zozo
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I think too, for small and flowers than your best chances are doing something with creeping marginal bog plants.
And it actualy aint that difficult to make something nice with only a bit of work. Even nicer if you have a dremmel tool. E.g. take a piece of 32mm or 40mm pvc pipe, make the same lenght as the inside of the tank. Cap both ends. Take the dremel tool with a saw blade and cut it open over it's entire lenght. Dril a few small drain holes in the end caps.Now a naked grey piece of PVC aint realy beatifull to look at. Than sand it down with a coarse sand paper.. Order a small portion of Epoxy and buy a bag of peat litter. Apply the epoxy to the pipe and throw the peat litter on it when still wet and cover it completely. This you can also do with aqaurium safe silicone kit, apply the kit to the pipe smear it like butter and cover it completely with litter. But epoxy works beter long term.
Leave it 7 days to cure and you have a nice natural looking plant hanger ove the intire lenght at the tanks back panel. Put a few sucker cups at the outside and tie it to it with some string and hang the planter inside the tank. Put some grow media in the pipe and plant it with nice easy flowering marginal creeping plants. Glue some aqautic mosses to the peatlitter bellow the water surface. And maybe you get lucky and it will grow mosses and maybe even a fern on it's own from the spores in the litter emersed.
The peat will leach a bit tanins in the water, this is only temporary.Creeping Jenny is ideal, Hydrocotyl spp. also perfect. Cardime lyrata also nice fower. Mazus reptans realy stunning little flower. All temporate easily indoors flowering small trailing plants and what hangs over the planter grows on in the water.
