I need some help. As some have seen in my glass bottle picture thread, i have a tank obviously with glass bottles. Im going for a polluted bog or pond look. I need some other plants to inclued in the tank. Pics as well as names would be nice. And a location to find them.
Bog Plants
- Thread starter Lepisosteus platyrhincus
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Bog plants...do you want emergent or submersed species? If you have the space emergent plants can look really nice and will help push the bog effect. Pond supply places will have plenty of suitable species come spring time.
Are you going for a biotope? If so, where?
*EDIT* I found your picture thread, scratch the emergent plant suggestion. Many disturbed ponds that I have seen have lots of floating plants- duckweed, water meal (it's the devil, don't get it), maybe azolla, and a few stem plants like hornwort (looks like you've already got it), ludwigia, or najas (readily available from any aquarium supplier). Of course, if you really want the funky look you'll need mats of floating macroalgae like Ulothrix or Hydrodictyon.
Are you going for a biotope? If so, where?
*EDIT* I found your picture thread, scratch the emergent plant suggestion. Many disturbed ponds that I have seen have lots of floating plants- duckweed, water meal (it's the devil, don't get it), maybe azolla, and a few stem plants like hornwort (looks like you've already got it), ludwigia, or najas (readily available from any aquarium supplier). Of course, if you really want the funky look you'll need mats of floating macroalgae like Ulothrix or Hydrodictyon.
Algae is underated in aquariums. Some species can look nice if kept under control in theory. In the wild if you look around, there is hair algae all over the rocks on the bottom. natural habitats aren't ugly so yeah. I might "include" some in my "natural" tank. The only bad algaes are the ones that are on your plants or glass. They are fine (IN MY OPINION) on rocks.
Duckweeds (and wolffia) is in bogs a lot. I'd better go find your thread to see what fishes you have. Some of them are big enough to eat them accidentally or on purpose. It makes a good food so I suggest getting a tonne so it can keep population stable. That is, if you want any. I find some in most shallow ponds with no large fishes. They aren't ever in currents. Stormwater ponds don't usually have it, around here anyways.
Duckweeds (and wolffia) is in bogs a lot. I'd better go find your thread to see what fishes you have. Some of them are big enough to eat them accidentally or on purpose. It makes a good food so I suggest getting a tonne so it can keep population stable. That is, if you want any. I find some in most shallow ponds with no large fishes. They aren't ever in currents. Stormwater ponds don't usually have it, around here anyways.