-ñ- said:
Perhaps this is stupid, but are plants in a tank a substitute for a bubbler?
Will the plants produce oxygen for the fish to survive on?
plants give of oxygen only if there is suffient light and nutrients to start photosynthesis
oxygen is the end product
plants do not provide the same function as a bubbler
bubblers actually exhange gas from the water to air and vise versa
oxygen goes in and co2 and other gases comes out till it reaches equalibrium with the atmospheric gases
plants would be good if you had a small fish population of say perhaps a school of tetras but you would need alot of them to do this well.
plants are no use in the monsters we keep
so we have monster aeration and filteration to do this for us