Opinion on bushy mid/background plant

[PedroB]

Hi, I'm choosing plants for my future tank (80cmX40cmX40cm). I'm planning on having:

- an HC cuba carpet on the lower areas;
- a second level with utricularia graminifolia;
- Pogostemon Helferi at the bases of the hardscape;
- one or two wood hardscapes to plant small mosses in.

I'm looking for a plant for the mid/background area that grows quite bushy and that may provide a hiding spot for fry/smaller fish or shrimps.

Thank you!

 

[G H Nelson]

http://tropica.com/en/plants/plantdetails/Didiplisdiandra(031TC)/4756
Have a go at this plant....never found it that difficult to keep healthy...one of my favourites.



hoggie

 

[PedroB]

Thank you!

I was thinking of Bacopa Australis (http://tropica.com/en/plants/plantdetails/Bacopaaustralis(043A)/4466), but Didiplis Diandra is also lovely! I might have didiplis in the middle and bacopa on the sides

 

[Lewis G]

Thin leaved or thick leaved?

 

[PedroB]

thin leaved I guess, but I'd love to have some thick leaved suggestions too

 

[TOO]

Ammania "bonsai" or as is correct, Rotala indica, grows very bushy if happy. You can see how it looked in my previous scape Alpine Gardens. I really liked it. Responds well to pruning and is not too fast growing.

Thomas

 

[Iain Sutherland]

Ammania "bonsai" or as is correct, Rotala indica,

what do you mean TOO?

Hemianthus micranthemoides is easy and nice and bushy.

 

[TOO]

what do you mean TOO?

That the correct name of Ammania "bonsai" is Rotala indica.

http://www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplants/rotala-indica

Thomas

 

[Iain Sutherland]

That the correct name of Ammania "bonsai" is Rotala indica.

they are both beautiful plants but also quite different, i had both high tech and low tech and both in one tank. The leaf shape is more round on indica and larger, indica will also go scarlet where ammania wont, indica will also grow at any angle and curve over where bonsai will only grow vertical. Im sure there is a biological difference that sets them apart but im no botanist

 

[TOO]

I think the plant popularly known as Ammania "bonsai" is now scientifically described as Rotala indica. The plant known as Rotala indica before this name was transferred is Rotala rotundifolia, as I understand it. But I am no botanist either....

Thomas

 

[Mick.Dk]

I have observed the exact same differences, as you, Iain, in the plants I've received as "Rot. indica" and "Amannia 'bonzai'"........ but I have also seen notable differnces in plants of same name, from different sources.
Rotala and Amannia have been/are undergoing a "check-up", as far as I know.
I know Christel Kasselmann have been doing work on them, for sure.
Amannia 'bonzai' is defenitely a Rotala now, but I'm not yet sure if it's given species status or variety status.
Rot. rotundifolia is quite widespread and has long been known to have a lot of varieties............so it may well be, that several of our "common-named" Rotala-types will end up, to be varieties of species rotundifolia. Time will tell !!

 

[Iain Sutherland]

Thanks for the info mick, interesting to know.
I guess for as long as we buy from the likes of tropica at least we know which plant we will get irrelevant of classification and from home grown buyers it can be a suprise!


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[Lewis G]

Pogostemon erectus?

 

[Mick.Dk]

Thanks for the info mick, interesting to know.
I guess for as long as we buy from the likes of tropica at least we know which plant we will get irrelevant of classification and from home grown buyers it can be a suprise!


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You know, I can't comment on that, Iain

 

[Iain Sutherland]

You know, I can't comment on that, Iain

haha sorry, just meant if we buy from a branded nursery then we know which plant we will get, which ever company they may be