What's your favourite aquarium plant?

Anything that will stand up to puffers and brackish!

Java Fern!

I have to go with the anubias group. They can take pretty much any water condition and they have really pretty leaves.

Another plus is that they can be attatched to driftwood and rocks.

I love java moss. So versitile.

Here's my latest favourite. Tiger Lotus Lily, it's only three weeks old and I've had to trim it back already, there's 3 bulbs, cost £1.50 each!!

That tiger lotus is beautiful, gf225.

cheers cometcattle!!

WATER SPRITE!

Had to add a couple new ones here I just ordered. As well, I upgraded my lights again. I got sick of having to lift off my DIY light several times a day to care to fry. I bought myself a 30" Coral Freshwater Aqualight with 2x65W Power Compact bulbs rated at 6700K.

I just ordered these plants from Ottawa Aquatics (not to spam, but it's the only Online plant store I've found in Canada).

The first is Hemianthus callitrichoides (click name for info), sometimes known as Dragon's Tail. It's a foreground carpeting plant or a floating plant. Light demands are med-high, apparently with high food demands as well. CO2 Always helps...


The next plant is Monosolenium tenerum (click name for info), which has also been sold previously as Pellia.
It's the plant in the middle of the picture.


The last one that I have arriving in the mail anyday is Barclaya longifolia (Click name for info).


Now to wait for them to arrive and then see how they fare in my tank....

Colin

Hemianthus Callitrichoides is a rarity. How much do you plan on getting?

I have M. tenerum in my tank. I was only given a small bit of it out of someone else's tank.

Let us know how they grow in your tank!

I have 3 bunches of Hemianthus callitrichoides on route, and 1 each of Monosolenium tenerum & Barclaya longifolia coming. I'm quite looking forward to the Hemianthus callitrichoides arriving. I had never heard of this, but quite liked the look of it when did find it. Check this link @ aquatic Plant Central to see what it looks like as a floating plant.

When I tried glossostigma, I didn't plant it properly until you Bangin) alerted me regarding this link on How to plant glossostigma. By the time I got around to doing as the above-mentioned post suggested, I had little glosso left. Within a month or two of that, my Kribs developed a taste for the glosso. There is now not a trace of it in my tank. The adult Krib's have been relocated, so we'll have to wait and see how my next order fairs....

Colin

I'm sorry to hear about your glosso. Mine is growing great in my tetra tank.

You're very lucky to have those plants on the way! I didn't check to see if that site mails to US. Hemianthus callitrichoides looks like a delicate plant. I hope it does well with shipping. I'm interested to know how difficult it is to plant. Please keep us posted.

Riccia is a great plant once it sinks . . .

I did manage to eventually get this plant to work for me collin.

Here are some photos of the sunken riccia in my 5g.

I would like to attempt riccia if I can ever find any. I love how it (usually) pearls once established. The only time I've ever seen it was at an auction. If I do ever get ahold of some, I'm going to attempt to secure it either a flat rock or driftwood with a hairnet.

How did you get your riccia to sink, tear-scar?

Colin

Although it's a bit common, I still like Java Fern. Especially the way it propagates. I bought a couple of Java Ferns a while ago and now I have lots of extra plants foating around looking for somewhere to get tangled up in and grow on.

Amazon Swords are impressive too, unfortunately the biggest leaves of mine are about an inch too long and so don't look quite so good.

Riccia eventually loses its ability to float. The companies sell cuttings so the plant is not dense enough to sink. I took whole chunks from my friend's 5 year old plant, so the chunks I took sunk right of the bat, and I just secured them in position by dropping a few grains of my substrate onto the chunks.

BTW-- my riccia has more than doubled in thickness since I took this photo about a month ago, and my friend's plant is now bigger than it was BEFORE I took from it. Very impressive growth if the plant is established.