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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Tank Plant Advice => Topic started by: graygang on September 01, 2013, 01:57:56 AM
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Can anybody tell me some good beginner plants that don't need special lighting or extra co2 . I will be getting some decent substrat. Not sure which yet but I will add this with either sand or pea gravel any ideas?
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As I said in your other post, I'm not good with plants. But I do manage to grow some in what is called low light tanks (which don't use CO2).
I have java fern in all my tanks and small anubias in my main tank. Both of these are grown attached to decor as their roots rot if planted. I use a cotton thread to hold them in place till they attach themselves. I also have a floating plant, Salvinia, though I'm not sure if it is S. minima or S. natans. I did have a problem this summer when virtually all of it died - that turned out to be because of the weather. Natalia told me to leave the lid open during hot weather, so that's what I did and the tiny bit that survived is now propagating itself again. Just to warn you if you get floating plants!
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oh cool thanks'for all Your feedback .
Have you any experience with have java moss ?
Does the fern grow well ?
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My java fern grows well. It is tied to just about every ornament where I could fit it. The leaves do die off after a while but the plants make more. All my java fern came from one plant, I've just split it to get more.
I have had java moss in the past but it died on me. I was probably not treating it right.
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Any ideas how to attach it to rocks ,it looks more difficult to do with cotton on rocks
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Rocks could be a bit trickier. I have a lot of decor that looks like tree roots and those are easy. Do you have any wood? That would be quite easy too. I do have some java fern tied to a terracotta plantpot which has the side sliced off, and I will admit that is a bit more difficult as the cotton slides down. I just push it back up. The plant will eventually attach itself. This is in my betta's tank, and in spring I had to put my previous betta down as he had lymphocystis which was slowly killing him. I had to disinfect the tank which killed the java fern that used to be on the pot. That was nice and firm and clinging to the pot like ivy to a wall. The new piece of java fern still has a way to go before it is clinging by itself, and it does keep sliding off.
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This (http://www.emagcloud.com/djursgruppen/Tropica_UK_ny/index.html#/1/) is my normal reference for finding "easy" plants. It has some other stuff about aquascaping etc inside too.
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Thanks for tha link mate that'll come in handy
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I use elastic bands to fix java fern to bog-wood. Leave the bands for 6 weeks and then snip them off and pull them out. However; I've never tried this to fix them to anything smooth like rocks or pots so it might not work so well on these.