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About a month ago I purchased a 100 litre tall tank, Depth- 36cm, Length- 60cm, Height- 51cm

Fish stock is going to look something like this:
1 bamboo shrimp
8 amano shrimp
1 dwarf gourami
6 khuli loaches
8 pygmy corys
20 neon tetras

I've had the tank running with the shrimp in it, unfortunatly I added gravel before I realised I probably should have bought fertiliser substrate. Tonight I'm going to get all the gravel out and add the Tetra CompleteSubstrate on the bottom. (By the way I presume I'm going to have to do this with a completely empty tank otherwise it will cloud up the water? Soon find out...) For the tank I have a nice piece of bogwood and a terrace/cave I made out of slate.

I don't have a very good knowledge of plants, only the hardy ones like anubias, java fern etc which I have kept with success. I've tried to research but there are so many and so many places selling them that I'm getting a bit lost. And this is hopefully where you guys come in, though I hope I'm not asking too much!

What I would like:

A couple of bushy/full plants too fill out the back and to go in the terrace.
Something red or different to go next to the bogwood and act as a bit of a centerpiece.
A grass-like carpet plant.
Plants to root into the front of the slate terrace and the bogwood. (Im suppose anubias would be fine for this)


So some plant suggestions would be great and also if you could recommend an online store that sells the said plants that would help me to no end!

Thanks.
 
I can't rate Limnophila sessiliflora highly enough, got some from a forum member some time back and it's relatively inexpensive to buy, grows quickly, looks great and very easy to propagate and make lots of new plants so it's highly recommended :good:
 
It was always a norm of mine to plant Giant Vallisneria against the back glass and soon the aquarium background was a green wall of Vallis...... Flourishes in all conditions and easy to propogate.
 
Both sound good thanks for the suggestions, I know my lfs sells those plants, or similar ones, looking at pics of them.

Just need suggestions for the red plant and the grass carpet now.
 
Both sound good thanks for the suggestions, I know my lfs sells those plants, or similar ones, looking at pics of them.

Just need suggestions for the red plant and the grass carpet now.


Ha! Ha!.... Anything red or reddish.... would I recommend anything else than "Ludwigia".... The plant I discovered?????
 
I actually believed you then and had to look it up :p

Well??... Did you find it.... at least the underside of the leaves are red..... And do they mention there that it was named after me??....
 

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