Plants

[Lipreader]

I have one plant in my 1.5 gallon tank and I notice that it's starting to die and lose leaves. I was wondering, how does this whole plant situation works? Was I suppose to buy a new one every time it dies or does the leaves grow back? I am unsure if I should take them out and buy a new one or wait until it re grow new leaves. As of now, it's down to two leaves, not much of a hiding place. I'm still a newbie.

Thanks in advance.

 

[impur]

Is this the only thing in the tank? Hows your lighting? Filter? Water parameters? Try to answer these questions for us then we can get a better idea of your situation. Also what type of plant is it?

 

[Feline]

Do u hav any fish in with the plant? Some r plant eaters! perhaps u can give some plant food?

 

[Lipreader]

Boy do I need to educate myself about all this! I don't know how to explain what tank I have except to say that from the top the tank is shaped like the superman symbol. This tank is small and only have this thing that blow bubbles(what is that called?). I have one plant that have long leaves and I can't say what plant it is because when I bought it at Petco, this plant was with the other plants and it is not like it was all labled. The fishes I have in that tank is two guppies (male and female) and one fin-something tetra it's silver with black.

I plan on getting a bigger tank but right now I'm broke so it will have to wait a bit longer. Right now they are all happy(it's just too cute to see them play). I just wanted information about plants like what are the rules for live plants and are they better than fake ones. They were not eating the plants, it was just the leaves were falling off and dying so I would fish it out and throw the leaves away. They like to hide when they want to sleep or be left alone. I don't like asking the people in petstores because they are not educated enough to answer complicated questions. Besides, isn't this why this forum exist? What would I do without you guys?!

This is my goal: educate myself with enough information about fishes, tanks, testing, and plants before I go out and buy a new tank and more fishes.

Today I had to do something for my husband and I had time to kill. I spotted Petco and you bet I drove up and park my car and ran in! First thing I did was go to look at all the fishes and they looked so beautiful and healthy! If only I wasn't broke! I saw some beautiful happy fishes of all kinds and colors. Then I saw some betta fishes and most of them looks so depressed it broke my heart! How cruel! It was SO HARD to walk out of that store empty handed.

So any information you can give me about live plants and differences between live plants and fake plants, etc. would be great.

Thank you in advance

 

[gadazobe]

Moved to how does your garden grow - you should get more replies there.

 

[Feline]

It's good that u r willing to learn, coz i'm in the process of being a better fish keeper as well! Have only started 2 months ago n this forum helps me a lot!

Anyway, one thing good about live plants is they can absorb phosphate so can reduce the growth of brown algae (or may b brush/hair algae too). but then they'll attract some plant eating fishies to attack ur plants!

 

[Dragonslair]

All plants work on the principal of PHOTOSYNTHESIS. I know this sounds a mouthful, but if you use your internet search engine and enter that word, you will be given a whole array of information. To grow any plants successfully be it aquatic or terrestrial you need to know the plant cycle and how they feed. After all, plants are living, breathing orgamisms too. Each plant has a microscopic city within it living being. Each cell within the plant has it's own given job, pretty much like our own body. They feed,they excrete,they breath, they create energy,they even protect themselves.
So to enjoy your plants, you need to know their makeup first. Unfortunately many people think they are just a piece of greenary that is a prerequisite to a show tank, this cannot be further from the truth. Plants are a living thing and should be shown the respect as you would show to your fish.
This isn't a lecture, ust a eye opener. )