Need help!! Urgent

**Sufianjamal** · 3rd Jan 2011, 02:48

I Have a 2x1x1 tank with blue oyama all and with black soil and that's it . Want to add plants but don't know how to start

Pls help I have external filter ,heater ,pumps ,a bog wood and a sucker fish in the tank

Please recommend me a suitable plant for background and foreground
And also what fishes to put in

And also where to get the plants from or if you know where have sale of any suitable plants for my tank please do tell me

And if u want give me free also can

haha

**tiintinn** · 3rd Jan 2011, 12:18

hi Sufinajamal,

is there any scape that you are leaning towards?
maybe you can start to look around this forum for some inspiration.

might be easier for other to help you from there.
my 5 cents worth

cheerio and happy planting!
david

**Apistoinka** · 3rd Jan 2011, 13:48

Yup true... What kind of scape you are interested in... Maybe you can elaborate more...

**Sufianjamal** · 3rd Jan 2011, 14:25

I am rewlly new to planting I never have a plant in a tank so I don't kno anything

any1 can explain what u mean by scape I want?

**Apistoinka** · 3rd Jan 2011, 14:49

Maybe you can try to google or YouTube and you type aquascaping and you will get a rough idea what you want and how you wanna scape your tank... Other option look into this forum aquascaping and you can see how our fellow bros here how they scape their tank...

**Sufianjamal** · 3rd Jan 2011, 16:56

Hmm I think I want to just do a simple one just Have some plants for background and some for the foreground
Now.. Any suitable plants to put in ?

**benedictsim** · 3rd Jan 2011, 17:44

I started off many years ago with no scape, no plans, nothing! Just a tank, some base Fert, green water, etc.
I walked into a fish shop and picked some really cheap and affordable plants. It just started from there!

From thence on, by reading forums and visiting more fish shops that sold water plants, the number of plants just started growing.

Just start, it's an exciting journey.

**Shadow** · 3rd Jan 2011, 18:13

First of all how many watt light do you have? are you planning to inject CO2? Does your substrate rich of nutrient or just simple gravel? Do you have base fert?

All these question are important to determine what kind of plant suitable for your tank.

**hayabusa** · 5th Jan 2011, 01:45

hi there, you do need to know plants do require nutrients and co2(carbon dioxide), as well as sufficient lighting. do a research on planted aquariums before doing anything, trial and error is a waste of money and time.