what plant to choose for my newbie tank?

[moonwalker]

hi all, I am new here, after set up my tank for ard 2months, I decided to change it to a planted tank. I have a 2ftx1ftx1.5ft tank with a 36w 6500k light, eheim 2213 filter, substrate is soil bought from c328 with a layer of black gravel on top, and some jbl liquid fertilizer
I intend to build a not so complicated planted tank which doesn't require too much taking care of...
so, which plants to choose for my new tank that don't need to concern much about water parameter, ph, kh... temp is normal room temp without air-con (I can purchase a fan as well ) and need to grow moderate to fast.
some that I feel quite nice are : taiwan moss, Glossostigma, hc (Hemianthus callitrichoides???),
thanks a lot for any advice from you here

[equidorz]

hi there, welcome to aq, if your tank is always at room temperature i suggest you go for flora like java ferns. they are hardy plants and dont require low temperature or any co2 to survive, as for the plants you like(glosso and hc) , just by adding jbl liquid ferts in your water column is not enough. Plus you say you want a set up that dont require you to take care off. In planted tank i would say you need alot of patient time and effort. eventually it will definetly pay off when you see your tank mature.
my 2 cents worth. happy planting!!

[moonwalker]

hi, thanks for the advice, actually I said "not much taking care of" only , coz I afraid a "too hard to keep" plant maybe be beyond ability of a newbie like me. For the glosso and hc, I have the base soil with the fertilizer also, is it not enough? Or I should invest in ada amazon? btw, what is the different between ada amazon and ada powersand
thanks in advance

[doubleace]

ADA Power Sand
contains rich organic nutrients for plant roots, and helps to make an ideal environment for bacteria activity. Its porous volcanic stones secure water circulation, and avoid the stiffing of the substrate. It also contains rich nutrients for aquatic plant roots for a long period.

ADA Amazonia
Corrosion acid abundant in natural black color promotes growth of aquatic plants. Organic elements inside the soil helps aquatic plant grow well, and also have an effect of lowering PH and Hardness of the water.

As you mention you are going to setup a planted tank with no co2 and using normal temperature means making it as a low tech aquatic. I would suggest plants like Ferns, Anubias Nana, Moss like spicky, java and taiwan. All these plants dont require co2 and cold water. As you are using JBL fert for your base substrate i think add some root tab help to improve the plant growth.

I would say that adding ADA Amazonia should be enough.

[Shadow]

Glosso and HC need higher light if you want it to crawl. With 36W, glosso will grow upward, try it before.

To be simple, you just consider power sand as ADA a base fert. With ADA, you can just use the Aquasoil (Amazonia, Africana, Malayan)

For non CO2 and low light tank, beside the one that mention above, you can also try E.tennelus, hairgrass, blyxa japonica

[uklau]

Cryptocoryne species are good addition too.

With that amount of lighting, CO2 will become limiting factor.

[moonwalker]

hmm, too bad, my tank considered as a low light tank? I also have a not-so-bright light to help the 36w light, is it so-called enough? about the co2, I have the co2 tablet, and if require, I can buy or diy co2 as well,
can I keep fessiden like us fessiden?
thanks
really want to keep hc lah

[moonwalker]

after reading a while based on your guys suggestion, i decide to go for some moss , with a bit hairgrass and some mayaca sellowiana for experiment first , think moss with the high spread speed will make my tank looks nice in a short time
Thanks all

[doubleace]

hmm, too bad, my tank considered as a low light tank? I also have a not-so-bright light to help the 36w light, is it so-called enough? about the co2, I have the co2 tablet, and if require, I can buy or diy co2 as well,
can I keep fessiden like us fessiden?
thanks
really want to keep hc lah

Bro if you want to keep us fessiden also can. But the growth rate will be very slow.

[moonwalker]

Cryptocoryne species are good addition too.

With that amount of lighting, CO2 will become limiting factor.

bro, why CO2 will become a limiting factor? can explain to me? thanks a lot

[kaganesti]

for the plant to perform photosynthesis, it will need CO2 and Light.
He means to say that the light is more than sufficient therefore the limiting factor is how much CO2 the plant can get ^^

[moonwalker]

hi all, I just bought some flame moss as well as java moss, together with some riccia that had been bought earlier. I know 36w light is not enough for the riccia, but it should be enough for the moss, isn't it?
But somehow I haven't seen any oxygen bubble comes from my moss and riccia. I put some co2 tablets alr. any advice?
does it photosynthesis not happen?

[doubleace]

photosynthesis is depend on the light and co2.

[Shadow]

IMHO those CO2 tablets is not working, seachem excel is better

[moonwalker]

ya, I know, although co2 in my tank is not much but at least it s there, rite? and I put the co2 tablet also...

[moonwalker]

thanks for the advice shadow, but I saw many bros here keep a low tech tank without adding any co2 at all. though my tank got some fished alr, at least must see some O2 bubble come out, isn't it?

[doubleace]

Bro low tech tank dont need co2 at all and dont ever try co2 tablets its a waste of $$. And the water itself already have co2 in it. If you plan to have a low tech setup dont think of using any co2 tablets or any other thing that produce co2 or O2. Just light and fert liquid (optional) will do.

[moonwalker]

thanks bro, I knew that, but I wonder why my tank doesn't have any o2 bubble which means no photosynthesis?

[doubleace]

thanks bro, I knew that, but I wonder why my tank doesn't have any o2 bubble which means no photosynthesis?

i dont think low tech setup have photosynthesis.. correct me if i'm wrong

[Shadow]

all plant need to do photosynthesis otherwise it will die. Your plant do not have O2 or pearling is because the rate of photosynthesis generating O2 less than the rate of O2 disolve into the water.