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i want some high grade CRS's so bad i can almost taste them

Some garlic butter. Gently simmered. Yum, yum. 

Thanks, will see if I can get some Lilaeopsis.

Vallis?

hair grass?

lilaeopsis?

Hi

I bought a new tank that is quite tall. I want some grass for the floor.
No tenellus( Spelling). I am looking for somehting that grows straight and not to small leaves.

Any suggestions?

i would love to get hold of this in PE

The customs inspectors don't always catch everything, and tend not to be trained specialists who can recognise one plant/shrimp/fish/crab for another - so mistakes get made. That assumes they physically check every item as well...!

Hmm, many moons ago at school, they had a fishtank with a similar looking expanded clay substrate with a powerhead-driven undergravel filter - and despite everyone knowing undergravels are terrible for aquarium plants, they seemed to flourish (not that there would have been anything particularly demanding in there).

I've used a similar medium in a pond filter before and it worked pretty well (but stocking was quite light). It should have a fairly good surface area and is at least a lot cheaper than Siporax!

Mickey - I have no experience with Via Aqua equipment (although because Hagen SA didn't deliver a powerhead, I have a Via Aqua powerhead "in the mail"), but I imagine their canister filters should be perfectly serviceable, and turning over your tank volume around 3x per hour should be fine. Unless you're going to stock with fish way beyond what you currently propose, I suspect your tank should be fine (NB check what size tank that filter is rated for). If you think you're getting dead zones in your tank, you could perhaps look at adding another pump later (just a powerhead). If you're supplementing with CO2, don't make the spray bar disturb the surface too much or all your CO2 will off-gas in no time at all.

Also, you will find that many plants will grow without CO2 if you don't want to go that route - plants listed as "easy" are generally fine without it. And if you look at some of the "low tech" tanks around, you'll see that you can get some impressive growth without CO2!

If you put a list of preferred plants, I'm sure some of the experience aqua-horticulturalists will let you know what will work in your setup.

I am going to be using hydroton balls and cearamic rings as the filter medium. apparently hydroton work really well as they have an excellent surface area but they are cheap as chips Smiley

There are a few of us currently experimenting with Hydroton.  I'd be interested in hearing your feedback too.  I assume your got the idea from Ahmed\Dolphin from Quality Aquariums?  He's been running it on all his tanks.