Will some tropical plants thrive in a coldwater aquarium?

Answer 1

Most of us enter the aquarium hobby because of a fascination with fish, interest stimulated by these interesting, colourful and sometimes very alien inhabitants of the world of water. An aquarium system, as well as providing a healthy environment for our chosen fish can also be a stunning display and a living picture if care is taken to decorate and aquascape it. Fundamental to aquascaping is selection of a variety of water plants which, with a little care can create an underwater garden that as well as looking beautiful in its own right, will be a foil against which to show off the aquarium fish to even greater advantage.

There are over one hundred and fifty varieties of live plants offered for sale to the aquarist. Some of these are of interest only to advanced hobbyists and require a great deal of time and special equipment to propagate successfully. Many, however, are relatively easy to achieve success with by picking the right type for your system and by following a few simple care rules. Some plants are suitable only for tropical aquarium systems and others for un-heated set ups. A few varieties are equally at home in both types of system as they are tolerant of a broad temperature range. There are also available for sale a few plants that will tolerate submersion for a number of weeks but are not truly aquatic and will, therefore die off after a period.

Plants For Coldwater Aquariums.
The common goldfish and its fancy cousins such as Orandas, Moors, Shubunkins and others all enjoy vegetable material as part of their diet and will happily munch away on that recently added prize potted specimen. For this reason it is recommended that fast growing and tougher leafed varieties are chosen as bunched or potted specimens. Recommended varieties are Bacopa Monnieri, Cardamine Lyrata, Ceratopterus Cornuta, Egeria Densa, Gymnocoronis Spilanthoides, Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Hygrophila Corymbosa, Hygrophila Difformis, Hygrophila Polysperma, Ludwigia Repens, Microsorum Pteropus, Sagittaria Subulata, Vallisneria Spiralis and Vallisneria Americanis. This list is not by any means exhaustive and you may wish to experiment with other varieties but from the authors experience they are a fairly safe bet and should not be problematical.

Plants For Tropical aquariums.
The Tropical Aquarium presents the aquarist with a perfect opportunity to be truly creative and develop a lush, verdant underwater garden, a perfect backdrop for the gently gliding, glistening, shoals of aquarium fish. There is a huge choice available but again, a number of old favorites will provide maximum impact with minimum fuss. These are Anubius(All varieties), Aponogeton Crispus, Ceratopterus Cornuta, Crinum Natans and C. Thaianum, Cryptocoryne (Most varieties), Echinodorus Bleheri, E. Macrophylus, E. Martii, E. Osiris, E. Ozelot, E. Rose and E. Rubin, Gymnocorinis Spilanthoides, Hygrophila Corymbosa “Angustifolia”, “Siamensis” and “Stricta”, H. Difformis, H. Polysperma, Ludwigia Arcuata, L. Repens, Microsorum (All varieties), Shinnersia Rivularis and Vallisneria (All varieties).

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Answer 2

Cold Water Aquarium Plants

Answer 3

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Will some tropical plants thrive in a coldwater aquarium?

Answer 4

Cold water plants

Plants that do well in low temps

These plants will do well in cold or room temps for goldfish or native fish.

Ludwigia repens

Red Ludwigia

Moneywort

Bacopa mint

Bacopa caroliniana

Lysimachia

Creeping Jenny

Egeria najans

Hornwort

Coonstail

Didiplis diandre

Potamogeton gayii

Red Cabomba

Dwarf spoon leaf Sag

Dwarf Sag

Contortion vals

Needleleaf ludwigia

remember that these plants need good lighting to survive about 2-4 watts per gallon of water with the proper spectrium

Answer 5

Alot can, plants dont so much have a temperature requirment.
Some ive heard thriving in an aquarium with goldfish are:
Java moss, java fern
amazon swords
anubias

If it is a goldfish tank, it is likely that anything they can fit in their mouths they will eat, so get ones with hard long leaves and you should be fine

Answer 6

No is the simple answer. Though a good flow of water and strong light can help plants to thrive they also need warmer water i'm afraid.

Answer 7

I've haven't found one that won't yet and I've been keeping goldfish in coldwater for donkeys years.

Answer 8

some yes, but what fish are living in this aquarium?
if it's goldfish, forget it. they will uproot and eat any live plants in the tank.

Answer 9

All of them basically :)