Turning my 50g from artificial to real plants!

[AmyKieran]

Update- after glueing the plants down, the plants are no longer being uprooted but are just being destroyed. I really don’t have many plants left my Java ferns are still going great but everything else isn’t. Any suggestions of other plants?

 

[Rocky998]

Update- after glueing the plants down, the plants are no longer being uprooted but are just being destroyed. I really don’t have many plants left my Java ferns are still going great but everything else isn’t. Any suggestions of other plants?

Anubias? Those leaves are insanely strong. And the plant can put up with a lot. I put the plant in mid cycle in my tank and it coped with 3ppm of ammonia for a while. Not one sign of yellowing at all. The fish may try to bite the plant but then realize its not good to bite . Try to go for larger grown ones though

 

[AmyKieran]

Anubias? Those leaves are insanely strong. And the plant can put up with a lot. I put the plant in mid cycle in my tank and it coped with 3ppm of ammonia for a while. Not one sign of yellowing at all. The fish may try to bite the plant but then realize its not good to bite . Try to go for larger grown ones though

Okay I’ll give them a go thanks

 

[AmyKieran]

Anubias and more Java fern added

 

[Rocky998]

Anubias and more Java fern added

Looks nice! How did you get anubias that quick? Do you have a store near you that sells them? If so you're sooo lucky!

 

[AmyKieran]

Looks nice! How did you get anubias that quick? Do you have a store near you that sells them? If so you're sooo lucky!

Yeah my LFS has plenty haha

 

[AmyKieran]

Nomaphila stricta added

 

[AmyKieran]

Frogbit added

I only have 30 pieces of it, Will it multiply? And how quickly?

 

[Essjay]

Provided the fish leave it alone it should multiply quickly. The plant will send out a sort of runner just under the surface and the new plant will grow in the end of the runner.

 

[AmyKieran]

Provided the fish leave it alone it should multiply quickly. The plant will send out a sort of runner just under the surface and the new plant will grow in the end of the runner.

Great, when you say quickly, how quickly? Just it looks silly with just little amounts for now haha

 

[Essjay]

The plants may grow faster or slower in your hard water Rift Lake tank than in my soft water tank, but I had to throw handfuls of plants away every two to three weeks or they'd be pushing each other out of the tank. Give it a few weeks and if the fish leave them alone, the surface will be completely covered with roots trailing on the bottom of the tank.

 

[AmyKieran]

Update -

All of the frogbit has been eaten.. annoying to say the least

On the other hand more Nomaphila stricta and some wedtii has been delivered that I’ll be planting tomorrow with my new sand. Images to follow

 

[AmyKieran]

Hornwort added

 

[AmyKieran]

Starting to drift down, looks awesome

 

[AmyKieran]

Forgot to add the change of substrate and black background added