A very large amazon sword! These are hardy plants and are great with most fish, even larger ones which would usually eat live plants.
Low - High light, CO2 and Nutrients are not necessary.
Medium growing speed, great for backgrounds.
Running plant, so stick the roots into the substrate.
The plant propagates by shooting runners from the plant.
No worries, happy to answer!
The main thing here is temperature, lighting and fish.
Almost all aquatic plants will still grow when partially out of the water (In fact they grow better) but also note that they need to adjust to that, if you buy aquatic plants keep them submerged but near the surface of the water.
If your pond doesn't get too cold (as in above 10 C on coldest nights) then pretty much anything we sell would work fine. The main plants you wouldn't want to put on the edges would be the potted plants (https://sydney-aquascapes.com.au/collections/potted-plants Which we will have in stock next week) along with moss. Moss is great for various reasons as well however.
I'd probably recommend: https://sydney-aquascapes.com.au/products/massive-plant-comb… .
Almost all plants here should be great for you and it will give you a variety to see what you like and what thrives.
Thank you!
That combo looks great actually!
I’ll hopefully have the pond completed over the weekend. Won’t be adding fish until it’s been established for a few weeks/months.
In regard to the potted plants, do you mean in the water or on edge (outside of the pond)
The potted plants we sell do not do well out of the water, so not on the edge. The rest can start growing partially out of the water as long as they start inside it.
I’m on mobile, didn’t see a location for C&C, whereabouts are you located?
Sydney Ultimo.
Oh sweet, I need another sword.
I've got eight massive clown loaches and they destroyed these in a couple of days.
Ah yes, unfortunately if the fish is too big and happily eats plants even these wouldn't survive. Everything will get eaten at some size.
I've only ever had plastic plants in the tank since I've had the loaches….7-8 years. Live plants were their new play thing when I tried to introduce them. They destroyed every new live plant I tried to put in the tank, so back to plastic it was. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if I had live plants in from the start. :shrug:
I've got two clown loaches (~4-5cm each) and 2 yoyo loaches (3 cm each) in a fairly heavily planted 450L community tank (with another 26 fish) that has 2 medium sized Amazon swords and so far so good.
I used to have a tank with lots of very large clown loaches - they got lazier in their old age, but heaps of drift wood with Java moss, Java fern and anubias worked OK. Nothing looked heaps healthy, but they survived. Trick is to distribute the damage (heaps of plants, heaps of wood). Lots of fast flowing current (using fans) helped too - stopped the loaches getting bored, plus they tended to graze in the "rest" areas but not in the "current surfing" areas.
Wouldn't run a tropical tank nowadays unless you got stupid amounts of solar power and storage…
Apologies to OP, I’m sure google would help too.
Just starting an outdoor fish pond/water fall feature. Would like to have some plants in and around the pond. Any recommendations for things available in Aus/Sydney?