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I am planing my tank and I was wondering if someone can give me a list of plants for my 30 gallon long that are not that hard to take care of I am sort of new with plants(other then pothos and common house plants in other terrariums)I am going to get 36" 2x96W Coralife FRESHWATER Aqualight, 2x 6,700K powercompact from hellolights.com($192.00-let me know if you see it cheaper)
I want my tank to be comparable to those that are on blackjungle.com...basicly I just want really thick vegitation I am also going to incorperate some sort of water area or water fall(I wont know for sure until I get my ghost wood-I am going to plan everything around those)
also if anyone can point me in the direction if a website on how to mount air plants in wood and in cork bark
thanks
-Matt

if you can get the CF's at like 5500 K it will be more like day light. The 6500 will have a fairly strong blue tint. As for air plants, I found that my greatest success came from using super glue (a few days before the animals were near the viv) just find the driest part of your viv, probly on a higher part of drift wood put a few drops of super glue then hold the plant on it if you can glue the base rather than the leaves it's best. this also works for small broms. say you have a pup with no roots let it sit out in a dry room for a day or two then glue the base to a small piece of wood or bark after that dries it gives you a better surface to attatch to whatever you want. the glue doesnt inhibit the growth of roots either. The part I like about it most is that the small piece of wood holds the base of the plant a little farther away from the surface it is attatched to which helps prevent rot.
As far as plants go If you are into ferns a fun thing to do is to go to the plant shop, find ferns you like and pinch off a dry leaf that has spores on it.when you get home just crumble the leaf in your fingers over the Viv. the spores will find their own places and if it is suitable you'll soon have little gametophytes growing. After a while if the conditions are good the fern plant will start to grow. The fun part for me is when you take spores from a few ferns and try to figure out which gametophyte will become which fern. (it aint easy)

hope this helped some and
I didn't just bable.
-Adam

Glad to see the last link I left you on lighting helped a bit! I bought a sigle PC a few months back but it was before they started selling the "Freshwater" PC's. The bulb it came with was a 50/50 that I finally switched out last night with a 6700K, and trust me THERE IS NO BLUE TINT! I will try and get some pics up with the 50/50, and the 6700K to show the differences! As far as Tillandsias here are a couple more links!

www.airplant.com
http://www.alcjr.com/tillandsias/growingtips.html
another link

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MIKE
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