More Plant Suggestions?

chadcf
  • #1
Attached is a photo, I'm looking for some more ideas on plants that would look good and fill in my tank! I currently have hornwort, some kind of sword, a java fern, an anubias and some java moss on driftwood. There's some dwarf sag in there but it's not been doing much but we'll see if it ever starts to grow. I'd love some more tall background plants but not sure what else might work, I tried anacharis and didn't have any luck with it (stems kept dying off, sending it floating in small bits all over the tank making a mess).

The light is a Finnex Planted 24/7 SE + on the 24 hour cycle. I dose with some flourish once or twice a week. I'd prefer to not get *too* complicated beyond that.
 

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Hill Dweller
  • #3
Water wisteria grows fast, I tried val for the first time and it's worked fine. I've also had a species of hygrophila that grows like crazy. Some crypts grow biggish and in quite a bushy clump.

I don't use any ferts, just stick them in the sand and these have all grown great with just light and nitrates. Enjoy planning and researching, it's one of my favourite things
 
aussieJJDude
  • #4
Look into crypts, many different species and varieties some grow up to 2 inches in height, others up to 2 feet.
 
Wraithen
  • #5
Don't forget Sagittaria.

If you want kind of a cool effect with wisteria bury the stem lengthwise. It will grow that way too and then when it decides to grow a set of roots halfway up the stem you don't have to see it. You can use it like a foreground plant up along the front if you chose to.

I would look into getting a macro fertilizer. I dose P and K, and leave my fish to provide the N. While liquid ferts are more expensive, the concentrations in the aqua vitro line make it more palatable. I'm using 2 ml a few times a week for a 65 gal tank. You can only buy it at a mom and pop lfs though, seachem is trying to help them compete better against the chains. I'm sure there's cheaper/ better ways to do it, but it's easy for me and it's working wonderfully.
 
Nataku
  • #6
For tall easy background plants I recommend jungle valisneria or stargrass. Jungle val spreads via runners that can be trimmed and replanted once they have a couple leaves on them. Stargrass is an easy stem plant, just trim when it gets tall and replant the trimmed stem and it will grow too.
Stuff on the right is stargrass. Its grown into a veritable forest on me. And I started with only perhaps a half dozen stems. It can really fill in if you plant the trimmings closely. Tall blades of grass like stuff on the left is jungle val.
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kim&marc
  • #7
For tall easy background plants I recommend jungle valisneria or stargrass. Jungle val spreads via runners that can be trimmed and replanted once they have a couple leaves on them. Stargrass is an easy stem plant, just trim when it gets tall and replant the trimmed stem and it will grow too.
Stuff on the right is stargrass. Its grown into a veritable forest on me. And I started with only perhaps a half dozen stems. It can really fill in if you plant the trimmings closely. Tall blades of grass like stuff on the left is jungle val.View attachment 421581
I think the plant to the right side is the Pogostemin Octopus plant, I have the same.
I really like the Aponogeton (front right) bulbs usually sprout quickly. Any ludwigia is pretty easy & grows pretty quick
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