confuzzled

hiya, so after deciding to upgrade to a bigger tank i decided to go the live plant route.I went to my LFS and in my excitment bought plants, but i dont know what they are lol can anyone help??

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navyscuba

Don't know much about plants yet but here is a good link with plants profiles. Good Luck.
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/myplants/

confuzzled

lol thats my prob neither do i

thanks for that site ive saved it to my favourites for future reference!

is it just me or do all plants start to look the same after a while?Just when I think ive found it, another one looks just like it too

Butterfly

Plantgook.net is also a good place to check on plants Here is a link to their plant gallery. http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_all_gallery.php
carol

peacemaker92

Great advice above and the website given is a good website. Good luck!

confuzzled

hiya guys,

yet another site added to my favs thank you butterfly

but still havent had any luck in finding them, i hope that they are proper aquatic plants

i think the bottom pic might be golden moneywort

if anyone knows what they are i would really appreciate it, im starting to loose the plot now lol

Nate McFin

The bottom pic looks like hemianthus callitrichoides.

sirdarksol

Kind of, but it's too big. HC has tiny leaves, usually about the size of the head of a pin.

Nate McFin

You are correct. Maybe a stunted Micranthemum umbrosum?

pepetj

That's quite common experience, at least for me. It takes some time, as with fish, to get to know about aquatic plants.

The first pic seems to be a Shinnersia rivularis, sometimes named as Trichocoronis rivularis (Mexican Oak Leaf). This plant needs bright light if you want the leaves to stay close to each other, otherwise the node distance between the leaves will become too large and the plant will loose its "compact" looks. This plant will reach the water surface and continue to grow underwater. (info from Peter Hiscock. 2003, Encyclopedia of Aquatic Plants, p. 188)

I have strong suspicious about the second one being a terrestrial only plant, it seems to be a climbing species.

The third one seems to be, as Nate points out, a Micranthemum umbrosum, also named Micranthenmum orbiculatum (Helzine). If planted in the substrate, consider providing bright light.

Pepetj
Santo Domingo

sirdarksol

Could be. There are a lot of plants that look similar. That's why I didn't even take a shot. Moneywort (what the original poster guessed) seems to be a pretty good guess, too.

confuzzled

thanks guys for your help.

i dont think i should keep the top 2 plants in my tank tbh, im feeling quite disheartened today after looking at my tank this morn to see bits of melted plant everywhere! I need something easy for a beginner i think, here is a pic of my tank that i want to plant out, i really want a lush look, has anyone got any ideas?



ignore the backing it got wet oopppsss, i am in the process of adding an external filter so when that has seeded the internal boxed one will be a goner!