newbie advice?

[Mommaof4boys]

Hello all! I am very new to the live plant aquarium stuff and I would like some advice and help to aquascape my 55 gallon aquarium. I recently purchased a Solarmax 48" HE light with 6,700k & 10k Bulbs and 8 moonlight LED's. I currently only have 2 anubius plants in there. I don't want to mess with co2 so I need easy plants. I wanted to just add some amazon swords to just add some more plants in there, but someone suggested I needed to get some tall plants for a background plant and now.. I'm lost... lol here is a picture of my tank, please let me know what plants could work for me! Thank you so much!

 

[Rivercats]

Amazons get tall and wide but other very easy plants that will grow tall but are easy to trim to the size you want are wisteria and water sprite. Also a couple easy tall growing stem plants would be jungle or corkscrew val and ambulia, anacharis, and cabomba.

 

[Mommaof4boys]

Amazons get tall and wide but other very easy plants that will grow tall but are easy to trim to the size you want are wisteria and water sprite. Also a couple easy tall growing stem plants would be jungle or corkscrew val and ambulia, anacharis, and cabomba.

Thank you!

 

[GodFan]

Hello all! I am very new to the live plant aquarium stuff and I would like some advice and help to aquascape my 55 gallon aquarium. I recently purchased a Solarmax 48" HE light with 6,700k & 10k Bulbs and 8 moonlight LED's. I currently only have 2 anubius plants in there. I don't want to mess with co2 so I need easy plants. I wanted to just add some amazon swords to just add some more plants in there, but someone suggested I needed to get some tall plants for a background plant and now.. I'm lost... lol here is a picture of my tank, please let me know what plants could work for me! Thank you so much!

Java fern ftw!

 

[Rivercats]

One plant I totally forgot that would give you alittle color would be a Red Tiger Lotus. They can grow in low light and keep their color. Just give them some iron root tabs to help them.

 

[DanTheGuppyMan]

Your tank looks awesome! I agree that amazon swords would be good in corners of the tank, and some tall vals along the back would look nice.