I do a lot of hiking locally, and often look into the various streams and ponds. the following is a list of some of the things I have seen and or collected.
Ludwigia [yes, the same as offered in LFS]
Vallisneria or Sagittaria
Pond weed several varieties
Small Pondweed
Dwarf Hairgrass, makes a nice easy to grow plant
Duck Weed impossible not to grow, if you like a floater
Marsilea quadrifolia
Water Hyacinth
Water Lettuce
Riccia
Nitella
Water Moss
Penny wort
Fanwort / cabombqa
Water Sheild/Brasenia
various Lilies
various Milfoil
Where on Long Island did you find such a variety of plants? I live in Farmingdale, and I've been to some of the local parks. But, the only
submerged plants I have encountered are cabomba, sag., and something
that looked like potamogeton (seaweed-like)
Planted these last night...first one I am thinking is Marsilea, the second looks like watersprite or a variety thereof, maybe hygro, who knows... LOL , and the third is just a mind blast, no clue as to even a guess here but it was growing submersed in almost 2 feet of water so I grabbed these small ones for a test.
Im just doing my part to rid this stream of its invasive species ... Not to mention they are pretty nice plants.
These plants were growing in the sandy part of the stream which is on either side of that bridge. I walked upstream about 100 feet and then I went downstream about the same , maybe even further and there were no plants at all other then right at the bridge. The weird part is that where the sand stopped , so did the plants. Its almost like they were planted there purposely :shock:
But of course thats not the case... LOL
This water moves at a pretty good clip right there in that section so Im guessing that the sand is better for them to root in.
Most of the time I see the best plants in ponds and in the muck but they are never as clean looking as those from streams and flowing water. Also standing water plants have a tendency to get bug larvae and eggs on them much easier and need a bit more caution when putting them in your tank. :lol:
My experience with using " silty oozy mud" with gravel over it in a tank didnt work out to great for me... the plants loved it but it was a virtual timebomb under the substrate !
A "thin" layer covered with sand or gravel would be OK but I layed it in a bit thick. (80% Dirt, 20 % Sand Mix capped with sand)
An inch of it at most in the bottom of tank I think would be ideal, I will be trying it again as soon as I get time.
Im thinking of heading back to the stream for a bit more of the Marsilea in a few minutes before it goes bye bye for the winter... 6 more plants would do me perfectly.
The best way to visualize a landscape I have found is to just check out photos and piece together the changes mentally... I decided to go with the blue background after seeing amanos tanks HERE. He uses blue frequently and the tanks had such a fresh look to them I decided to give it a whirl... :wink:
There is no program out there "yet" that does that for you that I know of Plantum.
That website you posted is now bookmarked , nice site , thanks for the link Plantum .
As far as my unknown plant I think I have it ID'ed... its Samolus valerandi, HERE is a link to it , see if you agree with the plant name.
Hydrocotyle Verticillata. One of the plants that I have found in my expeditions. Great little plant. I'm working on propogating mine. It grows a couple of leaves every day.
i agree with David. the pennywort looks a lil bit different.
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