Tank Plants...

[anna]

Hi guys,

For along time now I have had fake plants in my tank, as when I purchased some real ones, they were floating on the top within a day!

I am wanting to try real plants again however, and am wondering what plants are in your tanks that seem to work well with the axies?

 

[amber]

*laughs*
You need to weigh them down, or your little horrors will pull them up.

Best way to do it is to sink the roots/ends in the substrate, and put big stones on/around.
You CAN tie them to stones with PLAIN COTTON too.
A lot of plants like elodea are FINE to float.

I use Marimo, Amazon swords, Hygrophyla A., Christmas Moss, Elodea, Water Lettuce, Java Moss and all manner of other plants.
Anything I have spare from my fishtanks I chuck in.

Hygrophyla is a fave - you just break the top to grow a new plant, and the foliage creates nice shadowy patches. The roots are pretty strong, it grows fast and the stem is tough.
Spyyk likes to sit in it sometimes.