Hi Guy's What Plants Go With Mollies?

[nathpolo]

Hi guy's what plants go with mollies??

I have had a Cabomba aquatica in my tank for months and it was doing beautifully, and another plant who's name I can't remember. I recently added 3 Dalmatian Molly and 2 black molly to my tank, Not too long after adding them, I noticed my plant had white ends on the leaves. and now i have big pieces of the plant floating on top. so my question is what plants do you think will go with mollies?

 

[SchottayB]

I've never had any trouble with plants and mollies

 

[Blubble37]

wont be the mollies mate, my mollies just peck the food off the leaves for a light snack

 

[Aquamaniac]

Its not the mollies mate.Its the setup of the tank.
Cabomba is a bit of a demanding plant in terms of light,co2 and nutrients.Since a think your ideia is just to keep some plants with your mollies and not a real planted tank may i sugest this:

check this plant

As you can read there its quite a good alternative to the cabomba and easy to maintain with a low tech setup

 

[nathpolo]

Its not the mollies mate.Its the setup of the tank.
Cabomba is a bit of a demanding plant in terms of light,co2 and nutrients.Since a think your ideia is just to keep some plants with your mollies and not a real planted tank may i sugest this:

Thanks for the reply's guys and yeah that plant looks good thanks. I was thinking of redoing my tank as a planted tank just doing some research at the moment about how to do it. have you got any suggestion's?

 

[Aquamaniac]

First of all do you have the setup needed?

Plants need 3 things:

Light

0,5 watts/litre but optimal is 1 watt\litre

Co2

Its really important to help the plants grow. Its all part of the photosysthesis process. Plants absorb light and co2 and expell O2 to grow.

Nutrientss

Fertile soils and liquid fertilizers.

It all depends on what plants you want and how demanding they are.For start i recoment easy to keep plants.

List of easy to keep plants

If you have these 3 things on your tank your plants will grow.But beware that planted tanks demand more of your time to maintain than a normal tank,

 

[nathpolo]

Plants need 3 things:

Light

0,5 watts/litre but optimal is 1 watt\litre

Co2

Its really important to help the plants grow. Its all part of the photosysthesis process. Plants absorb light and co2 and expell O2 to grow.

Nutrientss

Fertile soils and liquid fertilizers.

It all depends on what plants you want and how demanding they are.For start i recoment easy to keep plants.

The light i have is ok. What type of Nutrients do i need? Im just looking for at Hagen Nutrafin CO2 on ebay now, what would you suggest? the plant's look good thanks will have a good look at them later.

 

[Aquamaniac]

Plants need 3 things:

Light

0,5 watts/litre but optimal is 1 watt\litre

Co2

Its really important to help the plants grow. Its all part of the photosysthesis process. Plants absorb light and co2 and expell O2 to grow.

Nutrientss

Fertile soils and liquid fertilizers.

It all depends on what plants you want and how demanding they are.For start i recoment easy to keep plants.

The light i have is ok. What type of Nutrients do i need? Im just looking for at Hagen Nutrafin CO2 on ebay now, what would you suggest? the plant's look good thanks will have a good look at them later.

You should setup the thank with fertile soil under the gravel.This soil will provide the nutrients necessary to help your plants grow in the beginning.eventually it will ran out of nutrients after that you need to use liquid fertilizer wich basically most aquarium equipment brands sell.The fertile soil i use Tropica aquacare.Its not the best out there but its good quality for money.The best ones for a 240 litre tank like mine are just extremely expensive.

In my country i used to use worm casting wich is very nutrient rich and very cheap.Its not really adequate for tanks but with proper care you get good results for almost no money,but in england i can´t find that.

 

[nathpolo]

ok then thanks i will pick some up 2moz

 

[Blubble37]

First of all do you have the setup needed?

Plants need 3 things:

Light

0,5 watts/litre but optimal is 1 watt\litre

Co2

Its really important to help the plants grow. Its all part of the photosysthesis process. Plants absorb light and co2 and expell O2 to grow.

Nutrientss

Fertile soils and liquid fertilizers.

It all depends on what plants you want and how demanding they are.For start i recoment easy to keep plants.

List of easy to keep plants

If you have these 3 things on your tank your plants will grow.But beware that planted tanks demand more of your time to maintain than a normal tank,

i only have 20 watts in a 95 litre though and my plants are healthy. But then it is right up against a window so...

 

[Aquamaniac]

First of all do you have the setup needed?

Plants need 3 things:

Light

0,5 watts/litre but optimal is 1 watt\litre

Co2

Its really important to help the plants grow. Its all part of the photosysthesis process. Plants absorb light and co2 and expell O2 to grow.

Nutrientss

Fertile soils and liquid fertilizers.

It all depends on what plants you want and how demanding they are.For start i recoment easy to keep plants.

List of easy to keep plants

If you have these 3 things on your tank your plants will grow.But beware that planted tanks demand more of your time to maintain than a normal tank,

i only have 20 watts in a 95 litre though and my plants are healthy. But then it is right up against a window so...

Depends on the plants.Some of them grow with basically normal light.But real highly planted tanks need good light.
Sun light is bad for the tank,usually it can give you algae in the glasses.

 

[Blubble37]

i have no algae thanks to my army of 500+ snails

 

[ian]

wow, 1 watt per litre!


please don't do this people, unless all you want is algae.

Planted tanks don't need this much light, that is an old school way of thinking. Most aquascapers, planted tank keepers don't use much light anymore. It's now more important to get C02, NKP and flow right.

 

[Aquamaniac]

wow, 1 watt per litre!


please don't do this people, unless all you want is algae.

Planted tanks don't need this much light, that is an old school way of thinking. Most aquascapers, planted tank keepers don't use much light anymore. It's now more important to get C02, NKP and flow right.

I said between 0,5 to 1 watt.I also said it depends on what plants you put in.I think its not a mistake that an easy and low demanding plant does not need too much light.But a very demanding one still needs light.A 300 litre tank definetely does not need 300 watts of light.Half of it is enough if you put 80 watts in it won't do.Anyway thanks for the heads up i'm always looking to learn more and will research on it. Don't think its old school way of thinking at least 0,5 watt for a higly planted tank you'll need.More than that depends on the demands of the plants.Correct me if i'm wrong.

NKP is advanced for a beginner i think.

 

[ian]

you said per litre, even .5 can be construed as on the higher side of light. Even though it's not really a good rule to work from (wpg). Nowadays with the invent of LED's and T5 and T5ho, we use the wpg rule very loosely. We will advise people to use TPN+ in this section, if a person decides to go down the carbon route, with that either being liquid carbon or pressurised C02. Once C02 comes into play, you need to dose some NKP to keep up with plant demands. So, NKP isn't so advanced. As said before, it's really not all about the high light, it's more about getting the other parts right. People are carpeting tanks with HC with just over 1wpg nowadays.