11yancazosj

i have 4 fake plants. they look pretty good. i shud get real 1s coz of my gouramis

Master Snake

Duh my tank is planted! It's real not as hard as it seems. I have 1.5 w/g with flourite substrate and most (sorry jungle val) is thriving!!!! No algae and hardly any work. Waaaaay better then plastic. Wendtii crypt, lutea crypt, red ludwiga, scarlet temple, amazon sword, chain sword, and of course jungle val my fave!!!!(even though its doing the worst)

Nate McFin

I love plants...actually my next tank may well be plants only.
Plants really aren't tough for those who want to get into it. I have basic gravel and the plants if chosen well will do great. Swords,cypts, and Java Moss right now. Were it not for a salt treatment for ICH I would still have Micro Sword and Giant Baby tears. If you like research...which most of you do or you wouldn't be here...take the leap. You wont regret it!

11yancazosj

so am i. i dont really have the time to maintain plant health

navyscuba

Don't be scared they are many plants that don't require a lot of attention. All you have to do is check their info and do a little homework on the forum or out on the LFS.

11yancazosj

what does LFS mean

haedra

I no longer have any live plants. Since I managed to kill two of the most hardy ones, I gave up on keeping live plants at all. This is not a surprise for me, as I haven't had a real house plant since 1992 for the same reasons.

Beth1965

means Local Fish Store

mathas

While Beth1965 has already answered this, for future reference any time a word/acronym has a dotted blue underline (such as the 'LFS' in navyscuba's post), you can click on the word and be taken to a dictionary page that explains it.

Dictionary/Article links in posts

11yancazosj

i thought so but people used it in a sentance that didnt make sense but its all good now.

:-)

SIRHC

Haha, sorry to laugh but you made my night with that 1992 line, I can see me doin the same

back to the matter at hand yes I am putting in real plants when I get my tank, but the look to me makes it worth the maintenance needed for them

11yancazosj

im myself, the one who doesnt like real plants is considering it and its all because of you. partly becasue my blue gouramis love to have a quick nibble on plants

SWilkins

Well there are plants in all of my tanks except for two. The EBJD's just will not allow it and the blood red parrots are like bulldozers. So I quit trying to plant those tanks. They just have their hiding spots, caves, and such. And hey the bulldozers even move some of the big rocks around!!

11yancazosj

cool

Master Snake

LIGHTS (lights) ACTION!

Alasse

All my tanks have live plants to varying degrees, the breeding tanks have Java fern only, the bettas have java fern and chain swords, the maingano cichlids have java fern and val, the endlers have java fern, chain sword & Ambulia, the 5ft is fully scaped and planted (a few more varieties)

Plants are not hard to care for and do not take much time at all, i only do maintenance on my 5ft fully planted every 6-8 weeks *L*

All my are running very low to low light

MissMTS

My 18 gallon, 50 gallon pond, and 75 gallon are fully planted. Planted tanks are deffinetly my favorite kind I have an 80 gallon that was also planted, but when I got my severum he tore apart the tank, so I had to remove the plants. My mbuna tank doesn't have plants either because the plants will become lunch pretty quickly

Shaina

Yeah all but my quarantine are at least partially planted...I have a few old plastic plants floating in my quarantine tank to help fish in there be less stressed, but my display tank are all rock/driftwood/live plants.

The plant I have offhand (common names where possible): Amazon Sword, Dwarf Chain Sword (E. telenus), Cabomba, Anubias (nana, coffeefolia, two unknowns), Java Moss, Java Fern, Crinum calamistratum, Bacopa, Pennywort, some sort of Riccia-type plant that isn't actually Riccia (got it at an auction and the guy next to me who's been raising aquarium plants commercially for 20 years didn't know it either lol), Water Wisteria, Saggitaria sp.