good plant/s for cichlids and low light?

[haleybeth30]

Hi I have 3 tanks, none by a window, one may get a little light. I have africans in one, SA/CA cichlids in the others. I may be reaching, but are there any plants I could keep that are also fairly low maintenance? I attached pics of some I currently have in my 125, bought off CL, plants came with it. I am apprehensive to put fertilizer in the water as the fish went through a move and were really stressed. The plants don't look so good, though so may be time to do something. I'd also like to add some if possible to my other tanks, is there anything I can use that would grow without fertilizer?
thanks

 

[Rivercats]

All plants need fertilization of some type. All they basically get nutrient wise from a tank is nitrates from fish waste and phosphates from fish food. Adding fertilizers will not harm of stress fish. I don't know the size of your tank or what type lighting and bulbs you have but any Swords or Crypts you have need to have root tabs added under them as they are heavy root feeders and stem plants would benefit from the addition of liquid ferts such as Flourish Comprehensive and API Leaf Zone (for low light tanks) or from using dry ferts in medium to high light tanks or if you have large tanks as dry ferts are much more economical. Also if you don't use CO2 I would suggest using a liquid carbon such as Excel daily as it will aid in plant photosynthesis and growth.