Plant choice for low-tech tank

[ken90ken]

Hi all,

I'm preparing to set up a low-tech planted tank. I have done some fair reading and have a rough idea of which plants fit this criteria.

As i would be dosing excel as a carbon source in this tank, i was wondering which plants are recommended or to be avoided? I know excel melts some plants and there are some plants that can't absorb excel.

Hoping anyone here can help? Even if you don't know about the excel part, some plant recommendations are welcome too.

[Draka]

Low light no carbon dioxide injection plants I've kept successfully are mattogrossense myriophyllum, some bros (not me) sell them intermittently, German seaweed, mosses, hornworts and elodea

I know German seaweed may be affected adversely by excel, at least for mine some turned brownish. The rest I didn't really see any difference. I do dose ferts once a week though, otherwise the M. Myriophyllum will turn yellow when the soil expires.

[barmby]

Try sagittaria subulata too

[wongce]

See below links for a shortlist of plants i tried in my low tech tank with no co2 injection

http://theplantedtankblog.blogspot.s...lants.html?m=1

As long you dilute Excel and do not overdose it is OK for most plants. Vallisneria plants seems to bit a bit sensitive with excel,my mosses are growing well with frequent dosage of excel

[ken90ken]

Thanks for all the replies, i went to google search some of the plants you guys mentioned and i do like a few of them.

@wongce, your blog was actually quite good and i had read it up before i posted this. This post just to gain more info before i actually venture into scaping this tank.

Lighting wise i will be using T5HO (16W x 2) for this 1.5ft set up, 20cm depth. I think this is too much light?
Carbon source will be excel, i'm still considering if i should dose flourish comprehensive, but i think this will depend on my plants..

Also i saw a thread back on low-tech red plants, can't find it anymore, anyone able to provide a link or shoot a few names of red plants that will do okay?