Plant suggestions for a low light, cold water axie tank?

[OliveFish05]

Anyone have any suggestions for plants that would do well in a low light, cold water tank? I’ve got amazon swords, Anubia, Java fern. I am looking for rooted and floating plants. I am looking at anacharis, would this do well?

 

[Sgooosh]

Anyone have any suggestions for plants that would do well in a low light, cold water tank? I’ve got amazon swords, Anubia, Java fern. I am looking for rooted and floating plants. I am looking at anacharis, would this do well?

anacharis would do well as rooted and floating but looks better to me as rooted
how low is the light? i have some flaoter reccomendations but not sure excactly how low it is
photo?

 

[OliveFish05]

anacharis would do well as rooted and floating but looks better to me as rooted
how low is the light? i have some flaoter reccomendations but not sure excactly how low it is
photo?

Very low light. I don’t have a light on the tank at all actually, but sometimes I open my window so it gets very indirect sunlight. The water is not cloudy, it is just a reflection. Ignore my basket of craft supplies and the closet door. I’m too lazy to shut it.

 

[Sgooosh]

Very low light. I don’t have a light on the tank at all actually, but sometimes I open my window so it gets very indirect sunlight. The water is not cloudy, it is just a reflection. Ignore my basket of craft supplies and the closet door. I’m too lazy to shut it.View attachment 149433

make sure to give it indirect light, anacharis will melt if you do not give it light it happened to me

 

[OliveFish05]

I just noticed that your signature says duckweed farmer

 

[Sgooosh]

I just noticed that your signature says duckweed farmer

that's everyone who has duckweed
i sell duckweed online cos i have TOO MUCH aaaaaaaaaa

 

[FishHobby99]

anacharis would do well as rooted and floating but looks better to me as rooted
how low is the light? i have some flaoter reccomendations but not sure excactly how low it is
photo?

I’m interested in this too. I have Java ferns doing kinda ok in one of my two axies tanks. The other has silk vines from Exo Terra recommended by @itiwhetu . Very nice soft realistic fakes

 

[FishHobby99]

that's everyone who has duckweed
i sell duckweed online cos i have TOO MUCH aaaaaaaaaa

That clogged the filters in my goldfish tank. Maybe I should have fenced it in with a tubed loop like Bruce L.- J does?

 

[FishHobby99]

Very low light. I don’t have a light on the tank at all actually, but sometimes I open my window so it gets very indirect sunlight. The water is not cloudy, it is just a reflection. Ignore my basket of craft supplies and the closet door. I’m too lazy to shut it.View attachment 149433

Your room appears to have far more ambient light than my axie room, so perhaps you’ll do better with live plants. Mine are in a darkened room, kept 60-65F.

 

[Sgooosh]

That clogged the filters in my goldfish tank. Maybe I should have fenced it in with a tubed loop like Bruce L.- J does?

yes
use 4 or 3 bendy plastic straws to make a square or circle, a lot cheaper

 

[FishHobby99]

Anyone have any suggestions for plants that would do well in a low light, cold water tank? I’ve got amazon swords, Anubia, Java fern. I am looking for rooted and floating plants. I am looking at anacharis, would this do well

yes
use 4 or 3 bendy plastic straws to make a square or circle, a lot cheaper

Love that idea! Not to mention my straws are in bright neon colors, ever so much prettier than that ugly old tubing.

 

[Sgooosh]

Love that idea! Not to mention my straws are in bright neon colors, ever so much prettier than that ugly old tubing.

i make them in translucent green and yellow so it looks invisible