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Well actually the toilet has a lot nutrients 😂

I think Americans overreacted to the Zebra Mussel scare. People who had Marimo balls in their tank for years were taking them out and pretty much taking a flamethrower to them. C'mon, if you've already had them for years there aren't any mussels on them. Besides that, the US is already infested with them. I live in the Great Lakes region which is already infested. If you buy any kind of aquatic plant in the US it could theoretically have zebra mussels in them, but we don't go crazy and kill all our aquatic plants. You can still buy them. I did. If you're really paranoid about it you could keep them in a quarantine tank for awhile. If you're that paranoid you should already be doing that with everything you put in your tank. You could also treat your plants with No Planaria or some other medicine that kills snails.

1) Hornwort 2) Hairgrass 3) Duckweed 4) Moss 5) Salvinia

A bucket in the corner of the room, that's kind of like a toilet. Boy, I bet your house parties are quite interesting.

He's just looking around the room at inanimate objects, "NOT A PLANT NOT A PLANT" 😂

Anubias is the closest thing nature comes to plastic plants. It's hardly growing, it's hard to kill and few fish are going to try to eat it.

My favourite is pearl weed. Can carpet it, stem it, shape it, what ever. And it grows really fast with high or low light. Always keeps my water crystal clear

Guppy grass is my favorite . it grows crazy fast and my shrimps love to chill inside it

If an aquascaper has mossballs in they're scape, they're good scapers. The trick is to figure out where they look natural if they're wedged permanently. Between rocks, in crevices of driftwood, half buried in super coarse gravel. You can also de-ball them and use them like real moss as a hardscape covering.

My personal favorite nigh unkillable plant is Limnophila sessiliflora. Not only is it nigh impossible to kill in the tank, it grows crazy fast so you need to cut it back regularly (more stems to plant). It grows so fast that it can out compete algae.

Nice overview of easy to grow plants. I think I'll give guppy grass a shot for raising up some baby ranchus in a grow out tank.

Talking about plants that grow in the toilet lol… Back in the day we had an outhouse in the back. I used one day after eating a vegetable soup. Came back to it 3 months later and there were beans and corn growing out of the poopie receptacle! I didn’t harvest them just incase you are wondering

Water Sprite- It's a great floating fern. You can also plant it and it becomes a great centerpiece

my betta uses my anubias barteri like a cat tower, well he doesnt scratch it but he is always laying on it and jumps from leaf to leaf, guarantee your betta will love the barteri.

Pices Aquaria is AWESOME!!

When I have too much duck weed, I just toss it into my goldfish tank and they destroy it.

Wow, that variegated Bucephalandra plant was stunning!

I can’t believe Vallisneria wasn’t on the list 👀 mostly that’s all that’s in my tank , taking over everything

I set up an aquarium when I was going to middle school. Left it going over the summer (I took the fish home) then I came back to check on it in the fall. No cap, it had 2 tiny pieces of duckweed before summer break. Only sunlight, and when I came back after those 2.5 to 3 months, there were layers apon layers of duckweed (it was also a 10 gallon)

Thing I would add to the list if it was me: Limnofolia heterophylla (most would say sessiflora - but one of them), hygrofolia difformis or perhaps polysperma, hornwort and probably water lettuce too. Perhaps even valisnaria. Oh yeah, and Elodea densa. I litteraly forgot that in a tank that started to leak. I put it outside for several months, - even over the winer. I think it was even covered from the sun for a month or two. And still the plant is alive.

Cabomba is a good, hearty one. I have extremely hard water and i have this growing in my stock tank pond and it is loving it!!

Whaaaat?! I just stumbled on this channel looking for some info and just assumed Aquapros was in Jersey or something (from what I've seen, dudes in New Jersey are really into aquariums). I was super surprised when some the video was made at one of my local, and favorite shops 🤯. What up, Pisces Aquaria?!! Whiteaker in the 541!! I'm new to the hobby and these guys have been the absolute best.

The problem is definitely me then. I killed my guppy grass and a bunch of other plants, the only one that remained and is beautiful is the Amazon sword… I've already spent a lot of money on plants and they keep dying (and not coming back) 😩

I’m so tired of trying and loosing plants. I’ve spent hundreds in all types of setups. I’ve done everything I can. I even have perfect well water with excellent readings. I’ve tried other waters too. I’ve tried dirted and sand. I’ve tried substrate and sand. I’ve gotten all the fertilizers needed. All I get is melted plants. I truly believe some people have the right energy for specific things to happen. I am an orchid specialist owning over 1K orchids. Experts are amazed on how I keep them. Others try to do as I do and they have no luck. I guess I’ll just stick to breeding guppies.

Java fern is a strange one. Some of the new strains seem to need strong light and co2. If it does die off I find that the new plants at the end of the dead leaves do pretty well.

Limnophilia sessiflora deserves a mention. Super easy stem and grows fairly quickly

Like you I have a lot of tanks. And duckweed in most. But actually I quite like it. It tells a lot about the tank. If it goes yellow, if the roots are getting way long, if it start growing even faster than usual etc. And it's a "buffer" for nitrate. If you get a spike they probably will absorb most.

I'm slowly learning what plants suit my tanks, I like to keep things simple

I had guppy grass and it disintegrated with a couple of days. Hornweed grows like mad, you start with one stem and with in a month you have a tank full, it's crazy stuff! Duckweed grows like crazy too, both are good for selling for a bit of petty cash, they grow like wildfire. Duckweed is also good because it helps kill of algae as it blocks a lot of light out when covering the top. Anubias I find just melt and die off after a few weeks but leave it alone and new leaves grow. Bucephalandra is amazing too but slow growing which is no bad thing. Crypts are good but you have to keep feeding root tabs which gets expensive.

I bought some Water Lettuce from a LFS; now it regularly takes over my 150G. So much so that I actively sell it on FB Marketplace and trade the same LFS for fish, food, etc.

My goldfish love snacking on duckweed

Cool video really felt like just hanging out at the shop for the second half

Rotalla blood red keeps its color in low-tech, Lobelia cardinalis mini will work too. Pearl weed, Hygrophila ‘blue’ salcifolia, & Pogostemon stellata look good in low-tech. In C.A. marimos are available only in 1 in. diameter. Oh, don't forget Ludwigias & Echinodorus. I use hygger LEDs and 18W fluorescent bulbs.

Subwassertang does well for me and is good for fry. Val grows like a weed in a pot with 3-4" of gravel with root tabs.

I have tried probably 40-50 different plants over the years. I was told that Java Moss and Java Fern were indestructible - I tried several times and they just died on me. i bought two varieties of Pogostemon - Erectus and Octopus and planted them side by side in the same tank. The erectus died withing a few weeks but the Octopus just went wild and took over the whole tank. I have a couple of Bucephalandra which I've had for over three years, they have put out probably 4 or 5 leaves in that time. They are not dying, they're almost dormant. My Crypts just grow like wildfire, I've never suffered from melt. I now stick with 6 or 7 plants that I know will do well even though I have no idea why others do not.

Can't go wrong with Water Wisteria. I can't get that stuff to stop growing, I'm always having to trim it back. It also spreads and spreads and spreads.

I've killed anubius, duck weed, rotala, but bacopa and pearl weed are going gangbusters. I guess it depends on the tank set up.

We only had one bathroom growing up. I can relate to the bucket. Lol. 😂 If it was occupied, you'd grab a bucket and go to the wood shed.

so I just woke up right, prepare a cup of coffee and saw this title, I spat out my coffee like a malfunctioning espresso machine all over my poor, unsuspecting monitor.

Ive had anubias rot come in on anubias ive ordered before and its crazy contagious and devasted a ton of mine one by one thank god i think im finally past it i think. But i love anubias in general and keep a ton of it.

18:15 i can confirm: that one can't be killed xD

You know what is so weird? I have been aquascaping since 2019 and always have done high tech. I have 7 rimless aquariums (UNS and Waterbox) and I have high tech lights from onf, chihiros, twinstar, and fluval. I can grow every plant no problem and I go heavy on the co2, my water is great very low tds and pretty soft from the tap and the one thing that never has done well for me is bucephelandra. No matter what species I try it always melts away and doesnt come back. I've probably tried over 5 times over the last 5 years with many different varieties. So now I just grow them emersed in my terrariums and wabi kusa. I did have one last quite a long time, and then I took the scape down and put it in my bin. I can grow hc cuba like no other, monte carlo, elecharis belem, parvula, pusilla. Rotala hra, rotundofolia, mini pelia, pinnatifida, about 6 variants of java fern, crypts up the wazoo etc etc. yet one of the easiest plants just never acclimates to my water for some reason. Im ok just growing it in my emersed setups. I have been growing the same plamts for years on end. the same plantback and forth from submerged to emersed to tubs to wabi kusa to terrarium, still going strong. lol buce is my bane, but its so pretty. maybe i should give it another try with a new variety. Good news is buce looks just as pretty emersed as submerged.I wonder if it is something in my tap water that buce hates because I use RODI for my emersed plants.

wow, i have never heard about Bucephalandra before but its stunning :O

That plant case is cool, a great fish store here in Overland Park, KS called Picasso aquatics has this, I bought a new plant yesterday

If you agitate the surface water enough with an air stone, for example, you can make the duckweed disappear. it wants still water to thrive.

I have a 200 litre tank full of bucephalandra I stuck it to all my wood and dragon stone it's been growing in there 4 years now and I literally don't touch it best plant ever

Anubias, Crypt, Java Moss are the true Bulletproof. And if we are talking about easy plant, i will include, HM, Dwarf Sagittaria, Buce, Hygrophila Polysperma and Amazon Sword with my 3 bulletproof plants.

we love our toilet plants!

I had the problem with melting Anubias after raising the temperature to 86f to fight ick, I was wondering what caused it because even Anubias that I bought after lowering the temperature kept melting.

I feel like salvinia needs a lot of light, outside in my pond that gets full sun, it outgrows the duckweed, but in the shaded pond it died off.

Minus the duckweed I want to buy the others for my new fish tank. I bought Cabomba caroliniana and my goldfish ripped (leaves, stems ?) off of them and would always pull them up and I just kept re-planting them and those plants are still alive. I don’t know much about those plants, I only bought them because they’re pretty but those plants are very tough so far (a month in). I bought Java Moss and glued them to my lava rocks and they all turned white and died after a few days. I’m guessing the glue(?)

I found some of these in my local pond and sewers 😅

HA HA, woman at 18:40, you made me laugh, thanks.

Never had success with keeping java fern or java moss alive despite how everyone swears they're easy, but I've found crypts to basically be indestructible for me. Maybe they like the water here, but I've never had any issues with them besides a little initial melt. And guppy grass too.

How to kill duck weed? Lots of flow at the top of your tank, It looks like the plant doesn't like to be in constant movement. Also, if it gets wet on top of it, it turns brown and melt away. How do I know? I have a L 20gallon tank where I haven't been able to grow Duck Weed at all .

My Vallisneria hasn't grown for two months, only small shoots and I've also fertilized it, but the Sessiflora grows like a rocket, I don't understand what the problem is

Java ferns! One little leaf could break off and take root somewhere. It’s pretty damn resilient.

I just lost three Anubias alfazeli (sp?) in a new scape. Melted away. Praying it recovers because the rhizomes still look kinda good but the leaves are just pretty much gone now

Java fern is the only plant I've tried and tried multiple times but can not get it to grow.

Forget the toilet, 2 of my anubias nana grow in an orchid pot and in a snail enclosure in a coconut shell with soil and moss, being watered every now and then, with the rhizome out of water.

How did you get your Trees like that? I tried it on my bonsai tree, doing everyday CO2 inside. But it doesnt seem to grow, and mostly seems die off

I've just had anubias flower over the past couple weeks

i've had trouble with annubias rot. Do you think a blue dip would work when tying them on after purchase to maybe stop the fungal/bacterial growth that causes it?

Great video, Does your friend ship plants, Dig those tropicas.

I forget what restaurant it was, but a local place had moss balls in mason jars as table decorations

The plants that I have had good luck with. Pretty much any crypt, even the supposed hard to grow ones I have had good luck with. Java ferns (I have an old fake tree tank decoration that I repurposed by gluing Java Fern on it. It is now the centerpiece plant in my 40 gallon tank.), Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus (needs to be in a tall tank unless you want to be trimming it allot), Red Tiger Lotus have also done well for me. The Amazon sword did too good. I got rid of it because it took over the tank it was in. I have a fairly new tank with a large variety of Buce in it that is doing nice. The Buce is a slow grower, so you have to give it time. Bolbitis is another slow grower, but seems pretty hardy. No tank is complete though without Java moss and Sun asserting. Java moss grows even in the dark and shrimp adore it. Subwassertang is hardy, but slow growing. My favorite though is all the different crypts. They are my go to and they are typically a good price. I had Jungle Val in my tall tank, but I didn’t like it. It grew well and would take over the tank. I was forever pulling up runners, so I finally got rid of it and went with the Octopus plant instead. Just note, my plevos made a dinner out of guppy grass. I ended up with stems. The only plant my plecos like to eat. For floaters, I like red root floaters, Frogbit and dwarf water lettuce. I won’t let duckweed anywhere near my tanks. I don’t like any of the floaters with the smaller leaves. The red root floaters are gorgeous with good light as the leaves and roots are red. Be warned, with floating plants, they all grow fast and you will have to thin them out weekly.

Great video

@Aquapros: Buce is almost all wild collected and is actually now endangered due to it's popularity in aquascaping and the fact that it only grows in a small region. Please don't 'push' it on your show. Cory (aquarium co-op) will only sell aquacultured buce for that reason and he has a very hard time finding any.

Just bought a moss ball in Minneapolis today. Wife bought some cages for them from Teemu so goldfish can only eat so much.

Too legit to quit! Random video thought or not, I liked 👍

You destroyed your moss balls for no reason at all 😂

We need to see your pet rabbit!!!!!! 🐇

I've had bad luck with jungle val, but that may be my own fault. I ordered it during the worst of last summer and i think the roots cooked during shipping. Plant still looks awful. I've had great luck with crypts, anubias, cabomba, and dwarf sagittaria. Been meaning to try some buce, didn't realize it was iridescent tho. Gotta get it now lol.

Hornwort is hard to kill off.

currently have a tank with jungle val and duck weed battling each other for light lol

Duckweed occasionally shows up in my pond, but my goldfish in there eat it.

Duckweed and salvinia-if my fancy goldfish eat the roots will that kill them, or will they keep putting out more roots?

My first attempt with plants are rotala green tissue culture. And it's not doing well. Might be dead.

Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus, grows like crazy and impossible to kill.

Love duckweed won't survive in my water unfortunately only plant i haven't had success with so far.

I miss marimo moss balls so much, they are illegal in canada since quite a few years now 😭

Any slow growing plant you need amano shrimp. ❤

Water wisteria should be on this list.

What about frog bite? Those roots can be soooo long.

Pearl Weed

My water lettuce took over and killed all my duckweed😂

Personally, I can’t keep duck weed alive. I’ve tried very hard before and I just can’t keep it alive

Duck weed is FOREVER.

What are the white fish at 10:20?

My Java always starts to go crappy. It has brown spots, it almost looks rusty, it really frustrates me.

duckweed only last 2 weeks in my tank between the fish and the snails they are all eaten

Skipping the duckweed section, I don’t wanna hear it! The real devil’s lettuce😅

I have killed everything on your list even while trying to cultivate it. Duckweed lasts less then two weeks before they are gone. I filter my water some but live in very hard water and almost nothing grows. But my fish love the conditions. I want plants!

Jungle val has died on me the two times I tried it. :) I have water that has a very low TDS.

Novice here for. 1.5 years money and experience has determined what grows for me and doesn’t

just two dudes talkin about plants

I for whatever reason can't keep an anubias alive to save my life, but I have never had a crypt melt even once....go figure

How you get rid off brown algae?

Algae is a plant. Just a very simple plant.