Horsegirlmaddy
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hello all! I've always felt a little left out, with everyone around me having big beautiful planted tanks...I love all my tanks, but I want to try plants now!! In my beginner days, I put a plant or two in a tank, but didn't have any lights in the tank and so it withered away and I decided I wouldn't try any more. I now have a 35 gallon frog tank, and am looking to try out plants for real this time. So far I've managed to keep hornwort alive- not much of a feat, as t cares for itself!
So I want plants that can thrive in a tank with just a 50W fluorescent light, that have strong roots (my frogs don't show any interest in plants at all, but just in case their big feet kick up a bit of substrate), do well in room temperature water (21 Celsius), and preferably don't need too much fertilizer or added CO2. A hefty list, I see now...
The other option would be to plant my 60 gallon hexagon, but I feel like that might be quite a PITA, being a smallish base and quite tall (therefore far from the lights).
Or possibly my African tank (leopard Ctenopoma and a Senegal bichir), which has LED lights...but I'm possibly eliminating this tank from my collection in the near future...
Too many choices so basically, any suggestions are very welcome!
So I want plants that can thrive in a tank with just a 50W fluorescent light, that have strong roots (my frogs don't show any interest in plants at all, but just in case their big feet kick up a bit of substrate), do well in room temperature water (21 Celsius), and preferably don't need too much fertilizer or added CO2. A hefty list, I see now...
The other option would be to plant my 60 gallon hexagon, but I feel like that might be quite a PITA, being a smallish base and quite tall (therefore far from the lights).
Or possibly my African tank (leopard Ctenopoma and a Senegal bichir), which has LED lights...but I'm possibly eliminating this tank from my collection in the near future...
Too many choices so basically, any suggestions are very welcome!