planting a 2.5 is it possible. If so how?

fishboy · 04-25-2005, 01:39 PM

the post sums it up

**Damon** · 04-25-2005, 01:44 PM

The same way you plant any other aquarium. The plants you chose will depend on your lighting. I'm guessing the light will be incandescent. A small piece of driftwood would be cool. Sand or flourite bottom will work fine. Small plants like ricca (if lighting is strong enough), dwarf hairgrass, dwarf sag, mosses, will work fine. Stay away from plants that grow large (swords, cabomba, anacharis, watersprite ect... as they will quickly outgrow the tank. You could make it a shrimp only tank or maybe a few small fish like white clouds.

MyraVan · 04-25-2005, 03:19 PM

Cryptocornes (like wendtii) and dwarf 4-leaf clover (MARSILEA CRENATA) also work well in a very small tank. Beware the bogwood though. I had a smallish piece of bogwood in my 5 gallon tank and it dropped the pH too much. Normally the pH of our tap water is 7.8, but this one had gone to 6.8. Since the main inhabitant of the tank was an apple snail, this was not good! Speaking of snails, an apple snail (must be a Pomacea bridgesii aka spike-topped apple snail aka mysterys snail since other apple snails eat plants!) would be very nice in a 2.5 gallon.

fishboy · 04-25-2005, 03:34 PM

I am actually growing a plant i found in my pond and i think it dwarf four leafed colver. They are surface plants right?

**Damon** · 04-25-2005, 07:42 PM

No. They are foreground carpeting plants. The better the light for the marselia, the less nodes the clover will develop and the better it will look.

fishboy · 04-26-2005, 01:59 PM

i found a four leafed surface plant in my pond that i'm growing in a jar it resebles a clover any1 heard of it

fishboy · 04-26-2005, 01:59 PM

i found a four leafed surface plant in my pond that i'm growing in a jar it resebles a clover any1 heard of it

**Damon** · 04-26-2005, 02:11 PM

If I had to guess, I would say its duckweed.

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Damon Aquatic Naturalist Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 32 Posts: 14,982 User Feedback: (0)	Re: planting a 2.5 is it possible. If so how? The same way you plant any other aquarium. The plants you chose will depend on your lighting. I'm guessing the light will be incandescent. A small piece of driftwood would be cool. Sand or flourite bottom will work fine. Small plants like ricca (if lighting is strong enough), dwarf hairgrass, dwarf sag, mosses, will work fine. Stay away from plants that grow large (swords, cabomba, anacharis, watersprite ect... as they will quickly outgrow the tank. You could make it a shrimp only tank or maybe a few small fish like white clouds. __________________ For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Member of the AGA (Aquatic Gardner's Association) Member of the IBC (International Betta Congress)

04-25-2005, 03:19 PM	#3
MyraVan Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cambridge, UK Posts: 864 User Feedback: (0)	Re: planting a 2.5 is it possible. If so how? Cryptocornes (like wendtii) and dwarf 4-leaf clover (MARSILEA CRENATA) also work well in a very small tank. Beware the bogwood though. I had a smallish piece of bogwood in my 5 gallon tank and it dropped the pH too much. Normally the pH of our tap water is 7.8, but this one had gone to 6.8. Since the main inhabitant of the tank was an apple snail, this was not good! Speaking of snails, an apple snail (must be a Pomacea bridgesii aka spike-topped apple snail aka mysterys snail since other apple snails eat plants!) would be very nice in a 2.5 gallon.

04-25-2005, 03:34 PM	#4
fishboy Custom User Title Join Date: Feb 2005 Age: 16 Posts: 1,655 User Feedback: (0)	I am actually growing a plant i found in my pond and i think it dwarf four leafed colver. They are surface plants right? __________________ It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

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Damon Aquatic Naturalist Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 32 Posts: 14,982 User Feedback: (0)	Re: planting a 2.5 is it possible. If so how? No. They are foreground carpeting plants. The better the light for the marselia, the less nodes the clover will develop and the better it will look. __________________ For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Member of the AGA (Aquatic Gardner's Association) Member of the IBC (International Betta Congress)

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fishboy Custom User Title Join Date: Feb 2005 Age: 16 Posts: 1,655 User Feedback: (0)	i found a four leafed surface plant in my pond that i'm growing in a jar it resebles a clover any1 heard of it __________________ It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

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Damon Aquatic Naturalist Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 32 Posts: 14,982 User Feedback: (0)	Re: planting a 2.5 is it possible. If so how? If I had to guess, I would say its duckweed. __________________ For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Member of the AGA (Aquatic Gardner's Association) Member of the IBC (International Betta Congress)

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