Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources ( -  
Beginner Planted Aquarium ( -   -   plants (  ^angel^ 12-02-2006
12:20 AM  is it hard to keep live plants? i am new to having
fish. i like the looks of tanks with alive plants. thanks!
crazie.eddie 12-02-2006 01:19 AM  Not hard to keep, just as long
as you get the right plants for your setup. For example, don't
buy high light, high maintenance plants for a normal, off the
shelf, tank setup with less than 2 watts per gallon of lights
and expect them to thrive.  If you don't have the money, then
you can select low tech plants (No CO2 and lights under 2wpg).
Unfortunately, most of the low tech plants are slow growing, but
will thrive with just off the shelf lights as water changes and
fish waste to survive.  fish_4_all 12-13-2006 07:53 PM  They
really aren't difficult to keep once you get them going and find
the right ones. What is your current lighting? The standard hood
will grow a lot of d