Tiswas
New Member
I'm new to all this plant stuff but really like the look of properly planted aquariums. I've dabbled with plants in my tanks with mixed success rates. I'm looking at buying a load of plants and starting over in my main tank. It's a 60L tank currently in the middle of a crisis (nasty diseased fish from LFS killed off most of my stock
) so only has one guppy and one kuhli loach. Am planning to put a dwarf gourami, some neons and shrimp in it eventually.
My lighting I dont really know what it is, came as standard with my tank. All I can tell you is that there are two tubes, one white and one blue that are either on or off. It's pretty basic. I'm not using CO2 because I have nowhere feasible to put it out of sight at the moment but have had a look at that liquid carbon stuff to use instead. The substrate is fairly loosely packed medium sized gravel and at the moment I'm adding liquid fertilisers for the plants I have at the moment (sorry no idea what species they are). 3 are doing really well and the other one I'm beginning to suspect isn't an aquatic plant at all...
My question is this, I've complied a list of possible plants that I like and I want to know if a) they are compatible and b) if they would work in my set up.
The list is as follows:
Aponogeton crispus
vallis torta
Java fern
Red ludwigia
Hornwort
Dwarf hairgrass
Lilaeopsis brasiliensis
Mini amazon sword
What do people think? I'd be grateful for all help and suggestions because as I said, I'm new to plants and dont really know what i'm doing.

My lighting I dont really know what it is, came as standard with my tank. All I can tell you is that there are two tubes, one white and one blue that are either on or off. It's pretty basic. I'm not using CO2 because I have nowhere feasible to put it out of sight at the moment but have had a look at that liquid carbon stuff to use instead. The substrate is fairly loosely packed medium sized gravel and at the moment I'm adding liquid fertilisers for the plants I have at the moment (sorry no idea what species they are). 3 are doing really well and the other one I'm beginning to suspect isn't an aquatic plant at all...
My question is this, I've complied a list of possible plants that I like and I want to know if a) they are compatible and b) if they would work in my set up.
The list is as follows:
Aponogeton crispus
vallis torta
Java fern
Red ludwigia
Hornwort
Dwarf hairgrass
Lilaeopsis brasiliensis
Mini amazon sword
What do people think? I'd be grateful for all help and suggestions because as I said, I'm new to plants and dont really know what i'm doing.