Please Identify My Aquatic Plants

[tommyleestaples]

Hi there I have these plants in my tank and she are growing fine, but I would really like to know the names of them and if they requre any special attention.

I have attached photos.

Thanks

 

[Mr Bliss]

The one in the lower picture is java fern (microsorum pteropus). It's an easy plant to keep that doesn't really require any attention except that you avoid burying the rhizome in the substrate.

In the upper picture, the reddish plant in the backround is Alternanthera reineckii. It likes good light, but survives with less (just doesn't look as good). Generous amounts of nutrients (iron in particular) make it a deeper color.

The striped plant is Dracaena, a non-aquatic plant that will eventually (in a matter of months) die, unless you remove it from the tank and into a flower pot (or place it high enough that the upper leaves can grow emersed from the tank). I don't recognize the plant on its right side, but it doesn't look aquatic either.

 

[three-fingers]

I'm not sure about the nutrients changing the colour of the A.reineckii, but it does usually grow kinda messy with less light/CO2.

The one to the right of the Dracaena sanderiana is a Spathiphyllum sp. (think of peace lilies) - also put this in a pot on your windowsill, its another house plant that will die.

The grass-like stuff at the base of these two plants appears to be (a closeup would be good, I've always seen it as a darker green) Ophiopogon japonicus, called "mondo grass". Unfortunately this will also die unless you put it in a pot on your windowsill, if that's what it is.