Can my tank set up support all these plants?

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Unless the amazon was just submerged, it looks like a radican sword, E. cordifolius. The second one is hard to tell from the pic, it could be a stunted ozelot, but looks like E. parviflorus.
 
I dont know what you mean by just submerged. But I have had to clip off several leaves because they were bad and it was moved around the substrate. Thats all I can really say about them.
 
Many swords have two types of growth, emersed, and submersed. That plant looks more like a radican if it has been submersed for a few months, or possibly an amazon that has only been submersed for a matter of a few weeks, but the lack of new growth makes it hard to determine.
 
the first one did not look like an Amazon sword, more like a melon sword (or similar) . . . the other I took for an Amazon "compacta", which are similar to Amazons but not supposed to grow as large . . .
 
Anyway the big sword I plan to get rid of, I know they grow huge. But the smaller compact one I will keep. I looked at the name Wyldfya posted and it looks like its the one I got. It stays sorta small.
 
I wouldn't keep either, as most of your Echinodorus are very heavy root feeders, and as such have extensive root structures. These can, and more often do, choke out other plants with their roots, unless enough space is given.
 
Ok, thanks for letting me know. So I will keep the Crypts, the apnogetones, maybe 1 lily and I might add some java fern. What do you think about some Najas Roraima or cabomba?
 
there are many varieties of crypts . . . I recently added a few cryptocoryne ciliata to my 30G tank, and I am liking the look . . . they supposedly like brighter light than more common crypts, but I have 6700/10,000 96W PC on the tank, so it should have plenty of light

they are bigger and bolder - - IMO - - than the typical crypt, and showed no signs of crypt-rot whatsoever . . .
 
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