in any way or is it growing on it's own?

[ChoclateBetta]

Marimo just sits around anarchis and hornwort grow as floating plants and java fern/moss and anuibus grow attached to the rock. Java moss is really good at attaching to stuff Marimo is an algae and helps compete other algae out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_moss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_fern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubias and it is cool that you love your frog what species is it?

[Leopardfire]

Thanks, I understand now. Would I be able to find all of these plants at petco or petsmart or do I have to order them? Also where do you find lava rocks?