I have some trouble finding plants I like to go in my discus tank. Problem mostly is the higher temps, and seems most plants end up dying off or barely hanging on with my experiments. My temps I keep at around 86 degrees, which is quite warm, and sometimes have to turn the temps up to 88 degrees.
Right now I have some anubias nana (doing well), egeria densa (also doing well), Egleria fluctuans which doesn't seem to thrive, some hygrophyla corymbosa "angustifolia" which is thriving, some cryptocorne wendtii which is growing very slowly, an amazon sword that is doing well, and I am trying some tiger vals out which are just dying off. I have tried many other plants like giant leaf hygro, rotala rotundifolia, ludwigia repens, dwarf riccia, and a few others that never do well at all. Problem is I don't want all my tanks to have the same plants in them, and some of the plants I am using I don't really prefer to have in this particular tank.
I dose by the EI that you (Tom Barr) wrote, it is a 90 gallon tank with a 48" hagen glo double T5HO 54watt (108 watts altogether), and I also dose with CO2 (just DIY right now). The substrate is seachem fluorite black sand. It just seems the plants that are mostly thriving, are not plants I really want to keep in there. What other options do I have?
I really want to go for some nice foreground plants, then some taller plants for the background. The egeria densa seems get all entangled in other plants which I hate, but it is one plant that is doing really well in my tank.
Right now I have some anubias nana (doing well), egeria densa (also doing well), Egleria fluctuans which doesn't seem to thrive, some hygrophyla corymbosa "angustifolia" which is thriving, some cryptocorne wendtii which is growing very slowly, an amazon sword that is doing well, and I am trying some tiger vals out which are just dying off. I have tried many other plants like giant leaf hygro, rotala rotundifolia, ludwigia repens, dwarf riccia, and a few others that never do well at all. Problem is I don't want all my tanks to have the same plants in them, and some of the plants I am using I don't really prefer to have in this particular tank.
I dose by the EI that you (Tom Barr) wrote, it is a 90 gallon tank with a 48" hagen glo double T5HO 54watt (108 watts altogether), and I also dose with CO2 (just DIY right now). The substrate is seachem fluorite black sand. It just seems the plants that are mostly thriving, are not plants I really want to keep in there. What other options do I have?
I really want to go for some nice foreground plants, then some taller plants for the background. The egeria densa seems get all entangled in other plants which I hate, but it is one plant that is doing really well in my tank.