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Low light plants
- Thread starter Sweety
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- Wake Forest NC, USA
In addition to various Java Ferns and Anubias nana, I use Bolbitis, Dwarf Sagittaria, Vallisneria, Najas (guppy-grass), Java Moss, Christmas Moss, Susswassertang, Crypt wendtii, Crypt affinis, and Limnobium as my usual standards for soft water/ low-light/ no-added-fert tanks. Also Hornwort (Coontail) for water with a bit more hardness. However I have not used LEDs - my list is for standard T8 or T12 fluorescent tubes.
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- Wiltshire UK
Hi all,
cheers Darrel
I've never had any luck with Vallis in Apistogramma tanks, although it does well in our tap water (about 17dKH).Thank's your a starhad vallis in an old tank & it grew like a weed as my tap water is med/hard will look into the plants you have mentioned
cheers Darrel
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- Odijk, the Netherlands
Don't go for vallis with LED lights. I had lots of vallis in my tank with regular t5 bars. Than i switched to LED lights but the lighting did not come true all the vallis at the surface. Where the normal lighting bars are completly spreading all the light every where it goes fine, but LED are all little lights, where the light starts really to split up as soon as it goes through the water. But with my vallis it could not reach the water, so there was almost no lighting penetrating the water. I still got some vallis now, placed in some back corner, and just cutting all the leaves as soon as they get to long.
