(Part 3) Best live aquarium plants according to redditors
We found 121 Reddit comments discussing the best live aquarium plants. We ranked the 48 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
It's not quite a terrarium, but I have some of these
cute little guys in a glass container with water, stones and shells. It's a cute and easy decorative alternative.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L1A0ESG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_sQmqyb890J2XF
Now let's talk about whats really important...are you picking up random trash and watching Gilmore girls with closed caption on?
Marimo They just need some water.
I purchase plants from California all the way to the currently frigid midwest and they arrive alive and intact, with the proper packaging. As others have suggested, please look into shipping options! They are usually wrapped individually in tissue paper, bare root and dry. The more fragile succulents can be padded with shredded paper to support the leaves inside the tissue paper. If you're concerned about temperature dips during shipping, you can add a heat pack (something like this) in the package if necessary. You could potentially even pack them similarly and move with them. I'd hate for you to have to leave any behind!
Looks like moneywort.
That looks like it has been grown in glas wool, so mostly likely underwater. So you ripped the plants away from their substrate and put them unrooted in a utterly different environment than before. This (often) kills the (sensitive) plant.
Most in-vitro plants come in small air-filled pots with some gelatinous fertiziler on the bottom. You can ONLY do DSM with plants that have been grown similar, so emersed.
DSM is only useful for plants that are in emersed growth mode when you buy them.
It's called Alternanthera reineckii 'mini. I bought it from these guys on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008TQ06CO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Someone in your /r/fishtanks post recommended you get live plants. This is a good recommendation but you were right, plants can be harder to get right than fish, and it can add unwanted complications if you don't know what you're doing.
He recommended Java Ferns, which are hardy, low light tolerant plants, but depending on your water they will still not grow. We need to know more about your water to know what plants you can grow, but usually a safe and easy "beginner plant" is actually Java Moss. Java moss is tolerant of low light, low nutrients, and just about everything else. It's a good "filter plant" for your tank, and it will work with the light you have.
[Edit: alternatively, if you can come by "Duckweed" which is illegal to import in a lot of places, it's a miracle plant when it comes to filtering your tank water. It is messy and you'll have to clean it out of your tank every now and then, but it floats on the surface so it's pretty easy to manage in a small tank. It's illegal to import in some places because it grows so fast and is so hard to kill that it can take over ponds, streams, lakes, etc. so you need to be careful when you clean it out of your tank that you dispose of it safely. Don't flush it down the sink, toilet, or bath tub. It is not illegal to own, at least in the U.S. ]
I didn't, at first. Took two years for it to be a truly regular diet. To be fair my sad, tragic ignorance probably played a massive part in this. I can't imagine eating lettuce after over a decade of burgers would be appetizing.
I used binder clips to clip greens of different varieties to the sides of the aquarium. Replace daily or every other day based on freshness/consumption. There were periods of defiance and took so much patience on both of our parts. One of the things that made a huge difference was this stuff. I used duckweed once as a decoration and my filter ate it like a starving diabetic eating cake. It devoured it and paid the price. The duckweed was too small and frail and the filter couldn't handle it. So I bought frogbit, much larger, dealt way better as a decorative piece. BUT my turtle loved eating it. I feel like that provided a real segue to greens. Frogbit was way too expensive to really continue buying but holding out on pellets and constantly providing very fresh greens made for a great transition.
Your turtle can eat $3 lettuces 100% of the time with the occasional addition of pellets and other things. My musk LOVED blueberries by the way. So You might try one as a treat once a month or every other month.
Just be patient. Don't think of your turtle as a kid needing as much food as possible whenever it wants it. Give it a week or two of consistently fresh greens, maybe invest in some frogbit, but don't give up. Take pictures of the lettuce every day if it helps you log how much and whether or not your turtle is eating. Be sure to look at the bottom of the aquarium because the turtle may bite some off but just drop it with out actually eating.