No Co2 - advice on some easy to care for plants

Hi

I’m looking for advice on some easy to care for plants. I have root tabs and will dose with liquid fertilizer but really do not want to add co2 at least not yet.

Currently I have
Anacharis that I spread around the back a bit waiting to see if it spread

a Java fern that broke in half when I was tying it to the drift wood but still looking good

I think the last is water sprite

Basically they were all in a bag and a great deal so took them when I started the tank a few weeks ago.

I am looking for a couple more to add I was thinking possibly an amazon sword or banana plant. I am open to other suggestions also. I figure I should ask for advice since I’m not an expert on plants

 

Bacopa is a pretty good and fast stem plant, anubis can be tied to your driftwood, the Amazon sword is a heavy root feeder so the root tabs should be put under or just to each side of it after its planted.

 

What lights do you have? What supplements do you plan to use? An all in one which is a shotgun approach or individual supplements that you fine tune to the needs of each aquarium? I use the Seachem line and RO/DI water that I remineralize.

You can grow most plants without Co2...Hair grass and other carpet plants can be harder without it though.

 

I like the bacopa never thought of it.

What lights do you have? What supplements do you plan to use?
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Currently I have the led lights that came with the kit (generates 1890 Lumens and 8,000K)
I am currently using flourish root tabs and I’m the past also used the liquid flourish. Again pretty open to whatever supplements needed.

I’m not necessarily looking to carpet just add some breaks in the tank and stuff. Also know corys and some of the other fish I am looking into like to hide and play on them.

Here is what it looks like so far

 

I picked up a couple small banana plants today. They gave me 2 for price of 1 couldn’t say no. So did a water change and some aquascaping. I will post some pics a little later

Also picked up 4 rosy tetras I am planning on a larger school of them but adding slowly.

 

If you do not want to fall into the rabbit hole of plant keeping wisteria is a good easy to keep plant. It gets tall and bushy with minimal care. It is 30" tall in the our 150.

1. This is wisteria in a 55.

 

Here is what we did today, it was pointed out to me I made a mistake.

I am going to switch the banana plants with the driftwood the next time I do a water change. I didn’t realize how large they will get

 

Here are a couple more pics closer up