Vallisneria is a very good looking plant for aquascaping and common fishkeeping background design. This plant need plenty of light to thrive and given a good condition, it grows pretty fast by having runners. Not suitable for tanks with cichlids or bigger fish becasue they love to shred the leaves and all of it will be stuck in your pump.
This is an outdoor cultivation tank for vallisneria and with the help of fertime soil, vallisneria grows quickly and most will flower.
One of the most popular aquatic plant for many beginners in fishkeeping or aquascaping and easily available in most aquatic shops. Broad leaves and some thin and narrow, swordplants comes in various variety and all share similar characteristics. However, most swordplants actually thrive above water and not under it. This is mainly due to the level of sunlight and carbon dioxide it receive being above water level and the root mainly inside the water.
Swordplant is a plant which thrive once the leaves grow above water as seen here and they will start to flower. The flower will eventually grow into small shoot and once they are big and heavy, the little swordplant will bend and touches the water surface. The root will grow once it touches water and you can cut them out to cultivate them in different place.
Cabomba a common aquatic plant found in most aquatic dealers and one of the easiest to grow and care plant. Survive well in well lit condition and grow quickly in hot sun but it tend to outgrown other plants and suffocate them. Fertilised tank can cause cabomba to be totally covered by algae which eventually kills it thus you do not need to add any fertiliser to grow it.
Cabomba is so competitive they will eventually grow out of the water and changes its shapes and design. The leaves become broad and it will bloom tiny flowers at the tip.
This is a very healthy cabomba cultivation with the help of natural sunlight and soil from the garden. Many supplier will ask you to buy expensive special soils for aquatic plants but the truth is those soil are used for aquascaping not for cultivation. When cabomba reaches maturity or out of space, they will start to grow out of the water. No fertiliser needed and rain water provide everything.
Cabomba looks great in an aquarium but it will outgrow the aquarium faster than you think. Requires trimming from time to time to reduce competition of space between flora and fauna.
Jewel cichlid a rather simple to keep fish and tend to breed when condition is right such as water quality and life food is fed to them. The most obvious sign is the dance and the bright red colour change on them. The male will have bright red and shinny dots on its body and the pair will be swimming around a specific spot for days. The huge clusters of eggs will be fertilised and less than a week the fry will hatch. The pair will continue to guard and even move all the fry around so you need to provide hiding spots for them.
The Jewel Cichlid fry will grow and look like their parent within a month and they fed on daphnia and powdered fish food.
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