Which Plant Package Is Best?

HI everyone!
I'm starting a Walstad method 10 gallon tank. It will be heavily planted, low (pushing medium) light, no co2.
Which is the best for this tank?

Rice Aquatics $31
Cryptocoryne WendtiI (Misc) × 1
Java Moss × 1
Hygrophila sp. 'Green Olive' × 2
Myrio MinI (Myriophyllum sp. ‘Guyana’ ) × 5
Water Wisteria x 5

Aquariumplants.club $27
– Amazon Sword (Echinodorus bleheri)
– Anacharis Bunch | 5-7 stems
– Moneywort | 5-7 stems
– Hornwort | 5-7 stems
– Cryptocoryne WendtiI Bronze
– Ludwigia Repens

Private Seller $25-I can mix and match ~25+ but I don't know what to get..help!
Windelow Fern
Dwarf Sagittaria
Aponogeton sp.
Limnophila Aromatica mini
Water Sprite
Elodea canadensis
Rotala Rountifolia
Ludwigia repens
Crypt
Hygrophila corymbosa


(If you sell plants and have a similar deal/shipping feel free to let me know!!)

 

Seems like a good deal for plants, but I think busephalandra require higher lighting, any carpeting plants do as well.

 

Seems like a good deal for plants, but I think busephalandra require higher lighting, any carpeting plants do as well.

Ooh well that's no good then lol I was hoping since it said low tech I could get away with low light :/ bummer. Would this be better and would it fill out a 10 gallon? It's $14.99
Amazon BleherI Sword – Anacharis | 6 Stems – Hornwort | 6 Stems – Moneywort | 6 Stems

 

The busephalandra can do medium lighting, I have some crypts (bronze, green, and a balanse *sp?) that do well in a low light/sun light tank. Hornwort is a good one, my shrimp love running on it and guppy grass. The sword can do low light, most of my swords are growing best in a low light tank (one is in with the crypts I have and it has 2 inch wide leaves that go to the top of the tank and fold over, it could be in a 20 high easily, it has a small bed of eco-complete, but it took a couple months for it to go from a daughter plant to this beast). Anacharis might not like higher temps, mine grows best in low 70s, but I also have a couple strands at 78 as well. Moneywort is great for low tech, have some of that in with the crypts as well and it grows like a weed.

If you have the higher light ones closer to the surface you would be able to get away with it, unless it is a carpeting plant (but those most often need co2 as well, but otherwise good).

Edit: Some good low light plants are swords (amazonicus - get a little big for a ten, but bushy, osiris - sort of like a dwarf sword, top inches is like 8?), anubias, java fern (normal, windelov, and trident are common, you also have african water fern which looks similar), some crypts (green, red needs iron to keep the red), mosses are neat (christmas looks very pretty), subwassertang seems to grow well for me in low lighting, bacopa (carolina or moneywort)...the list is actually pretty long...chain sword (dwarf or normal) does well in low light as well.

 

Thank you very much! Wow so I am definitely going to keep this list around for long time lol. I have a few plants in my 29 but nothing fancy (java ferns, dwarf sag & anubias) so a heavily planted tank is totally new to me. I might not be able to do a package, I was hoping to save some money since I need so many lol I am also trying dirt for the first time ever..eek! I did just realize that since the hood actually has what looks like t10 bulbs (regular screw in bulbs but skinny) that I might be able to get away with medium light plants by getting higher watt bulbs (even though watts/gallon is rule of thumb I think with a small basic set up like this it may still apply)

 

Be carefully not to melt your hood with higher heat bulbs.

 

Be carefully not to melt your hood with higher heat bulbs.

Lol very true, my husband will make sure that doesn't happen. He was talking about voltage and watts and what the ballast/hood can handle. I do the fun stuff, he makes sure I don't burn the house down

 

I have more options now, I found a private seller but I have no idea which package or what to pick!

 

What, out of those listed, makes you go oo.

 

Well lol honestly I hadn't thought about it that way.. I really like the hygro and the windelov java fern, I just have regular java fern right now

 

For a true Walstad Method tank that uses plants as a means to filter ammonia produced by the fish with no other means of biological filtration you'll want a large amount of fast-growing low-light Stem Plants such as the Water Wisteria, Anarchris, Ludwigia Repens, Hornwort and want very low light.

If you're actually using a filter as a means for biological filtration, essentially just a Dirt Planted Tank, then you can go with that Ooh-la-la aspect of plants.

There's a drastic in difference between what you want and what you require between the two tanks

 

For a true Walstad Method tank that uses plants as a means to filter ammonia produced by the fish with no other means of biological filtration you'll want a large amount of fast-growing low-light Stem Plants such as the Water Wisteria, Anarchris, Ludwigia Repens, Hornwort and want very low light.

If you're actually using a filter as a means for biological filtration, essentially just a Dirt Planted Tank, then you can go with that Ooh-la-la aspect of plants.

There's a drastic in difference between what you want and what you require between the two tanks

I'm trying to do the actual walstad tank, no filter. I was thinking about putting a small one of for the first week just to jump start the bacteria so I can put fish in sooner and then take the filter off and let the plants do their job. Could that work?
So I definitely need the fastest growing plants I can find, I just don't know that much about all of these plants. It sounds like the package from Aquarium Plants would be the closest to what I need and it comes with 3 root feeders, do you think that will be enough plus all the stems?
PS I'm not too concerned with the Ooh-la-la as long as they do their job

 

Hey guys I posted two aquascape plans in a new thread if you get a chance could you give me your opinion on them?