Aquarium planting help me

[SkullAngel]

Have a 10g tank wid 2 guppies and male betta and ghost shrimps, I need help on finding aquarium plants that need moderate to high lighting....thank you

 

[mfdrookie516]

What are you calling high lighting?

 

[SkullAngel]

As in, the tank lights are on most of the time

 

[SkullAngel]

Ohh and that the tanks gets alot of indirect sunlight

 

[mfdrookie516]

What kind of light is it? The length of the photoperiod has nothing to do with intensity... only algae (if they're on more than 8-10 hours)

 

[SkullAngel]

Just a regular bulb light

 

[mfdrookie516]

Then, you need to look at low light plants... and consider replacing that with a cfl.

There's actually a list of plants in our FW profiles forum that lists lighting requirements, along with a ton of other info. That would be a good place to start.

 

[SkullAngel]

I tried a low light plant, tropical java fern, and it got burned or whatever the technical term is...

 

[Mumma.of.two]

What kind if bulb do you have?

 

[SkullAngel]

A regular ordinary light bulb that you usearoundthe house

 

[Mumma.of.two]

A regular ordinary light bulb that you usearoundthe house

Well that doesn't tell us much. Is it an incandescent or a compact florescent (cfl)?
If you have an incandescent you will need to replace it with a cfl to grow plants. Get one rated 6500K or labeled 'daylight'.

 

[SkullAngel]

I use cfl 10W

 

[Talvari]

I have java fern in my T5 tank, and it does wonderfully.

Did you bury the java fern?

 

[fort384]

I can say with a high degree of certainty that a 10W CFL over a 10gal tank did not "burn" a java fern. That would be considered low light at best, and depending on the color temp, might not be suitable to growing any plants. If you put in high light plants, they will not survive under that light.

 

[epiphysis]

Java fern does have a tendency to turn dark or seem to die off in a new tank. Within a week or so new leaves will apear and start growing again.

 

[SkullAngel]

I bought it long after i Set up my tank and now it's all brown

 

[epiphysis]

Leave it in. It will jump back. If you want you can cut the brown leaves off. Just make sure rhisome is tied to a rock or wood and not burried. Thats all you need to do.

Its very difficult to kill a fern.

 

[SkullAngel]

Here what it looks like now

 

[epiphysis]

Cut of the brown leaves and tie it to something. You got a nice piece of the rhisome still. It might take a few weeks but when it starts to regrow again you'll have lots of new leaves.

 

[SkullAngel]

Hopefully