hughessomefish
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hi i would suggest a amazon sord or a brazilian sord they are very nice plants and will grown into your aqaurium
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Hm. Better rethink my plants then.Maybe you're thinking of the banana tree, which is a terrestrial tree, but the banana plant is an aquatic plant with roots shaped like little bananas, hence the name. I'll post a pic of one at the end of this post.As far as I am aware banana plants are terrestrial plants that will not survive being submerged for long so you may want to omit this, another excellent plant to add would be java moss to carpet any wood or rocks and limnophilia both of which flourish in most conditions and are very easy to care for.
I have some java moss, just a few strands though. It never seemed to grow at all, I may try using java moss for the bogwood though. I think I'm pretty much set on plants though, but I'll look at limnophilia.
banana tree:
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banana plant
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I will save you some greff, the banana plant won't live in your aquarium it needs alot and I mean alot of ferts and co2 and High lighting, don't care what anyone else says about it. I have first hand experience with this plant and eventually it will die anyways I have grown the leaves to bigger than my hand in my planted tank and I have also grown them in just a normal tank eaither way they don't seem to like florish to well for some reason. and I am not talking about the banana tree...... Also a note would be that this plant does not like high flow in your water, so the main things are high lighting and low flow!
Anubias well have fun, it to requires high lighting and co2 to grow submerged.... At least if you want it to flower not sure if that one flowers under water or not can't remember
Water sprite is actually a bog, I have found I have better luck after it gets to a hand size to grow it half in the water and half out of the water. It requires high lighting as well
Here is a list that you can go over I think this would be better suited
Fanwort
Comoba
Anything from the vail family will work great with high water flow
some crypts would be a nice add just remember some require high lighting some require moderate
ricca might do okay it just won't pearl without co2
different mosses dont' require co2, actually i can't keep it alive with co2
java fern
add high lighting and co2 and the list becomes big!
for a 10 gallon tank I wouldn't recommend an Amazon Sword they grow huge, I mean rediculously big! My 40gal tank with no co2 low lighting just that plant alone took up 1/2-3/4 of the tank although the brazilian sword might be a good centre plant choice. Not sure on how big it gets I do have one in my tank and been in there ever since I got rid of my amazon swords, I just might be 1 of a few who have had them at rediculaous sizes, my brazilian is about bigger than my hand I do heavy trimming of it though.hi i would suggest a amazon sord or a brazilian sord they are very nice plants and will grown into your aqaurium
[You don't need high light to keep these plants alive (with the possible exception of HC, but plenty of people grow it with 'reasonable'/medium light and it does ok. Just nowhere near as vibrant as it would be under optimum conditions
Thanks for your replies..
I may not keep the banana plant anymore, then. Are there any foreground plants that I could use to replace the banana plants? Also, is there any alternative to HC I can use if it won't work out well?
Also, for cabomba, it looks like it grows pretty big. It also clogs up the filter sometimes apparently. I don't know if I want this.