Best Plants for a Low Light Tank with Tile Substrate?

[johnnycoolxx]

I just bought a 210g tank (7x2x2) and plan to use black tile as the substrate and add a few pieces of manzanita and malaysian driftwood.

I want to plant it and have nice foreground plants and centerpiece plants. For lighting, I'm going to use 2x t5 48" bulbs. I won't have any CO2.

If it makes any difference, I plan on having monster fish in it and going to put in 20 4" datnoids, 8 red hook silver dollars, 2 6" bichirs, a severum and a uaru.

Can you name a few plants that would be good for a tank like mine with tile substrate?

 

[Dayvydp]

java fern and you can loosely attach it to your drift woods

 

[vulter toad]

the only plant the would have a chance is anubias, the only reason is uaru eat veggies like rabbits

 

[Dayvydp]

the only plant the would have a chance is anubias, the only reason is uaru eat veggies like rabbits

Oops I must've skipped over the fish part

Darn selective reading

 

[johnnycoolxx]

What if i didn't put the uaru in there. What other plants besides anubias nana would be good in my tank?

 

[Dayvydp]

java fern, java moss, crypts, anubias, duckweed

 

[Sab_Fan]

there are other anubias besides nanas . . . I have some a. barteri and a. frazeri in my tanks that are much, much bigger than the typical nana-type anubias

 

[Plec123]

Go for the big anubias species as background plants... Congensis would be best.
Lanceolata for midground... Nana for foreground.

 

[smithj427]

Watch the silver dollars though. I know the anubias are tough but we have a group of 8 red hooks at work that mow down any leaf I throw in the tank.

 

[FSM]

Considering that tile is pretty impenetrable to roots, you'll need to use plants that can attach to surfaces like java fern, anubias, and mosses.