Madchild57
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Currently planning a rescape of my low tech 55 gallon tank, and I've been taking it piece by piece. I'm onto the last half which is covered by a large (25-ish inch wide) floating water sprite. Needless to say, it doesn't let much light through even with trimming due to the sheer size of the thing.
I am using a Koval brand LED light currently- probably somewhere in the moderate lighting as it grew algae like crazy before I added the water sprite to suck up extra nutrients.
I wanted to do a crinum calamistratum since I heard they are low light as sort of a centerpiece of that side. I'm currently trying to pick a final plant that would go well in this shaded area. I wanted to steer away from the java ferns, anubias, & mosses since I already have those at nauseum, but I did want some kind of bushy plant to go in front of the crinum. My current ideas are some dense lemon bacopa, moneywort, hornwort, or hygro corymbosa (my preference right now), but there's very conflicting information as to whether those are low light or high light. Any ideas for bushy low light plants, stem or otherwise?
Just for reference, I have some lemon bacopa that is growing under the water sprite, lower leaves are dropping slightly but it is steadily growing.
I am using a Koval brand LED light currently- probably somewhere in the moderate lighting as it grew algae like crazy before I added the water sprite to suck up extra nutrients.
I wanted to do a crinum calamistratum since I heard they are low light as sort of a centerpiece of that side. I'm currently trying to pick a final plant that would go well in this shaded area. I wanted to steer away from the java ferns, anubias, & mosses since I already have those at nauseum, but I did want some kind of bushy plant to go in front of the crinum. My current ideas are some dense lemon bacopa, moneywort, hornwort, or hygro corymbosa (my preference right now), but there's very conflicting information as to whether those are low light or high light. Any ideas for bushy low light plants, stem or otherwise?
Just for reference, I have some lemon bacopa that is growing under the water sprite, lower leaves are dropping slightly but it is steadily growing.