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Is it a good thing to have a live plant in your aquarium?
I want a answer with a description. I also want to know the easiest plant to have for an aquarium.
Plants are beneficial in various ways.
First of all, plants give off oxygen during their photoperiod (when the lights are on). All plants do this, by the way.....
In order to give off Oxygen they take CO2 from the water as well as nutrients. The cool thing is, plants consider ammonia, nitrite and nitrate to be nutrients. The same stuff we try to remove from our tanks.
A lot of people get plants only to have them die off after a short time. Plants should be long lived. This usually happens for one reason - the person failed to do their research and find out what plants could live in their particular setup.
This may sound really obvious, but first off, make sure the plant is aquatic and can actually live in water. Yeah, obvious one, but I bet every PetSmart and all the other big stores sell Mondo Grass. Well guess what - it ain't aquatic and it will die off. For reference - here is a list of the more popular plants that are sold as aquatic but really aren't:
http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_list.php?category=11
Now that we are not looking at garden plants, there is a major cinsideration in choosing plants - Light. Remember when I talked about nutrients and CO2? Well, none of that happens without light. Some plants require very high levels of light, others thrive in low light.
So, what kind of light do you have? If it's standard aquarium lighting, it's low light. Knowing that, you can look at this list and choose plants that you know can live in your tank:
http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_list.php?category=1&filter_by=2
There are 3 pages of choices.
Java Moss and Java Ferns are very easy to come by. They thrive in low light. Neither gets planted in the substrate - though you can if you only bury the stringy roots of a J-Fern. Moss gets tied to a rock or something and it will anchor itself and spread.
So is it a good thing to have a plant? All of my tanks are planted. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Oh, and by the way- no "bubblers" in a tank with plants. Air stones encourage off-gassing of CO2 - we want the plant to use that CO2 to remove the nasty stuff and give off oxygen.
