Jackiee
Fish Crazy
Hello 
I just started to gradually plant my tank.. I only have 4 plants in there right now.. 2 Anubias nana and 2 Anubias Congensis.
I have just recently read that it's better to get a large plant mass going rather than a couple plants here and there.. Is this true?
I'm doing just a simple low-tech plant tank. No cO2, no fancy lighting -- just a 32 watt T8 fluorescent bulb.
I have API Leaf Zone liquid carbon to add everyday, and Flourish liquid supplement to add once or twice a week.
The only LFS's in my area (Petco, Petsmart) don't really carry a good or big selection in live plants.. they had the anubias that I purchased, but they came in tall Plastic containers with the bottoms of them filled with some sort of moist gel substance to keep the plants from dying or drying out.. pretty commercial packaging..
The ones I got looked pretty good for the most part, but there were some on the shelves with browning/dead leaves..
Where is a good online site that I could get live plants at a good price? I'm not trying to break the bank.
I need low-tech plants that are low maintenance and hardy, as I have south american cichlids in the tank.
Here's a list I came across that do well in low-tech tanks (got it from another thread) but do these plants also hold up to rough housing Cichlids?
Java fern
Mosses (various)
Bolbitis
Hydrocotyle (various)
Cryptocorynes (various)
Amazon swords (various)
Creeding Jenny
Indian water fern
Staurogyne repens
Hemianthus micranthemoides
Lomariopsis lineata
Advice would be greatly appreciated !
I just started to gradually plant my tank.. I only have 4 plants in there right now.. 2 Anubias nana and 2 Anubias Congensis.
I have just recently read that it's better to get a large plant mass going rather than a couple plants here and there.. Is this true?
I'm doing just a simple low-tech plant tank. No cO2, no fancy lighting -- just a 32 watt T8 fluorescent bulb.
I have API Leaf Zone liquid carbon to add everyday, and Flourish liquid supplement to add once or twice a week.
The only LFS's in my area (Petco, Petsmart) don't really carry a good or big selection in live plants.. they had the anubias that I purchased, but they came in tall Plastic containers with the bottoms of them filled with some sort of moist gel substance to keep the plants from dying or drying out.. pretty commercial packaging..
The ones I got looked pretty good for the most part, but there were some on the shelves with browning/dead leaves..
Where is a good online site that I could get live plants at a good price? I'm not trying to break the bank.
I need low-tech plants that are low maintenance and hardy, as I have south american cichlids in the tank.
Here's a list I came across that do well in low-tech tanks (got it from another thread) but do these plants also hold up to rough housing Cichlids?
Java fern
Mosses (various)
Bolbitis
Hydrocotyle (various)
Cryptocorynes (various)
Amazon swords (various)
Creeding Jenny
Indian water fern
Staurogyne repens
Hemianthus micranthemoides
Lomariopsis lineata
Advice would be greatly appreciated !
