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Yeah , I used to have Amazon frogbit in a shrimp tank and the shrimp seemed to disappear , I later found it during a water change that they were all hidden in the frogbit and were breeding like crazy, the number went from 3 to 30 in a month
Hey there!
@@_invertico_ hey
they grow so darn fast
@@FishForThought the shrimp or frogbit?
@@critterwhisperer5821 B O T H, in good conditions:)
I'd say water sprite is a great beginner plant. It is pretty much bullet proof and grows like crazy, giving new hobbyists a satisfying start into planted aquariums.
Starting with difficult plants that die instantly will discourage people to continue the hobby, happened to a friend of mine..
You have to find it first considering that everyone knows how good it is
water wisteria is very similar and may be easier to find.
For some reason, I can't keep water sprires alive. Am I the only one?
agreed!
Easy plants are way more rewarding
as a new fish tank hobbyist i gotta make a case for duckweed. seriously! it is actually a great indicator for me as a learner to tell if things are okay in the tank. if it slows down growth i know to check the tank for problems and/or add fertilizer. if its growing fast it gives me a reason to scoop and interact with the tank every couple days. and since its also a giant pain in teh ass its motiving me to start more tanks that arent contaminated with it.
Haha. I prefer dwarf water lettuce, but duckweed sure grows quickly in the right conditions, and it sure can be a pain.
Not a fan of duckweed in my tank as I have another floater (Ludwigia Sedioides), but it does make great feed/snacks for my chickens! ❤
I love water wisteria for a first time plant. It doesn't care what your stocking is, the temp, even the light levels. It's basically a weed, but pretty and with nice leaves for fish to lounge on. it's happy floating in the top or rooted
i love water wisteria! most people don't recommend it for nanos but i love the overgrown, jungley look in my 5gal.
Water wisteria is one of my favourites! It's so easy and a great, vibrant colour.
The fact that they took the effort to build and landscape the tank too 💀
9:00 as someone who makes ecosphere I can confirm how godlike snails are! They are a major part of keeping the plant-life in check (especially since I seal them completely), from my experience they typically they outlast all other animal-life, and if I see the snails dying off then usually the ecosphere is on its way out lol
Love the vids, keep it up! (and before anyone gets the idea that I stock them using store-bought critters- everything inside of them is caught and collected locally)
For QoTW, you can never go wrong with Anubias as a starter plant.
Fun fact : in my very first tank (which was a paludarium) I actually almost killed an anubia 😅 ok, maybe not kill, but I didn’t attach it to my piece of wood and let it sit there to the point that it started to bloom…
(No worries, when I saw the little flower pop out I attached it and today I still got some pieces of this anubia in my new tanks)
i bought one plant and got 3 extras, one of them being a baby anubia with like 3 leaves. i'm very new to the hobby and 14 so i did plant it for a day while i was trying to identify it. I have no idea how to tie it to a rock or one of my driftwoods so i put a rock on half of its roots and it has now successfully grown its 5th leaf!:D they are worth around 25$ here aswell because one lfs priced them high and the others just... followed i guess. free plant surviving better than any of my others, and it's in the worst corner of my tank aswell. great starter plant. would recommend. i have no idea what i am doing.
@@naurrii you're in the right place! Lots of great info on here!
Especially petite
FTR always brightens my day!!! Maybe not the dead fish part but your a very good host. Honestly I REALLY needed this. Sadly one of my guppies passed away on thanksgiving from stress
aw ty! Sorry for your loss :(
Today while I was studying I used 3 mins of FTR every 15 mins to motivate me and help study an extra hour or 2
@@chillkid1465 Good idea,thanks for sharing I’ll try it next time❤️
I was recommended guppies by a fish shop as a starting fish. Poor fish, all dead.
Now I have easier starting fish, 4 platties and 5 harlequin tetras. One of them (a reddy orange one) has fin rot or something similar. Please pray for him.
My lfs- The tanks are all planted and clean and all the fish are healthy af. They're knowledgable and happily educate people on just about anything fish-related.
And also they keep a half gallon by the register thats usually algaed tf up, with a sad betta boy in it. No filter, no heater, just those colored orbz for decor.
...
What is it with good pet stores and having a singular tortured betta at the front counter?? They look terrible ;-;
One of my favorite beginner plants is pennywort. Unique leaves. Grows easily. Can work as a floating plants. Easy to propagate. Inexpensive. I was also able to swap some with my lfs for other plants.
super cute plant
Oh I liked the look of that one but mine died sadly😕 they always die on me tbh😅
@@jamie_sitton that's too bad. It's a nice little plant.
I have some in my tank and they grow really fast. Great background plant
My QOTW plant for beginners is guppy grass. You can plant it into your substrate? Or put it in a net with big holes and keep it in a ball shaped growth or just let it float around in your tank and let it find its own way.
Guppy grass is a tough plant and will do the job to keep your tank filtered and provide enough hiding spots for eggs and fry
I just bought 30 ft of guppy grass for my 110 gallon pond. I have never had guppy grass before but i like what i have read about it. I am really hoping it chokes out the hair algae in my pond.
@@mongguppiesandendlers Guppy grass grows fast (hard water + light)
If you having trouble growing it as a floating plant, stick a few strands in your substrate. (Or keep a few strands where sunlight reaches them just in case your lighting isn't ideal which goes for basically any plant)
And remember. Always buy the minimum amount of each plant.
Buying 10 plants of each and finding out that they are dying later is a waste a your money
From my experience guppy grass will overrun your aquarium within a few months, remove any hair grass now or it could grow entangled in-between your guppy grass (if planted)
@@EuroGupper Thank you! I do have some floating and then the rest of it i rubberbanded to a lava rock on the bottom of the pond. It gets decent light from about 6am-noon then it's in the shade. I remove the hair algae several times a week and am hoping between the guppy grass and the duckweed that appeared in the pond, they use up any excess nutrients and the hair algae problem is fixed.
A couple months ago, my neighbor got a Axolotl when they had probably never taken care of a fish. They were seven. A couple weeks into it I went over to their house just to check in on it, so it wouldn’t die. She had not changed the water. You could see the water evaporation marks and the tank was now only half full of water. Not only that, but there was only a few rocks for it to hide behind, and the aquarium light was constantly on. I honestly hope it jumped out of that tank and became a land animal. 😰
Favorite beginner plant is crypts - low light requirement, pretty tolerant to water changes, slow growing but interesting to look at compared to most beginner plants. I always tell people that they grow slow but that's better then having to constantly trim things every week. Also I think most beginner plants that are recommended are always fast growing plants best used in the background - not many foreground plants suggested and crypts fill that space.
7:16
In my experience. This happens when you do a very large water change, adding water with very different parameters, causing the fish to be in shock.
I've learned a lot with my planted tank. It takes a lot of research and experimenting.
My bladder snails seem to love my frogbit the most of all tank inhabitants. They can float and cruise around on the surface and use the frogbit as a forest to explore or to catch onto while floating toward the surface.
Ludwigia natans super red! The only plant I’ve found that can turn really red even with low tech (that’s not a floating plant). Not a lot of people know about it and it’s super underrated. It can be prone to root melt but you just have to float it until roots come out before you plant it.
My favorite plant is a sunflower as it is very good to eat. It face towards the sun and I spend hours stalking the flowers waiting on the right moment to attack. Overall I recommend sunflowers as edible vegetation that is easy to grow and eat!
I should be in school right now, but I can’t miss Chris talking about how terrible or amazing peoples fish tanks are, so I went to the bathroom to watch it lol
My go to plant is the moss that started growing at random on the drift wood that I bought from my LFS. It started out so tiny. After re-doing my tank, I started adding plant fertilizer to the water, and that moss ballooned. It's out performing everything else.
I still very much consider myself a beginner but my first plant that really went *off* and is super easy to trim and propagate is hornwort-and any time I trim it I bring a cup full to feed as greens to my ducks, they love it! I only started getting into fish keeping the spring after that huge snowmageddon we had in Texas, I’m incredibly grateful I haven’t had to face that since bc I’m sure I would have cried, let’s hope it doesn’t happen again 🤞🏼
This is the first video I ever saw from you, then I fell into your channel.
Ended up renovating my Claw Machine listening to literally only these videos lol
QOTW: A bit of a different suggestion: pothos of any genus. You can just pop a clone in your filter or use the roots in part of your aquascape like me. It's also super helpful if you can't keep floater plants since they'll suck up all the nitrates like crazy 👍
Ayyy, you make Mondays the best day of the week! Thank you ❤️
To avoid accidentally removing shrimplets when you skim your floating plants, just pinch the top of the plant off and drop the roots back in.
Don't worry, the turtle will get rid of those goldfish himself the next time he gets hungry. The dirtiness of a goldfish is nothing compared to that of a turtle.
Hi, Chris, you may remember me from the guy who's tank broke, i took a bit of a break but i am back with a 30 gallon planted, with 4 cories and a betta, your aquascapes inspired me and i want to send my tank across, how do i do it, i completely forgot.
My go to plant is java fern for beginners because you can introduce it to already established tank by tying it to a rock or ornament without having to get different substrate. Feed Leaf Zone to feed the water column if you want to make sure the leaves stay green.
Vallisneria Americana is my favorite beginner plant. It's the most versatile Vallis. Many people buy Spiralis and find it doesn't grow long enough, or Australis and find it grows too long. Americana is super easy, and hits that sweet spot in the middle where it will grow to canopy your aquarium if you want it to, but you can also keep it trimmed short enough easily if you don't.
Oh look, it’s the cohost! And not napping? Haha, Good morning! Again a wonderful video!
I'd say crinum octopus. Looks gorgeous and super easy and fast to grow, I've got a few in my temperate tank that reach up and run along the waters surface. If you don't have a nutritious substrate they're quite happy with root tabs. Second to that would be Anubis for obvious reasons, its just an absolute unit of the plant, anytime, anywhere as long as its not buried.
such an awesome plant for great texture too
Hm that's a new one for me!
1:40
I have 4 of those eels! Love them so much, especially since they always seem to smile :) (will try to get out of your tank or into your filter if its in the tank)
You have no idea how satisfying it was to be the 1000th like. Love these vids thanks for making Monday a little better
“Why is this person so good at aquascaping but so bad at everything else?” Relatable
Happy FFTday everyone! LOL....the dirty glass aquarium pipe and the
" ask the stoners" response was hilarious!!
best answer xD
My favourite easy plant is definitely bolbitis. It took a while to transition but now it’s growing like a monster💕
Rotala indica was amazing for me as a beginner. It looks great with thin and tall fish, like my pair of angelfish. It spread out to cover most of the ground in my 55gal in about 6 months
Awesome video Chris
Wow I was very surprised that you didn't know about bubbles or airstones during water changes. And you have soo many videos hahah. I know this is old vid though just saw it. Love your channel!
Preparing new aquarium for a review. Will post when ready. So excited 😊, going with my tried and true under-gravel/power-head in a 20 long.
Thanks sooo much for shout out! 😊
My beginner plant is a moss ball. Once I felt confident keeping them alive, I moved on to Anubius & Java ferns. *is very new to planted tanks*
Also those poor arowanas gave me Sandy flashbacks. No power for two weeks and snow, came back when the power came on to a tankful of dead guppies. 😢😭😢At least I was able to save my birds, but still, those poor guppies. 😭
moss ball is a great intro to live plants!
aw yeah I feel so bad for everyone who had to go through that..
@@FishForThought Thanks! 😊
Yeah, it was horrible. We were lucky we only lost power. Others lost their homes. 😟
~8:00 I had this happen to me once. It was a pretty new tank, did a water change and filled the water level up above the internal filter outlet. A few hours later the fish were all up at the surface like this. I repositioned the filter so the outlet agitated the surface more, and the fish acted normal again.
Surface agitation is important for gas exchange, which is necessary if you have no other way of getting O2 into the water. Plants in the water will provide O2 and remove CO2, so surface agitation is not really needed in a well planted tank.
I want a seachem mug!
My favorite beginner plant is anubias nana petite. It's beautiful and a great texture plant. It's my favorite for looks
But all around has to be pogostemon octopus. I LOVE how they can survive in just about anything, takes nutrients from the water column and substrate (i believe), and propagating them is easy and fun
Happy Monday Chirs! Have a great day today!
thakn you bro for another amazing vid its exam week and you always make me smile thank you
Suswassertang is an excellent beginner plant! Shrimp and Livebearers especially love it!
Oh my. I gotta say, props to you for actually putting the clip from the thumbnail early. First time here and I'm impressed it wasn't at the end. Good job my ADHD brain likes this decision
Limnophila mini Vietnam is a very easy plant that is also fairly uncommon in the hobby, great for all levels!
Let's goo! Your videos are my favorite part of Monday!
I could not take my eyes off your bird the WHOLE video lol, SHES SOOO CUTE
For the QoTW, I've really fallen in love with pearl weed, it's fool proof and so lush! All of my tanks have it, it just does its thing from 55g down to my nano 5.
I feel like water lily is a pretty good beginner plant. It’s been pretty easy and forgiving for me. And once it gets a lily up there… it starts growing like crazy!
i love the weird plants so i always rec banana! its so funky and easy!
EVERYONE-A FISH BOWL IS IDEAL FOR A BETTA
CHRIS-I AM WATCHING YOU
I like Water Wisteria, pogostemon stellatus octopus and Rotala rotundifolia for beginners, all fast growers which helps with water quality and will help give the fish keeper confidence with the plants themselves - always the best part of my Monday, thank you Chris!!
I am pretty new to planted aquariums, but I have found jungle Val to be pretty good and low maintiance. It gives my adult fish things to swim through which they seem to enjoy
Have to 100% go with the good old java fern. My fave so far is the Gold Sparkle type. Its multiplying like crazy, hard to kill and no soil needed. :D
Every time I see your videos with these beautiful healthy fish tanks; the biologist in me becomes happier.
I will say limnophilia is always a good beginner plant. I bought a single stem and now I could fill like 3 55 gallons with limnophilia if I wanted too
Went to look for a video of yours and I got a notification at the same time ❤
Not me waiting all week thinking I was going to get chosen it's just like a lottery love the videos keep it up
Recently started adding terrestrial indoor plants ontop of my tanks with the roots in the water and wow what a difference to my water parameters
What plants have you been having success with? I'm definitely wanting to experiment but I can't find a good guide
@@lachlanstay Almost all "tropical" plants available at big box stores. If you have time try washing of roots of dirt and try growing in a glass of water first. I hope I helped and didn't just babble.
P.S. My favorite for smaller tanks are Japanese Peace Lillies. They get big but not to big.
btw dont put peace lilies in a betta tak there toxic and will kill bettas
@@ashton9640 I've heard that before but can't find a source. Don't eat them they are toxic. My betta has been with a peace lily over four years. Absolutely not trying to be sharky, just think there's another variable and the plants are being blamed. Thank you for the concern.
The Truck-Kun took me by surprise, but it was appreciated, lol! 😄
i love ludwigia as a beginner aquarium plant plus the colours are beautiful
My favourite beginner aquarium plant is Bolbitis Heudelotii (African Water Fern). Beautiful shape, very hardy and tolerant that can grow in a variety of conditions.
I really love some of the less common anubias. I also think floating plants are great - might have to try a few different ones until you get one that loves your conditions (my frogbit all melted, but my salvinia minima is going strong)
anubias nana snow white is so expensive! but awesome
Anubias hastifolia has my current vote. It's a little taller than the nana and the leaf shape is just very nice
Can't keep limnobium laevigatum with salvinia minima. Salvinia minima will overpower them. Always keep/grow them separate.
I had given up hope for you reviewing my tank, cause I submitted it 2 months ago, but really thank you for 4.8 out of 5.
I love wisteria since all the tank kits I've gotten have pretty bright lights that cant be dimmed. it grows like weeds in my tanks.
Some tanks make me so confused I don't even know how bad they are 😅
pearlweed is my go to beginner plant! no c02 needed. super forgiving plant, grows like crazy. you can keep trimming it down to a carpet or let it shoot straight up as a background plant
For the QOTW I swear by anubias nana petites for all tanks no matter the lighting, but I've also taken to my amazon frogbit. The only issue I have with the frogbit is that I always have to thin them out and toss away tons of healthy plants simply because they shade over my other plants that need light under them. That's the only reason the anubias beats out frogbit: less maintance and no pain from culling.
I have tank envy. I'm ready to pay our local fish expert to come do a big setup. 2 years after getting my daughter little feeder goldfish and the largest is nearly 12 inches. We're running out of room and blowing through filters fast. The last time I tried to add plants, the goldfish fought over what side of the tank they should be on and the plants were shredded to the roots in a week.
We're going back to bettas next time. XD
Java fern windelov. It's so easy to care for and has such an interesting texture.
You just had to go and mention the Texas Snowmageddon. We don't know how to function in snow lol. It was not a fun time.
My local pet store has axolotls and they keep bottles of water in the freezer just to throw them in the tank to keep it cooled
Desperate times call for Desperate measures.
Man I read this wrong and thought you said they kept the axolotls frozen in water bottles lmao
Favourite beginner aquarium plants are definitely anubias and java fern ! For floating plants i would go with frogbits.
Sneaking in here with the SALTWATER PLANT~~~ Chaetomorpha. Really cool looking algae plant that looks like green spaghetti.
I started with java ferns and I don't regret it. There are a lot of plants I love, but I have fun placing new baby java ferns when they pop up
Java moss and hornwort will take any light, they feed from the water not roots so any substrate will work, and they just keep growing. Super easy. Pothos plants can grow out the top too if you just let the roots touch the water
Ceratophyllum demersum "Foxtail", it's a no roots plant that is really good for fighting algae, grows like crazy and is super pretty. You can plug it into filtration noodles, or just let it float
With cleaning the air tube, i instantly thought its easy... while looking at my bong😂 then the comment was shown and i felt so caught😂😂😂😂
Amazon frogbit and lucky bamboo are my favorite beginner plants for my axolotl tank :)
My favorite beginner plant is Amazon sword. I have at least 2 in each of my 3 tanks. They get big and self-propigate too!
9:33 use high% alcohol and regular salt for it and then shake it till the algae is gone. works 10/10
Anubias was definitely the first plant I didn't kill. And it's still the coolest damn thing to me that java fern leafs can be glued on to something and they'll continue to grow. Like any time a leaf gets knocked off, I just glue it on to a rock and stick it in another tank. So cool.
Hornwort and frogbit were my first plants I ever ordered off the internet. I was fish-in cycling and my daily water changes were too aggressive for the poor frogbit to survive... but a fishtuber mentioned they could put hornwort in a bucket outside and it would thrive, so I've been keeping some in a tub on my back porch ever since. I rotate it out with the ones in my tanks occasionally so they can all get a vacation and some sun.
9 times out of 10, working at Petsmart, I point to Java Ferns and Anubias sp.
The next step beyond that is usually Cabomba since it gets big and fluffy and doesn't need special equipment to do so.
The private owned LFS that I work at was also gifted the Jolt mug from seachem! Basically, buy a BUNCH of seachem stuff
for the glass tube that's difficult to clean, you can get these long wire with a tiny bottle brush on the end for cleaning trombones (an i presume other long tubes instruments), should be able to find them online or maybe at a local music shop that has brass instruments
Thanks Chris and Milly
I'm thinking of including the following plants in my first tank:
Red root floaters
Anubias (some pygmy forward and normal size behind)
Java fern
These both have good architectural properties.
Not sure what ground cover I want yet, and probably need some softer textured faster growing plants
Oh and some java moss for attaching to the hardscape.
Stocking will be a Betta in a 12 gallon tank.
Will be checking the comments for ideas.
definitely amazing plants to scape with!
You can use java moss for the ground cover, just buy some ceramic tiles and tie the moss to the tiles and spread the tiles over the surface of the substrate where you want the moss to grow. It'll form a thick bush all over the ground over the course of a few weeks. Just make sure you have enough red root floaters to block out the light, because those are all low light plants (with the exception of the floaters which are high light) and algae is going to kill the moss if the light isn't subdued drastically before hitting the moss. Contrary to what most people might think, too much light can also kill plants, just like too little light can kill them too. Good luck
Edit: I'd also say if you're getting a 12 gallon tank with a betta you should definitely add some snails like ramshorn snails to keep it clean. You can also add a schooling fish like ember tetras, bettas don't bother them. Avoid guppies or dwarf rasbora species, stick with small tetras
Chirs' hair looks like his swords in the tank on the left, and I've found that dwarf Sagittaria are surprisingly easy plants for beginners, especially if you're looking for a nice carpeting plant
My shrimp tank is covered in salvinia and duckweed (impossible to get rid of). I use a couple glass containers to isolate small quantities of plants and then painstakingly check and re check every angle for shrimplets. What a nightmare. Thankfully they are caridina pandas that breed slow enough that I can usually wait til a generation is big enough not to miss. Usually :D
I dunno if anyone mentioned it yet but: crystalwort is easy to take care of too!
When I started my go-to was definitely anubias and still is because it seems even I can’t kill it. Then I would say wendtii crypts, java moss, and duckweed if you want to have a plant that is like a hydra where you take one out and it’s replaced by two more.
very close to my own experience!
ludwigia palustris, you can find it in you back yard and it just grows no matter what, one of my favorite beginner plants
My go to easy start plant is Cabomba~ No need for a fancy light or Co2. ^^
I suggest dwarf grass. Nobody mentions it, but mine does great and its a nice natural look for a beginner planted tank.
Love that coffee mug
I love your pet chicken. She’s very lovely
Definitely a chicken xd
Favorite beginner plant to recommend and my favorite is Creeping Jenny
Thing on 9:33: There are brushes for cleaning these that you can actually buy. look a bit like bottle brushes. Bought one last year but forgot where I did put it.
Watching FTR after getting a new tank is such a vibe
For QoTW, I like lucky bamboo because it is basically bulletproof and looks cool. Plus my bettas love it and it is easy to plant too. Lastly, it doesn’t need special soil
Dwarf sagg would be my fav beginner plant. I have them in all my tanks