pinkspore
New member
I have two bare bottom tanks, a 10G with a pair of firebelly toads and a 20L with a paddletail newt. I like plants and the critters like them too. I have a lot of options since both tanks get full spectrum light and the plants don't need to be fully submerged. Right now the frogs have some java fern, a bromeliad-type plant in a pot of gravel, and I just added some duckweed which seems to be a huge hit.
The newt tank had a pothos plant tethered to a fake log and a philodendron in a pot of gravel, but the pothos didn't survive the massive disinfection effort after my old newt died and the phil isn't looking so good either. I moved a java fern over from the frog tank (spreading my pond snail infestation in the process, long live the snails I guess...) and I added some duckweed to see if it could handle the current.
I can get more pothos and java, but I'd like some variety. What grows well hydroponically? Are there plants that can remove nitrates from the water?
The newt tank had a pothos plant tethered to a fake log and a philodendron in a pot of gravel, but the pothos didn't survive the massive disinfection effort after my old newt died and the phil isn't looking so good either. I moved a java fern over from the frog tank (spreading my pond snail infestation in the process, long live the snails I guess...) and I added some duckweed to see if it could handle the current.
I can get more pothos and java, but I'd like some variety. What grows well hydroponically? Are there plants that can remove nitrates from the water?