Help choosing plant for new tank

[uklau]

Hi bro/sis,

I just torn down my 2 feet tank with 2 x 18W NO FL tubes (& with CO2 injection) & would like to seek for your advices to determine what are the plants that would grow well in this range of lighting for the following:

a) foreground/carpet plants - HC, HM, E. Tenellus, Glosso? Other plants?

b) midground plants - will remain the existing red tiger lotus, Eleocharis acicularis. Other plants?

c) background plants - will remain the existing echinodorus. Other plants?

d) plants on driffwood - thinking of having UG on upper part & having anubias nana/petite at the bottom (not too sure if green dust/spot algae will attack on nana). Liked X'mass moss very much but doubt it will grow well without chiller.

Subtrate is Seachem Flourite, layered/covered with black gravel. Going to use EI dosing. No chiller but will run on fan.

Thank you in advance for helping .

p/s: do let me know if you are selling/giving away plants. I'm planning to have all the plants in by end of this week.

[PeterGwee]

uklau, all the plants would do well in the low light tank as long as they do not get shaded badly (not getting any light). I'll suggest you get a drop checker and the reference KH standard of 4 for CO2 measurement since it's the best out there now except for the DIY membrane cap pH meter with KH ref solution. Make sure you have good current in the tank to mix the CO2 well and some surface movement.

Regards,
Peter Gwee

[|squee|]

I doubt glosso will crawl on your substrate with the light available, and most of the carpeting plants might not look nice.

[uklau]

Thanks Peter & Squee.

[Ssur]

Hi,

I have E. Tenellus to give away, collection at C328, PM me if interested.

[euthyphro]

i've started a riccia carpet that looks really, really nice. if you can get it in your area i highly recomend it. takes a little work fastening it to fictures/rocks bcz it doesn't anchor itself, but a little netting or just some fishing line around some round rocks and you can do all kinds of things with height and depth

[uklau]

Thanks, Euthyphro. I love Riccia but a bit too high maintenance for a lazy person like me. You may want to try growing some in emersed form & see the difference.