Planted Aquarium Plants - BULLET Proof Plants -Aquarium Plants for Beginners (HARDY AQUARIUM PLANTS)

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Top 5 Bullet Proof Plants.
What’s up Fishtank People? Dustin’s Fishtanks bringing it to you on a Sunday baby. How’s everybody doing I hope you are doing well? To day it Sunday it species Sunday. I’m trying to bring it to you with my 1,2,3,4,5 BULLET PROOF Plants.
Yep- I’ve got 5 species of aquarium plants that can be kept in nearly all aquariums. Overall these plants don’t require any extra particular care. While I always advise people that plants eat at their roots, these plants however require very little if any feed at their roots. In other words. They can grow just fine in plain gravel. They don’t need a special planted substrate or dirt in their aquarium. This video is made for anyone who is just getting into the planted tank. Many of these plants you will “Out grow” or quickly move on to different species. These plants are like the training wheels for a planted tank. They are hardy, they a generally resilient. They will give you success early and often and then you can move on to the next tier of plants or start trying other species of plants you have been eyeballing. So here are your top 5 bullet proof plants.
Number 5. Java Fern
We are going to start with Java Fern. Come from Malaysia, the island of Java in Indonesia and thialand. I have seen photos of this plant growing out of the side of a riverbed that has entirely dried up, and it still comes back. This plant can weather the seasons and weather the abuse a beginner might give it. It has black roots like rhizome that prefers to be tied to a rock or a piece of driftwood. If you happen to grab some from me and put a note in the comments, I’ll throw you some wire in with your order at no cost. You can see a video here of how I tied it to a piece of wood and let it grow. (Use Java Fern Jam Video)
We are gonna move from a Fern from Asia to a Fern from AFRICA- Yes sir. Number 5 Fern to my Number 4 Fern.
African Water Fern. AKA Bolbitus Heudeloti. Named after the west Africa Plant explorer Jean Piere Heudelot (throwing it back to 1837 for you all)
I can’t tell you which plant is hardier, Bolbitus or Java fern. I have imported boxes from Africa and have them sit for 6 days in total darkness and still be just fine.
Yes- Bolbitus is found in West Africa SE
While they look strikingly different. Their care is about the same. They are a heavy water column feeder and like to be attached to a piece of wood or a rock of some kind. I have found that Bolbitus prefers a bit more water flow if you can provide it.
As a general rule, when you hear the words, “Africa” in your planted tank, think, “Hard water” and think HARDY!
If tied down well. Bolbitus is rugged enough to handle the abuse of African cichlids. (they are from the same place.)
There are other varieties of Bolbitus, however they aren’t the Bullet proof Bolbitus Heudeloti that I am talking about. There is both a “Baby leaf” Bolbitus and a “Bolbitus Asiatica” Not the same hardy plants we are going after here.
Aquarium plants for beginners. Hardy Aquarium Plants. Beginner Fish Tank plants.
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This is very helpful although the intro made me think twice before watching the whole video......no offense.

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Jenna Reeves think twice? About what?

[@antolimakrov5925]

@@blythebarlow5209 watching the whole video

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Юрий Марков fair enough

[@brute93]

tbh it made me WANT to watch the whole video, and those camera angel swtiches, pure genious

[@PapiTheMenace]

@@brute93 just thought about this rn, made me want to watch it

[@HApqzr77]

Don’t let the intro of this video turn you away. Dustin grows great plants. All of the plants I bought from him (Ludwigia repens, bacopa, water wisteria, and AR) came to me healthy and are still thriving. They are beautiful and my fish love them!

[@dfg297lpopdirk]

it very nearly did LOL

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

Sorry for the late start folks. What do you think of these plants? How is my new editor doing? ( I can make more videos with help :)

[@TFrakesTanks]

great video D! loved the edit! seemed like you enjoyed it too! - love from cali

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

my man! whats good, thanks bro....its afuckload of fun not edting (i did some) more videos with a crew now....you saw how it was in Cali....See you next RAP Cali

[@sr-hd3bz]

Dustin's Fish Tanks Dustin my elodias bottom stem that use to be planted keeps on decaying,what can i do?

[@Ricewater94]

Edits are hilarious

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

it does that- goes out the side, float it a week wait for the root

[@kingearwig]

#1 bullet proof plant is duckweed. I actually have duckweed growing in my toilet.

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

+Bill Mears you win my friend

[@brittanyc3282]

Natural filtration 🤷

[@willk4036]

Bill Mears how tf

[@TheRicoBentley]

I have jungle Val so my Duckweeds are hard to keep

[@samidaliphoto]

pls send me some here... :/ I cant find it in my local stores.

[@miguelnieves357]

are you stuck in the 2001 comercials

[@burnaggression1010]

This is how bad I am with plants. I killed my Anubius

[@fishingcairns811]

BuRN Aggression did you put it under the substrate

[@TazHall]

Rip

[@AB-vt1cp]

HOW?!

[@sierelijahsalazar4583]

Same! Maybe we could make a tutorial on how to kill hardy plants! LOL just kidding

[@10-7blue8]

I liked 2 plastic plants.

[@jaredfriesen9201]

You've improved your editing and video structure a bunch, keep it up man! ive been thinking about putting jmoss in my tank for awhile and this put it over the edge.

[@Gyatt660]

Great video, your energy levels are cah-razy!! I've had the absolute best luck with wisteria as well. It actually starts to carpet if you let it. Kudos on your channel

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[@SuperWaterAquatics]

Great video, I've had all of these plants in my tanks at one time or another, still have 3 out of the 5. Love species Sunday.✌️

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This was a great video...VERY informative and everyone loves some good bullet dodging. A+

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he's like living in the 90s lol

[@mathdoa_uk7052]

Great video Dustin keep 'em coming! I've got 4/5 plants no anubis as of yet.

[@DannysAquariums]

Great video again Dustin! I love your videos and I love the editing haha! My plants and fish are dying :( I want to breed livebearers outside this summer any tips and suggestions? *_Keep up the good work and thumbs up!_*

[@GreenPleco]

Thanks for the info. Going to try out what you recommend.

[@robertelefante3442]

great video dustin!

[@NeonTetraAquarist]

D THIS WAS GREAT!

[@cosmob-ik4jo]

killin it like always bro👍

[@DamianBloodstone]

Love your style, info, and choices of plants. Thanks for taking the time to do these.

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

Damian Bloodstone thanks- you should see what we sell ;p

[@DamianBloodstone]

I have seen your super site and the only reason I haven't shot you an order is I'm waiting to get my tank at the next Petco sale. I love a planted and scene set tank and intend on doing that type. You will hear from me for sure.

[@benzomer7263]

One of the best videos you've done so far!!! Awesome information. Keep it up.

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

Ben Zomer thanks- I like making videos more now when I don't have to edit them ;P

[@brinleyrebstein]

great video like the gunshot effect hehe yeah i as it happens started my first planted tank with all of those genus of plants included in it really tough hardy plants

[@raeshpaddy7546]

Boy D pouring on some Hardy knowledge , that's what a planted tank beginner needs to know about ... Every low tech beginner should watch this video

[@ivetteacosta8771]

I love your passion! Thanks for the information.

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

passion is the key :) Thanks

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[@panache113]

Really enjoyed this video!

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This was really helpful thx 😁

[@t.m.23]

Thanks for sharing. Great video, love your style. Keeps it fun, interesting, and holds my attention! Nice. New subscriber here!!

[@THolzAquariums]

Fun video! Enjoyed it!

[@MikeKollin]

That was a cool video!!

[@AMusicalPsychosis]

Let's get a vid of the tier 2 plants. Love your work. Thanks for all you do

[@aquaticma]

Very very informative and entertaining!! 👌👍Where's wisteria in this category man ? lol I killed a cactus before but not one wisteria. You gotta love a plant that grows roots from a single leaf.

[@jordanlopez9025]

Hey Dustin what's the difference between a submerged plant and a floating plant in terms of their benefits for the tank?

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

Here is a more recent video of a 10 gallon setup I just did. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXvMoayHq5Kee6M

[@zainniaz6684]

Great Video! Also awesome commentary

[@Justice397]

this edition is dooooope

[@greggmartin8834]

Nice Dustin! I own 3 of those and of those 3 some I bought from you, bolbitus, Anubias nana, and Windelov Java fern. All are doing well in a variety of tanks, all inside unheated. I may posit that the bolbitus, especially, but also anubias and Java fern may be simply weighted on the substrate and they will grab the gravel, in my case, and do very well. Hornwort I have had do well and also turn to a needle pile, and never have I had great success with Java moss, it lives but that is about that. I take slight umbrage with terming these beginner plants. Certainly they are, granted, but alone they make for wonder looking tanks. if you mean that one must have a dirted tank and play with more difficult species to go past beginner stage I disagree. I did really enjoy this video, good job!

[@Robert-rj2xt]

i love the plants and I've been watching your videos are great! i am interested in getting some of your plants. I've had problems getting my java moss to succeed though. any advice? ps super hard mineral heavy water where I'm at.

[@omarkjohnson1188]

Thanks D

[@OnigiriNeko3261]

The bullet sound effects at the end scared me 😂 Thank you for this video!

[@tino_the_boxer4928]

Hey Dustin good video, I have all of these and it hard to kill them

[@triple10tanks10]

Been awhile since I liked one of your videos but this one got the thumbs up.

[@OceanLife6977]

Great video!

[@funnysht5093]

Love this guy

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

+FUNNY SH#T love ya back

[@genmockify]

I love my Java Moss, it looks great in my tank.

[@debojeet1993]

Hey Dustin!! Great video. Just a query.. can spike moss grow submerged under water?

[@valzalbo5932]

these plants u have mentioned can they survive with no ferts what so ever? and is wisteria bulletproof?

[@joycehendry3595]

This was good and wondering when you will do 2nd vid on bullet proof plants ,cos I wat MORE please

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

Here is a look at some great plants in an UNBOXING kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5Olf6WtjN9pq7c

[@danielovlena7644]

One of those plants in currently dying in my aquairum 👍

[@bernardodocruzeiro2496]

do this plants survive in jars of water without anything? or they need a substrate (which one?) at least?

[@devinp1642]

what would u recommend for a turtle tank would. Any of thes plants work with turtles

[@stevemartinez3014]

Hey Dustin, I had a question about dirted tanks. Does the dirt alter the ph of the water at all?

[@fishingworld3654]

Dont ask me how I did it but i have killed my jova moss all my other plants have been growing fine but the jova moss has disappeared and has not come back its been 6 months since I have seen any in my tank

[@84dentistmehmedov]

Please help me Dustin. I tried all of these plants several times. I only have success with hornwort. Hornwort conquered my tank. It completely filled all my tank. I had to get rid of tons of it. But any other plants melted in short time. I have two scenarios for this melting: my tank is 150x70x50 cm. it is a big tank. So i bought two 200 watt LED floodlights. Can this much light be the reason of this melting effect? Second scenario: i bought some black snails which i dont know their scientific name. I regret having bought them. They always chomp up my plants. What is your opinion?

[@joea7464]

Is pea gravel sufficient enough to grow these plants the five bullet proof plants?

[@XvREByrd3vX]

Lol love the editing

[@aquafuzzyethan6617]

Is that black tie like the ones that come on electronics wires, covered in plastic? Would stainless steel wire work?(former art major, wire is awesome for sculptures!)

[@matthewzito6130]

Any suggestions for floating tropical plants?

[@nick5825]

Those bangssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!! That's dope

[@ecassani432]

I can attest to the hardiness of java moss. I had a 10g that sat dry in my attic for about 10 months while i was at school (had a 20g long in my dorm). I transferred the fish home to the 10g at the end of the school year and the java moss spontaneously started growing out of nowhere it seemed. About a dozen small strings of it appeared out of the gravel after a week or so.

[@aarongray5799]

Can any of these grow in brackish water?

[@natureandfarminglife4279]

can java fern grow in my outdoor pond? direct sunlight is there

[@03Memito]

LMAO Love the new video style!!!!!

[@boblerahl1957]

I've got a heavily planted 55gal tank but with a bad light, do you know what's the best and cheapest way of lighting a tank of this size?

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

sunlight in a big window....t5s would be next

[@marthanewsome6375]

My anubius grows great in my remineralized RO water.

[@GSL1960]

Can you use fishing string to tie a plant onto a piece of drift wood ?

[@flyfish1995]

You should try selling the “Sham-Wow”

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heresaguy2016 😂😂😂😂

[@blythebarlow5209]

Tank wow

[@sr-hd3bz]

my elodias bottom steam keep decaying,why? dustin help me

[@eileenbowers6750]

Hi! What is RO water? Referring to water change.

[@davidmiller2201]

Hi My plants, swords mainly and other rooted plants are having really curled leaves. My GH and KH are high (hard water here in Denver) and I dose once a week with a fert mix that has all of the macro and micros, 8 hours of high light 20 small fish and 4 mediums in a lightly dirted tank 2 years old fron last reset 55 gal. no C02 Low alge and slow growth in the plants, 11 years in the planted tank hobby. I was going to get your Facebook special but need to fix this first. Thanks, David

[@markdougherty778]

Great Video Cleanup 150 for Cichlids

[@nuimaleko7]

I stick to realy easy plants like java moss and fern and anacharis. None of the fish or snails will eat the former, but i have to grow anacharis in a separate small tank to keep it from being eaten. I tie the java moss to the air tubing of my air stones, since it really prefers moving water. It tends it move toward the filter intakes for the same reason, but i just remove any on the intake covers when i clean the tank every week. I have 2 free floating bunches of it on either side of the filter in a nano tank and they have stayed put so far. My white cloud minnows love spawning on the moss.

[@sizzlechest]

haha i love the gunshots at the end of the video

[@Flipperwi715]

You just made me feel stupid and I 100% thank you for it. I stopped having plants in my discuss tank because I killed anubs. om... I use only RO water. Thank you.

[@307outdoors8]

I must have the silver bullet for java fern. I've killed it dozens of times. I've got 5 kinds of anubias, java moss, anachris, marimo balls, s. repens and crinum growing but java fern just turns black and dies. I've never taken the rhizome out bc I keep hoping it will send leaves out but they just mush out and decompose. and yes I don't bury the rhizome and have attached or to moss, wood and left floating. idk why but fern just isn't mor me apparently. Awesome video!

[@brianbell3229]

Brad Crowley I had the same problem! I ended up tearing off all the leaves and throwing then rizome back in the aquarium and eventually got some new growth.

[@carrasquel1978]

8:47 Scared the crap out of me, lol

[@christopherkhan6062]

God yes please dont do that again in your video ffs

[@v1rotate815]

Yo Dustin! Awesome vids! I have one question. If you have active carbon running in the filtration system, will it remove any fertilizer dosing chemicals from the water? Thank you.

[@yisgioh5793]

V1 Rotate yes it will, activated carbon is among the best chemical filtration media in the world. I'd avoid liquid fertilizer and stick to dirt and pellet, the carbon will absorb some of the chemicals but not as much as the liquid fertilizer

[@aaqilian5.085]

thanks for the knowledge sir. You are enjoyable to watch, and informative. There is always more to learn. cheers!

[@coltwinchester94]

Is anubias's new leaf fragile and be eaten by snails?

[@persyman99]

flame moss is the same as java moss?

[@takeyourknife]

Was there something alive in the Java Moss? At 7:33 Anyway, thanks for the videos. I check your channel for info on plants first.

[@cindyneeley2664]

And how much and how do I go about getting them

[@maddygrabham136]

How come my java fern and moss is dying in a 30 gallon, attached to root wood, pH 7, plant fertility (liquid) and it still goes and dies 😩😞

[@axelaura5101]

i've somehow killed Java moss. no idea how i did it. now that i know more about live plants, i'd love to try again. but, Anubias is impossible to kill. i have some small plants in a wine glass on the window sill, hardly gets any water changes, but they're growing.

[@itsbeaners]

You're fucking hilarious AND informative. this was fantastic. I'm definitely checking out your site as well. I hit subscribe within the first few seconds of watching this ^_^

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

Baked Beans that's what I'm talking about! Thank

[@GrowLLLTigeRRR]

Dustin, Since these species are relatively slow-growing, how do they rank in their ability to assimilate nitrates?

[@Dustinsfishtanks]

+GrowLLLTigeRRR hornwort is second to none in my book (however it's not slow growing )

[@GrowLLLTigeRRR]

Thanks Dustin that's what I wanted to know. BTW have you tried algae scrubbers? I'm wondering how they rank with plants for the assimilation of nitrates. I'm totally enjoying your channel.

[@spooniecamper]

How about in a cold water goldfish tank? The goldfish will always end up winning but most plants die in my cycled tank.

[@Funny-bf8xf]

fun video

[@daviddiehl197]

Hornwort is destroyed by temperature change, went from 85 degrees to 75 degrees and it disintegrated. Was treating Ich.

[@MUNCHEEZ15]

Nice 👍 you answered my prayers haha

[@johnsmith1812]

I love ur energy

[@ryanmurphy1691]

My amazon sword leaves keep going clear but my anubias and jungle val is doing fine

[@annonymous1927]

Any plants that are Pleco or Silver Dollar proof?

[@AquariumCop]

awesome video, your the UFC to the fish community! keep up the good work!

[@SshivamKhopkar]

I bought two java fern and one anubia! Both my java fern died the leaves turned black! But anubia survived! And is doing well. I don't know how!?!?!

[@LusioEcarts]

I had an anubias that kept going #growing Switched for a year to a led(s) light.. Stopped growing! Sometimes I wonder if the green plant still lives.. Lol.. Stays the same like a plastic one