If you’ve been avoiding easy red aquarium plants because you assume they all require pressurized CO2 and a fertilizer spreadsheet, I want to set that straight right away. Short answer: several red-leafed species — Red Tiger Lotus, Rotala rotundifolia, and Alternanthera reineckii among them — will color up under a decent light and root tabs […]
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Yes, there are houseplants you can put in aquarium tanks — and some of them will grow faster in your tank than they ever did on your windowsill. Pothos, peace lily, spider plant, philodendron, and syngonium are the safest starting points, and every one of them works the same way: roots go in the water,
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Is Java fern good for goldfish? Yes — because it attaches to hardscape rather than rooting in the substrate, and its thick, leathery leaves don’t taste good enough for a goldfish to bother finishing them. That combination is rare among live plants, and it’s the whole reason java fern is the one I reach for
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