Lowlight front plants?

[Goldfish loach boy]

Hello guys, so I have a 29 gallon with low-med lighting, I dose with root tabs and liquid ferts once a day
I am wondering what plants make a nice foreground plant, if they carpet, look grassy, or just look like small stems forming a carpet
Thanks

 

[bettaowner]

One of my favorite foreground plants is anubias nana petite

 

[Rivercats]

You can do 4 leaf clover (Marsilea quadrifolia), Micro sword- grassy like, maybe Staurogyne repens. If you do some research you can find a lot more options.

 

[aqua_chem]

What do you consider low-med light and are you doing anything for carbon?

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

I mean 6700 k lighting, 18 watts

And I don't use liquid carbon because of the anacharis I have, it will melt
I will look into the plants you guys mentioned thanks

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Do any of you guys have an Anubias nana petite pic to see its size please?

 

[Oohitsae]

My absolute favorite low light ground cover plant is dwarf Sagittaria. I keep it in all my tanks, even high light and it carpets in all of them. Great stuff that's cheap and looks almost exactly like grass

It's on the front left in this pic

 

[jetajockey]

Dwarf sag is always a good go-to. Another idea is to use stargrass, with some diligent trimming you can make it into a foreground. Not sure how the stargrass will do under that lighting, but it's an idea anyhow. I have some that stays healthy under t8 shop lights.

 

[Rivercats]

Do any of you guys have an Anubias nana petite pic to see its size please?

Look at this picture... there are several groups of Nana Petite on the left and then on the right is the regular Nana.

Aquarium Advice - Aquarium Forum Community - Rivercats's Album: 55g Planted- Nano fish - Picture

 

[Dallascowboys16]

I have dwarf sag and anubias nana in my foreground and sag is in the process of growing into a thick carpet. It's very easy to grow and sends out runners frequently. I started with 10 plants now they have propagated to 25 in a month and a half! Anubias nana is also a very slow grower but also a decent foreground plant. Either are a good option.

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Wow guys thanks for all that!

I think I'll blow getting bit Anubias nana and dwarf sag for my tank very nice, as soon as I get my sand in I'll be asking for some
Thank you

 

[Dallascowboys16]

By the way dwarf sag really appreciates root tabs.

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Ok good, I am dosing with seachem flourish liquid ferts and flourish seachem root tabs

 

[azmodan]

Crypt parva is another nice foreground plant for lowtech tanks.

 

[Oohitsae]

Crypt parva is a great low light front plant but doesn't grow very fast so ground cover would be slow. I've had 3 for a year and they aren't much bigger than when I got them even though I have moderate-high light with co2 and PPS Pro ferts.

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Oh wow, I don't really care for them to grow tall, but for them to reproduce and anchor to the sand, as I am having kuhli loaches in

 

[Oohitsae]

The crypt doesn't grow tall, it just doesn't really spread very easily.

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Oh ok, we'll I guess I'll try something easier

 

[Oohitsae]

I can't recommend dwarf Sagittaria enough. Besides my ludwigia repens and cabomba paleoformis it's the fastest growing plant in all my tanks

 

[aqua_chem]

Dwarf sag is a crazy plant. I'm not sure that I would recommend it in a high tech environment simply because of how invasive it can be all through the aqua scape. It really finds a niche in low medium to medium light environments. If you were so inclined, you could make an entire scape with dwarf sag and clever trimming.

I've seen some medium light Excel tanks that grew a nice lilaeopsis brasiliensis (Microsword) rug, although it can take a long time and you should really stack the deck for it.