Woe Is Plants

[BundyBearBetta]

I would like to know what plants I can grow in soil and then transfer into my freshwater aquarium. Can anyone help with this please?

 

[nicklfire]

well they wouldnt be aquatic plants if that was the case...
let me know if i'm wrong here

 

[Themuleous]

Whats the point of that? Anything you can go in the garden isn't going to survive under water.

Sam

 

[SuperColey1]

Unless its a newt

 

[fishlette]

in defence of my husband (as it was him who posted the topic) i originally told him that many aquarium plants can be grown outside of the aquarium as this is what was told to me by my boss because she was told that by our plant supplier. this was his first post and he is trying to learn...cant people be a little nicer. is it really so hard to say that true aquarium plants most be grown in water?? on top of that he was reading a website that suggested some of these plants can be grown in very moist soil. i wish people could just answer the question instead of saying something that is going to make someone feel stupid

 

[Themuleous]

I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave, that was not my intention at all. Its just that is was a vague question, without any reasoning, such as why you would want to do it, what the aquarium setup is that would be received the plants, etc. The more info people give with their questions the easier it is to give specific answers, but instead of spending a hour writing a response that covers all the possibilities its easier for us just to post simple questions to get more info from him.

As for growing plants outside the tank. I think what he meant was a system called hydroponics. This has only the plant roots within a tube filled with very nutrient rich water not soil, but you can grow true aquarium plants this way.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics

As for other plants, there are some marsh plants such a those from the juncus family that can be grown in very moist soil and these could I guess be transferred into the aquarium, however they tend to be hugely difficult to keep alive.

I hope that helps

Sam

 

[fishlette]

I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave, that was not my intention at all. Its just that is was a vague question, without any reasoning, such as why you would want to do it, what the aquarium setup is that would be received the plants, etc. The more info people give with their questions the easier it is to give specific answers, but instead of spending a hour writing a response that covers all the possibilities its easier for us just to post simple questions to get more info from him.

As for growing plants outside the tank. I think what he meant was a system called hydroponics. This has only the plant roots within a tube filled with very nutrient rich water not soil, but you can grow true aquarium plants this way.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics

As for other plants, there are some marsh plants such a those from the juncus family that can be grown in very moist soil and these could I guess be transferred into the aquarium, however they tend to be hugely difficult to keep alive.

I hope that helps

Sam

ok i guess it was a little vague. basically we are sick of buying plants for our tanks and thought we could try and do something ourselves. we're not into aquascaping, we just want some java fern & moss and a few other basic things for our tanks.

thanks for the help though. we'll check out that site you gave

 

[Biff0r]

I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave, that was not my intention at all. Its just that is was a vague question, without any reasoning, such as why you would want to do it, what the aquarium setup is that would be received the plants, etc. The more info people give with their questions the easier it is to give specific answers, but instead of spending a hour writing a response that covers all the possibilities its easier for us just to post simple questions to get more info from him.

As for growing plants outside the tank. I think what he meant was a system called hydroponics. This has only the plant roots within a tube filled with very nutrient rich water not soil, but you can grow true aquarium plants this way.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics

As for other plants, there are some marsh plants such a those from the juncus family that can be grown in very moist soil and these could I guess be transferred into the aquarium, however they tend to be hugely difficult to keep alive.

I hope that helps

Sam

ok i guess it was a little vague. basically we are sick of buying plants for our tanks and thought we could try and do something ourselves. we're not into aquascaping, we just want some java fern & moss and a few other basic things for our tanks.

thanks for the help though. we'll check out that site you gave

Hope you dont mind me jumping in but, these threads here show you how to care for your plants rather than buy new plants ever few weeks, like i use to, simple steps = co2 (yeast way) and good lighting. First set of plants cost me about £25, which lasted 2 weeks before showing siins of decay. Last load have lasted weeks.

 

[fishlette]

I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave, that was not my intention at all. Its just that is was a vague question, without any reasoning, such as why you would want to do it, what the aquarium setup is that would be received the plants, etc. The more info people give with their questions the easier it is to give specific answers, but instead of spending a hour writing a response that covers all the possibilities its easier for us just to post simple questions to get more info from him.

As for growing plants outside the tank. I think what he meant was a system called hydroponics. This has only the plant roots within a tube filled with very nutrient rich water not soil, but you can grow true aquarium plants this way.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics

As for other plants, there are some marsh plants such a those from the juncus family that can be grown in very moist soil and these could I guess be transferred into the aquarium, however they tend to be hugely difficult to keep alive.

I hope that helps

Sam

ok i guess it was a little vague. basically we are sick of buying plants for our tanks and thought we could try and do something ourselves. we're not into aquascaping, we just want some java fern & moss and a few other basic things for our tanks.

thanks for the help though. we'll check out that site you gave

Hope you dont mind me jumping in but, these threads here show you how to care for your plants rather than buy new plants ever few weeks, like i use to, simple steps = co2 (yeast way) and good lighting. First set of plants cost me about £25, which lasted 2 weeks before showing siins of decay. Last load have lasted weeks.

yes but co2 isnt in everyones budget. i guess ill just have to go somewhere else where i can just have my questions answered. i mean these plants ahve to grow somewhere for us to buy right. seeing as co2 isnt an option for us right now the next best thing is growing them. thanks for all the 'help' weve gotten here. i will have to find some somewhere else that might actually tell us how to go about growing them.

 

[nry]

Hmm...okies.

What kind of setup do you have that you want to grow plants in?

Plants generally need light and food. If you can provide this then there will be some plants that will grow in low light tanks without CO2. CO2 can be done very very cheaply if you use one of the natural yeast based methods (such as the Nutrafin kit) but it isn't essential that you have CO2. Often some aquatics shops will sell plants that are not true aquatic plants and will die/rot within weeks of putting them in the tank, do you know whay plants you normally buy that don't last long? Some plants also appear to die when moved to a new tank but will begin to shoot new leaves etc pretty soon after the old ones die off.

To grow aquarium plants away from your normal aquarium to then put into the normal one is possibly a waste of time. You'd need to setup this plant nursery with lights, fertiliser and maybe CO2 so you would be better to consider what you can do to your existing tank to grow plants more successfully.

 

[frozenbarb]

there are Aquatic plants that can be growen Emerged, that looks very nice, for Example Limnophilia Aromatica

It is a herb that is grown emerged,


Hemianthus callitrichoides

Glosso

these willl work but you need the soil to be moist

 

[vinylman]

I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave, that was not my intention at all. Its just that is was a vague question, without any reasoning, such as why you would want to do it, what the aquarium setup is that would be received the plants, etc. The more info people give with their questions the easier it is to give specific answers, but instead of spending a hour writing a response that covers all the possibilities its easier for us just to post simple questions to get more info from him.

As for growing plants outside the tank. I think what he meant was a system called hydroponics. This has only the plant roots within a tube filled with very nutrient rich water not soil, but you can grow true aquarium plants this way.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics

As for other plants, there are some marsh plants such a those from the juncus family that can be grown in very moist soil and these could I guess be transferred into the aquarium, however they tend to be hugely difficult to keep alive.

I hope that helps

Sam

ok i guess it was a little vague. basically we are sick of buying plants for our tanks and thought we could try and do something ourselves. we're not into aquascaping, we just want some java fern & moss and a few other basic things for our tanks.

thanks for the help though. we'll check out that site you gave

Hope you dont mind me jumping in but, these threads here show you how to care for your plants rather than buy new plants ever few weeks, like i use to, simple steps = co2 (yeast way) and good lighting. First set of plants cost me about £25, which lasted 2 weeks before showing siins of decay. Last load have lasted weeks.

yes but co2 isnt in everyones budget. i guess ill just have to go somewhere else where i can just have my questions answered. i mean these plants ahve to grow somewhere for us to buy right. seeing as co2 isnt an option for us right now the next best thing is growing them. thanks for all the 'help' weve gotten here. i will have to find some somewhere else that might actually tell us how to go about growing them.

Actually, your questions have been answered; if you choose not to like the (correct) answers you've been given, that is of course your privilege. Aquatic plants can only be grown in water, either by runners from existing plants, or by pruning and re-planting. Basic CO2 systems can be bought for around £15.