I've Finally Had It with Live Plants--I'm Going Plastic.

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Razor7Music

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Yea, that's right. I've done live plants ever since I started a cichlid tank. Yea, they uproot and pick them apart--but I just love the look of live plants.

Well, I keep replanting them and buying new and every day (literally) I am either netting out leaves or replanting uprooted plants. Now they look worse all tattered than no plants at all. :irked:

So--that's it. I give up. I am going plastic and will try to learn to live with them.

FYI--

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NOOOO don't do it! :) I'd rather have no plants than fake ones! Who not do like driftwood or a rock formation? Those look nice too and thefish can't move em'!
 
Yeah. At least anchor some java moss to a piece of decoration or something. Have you tried water lettuce? I don't know it would survive in hard water, but it's worth a try.
 
I have real rocks and fake rock cave formations and I've even put small rocks around the roots of my plants--but they tear the leaves and they float around and the remaining ones look terrible.

The best plant I've tried so far is the giant hygro, but my dealer rarely gets any in.

I haven't made the plunge yet, but I guess I'm just more into focusing on my fish than cleaning up after my plants.
 
Plastic plants are just fine. Just spend a little more and get the nicer ones.

My tank has plastic plants
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I have recently tried something with my plants and so far it is working. I put a cable tie around the base of the plants just above the roots and buried the roots then I put put a rock over the sand where the cable tie is. So far so good.

With the smaller plants in the front of the tank that have no rocks near them I have used a cable tie to attach a brass nut from a pipe fitting to the base of the plant and buried that in the sand, so far so good.

Maybe give this a try before you give up, you have nothing to lose really.
 
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