I'm new at planted aquariums and I kinda just want some plants to help liven up my tank. I've tried before but my lights were just sucky hood lights so that really didn't work. My current aquarium has decent lighting so I thought I'd give it a shot. Its a 150 gal with a 125 fluval canister filter and a 55 gal marineland canister filter with 2 LED white and blue light marineland strip lights (possibly for reefs) that are 24" each.
My setup is:
x1 Silver Arowana ~20"
x1 Jack Dempsey cichlid 8"
x5 Angelfish 3-5"
x1 Parrot cichlid 7"
Botht the cichlids don't dig so I doubt they will disturb the plants. The Angelfish are well fed but I heard they can eat live plants too. I currently don't have a bottom feeder but it would help if someone could recommend one that doesn't eat plants. I also am getting an undergravel filter (will that deprive the live plants of nutrients from the fish waste?) The arowana produces LOTS of waste. I was just wondering if live plants would work and if so can anyone recommend the hardier species?
My setup is:
x1 Silver Arowana ~20"
x1 Jack Dempsey cichlid 8"
x5 Angelfish 3-5"
x1 Parrot cichlid 7"
Botht the cichlids don't dig so I doubt they will disturb the plants. The Angelfish are well fed but I heard they can eat live plants too. I currently don't have a bottom feeder but it would help if someone could recommend one that doesn't eat plants. I also am getting an undergravel filter (will that deprive the live plants of nutrients from the fish waste?) The arowana produces LOTS of waste. I was just wondering if live plants would work and if so can anyone recommend the hardier species?