Small Planted Tanks

[firemouth cichlid 008]

I have a 4g which I now have a male guppy in.
I hope to put my goldies in my 180g if I can talk mum into letting me run it!! I will then have a spare 14g and a 30g. I want to try to breed some guppies.
As for the 4g tank all the plants I get either cant seem to handle the temperature (they go brown starting near the heater) or are too big or are swamp weeds and rise to the top an hour after I put it in there.
Has anyone got suggestions on how to make my tank nice and keep my guppy happy too?
I would appreciate some pics of 4 - 6g tanks.
thanks

 

[aaronnorth]

what plants were they? different plants have different temperature requirments and some need CO2, high lighting (lots needed in a small tank), fertilisers etc.

What is your lighting? we can list some plants from there then

 

[Renate]

Try java ferns. They come in many different shapes. They are very hardy. They survived a bleach dip I did on them. They don't need dirt. They are low light plants.