Ideas for plants in 10 gallon?

Setting up my 10 gallon this weekend. Its my first dirt tank so im hoping everything goes well. I'm just not too sure on what I should I get for plants. I'm planning on putting in either ghost or cherry shrimp along with some kind of other fish. after the tanks been running for a week or 2. Currently I have 1 Aqueon Floramax T8 Fluorescent Lamp for the tank. Hopefully thats enough if not I'll upgrade sometime soon.

What kind of plants should I be looking for when I go to the LFS?

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Permalink Reply by Balaam ramirez on September 24, 2011 at 1:23am

that is a good question. but you left some key items, like whats the wattage, and are you palning to do co2 injection system.

i can can tell you what i have in my planted 10 gallon. i have wisteria, ludwigia, ruby amazon sword, amazon sword, anubius, java fern, and some ,micro sword. and i running 2 watts per gallon and diy co2 system. when i do weekly water changes i have to term back the wisteria and ludwigia, other wise it would take over the tank. as for fish i just have guppies and an otto.

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Permalink Reply by hossack8 on September 24, 2011 at 9:58am

Its only 15 watts so I'm guessing I'll need low light plants? As for co2 I was going to see how they did without it and then add a diy system if needed.

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Permalink Reply by ThereThereTBKON on September 24, 2011 at 11:08am

If you're doing the low tech thing, do anubias for sure! Just get a bunch of different sorts and go from there. I think driftwood and anubias only tanks look wicked!