Looking For Plants

[MrMashashin]

My tank and its fake plants are getting dull so im doing a big make over. Once i get all the while gravel in or i might get some white sand. Once i get the new bottom going I'm going to need some good easy to grow plants for my tank. I have some pictures of some plants i have in mind.

Congensis - it says it needs low light. Does that mean if it has more light than it needs it will die?

Barteri Round Leaf

quite posably some of these Crinum "Dwarf" onion plant . also if anyone knows how big these will get, please tell me

Please add any good looking, reletivly cheap plants that you know of and include a picture. I'm looking for plants that don't need alot of maitanence and can pretty much grow without any store bought things. But if they need the fertilizers then thats ok.

Plastic and cloth plants arn't that good in my tank lol thir getting blochy from the food.

 

[heresmike]

It looks like you copied that picture of Congensis from aquariumplants.com It says there lighting can be low-high.

Did you check out the links in the pinned 'planted tank links' thread? There's a link for 'proven performers' that'll give you a good start. I started there, and went to aquariumplants.com and clicked on the low light link. There's tons of plants in that category and all are easy to grow. One of my favorites that I got from there is sunset hygrophilia polysperma. If you check out the small tank of the month competition, you'll see my tank with that plant on the left. Awesome plant.

 

[Bol]

You could also check out the low-light section of the plant profiles at plantgeek.net.

From my limited experience (grain of salt), the low-light plants that 'suffer' in higher light conditions are those that grow slowly and have tough, long-lasting leaves (like Anubias, such as the Anubias Barteri you have pictured). These plants can have problems with green spot algae growing on the long-lived leaves in higher lighting.

On a side note, that picture of A. Barteri looks more like A. Nana to me. Could be wrong, of course, and the two are identical, care-wise.