Help With Plants

[Number 1 Jasper]

Can anyone help please ? we have tried to grow Live plants in our tank & none of them do very well , i add nutrafin fertiliser ever water change , we have added root tablets , we have gravel as the substrate & we dont know what to do ...i have read co2 helsp , is this worth trying > we REALLY do want live plants

 

[chrismr]

What kinds of plants have you tried?

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

What kinds of plants have you tried?

Vallis

Elodea

cobomba

hair grass

pigmy chain sword

rotala

 

[TwoTankAmin]

What size tank? What type and amount of lighting?

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

What size tank? What type and amount of lighting?

Juwel rio 125 , standard tubes that came iwth it .

 

[speedingorange]

standard tubes that came iwth it .

from what ive been told by my reading ive done on here ( ive yet to get my tank)

the spectrum on these bulbs are not very good for growing plants under.

and uprated ones should be tried..

i hope that is correct

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

standard tubes that came iwth it .

from what ive been told by my reading ive done on here ( ive yet to get my tank)

the spectrum on these bulbs are not very good for growing plants under.

and uprated ones should be tried..

i hope that is correct

Thanks , any idea what ones are best ?

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

standard tubes that came iwth it .

from what ive been told by my reading ive done on here ( ive yet to get my tank)

the spectrum on these bulbs are not very good for growing plants under.

and uprated ones should be tried..

i hope that is correct

Thanks , any idea what ones are best ?

anyone ?

 

[zig]

Have a look at the pinned article on lighting in this section of the forum, this should answer most of your initial questions.

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

Have a look at the pinned article on lighting in this section of the forum, this should answer most of your initial questions.

DOH !

Thanks , never even thought of that

 

[donkey]

get some T5s mate u cant go wrong with them . and yes co2 dose help big time

 

[Dubby]

Number_1_Jasper, Since this is your first time with planted tanks, I would suggest the following :
- try to get around 2W/gallon of lighting
- start by growing easy plants like Crypts, Anubias, Elodea, Hornwort
- plant a large number of them so algae is less of a problem
- get a few algae eaters like SAE, Otos, Mollys, shrimp, etc. to help
- sand is easier to manage than gravel