Background Plant

[ThomasG07]

So for the past month I have had jungle Val in the back corner of my tank and I love it, but today when I came home, my rainbows had completely destroyed it and it looks terrible. Can anyone suggest an east to grow, tall background plant?

 

[Taiken5968]

So for the past month I have had jungle Val in the back corner of my tank and I love it, but today when I came home, my rainbows had completely destroyed it and it looks terrible. Can anyone suggest an east to grow, tall background plant?

I don't know the name of it, but there is a plant that comes in those bulb packets that you get at petco. The packet will likely come with aponogeton, I hope I spelled that correctly. You will have to look up the packet on petco.com. One of the plants that comes in the packet looks like the aponogeton, but is much taller.

 

[Zimmanski]

My hydrophila corymbosa has done really well for me under all different light and is a dense leafy plant I use in my background. There's pics in my albums. I bought two tubes of 4" stems of it from petco and now it covers the entire back of my tank

 

[azmodan]

I like willow hygro (Hygrophila Angustifolia) quite a bit.

 

[Rivercats]

Hygrophila Angustifolia is actually a good one and it can handle abuse and still come back nicely. I have to wonder if your rainbows were spawning and caused that kind of damage.

 

[aqua_chem]

The real conundrum is if they'll rip out whatever you put bin to replace the vals.


You can also look at ambulia. It takes up a lot of space.