Guest Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 (edited) I just want to get ideas for plants people like to grow in their tanks. Tips? Ideas? Remember the forum guidelines. Enjoy the conversation! Edited September 5 by Fish finatic45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seattle_Aquarist Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Hi @Fish finatic45, I have several 'favorites' that seem to do well in all of my tanks. In no particular order: Pogostemon erectus Nymphoides hydrophyllum Java Ferns ('Trident' & 'Windelov') Limnophila 'Wavy' Barclaya longifolia Nymphaea micrantha Ludwigia repens x arcuata -Roy 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clownbaby Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Honestly, I love whatever I can get my hands on for cheap or free. Got some cuttings on OfferUp for a dollar, amazing. Took some plants home after an invasive species removal, amazing. LFS selling stem plants for three bucks, amazing!!! But with that my favorite species I have personally grown is ludwigia palustris, aka water-purslane. I just love any of the ludwigias honestly. In higher light it turns a little olive-red hue, and it grows super fast. Super tolerant, and it has wide leaves that my pygmy cories love to rest on. Cleaning algae off is really easy as well. Also grown ludwigia repens and just a great species. Conclusion: I love ludwigia. For my small microfauna "tanks" and jars I like to use myriophyllum aquaticum, or parrot's feather. It's very invasive here in Washington but I took a few cuttings (with permission) after volunteering with my watershed to remove it from a local wetland preserve. It grows like crazy and produces oxygen really well, so I love it for my daphnia and copepods. Plus the leaves are pretty soft so if they start to decay it's super easy for the little critters to eat em. My favorite temperate / cold-water species is probably water-starwort. Really cute rooted or floatingg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 I used to be really I into ludwigia narrow leaf, hygrophila siamensis, bacopa Carolina, tiger lotus and dwarf chain sword. Now that I am too lazy to do constant plant maintenance, I'm really into crypts, swords and dwarf lily. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnedn00b Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 I like what does well in my water and is also low maintenance: Subwassertang, Christmas Moss, Red Tiger Lotus, Italian Val, Bacopa Caroliniana, Pogo Octopus. When I lived across the country I adored crypts, but I haven't had success with them in South Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGibson Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 I love me some corkscrew Val. I generally just love crypts. Big fan of Rotala Bangladesh and persicaria kawagoeanum. Hygroryza aristata is a very cool floating plant. It’s a true grass. One I’d love to grow but probably wont be able to since it’s illegal to sell in the us is the few cultivars of Hygrophila polysperma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s_in_houston Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 I wish I had a great answer! Long story short, I’ve had a period of about a year when my low-tech tank plants had been barely hanging on instead of thriving. I think I’m finally solving the problem, but shout out to moneywort for staying tough. It ain’t the prettiest fanciest plants but I’ve got about 17 stems now while my caroliniana bacopa and ludwigia repens declined in numbers significantly. That said, I do like tiger lotus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PonyPlantedTanks Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 Anything that will grow for me is my favorite, lol. My all time favorite plant is Pogo Octopus and I am crossing the crap out of my fingers that I can get it to grow in my 29g. This is attempt 3…. My dwarf lily has been amazing - I gave it some root tabs and it’s grown like crazy when nothing else would grow! I also really like Brazilian Pennywort. I threw it in my tank as a floating plant and it’s done well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 My favorite for the moment is any of the crypts. Mine don't look great, but they do grow, and so far at least have never melted. On 9/6/2024 at 11:48 PM, EricksonAquatics said: Anything that will grow for me is my favorite, lol. My all time favorite plant is Pogo Octopus and I am crossing the crap out of my fingers that I can get it to grow in my 29g. This is attempt 3…. My dwarf lily has been amazing - I gave it some root tabs and it’s grown like crazy when nothing else would grow! I also really like Brazilian Pennywort. I threw it in my tank as a floating plant and it’s done well. My sentiments exactly. I can grow PSO in the 10 gallon project tank, but as soon as I move it to the 29 where it should actually thrive, it dies. I just planted dwarf lily #3. The previous plant did quite well for several months before it died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelplessNewbie Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 I like a lot of the easy ones: hornwort (floating), amazon sword, java and windelov fern, crypt wendtii, pogo octopus, suswassertang. I am trying out these plants that I like the looks of: erio vietnam, ammania senegalensis, aponogeton ulvaceus, aponogeton boiviananus (so hard for me to pronounce), hygrophila pinnatifida and hygrophila kompakt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mississippi fish guy Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 I’m only about a year into keeping live plants so I’m not to experienced but so far my favorites are cryptocoryne wendtii, java fern, Amazon sword, aquarium lily, banana plant, and water wisteria. PSO was my first stem plant and it did well until I used a supposedly plant safe algae killer to try and get rid of some greenwater. Before then it did great. I like the look of Brazilian penny wort but I can’t keep it alive. I have a little bit of java fern but it hasn’t grown much but that’s probably because the conditions aren’t the greatest and it a slow grower anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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