planted tank???

[ssd]

I have a 125 gal. tank that has oscars in it. my question is has anyone had any success with oscars in a planted tank? Or is this a big waste of time and money to try and incorporate the two?
I have been looking at some of the planted tanks on here and man i Want One!!!!!!!!

 

[Sab_Fan]

I did not . . . I have kept other large cichlids in planted tanks (JD, GT, Texas) but was not able to do so with my oscar . . . others may have had better luck . . .

 

[justonemoretank]

Not I. Oscars beat stuff up. You MIGHT be able to get away with some non-rooted, floating plants, or maybe plants attached to driftwood, but otherwise, the plants just keep getting uprooted, and you replant them, and they get uprooted, and so on. For me, the problem was not so much the rooting around that Oscars do, which I've heard of, but just them knocking the plants out of the substrate as they moved.

 

[ssd]

Not I. Oscars beat stuff up. You MIGHT be able to get away with some non-rooted, floating plants, or maybe plants attached to driftwood, but otherwise, the plants just keep getting uprooted, and you replant them, and they get uprooted, and so on. For me, the problem was not so much the rooting around that Oscars do, which I've heard of, but just them knocking the plants out of the substrate as they moved.

me being all noobish with planted tanks what are some of the names of the plants that you think would work?

 

[Lupin]

me being all noobish with planted tanks what are some of the names of the plants that you think would work?

Floating plants would involve water hyacinth, frogbits, duckweeds, Egeria densa, hornworts and water lettuce. You need to keep the tank open-topped as most of these floating plants (except hornworts and Egeria densa) particularly the water lettuce do not like condensation forming on their leaves and simply wither once this happens.

The ones that can be attached on decorative pieces are Java moss, Java ferns, Christmas moss, Taiwan moss and anubias.

Please research your options first before you get some plants as some of the plants require fertilizer dosing and high lighting in order for them to grow well.

 

[yogurt_21]

Not I. Oscars beat stuff up. You MIGHT be able to get away with some non-rooted, floating plants, or maybe plants attached to driftwood, but otherwise, the plants just keep getting uprooted, and you replant them, and they get uprooted, and so on. For me, the problem was not so much the rooting around that Oscars do, which I've heard of, but just them knocking the plants out of the substrate as they moved.

qft

my oscars moving about in my 125 knock everythign up. I do however have a decent size anacharis in a knot hole in my driftwood and a anubias in my submerged dead cactus (not exactly wood lol) and both are thriving they are weel secured in the wood and as such are portable I can move them wherever I need to in the tank without replanting.

 

[Serpent4234]

Planted tanks are great, but be prepared for the risks. I set up a 25 gallon planted tank and only did one water change a week on it for 6 or 7 months... Still having algae problems almost 1 year later!!!!

 

[fishbum]

Planted tanks are great, but be prepared for the risks. I set up a 25 gallon planted tank and only did one water change a week on it for 6 or 7 months... Still having algae problems almost 1 year later!!!!

There is a reason for algae in planted tanks.You either have too much light,or too many nutrients,more than likely.Figure out which one it is and you can probably fix the problem.

I have a 125 with O's and they move everything around in the tank,so I won't even try it with mine.
I also have a single GT in a 55 that has quite a few plants.He only digs them out of one of the back corners of the tank that is his "spot"
I've got pics of it in my profile.

 

[ssd]

There is a reason for algae in planted tanks.You either have too much light,or too many nutrients,more than likely.Figure out which one it is and you can probably fix the problem.

I have a 125 with O's and they move everything around in the tank,so I won't even try it with mine.
I also have a single GT in a 55 that has quite a few plants.He only digs them out of one of the back corners of the tank that is his "spot"
I've got pics of it in my profile.

Well i have had my O's for about 5 months but they only been in my 125 for about a month and they both have never moved a thing YET!! but as far as a oscar eating the plants is this a problem? Because i don't have anything to put the fish in until it would become a established planted tank. Do they eat the little just started plants?
I guess i tring to ask if the problems with oscars and planted tanks is that they pull up the plants or if they eat them?

 

[Sab_Fan]

usually they just disturb them, not eat them . . . either way, not good for the plants . . . if you try an earlier suggesting of tying down java ferns and anubias (attaching them to driftwood, rocks, clay pots) you will have a chance