How about anacharis? That's a fast grower as well.
pete

LeighMo wrote:

My aquarium is 17" deep, 36" long and 12" and it looks like 2" of gravel and
flourite, I'm planning to buy more gravel, should I buy mor flourite ???

That sounds like a 30 gallon tank, not a 33. On the good side, that means you
have a full 2 watt per gallon. :-)

If you do get more gravel, yes, get more Flourite. If you mix Flourite with
regular gravel, they recommend that you have at least 50% Flourite, and you're
a little under that now.

well I will love to have nice looking plants, Amazon Swords, Cryptocoryne
wendtii ''brown'', Riccia fluitans Echinodorus x barthii , well I like this
plants from www.tropica.com but I like to have a nice planted aquarium I
have no idea wish one are good, and fast grow,

The Amazon swords and crypts will grow very well in your tank, but crypts are
slow-growing. Sword plants grow fast, but they take awhile to established
themselves. Riccia is a difficult plant -- not recommended unless you have
high light and CO2 injection. (Unless you plan to let it float at the
surface.)

To start out, you need plants like Limnophila, water sprite, Hygrophila, maybe
hornwort and Egeria, if your water isn't too warm. Stem plants. They grow
fast, without having to establish a root system first.

Once the tank is established and the plants growing well, you can trade some of
the stem plants for slower growing plants.

A lot of people recommend waiting until the tank is established before planting
Crypts, since they have a tendency to melt if water conditions change a lot (as
is common in new tanks).

You can plant the Amazon swords from the beginning, but don't depend on them to
grow fast until they get established. You'll need stem plants, too!

Leigh

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