New plants!

[Synirr]

Ok, so I'm really trying to set up a nice planted tank now... I had less than one watt per gallon of lighting before, but this weekend I bought another light strip and loads of new plants and fertilizer. The lighting is still a little less than ideal, but there's not enough room to even fit another light strip, lol. Sooo... comments, tips, suggestions? I'd greatly appreciate it if some of you plant people could help me ID these things. It's a little foggy from my stirring the sand up planting things, but I figured I had better take a picture of it before I kill everything
I've got a brown thumb, I tell you. The only plant I've ever been able to keep alive is a venus flytrap

Whole tank shot

Different angle

Euchrid

Eligos enjoying the new (ok, so that's actually one of the old) plants

I also added to the 10 gallon a bit

 

[Mr Miagi]

Very Nice Synirr!

You know what i think would look great though in that first tank pictured, some floating duckweed or riccia! I think it would give it another level! But hey, im crazy!

The only plant i can recognise in those pics is the hornwort thats floating in the "Euchrid" photo!

 

[-*-MicHAeL-*-]

looks good especially the 10 gallon

 

[Synirr]

You know what i think would look great though in that first tank pictured, some floating duckweed or riccia! I think it would give it another level! But hey, im crazy!

I agree!! I looove floating plants. There's not a very great selection of plants around here, though. I've got duckweed in just about all my tanks, but ever since I redid my split 10 gallon betta tank I haven't had it in very great numbers. As soon as it gets going good again I'll add it to the 29
I've also got some kind of floating plant thingy in my imbellis tank that was bagged with the pair when I bought them, so I'll try putting a sprig of that in the 29 too and see how it grows. I've been thinking about ording some moss balls for a while, so maybe when I do that I'll find some riccia (and Java moss, which I can NEVER find) too

 

[Nospherith]

Ok, so I'm really trying to set up a nice planted tank now... I had less than one watt per gallon of lighting before, but this weekend I bought another light strip and loads of new plants and fertilizer. The lighting is still a little less than ideal, but there's not enough room to even fit another light strip, lol. Sooo... comments, tips, suggestions? I'd greatly appreciate it if some of you plant people could help me ID these things. It's a little foggy from my stirring the sand up planting things, but I figured I had better take a picture of it before I kill everything

hey, venus fly traps aren't that easy to keep. the ones I had always got overfed and died w/in days.

In terms of setting up a planted tank, it kindof depends on what kind of tank you want. you can go low light or high light. basically the difference is in watts/g. 1-2.4wpg is low light, where you can grow really green plants light java fern, anubias, cryptocorynes, mosses, and some others. The lighting for such is usually regular flourescents. 2.5-4wpg uses either a bunch of flouros or power compacts. the high light can grow almost any plant, especially the vibrant reddish ones like rotala wallichii and ludwiga repens, carpet plants such as hairgrass and glossostigma, and any other plant really. However, the high lihgt tanks need more maintenence like dosing and CO2 and stuff, granted, you don't have to water them. anyway, there's a bunch of good stuff you can do with a planted tank. it seems you've got a good start.