Best Plants to Create Territories

[MapleNeil]

I would like to use plants to create different territories within a tank for apistos. The plants would break up lines of sight and perhaps even form almost like hedges around different territories. What plants would be best for this?

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I use plenty moss, wood, floating plants and structural leaf litter, along with <"African Fern (Bolbitis heudelotii)">, Floating Fern (Ceratopteris cornuta), Anubias (Anubias barteri) and a couple of Cryptocoryne spp. I have a lot of structure and a lot of plants, there is very little "open water".

These all <"survive at low nutrients and with low light">.

cheers Darrel

 

[themountain]

Everything in masses will do

 

[Samala]

Beautiful jungle Darrel!

Rather than any one specific plant try to find one or two types that respond well in your particular tank parameters and let them run wild. In my tanks Rotala rotundifolia grows like a weed and fills all the available space. Frogbit, while a floating plant, also helps enormously as the roots grow and add more structure and essentially becomes a hedge with the Rotala.

A friend of mine can't keep Hygrophila difformis and Sagittaria from taking over but it doesn't like my tanks.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Beautiful jungle Darrel!

However they start they all end up like that.

cheers Darrel

 

[MacZ]

I have great success with Egeria densa. Doubles as semi-floating, as it tends to carpet close to the surface, which is also usefil to anchor actuall floaters.

 

[FishMonkey]

Water wisteria & Amazon swords if you're looking for fast growing hard to kill plants. Larger crypts make great plants to weave through but they don't grow as fast.

Crypts are definitely my apistos favourite, I often find all 5 or my borelliis playing in 30cm squared area of crypts right at the front of the tank. Pro tip if you buy crypts split them into 3-5 smaller plants, they will grow much quicker then repeat or growth slows right down.

Adding a lot of rock and wood helps create hiding spots too, probably better than any plants can.