What kinds of water plants should I get for my tank?

Question

I have a 10 gallon tank with 4 guppies. 2 female and 2 male. I'm hoping the females will have babies.

What are some low cost, hardy, water plants that will provide a place for guppy fry to hide? It would be great if they didn't require too much light. I recently got a Java Fern for my tank but it's leaves constantly fell off which created waste.

Answer 1

If you're looking for real easy of care, consider some plastic plants. I've used replicas of foxtail, cabomba, hornwort, and ambulia to name a few, either planted in the gravel, or floating on the top of the water. These are easy to clean, look relatively realistic, and last forever. No worries about lighting, fertilizing, trimming, or snails, either. The "bushier" the foliage (see example: http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/group/11171/product.web ), the better, because it makes it that much harder for the adults to navigate through the plants, but the fry can do so easily!

Answer 2

a little advice you should get 2 more female cause male guppy are very anoying with it want to make with the ladies,and your female could die from that.
limnophila aquatica,
ceratophyllum submersum
cabomba caroliniana
or you can buy a breeder box to put your female in
when a female guppy is preg and about to give birth she would be hidding,eat less or even doesn,t at all,from behine view of her the gavid spot(an area that is close to the butt)is spare.and remove her from the box after she done and feed her.
you should remove the fry to a 5 gal aquarium ,they'll be safe and have thier own space to swim
the aquarium plant doesn't work really well
it you want to keep all the fry ,then use the breeder box
you can buy it at pet store(buy the 3 way breedding cause you'll never know if both of the female giving birth at the same time=]good luck

Answer 3

Java moss and fern are best. I got some myself about 2 weeks ago but some are starting to turn brown. Im still not sure why, but initially my water conditions were pretty bad, now they are starting to go green again...

One thing is when you get some from the pet store make sure you clean them well, mine had snail eggs in the which i didn't know until they hatched and i had about a dozen little snails in my tank. Snails aren't so bad buy there could be other parasites in there.

Answer 4

green water is in many cases a demonstration of too plenty gentle. decrease the quantity of sunshine the tank gets and the fairway will progressively bypass away. you will possibly be able to might desire to shade the tank from organic gentle if that's close to a window. vegetation can help, yet in a various way. the fairway algae it somewhat is your situation desires 2 issues to enhance. gentle and foodstuff (fish poop). actual now it has the two. in case you upload fairly some stay vegetation they are in a position to apply up all the foodstuff, leaving none for the algae. So lower back you get the water to clean up. yet this relies upon on have fairly some vegetation, and that they might desire to be turning out to be exact. if your fish and turtle start up destroying them, it wont artwork. So the greater straightforward restoration is to minimize the quantity of sunshine. Ian

Answer 5

I have a Java Fern which fish hide in alot. It's about 4 inches tall and it has thick, leafy leaves. It's very hardy and can survive your tank.

~ZTM

Answer 6

they have breeding grass which is great for guppy's it don't require allot of maintenance and not much light either plus if they do have baby's it gives the baby's a place to play and hide