What's your favorite Freshwater plant? Colorful, flowering, hardy??
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Gourami Girl
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It produces really big pearls as you can see in the photo. Pretty fast growing too. Has been a real pleasure to keep, but VERY red all the time. It makes it hard to find balance.
dwarfpike
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For me is Anubias coffeefolia ... I love the dark color, the ribbed texture of the leaves, will flower, and that great anubias leaf shape.
http://www.tropica.com/en/plants/plantdescription.aspx?pid=101g
http://www.tropica.com/en/plants/plantdescription.aspx?pid=101g
hyp3rcrav3
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Many aquarium plants are actually bog plants. Some can stay submerged indefinately and others must be grown emmersed (only roots wet) part of the time. Do I have a favorite? Impossible for me to choose.
cichlid-gal
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I just want plants that look like the ones in the pics...PLEASE!!!! I'm learning but boy is it slow going...luck with some and others just "die on the vine" so to speak. Trying hard to get that great balance that will give me those beautiful plants that I see in the pictures.
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Anonymous
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Your on your way Donna. What you said perfectly explains the process. Some grow for you, some die. Plants look like crap, weird algae's form.... It can be slow at 1st. But, you will learn & the plants will grow, and 1 day everything will come together...cichlid-gal said:
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Anonymous
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For some reason Hygrophila polysperma 'Rosanervig' has become an interesting plant in my aquarium. I seem to be fixating on it a bit so I would have to say its a current favorite, (Love red plants).
The plant I have was came in with a shipment of Stargrass from Poke. I wasn't interested in the plant at all but it started growing these matured leaves about 3-4 inches long, pink to red in color and you can totally see the vanes in the leaves. I'm keeping it n check because I don't need another background plant but it looks good poking up from a field of Stargrass.
The plant I have was came in with a shipment of Stargrass from Poke. I wasn't interested in the plant at all but it started growing these matured leaves about 3-4 inches long, pink to red in color and you can totally see the vanes in the leaves. I'm keeping it n check because I don't need another background plant but it looks good poking up from a field of Stargrass.
hyp3rcrav3
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A lot of plants don't like to be transplanted in the winter. It shouldn't matter because of lighting but some just have these internal clocks and won't grow until spring. That makes them susceptible infections until they spring back to life. Some don't care what time of year it is and just go for it.
For instance, it amazes me that Aponogeton know to go dormant in the autumn no matter how much light there is. I have been lucky this last time around. They have survived without me pulling them from the water. They need Carbon or the corm doesn't store enough food (carbohydrate) to survive. We'll see how well they look come spring.
For instance, it amazes me that Aponogeton know to go dormant in the autumn no matter how much light there is. I have been lucky this last time around. They have survived without me pulling them from the water. They need Carbon or the corm doesn't store enough food (carbohydrate) to survive. We'll see how well they look come spring.
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Anonymous
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Sure, I don't mine sharing. However, I did just clip it back yesterday for our Plant It Forward so it maybe a while. I'll keep you in mind and let you know!Ripples said:
cichlid-gal
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I love Ludwigia but can't say I'm having great luck with it. Especially the beautiful reds that it brings to the tank.
http://www.tropica.com/dk/planter/plantebeskrivelse.aspx?pid=035B
http://www.tropica.com/dk/planter/plantebeskrivelse.aspx?pid=035B
So I stopped by PETsMART today and gt the name for the plant that I want. It is:
Telanthera Cardinalis
http://www.aquabid.com/uploads/liveplantsr1363146360.jpg
Telanthera Cardinalis
http://www.aquabid.com/uploads/liveplantsr1363146360.jpg
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Anonymous
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Ripples,Ripples said:All of these are amazing looking plants
anyone know of any different colored plants? Orange, yellow, purple, blue?
my new mission is a rainbow planted tank.
I like this website. Perhaps its got what you are looking for.
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/myPlants.php
For me personally I think what plant isn't my favorite is an easier question to answer lol. I can grow it all day but, I can't seem to stop using it when I do nano layouts is HC aka Hemianthus callitrichoides! I have a love hate relationship with it but I always seem to have some laying around in some tank after I swear it off.
There are just so many species of plants out there that I have grown and haven't had a chance to get ahold of yet to pick just one species! I think my favorite I've grown to date has been Blyxa japonica, I was able to get deep red hues out of it like it was Blyxa aubertii (no it wasn't actually Blyxa aubertii, big difference in the size).
There are just so many species of plants out there that I have grown and haven't had a chance to get ahold of yet to pick just one species! I think my favorite I've grown to date has been Blyxa japonica, I was able to get deep red hues out of it like it was Blyxa aubertii (no it wasn't actually Blyxa aubertii, big difference in the size).
hyp3rcrav3
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I got a little tiny piece of HC in a 'R.A.O.K. - Plant It Forward' package. It didn't do we'll in the course gravel since there was so little of it, so I have put the segments in a vivarium. I will let them grow out there and then slowly acclimate to submersed. Should take a year maybe 2. It is a challenge.