What is your favorite aquatic plant?

If you had a choice of any type of planted tank what types of plant would you aquascape with?

I would do a 40 breeder with driftwood and a variety of mosses. Flame and Christmas moss. With a dark grey rock wall background with patches of moss on it. Stock would be rabbitfoot snails and shrimp with just 10 cardinal tetras for movement in the water column.

I like melon swords. All Vals and Crypts are great plants. Water sprite is a very interesting plant.

I love Madagascar Lace, but it can be difficult to grow. All types of anubias and sword plants do well also.

Madagascar Lace likes cooler water. Yes Anubias are great plants.

A dense matting of Val.. with those 10=12 cardinals weaving their way through.. Bill

Creeping Jenny

Tonina belem as far a looks go I just love this plant.

Madagascar Lace

My favorites are boring... banana plant and wisteria....wahh wah.....

The new types of java fern (wavy leaf) are easy to work with and look great...I love the way the melon sword and red indian swords look, and naja grass for breeding is awesome

HHMMM I like the tonina belem going to have to see if I can find some.

Easy ques! Java Fern the greatest ever! 100% death proof LOL

all of them, the ones in my tank.

FishVixen wrote:

HHMMM I like the tonina belem going to have to see if I can find some.

I got some on Ebay that was priced within reason the same guy sells his stuff on Aquabid. I was suprised that I got it as fast as I did. It is still taking hold in the tank but I don't see signs of it melting yet.

Thanks, What seller on ebay?

Ebay Member id chyang77

Snail_chen on aquabid (same exact info for products in same format and both in NJ)

Thanks again

Just what I'm trying to create: A jumble of moss covered stones with other mosses here and there. Flame moss grows fast and gives a grass-like appearance. Weeping moss is a bit flatter. The christmas moss I have is a bit thicker stemmed - like minature brambles. The Java is consistant and a bit darker green than the flame. Here and there I tied a Marimino moss around a rock for a bright green interlude. Still waiting on some living pellia to get the low-shrub look. Also have some Java Ferns and Water onion in that tank.

I like the mosses because of ease. They need nothing but a decent light bulb and some fish/snails. So I recommend them for beginners.

I have other tanks with Amazon Swords and red Water lilly that are nice and fast-growing. (and the crayfish don't touch those)

My snail tank has everything from mosses to anubus to wisteria to a cryp. They all are doing well in medium light.

My feeder fish quaranteen tank has Aponogeton grown from bulb and mosses.

plastic.... they last longer

I want all of the ones I dont already have

Except for vals... I always kill them

fern i will send some of mine... you cant kill those...

I have tried like 5 times with vals of several variety's, they die within the week
Vals just don't like me I guess

You either have a green thumb with a species - or not. Heck, in my real garden I can grow everything spectacularly! (Full sun, deep silt soil and tons of horse manure!) - yet for the LIFE of me I cannot grow an Azalia to save my life, no matter what I do to the soil under my cherry trees.

I've gotten to like 'aquarium gardening' better - no weeds to worry about!

Vals actually don't like high temps so I cant' get them to grow either.

If i was to do a full out aquascape i would have a moss carpet with a rockwall background with diffrent types of mosses growing on the rocks and maybe a couple long leafy type pants.

sadly i like mosses so much yet cant even get java moss to grow..... imagine that, Everything else i have is growing great and so big its almost about time to start plucking and selling some of it! but my java moss just goes brown.... its pathetic lol