Planting a tank, looking for suggestions.

[craigthor]

I'm looking to add a few plants to my tank. I currently have an African Cichlid tank an Oddysea Light w/ 2- 65 watt 12000 k lights and 2- Actinics and moonlights setup to run a full days light schedule. I use sand substrate so I will probably have to find plants that can be attached to my lace rock as I see most plants don't like sand substrate. I have looked at Amazon Swords but I hear they don't like sand and same with Anubias. Any options I have with sand?

Craig

 

[WyldFya]

Actually plants love to root in sand. Especially anubias and swords. The problem for these plants lies in the nutrients, which can be fixed by root tabs. The biggest problem however, is your bulbs, the actinics will do nothing for plant growth, and the 12000K will do very little. You need to drop those at least down to 10,000K, preferably 6700K. Many anubias will do better if rooted to wood or rock, but will survive rooted in the substrate, just make sure that the rhizome is not buried.

 

[davo]

African cichlids love digging and love ripping up plants...
What do you have?

 

[craigthor]

African cichlids love digging and love ripping up plants...
What do you have?

Lots that love to dig

Saulosi, Scianechromis Fryeri, Copadichromis Trevawsse, Haplichromis Flameback, Jacobefreibergi Eureka Red.

They seems to leave the Fake ones alone so maybe that is a good thing

Craig

 

[mgamer20o0]

stick with floating plants and plants that can be tied to rocks and driftwood. if you dont they just going to tear it up anyways. or you can try to use bigger rocks to section off the plants so they cant dig them out. like what WyldFya said your going to need some new bulbs.