Plant Recommendations

[Elly]

I've decided after spending about 3 hours cleaning dead plant mess out of my tank that, when I set it up with new plants soon, I'm only going to go for about 6 different types to save myself the stress of having to rearrange every single plant every time I want to gravel vac.

I'm going to use substrate fertiliser, CO2 and Seachem Flourish liquid fertiliser and I have 75W of light on my Juwel 180, which I think should be enough. I was thinking of hygrophilia polysperma and vallis, but can anyone recommend any other good plants? I'm going to go for about 3-4 species of background plants, and a couple of species of foreground, maybe amazon swords. Any ideas? Something that grows fairly fast to keep algae away would be good.

 

[RadaR]

I've decided after spending about 3 hours cleaning dead plant mess out of my tank that, when I set it up with new plants soon, I'm only going to go for about 6 different types to save myself the stress of having to rearrange every single plant every time I want to gravel vac.

I'm going to use substrate fertiliser, CO2 and Seachem Flourish liquid fertiliser and I have 75W of light on my Juwel 180, which I think should be enough. I was thinking of hygrophilia polysperma and vallis, but can anyone recommend any other good plants? I'm going to go for about 3-4 species of background plants, and a couple of species of foreground, maybe amazon swords. Any ideas? Something that grows fairly fast to keep algae away would be good.

Gravel cleaning in a good planted tank is only needed where the plants arent and where its just open gravel. So you wont have to take out your plants.

Heres a list of plant species from the algae pinned article

Hygrophila species
Ludwigia species
Rotala species
Egeria species
Brazilian Water Ivy
Small Ambulia
Mexican Oak Leaf
Water Sprite
Hornwort

 

[Elly]

That's great, thanks

 

[Dude]

hello

get the amazon swords

they have huge root systems and would feed off of wast in the gravel fast

plus i found them to be a easy plant to keep

all you have to do is just cut the lower leaves once in a while in order to keep it looking good and healthy

*hy ploysperma is a great plant also*



hello

get the amazon swords

they have huge root systems and would feed off of wast in the gravel fast

plus i found them to be a easy plant to keep

all you have to do is just cut the lower leaves once in a while in order to keep it looking good and healthy

*hy ploysperma is a great plant also*

 

[dasmall1]

For your lower lighting, you may want to try a java fern (Microsorum pteropus) for the background and some anubias species in the foreground-midground. You might also want to look into some crypt species.