Plant Reccomendations Please

[markandhisfish]

i have just bought a 4x2x2 will be going co2 eventually but not for a while can somebody please reccomend some nice easy background mid and foreground plants that are fast nice to look at and can be grown "low tech" i will be using a liquid plant food and possibly some kind of fertiliser mixed into the gravel.

many thanks

mark

 

[aaronnorth]

http/www.fishforums.net/content/Plants-a...-Planted-links/

 

[markandhisfish]

thanks aaron i will check it out

 

[markandhisfish]

ok have found some possibles how do these sound

background
anubias gigantea
echinodorus cordifolius
ludwigia repens

midground
java fern
sagitaria subulata
bacopa caroliana

foreground
echinodorus tenellus
echinodorus latifolius

 

[aaronnorth]

yes they are all ok, ludwigia is hard to grow into a nice shape if thats what you are after. i have had no luck with it

nice plant once you get it going though

 

[markandhisfish]

ok thanks for your replies. im basicly after plants that will gro well enough with just ferts and no co2. then when i get the hang of that i will be trying a hi tech setup .