That lighting level is just too low. Rooted anubias and java ferns will work much better than elodea.
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Another low light plant that seems to be left alone by my fish are crypts. Might check out some that will work in your lighting. My crypt tank only has about .5w/g and they are doing awsome. As long as you get some root tabs to put under them once every 3-4 months, they will be happy.
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wyldfya; but dont Bacopa caroliniana emerge...grow out of the water ?
Just wanted to know if I was right...I thought about getting some but the LFS said they would be a problem once it broke the surface and needed external lighting- that the leave change-under water part is aquatic but not the top part....Or am I wrong?
wyldfya; but dont Bacopa caroliniana emerge...grow out of the water ?
Just wanted to know if I was right...I thought about getting some but the LFS said they would be a problem once it broke the surface and needed external lighting- that the leave change-under water part is aquatic but not the top part....Or am I wrong?
Yes it will grow emersed, but the lighting doesn't really change much either. There is also a very easy thing you can do... cut the plant. Bacopa can be cut in half, and placed in the substrate and both pieces will grow.BlackTopKing;1039936;1039936 said:
Java ferns, crypt wendtii, aponogeton crispus, anubia batteri, some swords too, along with egeria and elodea as floating plants. The java fern is the best plant for your case, often called indispensable, requires very low light, can do gr8 in 1/2wpg. Fern and anubia can be attached to rock, rest of the plants should be potted or else they are pulled out while the cichlids are digging around.
The other stem plants like bacopa, ludwigia, hygrophylla, etc are very docile plants and they need lighting over 2wpg, with fertilization, they hardly lasted a week in my cichlid tank.
Except java fern and anubia all the other plants can be victimized by fishes like severum, convicts, Silver dollars, tinfoil barbs, etc.
The other stem plants like bacopa, ludwigia, hygrophylla, etc are very docile plants and they need lighting over 2wpg, with fertilization, they hardly lasted a week in my cichlid tank.
Except java fern and anubia all the other plants can be victimized by fishes like severum, convicts, Silver dollars, tinfoil barbs, etc.
