Best plants for low to medium light?

[idkausernamesoyeah]

whats ur favorite aquarium plants? ones that would work low - medium light and a liquid fertilizer!!

 

[TWiG87]

I really like my crypts. Wendtii red in particular. Very easy plant and has been growing great. I use a liquid all in one and supplement with root tabs.

 

[idkausernamesoyeah]

I really like my crypts. Wendtii red in particular. Very easy plant and has been growing great. I use a liquid all in one and supplement with root tabs.

ooooo. i saw someone with anubias barteri and it literally flowered underwater and i want something cool like that!!!! but i will definitely look into that plant

 

[!poogs!]

Any anubias is a fav (they all flower), and jungle Val.

 

[Demeter]

All crypts are great, those where my first plants and they continue to be my favorite. Easy to grow, near impossible (for me) to kill, spread like wild fire when they’re established and easy to get off my hands when they need to be thinned out. Get a few types of crypts in one tank and it will look very nice.

 

[FinalFins]

I really like crypts too but I killed mine

 

[StarGirl]

I like my Italian (Vals) Valisnerias. They go crazy but I love them because they look like seaweed.

 

[idkausernamesoyeah]

Any anubias is a fav (they all flower), and jungle Val.

whats so interesting abt jungle val? also very cool guys!!

 

[StarGirl]

whats so interesting abt jungle val? also very cool guys!!

It looks like seaweed. It spread really fast if you want plants fairly fast. I guess not interesting?

 

[Demeter]

whats so interesting abt jungle val? also very cool guys!!

Jungle val is just that, a jungle! Mine need to be thinned about once a month. The leaves grow a few feet long and grow very fast. I think its technically a type of macro algae, so it can be touchy with algea treatments.

 

[idkausernamesoyeah]

It looks like seaweed. It spread really fast if you want plants fairly fast. I guess not interesting?

oh i thought it was gonna be something different like flowering underwater

 

[EbiAqua]

Hydrocotyle tripartita, treat it right and it will grow up and out of your aquarium~

 

[Demeter]

oh i thought it was gonna be something different like flowering underwater

Nope, its just glorified seaweed. If I was swimming and it got wrapped around my feet I’d definitely panic. It feels kinda awful, the edges are rough and slightly serrated.

 

[idkausernamesoyeah]

Hydrocotyle tripartita, treat it right and it will grow up and out of your aquarium~

ooooo that sounds cool!! i love the plants that r different and do something fun and always change

this may be asking a bit much but is anyone able to mail me some sort of interesting plants? just put it in a plastic bag then an envelope? maybe some of the hydrocotyle tripataria and some anubias? (barteri if possible) and honestly im not picky if there r snails or eggs. also as long as the plants will survive with low-medium light (possibly a finnex light depending on the tank) with s liquid fert

 

[EbiAqua]

ooooo that sounds cool!! i love the plants that r different and do something fun and always change

It is also sold as "Japan Clover", here is a nice bushy patch in my 2 gallon that is starting to send runners out of the tank.

 

[!poogs!]

It looks like seaweed. It spread really fast if you want plants fairly fast. I guess not interesting?

I guess jungle val is more about how the fish interact with it and its purpose in the aquarium as opposed to what I get out of it visually.

fish swimming through it using it for cover. BN pleco lounging on it. How it moves in the current, shade it provides slow growing lower plants to protect it from algae growth, how it bundles on the surface and gives live-breeder a place to have fry, and bubble-nest breeders a place to build a nest. To me all that stuff is beautiful about jungle val. its can become a huge part of the ecosystem for aquarium life, and that is beautiful to watch. If you don't have jungle val in a tall aquarium, your missing out.

 

[idkausernamesoyeah]

It is also sold as "Japan Clover", here is a nice bushy patch in my 2 gallon that is starting to send runners out of the tank.

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wow thats actually fantastic!!! what do u have in ur 2 gallon?

 

[EbiAqua]

wow thats actually fantastic!!! what do u have in ur 2 gallon?

Plants are Hydrocotyle tripartita, Hemianthus callitrichoides, Cryptocoryne parva, and some floating Salvinia. I am using CO2 and liquid fertilizer.

Animals are currently some small snails, and I am temporarily housing a couple of celestial pearl danios and a scarlet badis until their larger tank is ready.

 

[idkausernamesoyeah]

Plants are Hydrocotyle tripartita, Hemianthus callitrichoides, Cryptocoryne parva, and some floating Salvinia. I am using CO2 and liquid fertilizer.

Animals are currently some small snails, and I am temporarily housing a couple of celestial pearl danios and a scarlet badis until their larger tank is ready.

ooooo fancy

 

[Dennis57]

Red Tiger Lotus, Anubias Barteri, Corkscrew Vals,

 

[FinalFins]

Haha I can't trim my jungle vals or they literally die off.

 

[UnknownUser]

I really love my swords, I got three in a bundle and one took off and one more is just now coming back to life.. think the third one is a dud, but waiting it out still. The red is just gorgeous. I also really like my floating anubias, the leaves are just bright green and beautiful

 

[Ssnaaiil]

What is your favorite aquarium plant and why?

 

[Maryellen]

Anubias. slow grower but just about impossible to kill! Can move it around anywhere I want, and I love the large leaves.

 

[Royan]

anubias coffeefolia
I like how it looks --its a ruffles potato chip compared to a standard potato chip (anubias barteri, etc). Also, my otos like to layon it's wide leaves.

 

[Dewclaw83]

I absolutely love, like, all anubias. They've got such a classic look and they're super hardy. My favorite plant that I have is my Anubias nana pinto (It's a variegated anubias).

Other than anubias, probably limnophila species. Particularly Limnophila indica. It does well in my tanks and looks nice, in my opinion.

 

[Donovan Jones]

Either elodea or vallisneria. They're bulletproof, cold hardy, low light tolerant, and when u let them go bonkers they fill a tank nicely

 

[mimo91088]

I'm in the anubias fan club too.

 

[jkkgron2]

Jungal vals are pretty nice, but I don’t love them when they first get planted because then they aren’t super bushy and kinda packed together. They look better once they’ve grown out a bit.

 

[Ssnaaiil]

anubias coffeefolia
I like how it looks --its a ruffles potato chip compared to a standard potato chip (anubias barteri, etc). Also, my otos like to layon it's wide leaves.

I’ve been wanting to get an anubias coffeefolia

Jungal vals are pretty nice, but I don’t love them when they first get planted because then they aren’t super bushy and kinda packed together. They look better once they’ve grown out a bit.

I just planted some jungle vals last night. I can’t wait for them to spread and fill out my tank.

 

[BabsandLoon]

Anubias. It's the only thing I seem to be able to keep alive.

 

[Ssnaaiil]

Anubias. It's the only thing I seem to be able to keep alive.

I have a couple different anubias types. I don’t really like the look of anubias minima

 

[Dennis57]

Vals and red tiger lotus.

 

[Ssnaaiil]

Vals and red tiger lotus.

I just planted some vals last night.

 

[ProudPapa]

Crypts, if I have to choose.

 

[kanzekatores]

I love anubias and swords.

 

[AcornTheBetta]

S. Repens because it is very versatile. You can put it in the foreground and it will carpet and you can tuck in between hardscape.

 

[Leilio]

green cabomba. I went to kayaking in a river that's full of green Cabomba that's meters long. It was a gorgeous sight to see.

 

[Ssnaaiil]

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Crypts, if I have to choose.

crypts are pretty cool

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I love anubias and swords.

Anubias is a good plant

 

[jmaldo]

#1 Red Tiger Lotus - The colors are fantastic.



#2 Brazilian Pennywort -

 

[faydout]

It changes for me depending on what I've been up to recently, but the past month or two, I've been really into all of the typical aquarium lily type plants. Dwarf lilies, tiger lotus, banana plants. Those types. I just put a tiger lotus bulb in my 40B, where one of my Keyholes took it as an offense against all decency. I tried to remind her that the bulb cost more than she did... didn't help, so I'm growing it out now in the 54 and the rest of my lily's. I'll let it get big enough to not get beat up and try again.

 

[Ssnaaiil]

#1 Red Tiger Lotus - The colors are fantastic.

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#2 Brazilian Pennywort -
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does the red tiger lotus need high light or co2?

 

[faydout]

It will grow better, the better light you give it but doesn't need co2. I wouldn't put it under a stock tank kit light, but anything half decent should get it going.

 

[jmaldo]

Grew "Great" for me in all my tanks, using medium light, no Co2. Nilocg ferts, once it rooted, I added root tabs. They can take over a tank. I purchased two bulbs, have sold nearly a dozen plants from them.

 

[jake37]

I like the following plants:
Anubias afzelii (nice leaf structure)
Anubias barteri var. glabra (very different leaf than most anubia - looks a tiny bit like crypt parvo but with streaks of white)
wenditti crypt red (simple go to plant with a bit of colour)
aponogeton ulvaceus (really requires a 36 inch tall tank)
aponogeton boivinianus (pretty close to my singular favorite plant)
Myriophyllum tuberculatum (brilliant red but requires a *lot* of light to grow - much more than a fluval plant 3.0 can provide - still worth it for the brilliant colouring)
purple aflame sword (hard to locate)
crypt flamingo (hard to grow - not that pretty but unique)
Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus (an extremely easy to grow weed; a very pretty weed but a weed )

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There are some interesting sword plants out there - simple ones like melon sword (redish tint); Echinodorus Parvifolius (a smallest sword with some substance); purple aflame (mentioned above); oriented sword - large sword with a bit of pink.

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I'm not a big fan of Anubias Coffeefolia but i don't dislike it - I have 5 or 6 of them - they can get a bit unwieldly - prefer plain anubia bateri or anubia gold coin to coffeefolia.

 

[altwitch]

Heteranthera zosterifolia is it. While pruning it or replanting it can be a bit of a pain it grows out into nice dense but attractive spread that looks great in both shorter and taller tanks. I had a hard time finding it near me in SC, so stopped at about 4 different aquarium stores during business trip to Florida and found an awesome specimen in Gainesville.

 

[BettaFishObsessed]

Marimo Moss Balls, they are the only “beginner” plant I haven’t killed and I love how my bettas play with them and I like the look at them. I have killed:
-java ferns
-java moss
-anubias
-water wisteria
-hornwort
So yeah not very good with plants :/ but i havent killed marimo moss balls so I like them because I havent killed them (yet)

 

[jake37]

It isn't that you haven't killed them yet it just takes them a long time to die.... give it a few years .... i'm sure they will eventually die.

Marimo Moss Balls, they are the only “beginner” plant I haven’t killed and I love how my bettas play with them and I like the look at them. I have killed:
-java ferns
-java moss
-anubias
-water wisteria
-hornwort
So yeah not very good with plants :/ but i havent killed marimo moss balls so I like them because I havent killed them (yet)

 

[hyperheide]

Hornwort is my favorite. It has the perfect green.

 

[jake37]

Hornwort is nice; unfortunately it grows too well in my tank so i'm constantly throwing it away every week. I'm actually leaning towards similar but softer plants like Myriophyllum scabratum. This isn't really quite the same because hornworth branches more esp when floating and Myriophyllum scabratum is more of a stem but it is so fluffy

Hornwort is my favorite. It has the perfect green.