New Channa Aurantimaculata Tank
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Microsorum works great and has the advantage that any leaves they rip off tend to from planets and it spreads to another place!
I use crypt's with the smaller species, but with aurantimaculata they'll end up buried or dug up. Once these things start to grow they bulldoze the substrate none stop. I even had a couple very large Aponogeton ulvaceus and Crinum natans that i used large rocks to pin down the roots on and then driftwood to surround the bases and protect them. but it Never fails next morning all the wood is pushed into piles on either side, plants are torn torn apart and buried in the piles alone with wood and most of the substrate. Once they have all the bigger objects like wood rocks and plants piled up they then excavate substrate one mouthful at a time and spit it on top.
So i find best success comes from those ferns and anubias attached to long twisted narrow branches and roots, anything too wide or flat will end up covered in substrate but it'll roll off narrows branches making it more difficult for them to end up buried.
hope that helps!
I use crypt's with the smaller species, but with aurantimaculata they'll end up buried or dug up. Once these things start to grow they bulldoze the substrate none stop. I even had a couple very large Aponogeton ulvaceus and Crinum natans that i used large rocks to pin down the roots on and then driftwood to surround the bases and protect them. but it Never fails next morning all the wood is pushed into piles on either side, plants are torn torn apart and buried in the piles alone with wood and most of the substrate. Once they have all the bigger objects like wood rocks and plants piled up they then excavate substrate one mouthful at a time and spit it on top.
So i find best success comes from those ferns and anubias attached to long twisted narrow branches and roots, anything too wide or flat will end up covered in substrate but it'll roll off narrows branches making it more difficult for them to end up buried.
hope that helps!
thanks Dc , your advice is really big help. i don t agree only for the anubias. i don t like it 
antonio where can i see yours? sent me a link.
one pic
antonio where can i see yours? sent me a link.
one pic
nice plant but it s very difficult to find it here in Greece. at this kind of plant i ll put inside hydroplila difformis
