plants or no plants?
- Thread starter glen.1984
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I have a fully planted tank that houses angelfish, BN plecos, a few types of live-bearers and some peacock gudgeons (best fish ever, if you were interested in what they are.)
However, in my GOLDFISH tanks (really the only "monsters" I have, unless you count the black killer angelfish) I have plants, but they are all potted with rounded river rock over the dirt, keeping the goldfish from uprooting them all the time. The only tank I don't have plants in has terrible algae problems :\
However, in my GOLDFISH tanks (really the only "monsters" I have, unless you count the black killer angelfish) I have plants, but they are all potted with rounded river rock over the dirt, keeping the goldfish from uprooting them all the time. The only tank I don't have plants in has terrible algae problems :\
I use cheap floating elodea (wait, this was locally collected from Lake Union!), guppy grass and water lettuce in most tanks. The Oscar tank just has the elodea and lettuce because the guppy grass likes to fall apart and clog up the filters. The elodea is easy to manage because it only breaks off in very large chunks that can be worked back into the main wad, and the parts that die turn brown and stay attached longer than a week to give you time to remove them unlike other plants that just rudely drop leaves at will without warning.
