What is your favorite aquarium plant?

What is your favorite aquarium plant? How is the selection of aquarium
plants for sale at your LFS?

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What is your favorite aquarium plant? How is the selection of aquarium
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My favorite aquatic plant is Java fern , it's nearly unkillable.

Of the 15 or so pet stores within 100 miles of me the selection of aquatic
plants is very dissappointing, usually 5 species or less for sale and most
of them in poor condition. I collect most of my plants from the wild.

Limnophile

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What is your favorite aquarium plant? How is the selection of aquarium
plants for sale at your LFS?

Hi there,

I've found a site for those interested in Aquarium plants. Many shops sell bog
plants as aquatic plants. These plants don't do too well in aquariums as they
are only completedly submerged in water for short periods of the year in their
natually habitat. Have a look at http://www.trueaquariumplants.com/

TheWizardHunter

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What is your favorite aquarium plant?

Right now, my favorite is the Red Melon Sword. This picture should
illustrate why - the one in my tank is gorgeous.

http://www.ericschreiber.com/aquariu...elonsword.html



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What is your favorite aquarium plant? How is the selection of aquarium
plants for sale at your LFS?

Pygmy chain sword - spreads like mad. Also Echinodorus bleheri
v.Compacta for smaller tanks.

And the local stores are hopeless, except for one that carries a lot,
but the owner insists that none of the stuff I've planted will grow
under my conditions. I planted my 10 gasllon tank with mail-order
plants and will probably do the same for my upcoming 20 -except for the
pygmy chain swords - I'll have plenty of those :-).

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On 2005-01-20, Larry Blanchard wrote:
In article .com,
says...
What is your favorite aquarium plant? How is the selection of aquarium
plants for sale at your LFS?

Pygmy chain sword - spreads like mad. Also Echinodorus bleheri
v.Compacta for smaller tanks.

I was recently impressed by this littel sucker. Picked up two plants
for $1.49 less than a week ago. I almost wouldn't call it "Pygmy"
anymore!

Yea, the LFSes around here deal very poorly in plants. One has a decent
selection and amount, but they basically stick them ni tanks to die.
When they are all dead at the end of the month, they clean out and
reorer. Buying from them is like rehab.

Another has better conditions for their plants while in the store, but
has pretty poor selection. Small, Medium, Large Amazon Swords,
Hygrophilia, and Red Ludwigia. Once I was able to get a Red Tiger
Lotus, and that was a rare event...

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Ross Vandegrift

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37

On 2005-01-20, Eric Schreiber wrote:
wrote:

What is your favorite aquarium plant?

Right now, my favorite is the Red Melon Sword. This picture should
illustrate why - the one in my tank is gorgeous.

http://www.ericschreiber.com/aquariu...elonsword.html

Whoa, that sucker is *goregous*!! As per my last post about the poor
LFS selection, I might just have to see what kind of special orders
places will make for me...


--
Ross Vandegrift

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37

Eric Schreiber wrote:
Right now, my favorite is the Red Melon Sword. This picture should
illustrate why - the one in my tank is gorgeous.

They are very pretty. Mine grew too big for the tank (110g) and I had to
remove it. Luckily, it had a smaller child nearby and I planted that one
in its place. Mine seems to have longer leaves, how much light do you
have in that tank?

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Victor Martinez wrote:

They are very pretty. Mine grew too big for the tank (110g) and I had
to remove it. Luckily, it had a smaller child nearby and I planted
that one in its place.

Some time ago I bought a huge Jade Sword from my LFS. I don't know what
I was thinking, as it was certainly too big for my tank, and cost
something like $18. Naturally, it pretty much died right away. At the
last moment I pulled out what was left and stuck it in a one-gallon jar
of water with a couple of inches of dirt at the bottom. While the main
plant didn't survive, there are at least four small child plants in the
jar now. Still don't know what I'm going to do with them, but for now
maintenance is easy.


Mine seems to have longer leaves, how much
light do you have in that tank?

It's a 20 gallon high tank, with an Eclipse hood. The hood has 30
watts. I added more lights in the gap, bringing the total to 56 watts
of compact flourescent lighting.

There are two somewhat poor photos, and an explanation, of the
additional lighting at:
www.ericschreiber.com/aquarium/tank1.html


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Eric Schreiber
www.ericschreiber.com

Larry Blanchard wrote:

Pygmy chain sword - spreads like mad.

I'd like to try something like that to cover my tank bottom. What kind
of lighting do you have?

Someone from these newsgroups sent me some Indian Stargrass in trade a
while back, but I'm not having much luck with it. I've managed two keep
three tiny plantlets alive, two in a cup by the window and one in my
tank, but I can't say they're doing well.



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