Beeboy

I have a 29 gallon tank. I have in it one mossball which seems to be doing okay but I want to get a leafy plant. Do I need to get fertilizer for that? I also have lots of small snails. (Mystery snails?) Any info on a good plant would be great.

Beeboy

Dino

Another site a couple of us mods work at is www.plankgeek.net.

All kinds of helpful plant info.

sirdarksol

If you have a normal tank, you probably have low light, so head for plantgeek's "low light" section.
Java fern is a good leafy plant that doesn't require much other than a rock or piece of driftwood to attach to.
If you've got fish, you probably don't need fertilizer, but most plants do need iron. You can either provide this by adding a plant-specific substrate, or by using nutrient additives.
The snails probably hitched a ride on the moss, and are probably not mystery snails. They're probably common pond snails, and are pains to get rid of. It has been kind of determined on the boards that the only reasonably effective way of getting rid of them is to add a snail-eating fish to your tank. Otherwise, you can learn to live with them (not so difficult, as long as they don't eat your plants or hurt your fish )

Isabella

Swords are beautiful large-leaved plants. But they need better lighting and nutrient-rich substrate. You should be getting the kinds of plants that will do OK under your lighting and in your substrate/gravel. Unless, you're willing to get new lighting and substrate for the kinds of plants that otherwise wouldn't do well under your current conditions. Read the "Guide to the Low-Light Planted Tank" on the top of this broad to see what I mean.

Beeboy

I am getting Rainbowfish and the description says they love Java Moss. So maybe some Java Moss and Fern.

Beeboy

sirdarksol

A good combination. They make up most of the green in my wife's molly tank (currently sans mollies)