Top 7 Aquarium Plants for Beginners Who Can't Keep Them Alive 🌱
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- After years of struggling with live plants, I’ve found my top 7 favorites that are hard to kill. 💪
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▶ Amazon frogbit: I got mine from my local fish club but there are plenty of online retailers
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▶ Floating Christmas moss ball: www.aquariumcoop.com/products...
▶ Java fern: www.aquariumcoop.com/products...
▶ Cryptocoryne lucens: www.aquariumcoop.com/products...
▶ Easy Green fertilizer (for the water): www.aquariumcoop.com/products...
▶ Easy Root Tabs fertilizer (for the ground): www.aquariumcoop.com/products...
▶ Seachem Equilibrium minerals (for soft water): www.aquariumcoop.com/products...
▶ Flourish Potassium (for java fern, if needed): amzn.to/2RrEXL8
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0:00 My top 7 beginner plants that are hard to kill
0:23 Anubias
1:33 Dwarf aquarium lily
2:31 Pogostemon stellatus ‘octopus’
4:06 Amazon frogbit
5:14 Christmas moss
6:15 Java fern
7:33 Cryptocoryne parva
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*Tell me about your favorite beginner plant OR tell me about a beginner plant that you can’t keep alive. 🌱*
Water hyshop is the best, but I can't keep frogbit alive
Crypts are so beautiful yet easy to grow, it also has so much variety which is amazing
How is this 3 days agoooo???
My favourite plant is Wisteria. It grows daily quickly but not like other faster growing plants. After a few months the Wisteria in my community tank has grown out into the substrate and it starting to grow up. And you can take lots of cuttings from it and it will quickly start to grow back. I have it in three tanks and all of my fish like it.
@@tomioka1088maybe it was private then set to public
My anubias starting melting around the edges of a few leaves when I first put it in, but i left it alone, and it has since recovered and is blooming 2 new stems!!
I so appreciate that you share your successes and your “experiences.” Thank you!
Your videos are so incredibly helpful. I've been binging a bunch of them as I'm currently doing a lot of research to prepare for setting up my first fish tank. Thank you! :D
I agree... This is a wonderful list and I have many of these plants from when I began my planted tank journey a year ago!! I have had success with plants from this list!! I love my Pogostemon stelltatus octopus and dwarf water lily. Thanks for sharing this!! Great information as always Irene!! Have a wonderful and blessed day! 🙏🌿🐟🌿🤗💚
Thank you so much! Yeah, I actually struggled with PSO and dwarf lilies in the past, so I'm very glad that I can finally get them to grow. Have a blessed day yourself. :)
So glad I watched this! I am redoing my 49 gallon betta tank cause the majority of my first lot of plants died leaving me with java fern and alot of amazon sword, this helped alot! Thanks x
This is perfect, as I am working on setting up a new tank with plants, so this list is super helpful.
I have not had a ton of luck with planted tanks. But I am still trying. Bad luck with crips. Love anubis! No luck with stem plants. This video came out at just the right time for me. Thank you!! 🪴
Honestly same but you gotta remember it really depends on ur water like bacopa/money wart will not grow for me were it might go crazy for you but I have rotala that goes crazy for me but you can't keep alive for the life of you it all depends I go by the rule of but 1 of each of what you like and what grows grow and what doesn't doesn't
LOVE your videos, Irene ~ You are so natural ~ You are truly gifted at this
Girl,you're the most relatable person ever...like,how!?
Don't know it's name but it tall red and green
Anubias are really cool, especially when their roots start grabbing on the hardscape! Frogbit and mosses are also very nice :D love using them in my scapes
A few years into a RCS/MTS tank my Anubias Barteri grows a new leaf every few months directly under a 5000K LED bulb light with a dense mat of Salvinia and Duckweed on the surface. It's flowered a few times too. All I have in my shrimp tank is Anubias and Java Fern which both thrive. I can't seem to keep the Java Moss though. I fertilize once a month (all in one and micros) and throw crushed coral in the tank once a year to counter (dechlorinated) soft water but no other treatments. Love your videos Irene!
Great list Irene! I had the same problem with my crypt tropica- added potassium for java ferns and the crypt looked like I froze it. It was doing well before that, but has struggled ever since (over a year). My corydoras keep uprooting my crypt parva, so I don't recommend it in tanks with busy bottom dwellers. I can grow dwarf aquarium lily the best, do pretty well with pogo, but I can't get an anubias to live for more than 3 days before their perfectly healthy rhizomes turn to gelatinous ooze. I've tried several varieties from several great sources. Everyone says they're impossible to kill... I seem to be highly skilled at it.
Thank you for the suggestions, re-scaping a low light Betta (that is getting treated for fin rot) so I am definitely going to try most of the plants!
How is that anubias doing after 18 months?
Thank you so much for your help with these plants. I have a few of them in a Betta tank and I now will do everything I can to are for them better.
Great clip. Anubias are the only ones I can keep alive long term. I don't propagate them very often. But they outlive other plants. I've also had good luck with Jungle Val in my taller tank.
Beautiful tanks & great video !
I have been a waiting for a list of what was successful in your basic plant experiments :) So excited to get my tanks going. Hopefully soon
Yay, glad I could help and best of luck with the new tank!
Girl Talks Fish
Hi from Australia, new to the world of live plants in the tank. No pressure, love your no nonsense approach and honesty, you are fast becoming my Mentor
Great video. Your video on how to balance a tank has been so helpful. Both my low tech tanks are looking pretty good right now. My crypts do well with root tabs. I am trying brazillian pennywort for the first time. it seems to be doing okay. I am going very easy on the liguid fertilizer and the lights this time.
love ur channel! one day i really want to experiment with live plant aquariums. anubias and frogbit deff on my list.
Great video! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for all the information. Love
Dwarf aquarium lily is my favorite. Mine sprouted a baby bulb and replanted itself several inches away. Yeah, free plant! I had a large year-old established crypt melt entirely away too. Several of my smaller ones are alive but seem to be getting gradually smaller.
Thank you Irene ❣️
your advice about java ferns and potassium is right on, supplementing with potassium really helps them thrive!! (i'm convinced this is why the seachem potassium bottle has a java fern on it hahaha).
i've had good results with java ferns dosing (alternate days) potassium, easy green, and phosphorous (since i don't feed flake food).
my other nominations for this list (as someone who has killed several octopus plants) would be emersed pothos (in HOB filters, etc) or emersed bamboo, with the only caveat being that they are nutrient gluttons and will starve other plants (mosses/java fern) if you aren't supplementing fertilizer. they do seem unkillable, though.
Great video. Always look forward to seeing you upload
I am so excited to try and start a planted tank! I’ll hopefully start in a month or so
A piece of advice that has worked out for me so hopefully helps you as well. I joined the fish clubs in my area and got lucky enough to run into someone online that only lived 10mins from me and has his own fish room and has so many plants he has to trim he just throws out what would be 100s if dollars worth of plants every other week. He just gave me giant handfuls of different kinds so if I do kill it, it won't be money down the drain. So definitely check out local fish FB groups. You could get lucky like that!
You will love it and this list is perfect!!
my fav fishtuber does it again !
I started my 29 gal. aquarium in mid-January (2022) using Eco Complete substrate (black) plus added root tabs in a grid as I distributed the substrate. I started with Cabomba, elodea, jungle val, dwarf sagittaria, and dwarf hairgrass, and Pogostemon stellatus ‘octopus’. Of these, only the dwarf sagittaria has survived and is thriving. Have two stems left of the pogostemon, but very slow to grow and doesn't want to stay in the substrate. So, in frustration I bought several bunches of hornwort (way too much!) which can't be killed, several Crypt undulatus (similar to the lucens), and 3 small anubias. The only problem with the crypts initially was keeping them planted. However, after about a month with these new plants, all are thriving with very little melting. My crypts are absolutely thriving and growing. I use only a low to medium level hood light (kit) and no CO2. All are doing well, but the hornwort can get a bit unwieldy. But, really has helped keep H20 parameters in good stead, only having to do water changes every 2 weeks now. Love live plants! Thanks for your great videos, Irene!
Dwarf Lily is my favorite, it has two kinds of le Lily is my favorite, it has two kinds of leaves and brown-red color.
Hard to Kill: great ol' Steven Segal movie. No but seriously, thanks for this, it's a good reminder beings as I'm starting out with Anubias nana and Vallisneria 🥰
No 1 on my list is vallisneria spiralis. Never have it ever let me down even with worst possible conditions.
another plant i'd reccommend is hygrophila polysperma, it was one of my first plants and it's ridiculously resilient and multiplies like crazy
thank you for the recommendation! I'm not that new in the fish community but I've never had a planted aquarium, so any plant recommendations is really useful to me :D
I have the Octopus plant (I like to call it that since I cant spell or pronounce the scientific name) and I bought 5 of them when they were small and after a few months in my sorority tank, it had grown really huge and the bettas love them to bits and they look great as they grow taller and lush and beautiful. I didnt use a fertilizer since I used to have a lot of females and they had some platies which poop a lot and they feed my plants partnered with the sunlight it gets since its on my balcony made it grow massive.
Cool UA-cams. New subscriber. I'm new to fish keeping. I have a 10 and 20 gallon tank. Always looking for beginner information. Thanks 😊👍
Had trouble getting my red root floaters alive well after the tank has become properly established. They just couldn't compete for the potassium no matter how much I dosed. But before that they were amazing!
Immediately clicked because why not
me: wates this video thinking ill finnaly figure out how to stop my plants from dying
my plants: hell nah fam im still headin out
Great list! I have tried many of the plants on this list with success except java fern. I’m one of the people that can not grow it. Another beginner plant I have had great success with is wisteria. It grows so well for me snd is beautiful. Thanks for the great recommendations.
I’ve had an exact opposite experience than you with crypts and Java fern. No matter what I do, I cannot grow Java fern, but I can grow crypts fantastically.
Your tank looks great.
I have a betta! His name is Kevin! I plan on doing a live planted tank! Such a good video!!!
Your very good at explaining i found a lot of youtubers who were complicated at it. Could you or any viewers help me with the bacopa plant I been having trouble growing them in my fish tank I had just bought them and the leafs are already falling off and changing colors would it be the same deal as the cryp plant where you mention that it adapt to being in water after being grown outside of water. Would I need to buy fertilizer and liquid drops of which kinds I should do been over feeding them root tabs and drowning the plants with flourish drops/leaf drops but nothing is working.
Anubius is never fail. I'll put up with cleaning leaves. Stem plants, well, i told my local aquarium I'll buy stem plants every 2 weeks instead of a bunch of flowers. Stem plants may survive for me, but shrivel to near nothing. Thanks for the video.
I just bought a bunch of plants online and boy, most were a lot down. I bought 3 dwarf grass carpets and it all arrived brown and flattened. I bought some amazon frogbit... all brown. I've spent hundreds on a new 5 gallon I was going to use specifically for aquascaping and it's not going too well. I have a bunch of plants thrown in with my gourami to keep them safe, and a half filled 10 gallon keeping the carpet and floating plants safe (as well as trying to soak some wood to keep it from floating xD). I just hope it's worth it in the end. Hopefully the carpet eventually revives itself, but I'm thinking the frogbit is a goner... Not sure if I should try either of them again EVEN THOUGH I didn't kill them and they arrived like that. I wish my "local petstore" (which happens to be a Petco, sadly, and even that is a bit of drive for me) had floating plants to buy.
Greta tips! I must say I agree Anubias is like the easiest plant and maybe the ONLY plant I ha r had any good success with keeping alive 😅. Can’t wait to keep learning and update my OVERSIZED (125 gallons) “nano-tank to more of a planted tank!
Congrats :DD For, me, my plants lack nutrient so maybe do that too :)
@@Person-gd3ew I’ve added root tabs but looking for a fertilizer but with my cherry shrimp I wonder about the cons...
Thank you for the video, very good and helpful(: How could I not found your channel before?
hi i was hoping you or someone could answer a question ive had for a bit, when adding brand new plants to a new aquarium, should i use tap water or should i dechlorinate the water
The dwarf lily is my favorite for sure. Just about the only plant my yoyos can't dig up. Might even buy a second one.
Nice to see plastic and live plants together in your tank.
Wow nice.
Hi, nice video. How did you measure the potassium level ?
My pogostemon stellatus octopus would die at the bottom, but the top leaves stayed. It had good light and I fertilized it
Crystal wart is a great floating plant for consuming nitrates/ammonia.
Nice collection. What about Sagittarius and Ludwigia?
I feel like i never hear anyone talk about ludwigia repens. My first plant and it thrives no matter what. I think its beautiful too
I always struggle with water plants so nice to see this video ...i kill them so easy 😂 .. my fav waterplant so far is waterweed .. cuz it looks nice and also grows back fast (i killed it once but it grew fast back and looks now really good)
I added Anubis to my 5 month cycled 5 gallon and it’s been in my tank for a week and a half. Pure perfect green still with lots of roots just floating around my tank 😂
I love your videos
I collect aroids. Anubias is an aroid. I have a 10 gallen tank full of I think 5 or 6 differant anubias species in it. Me and my betta love it!
what do people see so much in aroids? they are such dingy little plants, i can't understand all the variegated philo or foliage aroid hype at all
@@blunderbuss1395 I agree with you on the variagation thing. I like to collect them cause i think they look cool and the family of aroids have so many colorful plants!!
@@davidwinfrey2861 do you like any specific groups of aroids specifically? i definitely like some like aroids grown for flowers like spathiphyllums or anthuriums, temperate ones like arums and arisarums and some of the foliage ones like homalomenas and caladiums but i find the family to be sort of underwhelming for how popular it really is
@@blunderbuss1395 obvi anubias crypts buce and my monstera and I do like calla lillies caladiums and alocasia and colocasia!
i use my plants for propigating my java fern in a tank with no fertilizer and little light has multiplied in the month that i have had it over 7 times
I tried moss glued to decor. Either the mollies or the Rainbow Shark nibbled it to nothing within days. My next go will probably be anubias or a floating plant (not duck weed).
My Bolbitis h is only two weeks into my new aquarium, and plantlets are growing off the spores. What do you recommend?
I just sold the whole bunch of crypts. Mine grow so fast that every 6 months I have to pull out 12 to 18 in tall plants and try to sell them. I also really like bucephalandra. Not sure if it beginner's really as they do like to melt but mine have grown back quite nice and They also don't need to be planted in substrate.
Hi! I love your videos! I’m just wondering, what water testing kit do you recommend? Should I get the API freshwater pack for my betta fish or is it better to use strips?
Hmm, I've started leaning more on test strips recently just to check nitrite/nitrate/GH/KH quickly and then I use API for testing pH, phosphate, and sometimes nitrate as well if I can't tell what color the strip said.
Bolbitis heudelotii should be on the list as well. But if you don't grow it with CO2 injection, you need to grow it under lowlight/shade if you don't want it to become an algae farm. Pelia moss should be pretty easy as well. Easier than any regular moss in my case. Another one that i haven't grown personally but was recommended by tons of people is Sagittaria subulata. It's almost unkillable, unless you intentionally kill it. Lucas from LRB Aquatics had one that was still alive after weeks without a dedicated light source. Lucas also practically didn't do any water changes on his tanks.
I CANT KEEP DUCKWEED ALIVE LOL 🤦♂️🤣
i suggest adding water
@@yeet-wk4jz 😆🤣😂
Same. And I did add water
And some easy green
same 🤦
can you do a video about some good tank mates for cherry barbs :D
Hi! I new to live plants and need a refresher for fish. I just got a marina led 10g with a marina s15 filter. ?s. Can I use the sponge filter I saw in your tank? Instead of the filter I have and still keep a crystal clear fish tank. Cause those throw away filter cartridges are expensive to get every to weeks. Can I use that kind sponge filter with multiple plants that are placed in the background. I have a self controlled heater. I got colored rock for bottom. But I was thinking about the tan-ish brown rock they sell at PetSmart. Cause I want a natural look with the tan-ish brown rock. But like said I'm new to the live plants stuff. I did start up the tank for 3 days but I had to break it down. Cause I didn't know what I was doing. I'm 54 trying something new. I've had fish in the past in a 40gal which was 16yrs ago. I will add fish later of course. So ? I have is will the gravel colored,, tan or brown from PetSmart work? What kind of plants will work with that led light that came with the tank it's a starter fish tank kit. Can I put lava rock and artificial drift wood from the PetSmart or Petco in tank? Since the tank has been broke down. What order do I put the stuff in before fish. Cause it will be like a month before fish will be in it. Due to prices go up it's expensive. I know I put stuff down as a base then decor but after that idk. Do I add some water to add the plants into the locations I want them. Then fill the tank up and from there IDK. So I could use your feedback on my issues and concerns I have. Help prime time aquatics
Please make a Albino Corydoras care guide!
Hello. Can these plants be planted directly into the substrate? Also, will they survive with my African Cichlids and two mystery snails?
I grow an Amazon sword as a house plant. I also grow some mangroves as well.
what plants would you recomendc for sand
I've had trouble with Java fern and currently having trouble with Java fern lol
What is the algae eater at the 7:10 mark? It's really going to town on the java fern! Thanks!
Here in California its hard having crazy hard water cant keep many species of plants and fish here :( but I feel for you, additives must be expensive as a necessity with soft water
I just put some bacopa in my mini pond and they just keep multiplying and now there everywhere in the minipond
I love pogostemon stellatus octopus 😊 need to get more because i killed it believe it or not lol
what are those hanging plants. ive tried growing some i found off ebay but they never got that long that is so cool
nevermind!! LOL i see in the video lol my bad
As always, great video! This one left me with a question: Wouldn’t the Java fern plantlets be a good thing? Seems like free plants that you could then put in your substrate elsewhere in the tank-or even sell. Am I missing something? I always learn so much from you-thanks!
For me, the plantlets only show up when my java fern is dying... which means the plantlets won't have a great chance of surviving unless I change something in the aquarium.
@@GirlTalksFish Very helpful-thanks!
Are these good for filterless tanks?
I always find it crazy how I can grow crypts, most stem plants and even some hard to grow ones but I keep on struggling to keep a java fern, anubias, and buce alive in my tank😆
If I may add, I keep hornwort and anacharis. They're hardy plants,
so funny because there is basically only three plants that I can't keep alive - java fern, crypts, and anubias, LOL In my area the water is soft and on the high end of pH. What grows easy in my water from your list is the octopus, water lily bulb, frogbit. Plus any kind of sword plant, banana plant from bulb, and for moss - suswasertang. I'm sure I spelled that wrong, but it grows like crazy in my water and the shrimp and rasboras love it.
Good video. In my limited experience, crypt parva has always gotten covers in algae and died. I am using crypt lucens now for the first time. It’s in one tank for 2 weeks now. We’ll see how that goes.
I have some parva that's doing great in a dirted, medium light tank. It sends out new leaves all the time but I never seem to get any runners from them. I also got some crypt undulata about a week ago and I'm already getting runners and new leaves.
@@thenanoguy8875 I think the key here is a rich substrate. I was using eco complete not dirt or aqua soil.
@@Evil_Genius_888 yeah, that was most likely the cause.
I have anubias in my tank with my little guppy. Unfortunately my apartment has ceiling to floor windows, in every room! I'm struggling with it as some leaves look dark brown/spotted 😖
Meanwhile, my cryptocoryne wendtii brown are taking over my tank and my dwarf lily hasn't grown back yet after I trimmed it massively last month. The crypt roots are everywhere, and they even push up my dwarf hairgrass. I guess it's got something to do with what nutrients are in the water. My substrate is black sand with root tabs and my water is moderately hard.
I'm pretty sure that mystery anubias in sonic's tank is either bartini or goldcoin.
I added 5 Frogbits, now it covers half of the surface. Bad thing is those Frogbits have no long roots because my Angelfish love eating them and they always grow new shoots.
Thoughts on pothos?
What substrate do you recommend?
Nice list but I think hornwort should be on it.
Do u prefer green camboba
irene, i have java fern, guppy grass, hornwort, and anubias nanus
the hornwort is getting a little brown but still growing
the java fern has become a littel clear
the guppy grass looks perefectly good
and the anubias nanus is not growing well, its turning yellow
could it be that i dont have enough nutrients to support it all?
my bioload is a couple cherry shirmp
i dose flourish excel but dont use a measurer. is it possible im dosing too much and it's killing off the plants?
Guppy grass is super hardy and sucks up all the nutrients - leaving almost none for the other plants. The same thing happened to me, I removed the guppy grass and it helped. so maybe remove some of it or fertilize more
I think maybe crypts do well in hard water. I ave super hard water that kills a lot of plants but my Crypt Wendtii and Crypt Balansea never melted and are thriving.
My theory about your Crypts is they love hard water. If you have soft water, then that would explain it. Probably other factors involved. I recommend folks test their tap water Before buying plants and then get plants for their situation. Thanks for the informative video!
I have similar experience having 7.6 pH. Any tank I have that is six months or less I tend to have plant and Crypt melt. Other tanks I have that are over a year old and well-seasoned I can plot in a plant or move Crypts with very little melt
my Octopus grows like CRAZY. love it.
not a fan of Swords .. can’t keep them alive AT ALL. 🌱
Thank you so much for this. I'm new to this and I'm stating a 5.5 gallon tank and wanted to plant it. Also is it possible to put a betta with 5 or 6 tetras in a 5.5 gallon?
I wouldn’t
In addition to the high bioload that stocking level would give you, which would be hard to manage in such a small tank, tetras are pretty active fish. They need room to move, and 5-6 would be on the small side for a school. And nowhere for them to run if your betta turns out to be on the aggressive side. I would probably go with at least a 20 gallon if I was going to try tetras and betta together.
I can speak to crypt parva. I have one that's been in my tank for a whole year. It hasn't died back... But it also hasn't grown any. It might have put out two leaves in the whole time.
my java ferns only give me new shoots.... theyalso brown and get holes. is it only because of potassium deficiency or is it just all around a deficiency 😅 im scared to overdose nutrients as i dont want it to affect my fish and shrimp