First planted tank attempt. (plant ID needed)

pbmax

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MRTom said:
The front plant looks to me a little like a dracaena species... but I hope I'm wrong. (as those are not underwater plants). Maybe someone else can jump in and ID it.
Yes, looks like dracaena to me. Enjoy them while they last! They'll grow emersed, but submersed is a stretch. Unfortunately, many stores still sell them as submersed plants.
 

pbmax

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You can grow them emersed - roots in the water, foliage out. The foilage doesn't like to be submersed for long - florida aquatic gardens says up to a month submersed. That's possibly why yours are so tall and thin with all those leaf nodes below the leaves. :)
 

pbmax

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Apparently no one told your dracaena it wasn't supposed to grow submersed...  :cyclops: 
 

ShortyKiloGyrl

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A little update. Whatever plant that is the swirly one in the back has grown quite a bit. However, the purple cabomba apparently has been attacked by the snail in the tank and the end result isn't pretty. I think the snail needs to find a home in one of the other tanks where its fattness won't break the plants into pieces.

It does appear though that after giving the puffer freeze dried krill he figured the smaller snails in the tank looked good to try! I have found 3 empty shells with the openings broken. I'm assuming that is from him munching away! :)

If anyone knows what the taller swirly plant is (has a bulb base) please let me know! I didn't write it down at the store. And they aren't always accurate in their labeling either.

Growth progress already from atleast one plant:


And the unfortunate purple cabomba :/ (picture isn't the best because I took it at night but you can still see the destruction)
 

MRTom

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Cabomba... that's what always happens when I try it. Someday I'll figure out how to grow it. As for your wavy plant, I didn't realize it has a bulb! You should search for images of aponogeton. Crispus maybe?
 

ShortyKiloGyrl

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Yeup! I'm pretty sure its crispus! Man its taken off in that substrate. Now to find some brackish water plants that will survive.
 

ShortyKiloGyrl

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Whatever the litle plant in the front is has become the puffers "bed" when he's resting he goes under it. That was dying from the move and now there are 2 new leaves that have come as well. I just need to get some more plants in there.
 
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