Introducing plants to this tank?

[vd853]

I want to start putting some live plants in my tank, and let them grow out, probably just amazon swords, but I'm afraid my fish will ruin them. So I want to ask if these fish are ok with live plants?

2x 3in. peacock bass
3x 1in. Geophagus pelligrensis
2x 1.5in. Royal pleco
1x 2.5in. snowball pleco
1x 2.5in. butterfly pleco
1x 3in. butterfly koi

 

[WyldFya]

The koi will be the biggest problem.

 

[Lupin]

What size is the tank? If you don't include the koi in your stocklist, you can have floating plants. There is always the likeliest chance of them gobbling any plants. Kois are also best left in the pond.

With plecos and geos, stick with Java ferns and anubias. there is not much you can do when the plecos try to crash into plants and geos move the substrate around

 

[evercl92]

Issues:

1. koi tend to eat / nibble on plants
2. geophagus like to dig, thus plants that either float or attach to driftwood, rocks, etc would be a better option
3. plecos tend to get clumsy with size, and thus thin stem plants tend to get uprooted by their sometimes sloppy movement

 

[WyldFya]

Issues:

1. koi tend to eat / nibble on plants
2. geophagus like to dig, thus plants that either float or attach to driftwood, rocks, etc would be a better option
3. plecos tend to get clumsy with size, and thus thin stem plants tend to get uprooted by their sometimes sloppy movement

Other than the royal, the other two don't gain much size to them. Even so, a royal will do fine in a planted tank. Both of my planted tanks have plecos. The 135 has a royal, a papa, L010, L010a, clown, couple white seam BNs. The 20 has 7 BNs and 7 albino BNs.

 

[vd853]

what if I get rid of the koi, and plot the plants so they won't float.

 

[arowana man]

koi LOVE i repeat LOVE plants