Anyone else have unorthodox stocking for a planted tank?

[Psylant]

I don't think this stocking is supposed to work but it's been good for about 6 months now. Cories, Roselines, SAE, and two Orandas. The Orandas pester each other and tug at the plants but it's fine otherwise!

There are 4 or 5 variants of Abubias, some jungle val, an amazon sword, Java Fern, and I don't know what the others are. The one that's creeping all over the place is growing like mad though! I got some cuttings from a random guy on kijiji (craigslist) and the Orandas ate half the plants, and these are the ones that survived. I bought the abubias online myself.

 

[bbortko]

My 125 has a bellycrawler, melanurus, rotkeil sev, green sev, iporangensis, 4 heckellii, 3 silver dollars, 2 plecos and 5 endlers livebearers. Plants are 2 Amazon swords, an onion plant, a green tiger lotus, and 5 or so anubias. Not sure why the plants or endlers have lasted but all were extras from other tanks that I was willing to lose.

 

[HybridHerp]

I keep the fanciest of fancy stems with cichlids.....LIKE A BOSS

(no but really, I keep difficult stems with central and south american cichlids and bichirs...the tank is in my sig)

 

[Psylant]

I tried to put a large amazon sword in my CA tank and it was in 10,000 shreds in less than 30 minutes. Literally nothing left and everything stuck to the filter intakes