a 55 gal needing some recommendations

[eleontie]

Here is the tank 55gal...
and I need some advice for the right corner. I am not entirely pleased with the Myriophyllum tuberculatum - maybe I need to trim it better, maybe I need something else.
It can not be a too demanding plant , as I not indent to add any CO2 or fertilization to it. It has soil substrate capped with SMS, light 65W*4 compact fluorescent.
As for the foreground : either the current dwarf sagittaria wich will eventually spread or hair grass.

Eugen

<img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/eleontie/SGVwg0o6A ... shtank.jpg" />

[JMLenke]

patch of one of the taller crypts?

[krisw]

A patch of one of the various Ludwigia's (arculata x repens, palustrus, repens, etc...) would look nice and should fit the bill of not being too demanding. I agree that Myrio's are hard to keep looking nice. I keep buying them every now and again, and love how they look for about a month, then hate dealing with them.

Otherwise, the tank is looking nice. I'm looking forward to seeing it after the foreground spreads.

[Ltrepeter2000]

A small color contrast is probably a good idea about a foot in from the far left of the tank. Too many light greens start blending into each other. A decent size crypt or some other plant(stem, sword, etc.) that will add a bit of color on that size. Either that or some hardscape to accomplish the same thing.

[Aaron]

I like Jeff's idea of some taller Crypts. Maybe balansae or retrospiralis.

[Cristy Keister]

A nice dark green bush of Bolbitis would also look great.

[eleontie]

I will go for the taller crypts probably.
It is hard to shape any stems in that tank as they would grow really slow. All the plants are doing well, but I can not expect anything to fill-in , trim and repeat as this cycle would take a year.

I am pretty satisfied by the color variation in the tank ( I think the picture is not as good as it should be).

The wood also needs some more decorations like some needle leaf fern and anubias here and there...

[ingg]

You will most likely see a similar time with crypts.

Balansae is horrid about melting in new waters. I now have it going crazy in my 180g - plants I took from my own water in other tanks - but it melted down almost completely before growing back.

Spiralis, not so much, but it is also a lot thinner, so....

I really like the repens idea, as well as bolbitis. Repens doesn't need CO2 to look great, and form really pretty top heavy bushes.