What plant would grow on lava rocks and spread out and cover it? I think it would look really cool. Just wondering if anyone can help me out.

You could try Java moss, tie it to the rocks with thread or light weight fishing line.

cool, will do! thx

you can also use java fern, that would look good as well, though, it won't cover it all for about a year or so(of corse, depending on the size of the rock.)

alright so i finally got to buying some plants but... they didnt have any java moss or java fern... :wtf: So i got other stuff instead, some corkscrew and stuff they told me would grow on rocks. I also picked up three electric yellows... i've had some bad luck with them. they seem to keep dying on me after a few weeks. Anywho so i seperated them for now becaues the other half of the tank has a billion little pink convicts. I regret ever letting my pair breed. So someone is suppose to come soon and adopt them for me. then hopefully i can have a mbuna tank. or w/e u call it. I wanted to get some more cobalt blues also but they didnt have them today.

oh yeh, and for that one plant in there that is very bushy... can i seperate that into two plants? what do i do? just split the roots into two?

hmm.. not sure that would be a good idea splitting the plant, might kill it, Keep it well and when it gets too big , sell it, by then it'll have made baby plants

(i am wondering)looks like to me you already have a different type of java fern in that first pic, it is lace java fern, I think.


what plant are you wanting to split up, i could tell you, if you can, or can't, and how to do it if you can :)

or better yet, you could give itto me and ill let me goldfish eat it, problem solved :laugh:

But yeah, tyler would know ( dang know-it-all ) lol,

its the plant to the right closest to the heater. thx

thats an amazon sword i believe, dont split it, it'll die, just grow it huge, and sell it, it will create lots of baby ones if you have fetilizer tabs

LOL i actually don't think that is an amazon sword, it leaves are too pointed,mine has broad leafed, and deaply vained, it rather looks like a varient of an 'oriental' but, not red.......i duno....LOL but, yeah, don't split it, unless at the base of the plant, it some times produces a plant there, i have never done so, but, i have been told you can split these off, and plant them, and the mother won't die.



but, then again, my oriental sword produced these, and then the mother died, and the ones it produced are growing from the 'stock' better than the mother was....but, that could have been why the mother plant died in the first place -_-' gah, i have to go searching on google......i'll post again if i find out what it is....

Tyler

well, its definitely a type of sword-plant, and if it grows baby plants dont cut them off, wait till there a few inches tall, and then doresearch on cutting *amazon* sword
plants. but if you seriously want it to live, dont cut it and let the pieces grow pretty large, like 6 inches tall. blah, ill shut up

thanks so much everyone! heh I guess I can let it grow for now, its only been in there for a year or so whats another year gonna do, heh anyway thanks for the replies

no prob, thats why we are here, to help out others,

i love it :)