any success with plants and large CA/SA cichilds?

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I have a 135 in the works that is going to house the following fish: JD, gold SEV, GT, Green Texas, Silvar dollars and some clown loaches. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with plants and these fish. I am worried about the silvars because of them being herbiviours(sp?). Any help is apprecited.
 
If your silver dollars don't eat the plants, sooner or later, I think the cichlids would uproot them when they dig.
 
damn i dont know if I want the dollars anymore. I dont know if i wanted them to begin with. Maybe some danios instead? there wont be alot of plants, just some to cover up the back where I have some equipment.
 
ive had luck with large swords(12"+) and large cichlids but not any experience with the silver dollars

put some larger rocks, stones or whatever around the base of the plants and you wont have any problems
 
I was wondering this also.
I have a couple severums which I know like eating plants, but would a fast grower be able to keep up? Like a hygrophila or something?

Burt :)
 
Ok, the secret to my success. . .

First off, scrap the fish store silica gravel. . . it's too light. I use the playground gravel like you get at the landscape supply places or (I know this is bad) that I steal by the backpack full at park playgrounds. It's much heavier and they have a harder time uprooting it.

Secondly allow your plants to root well in a pot of grodan or rockwool so that they have a large mass of roots that will keep them well planted. The larger swords/crypts are GREAT for that.

Third. . . get some floating plants like Anacharis, Hornwort, or Water Sprite since you don't have to worry about them being uprooted.
 
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