Pleco friendly plants??

[Dullamite]

I am just kind of getting into plecos and I want to spruce up my tank with some vegetation. I have 2 L190, a large leopard sailfin, and two bristle nose. I have never had any plants in the tank with them, so please give me your thoughts.

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[Fat Homer]

I guess first question would be, whats your setup like?

Do you want to go Hi-tech or keep it low tech? what type of lights are you running? do you plan on dosing with ferts and Co2?

But i guess the one plant i love to recommend is the Anubia's species, since they are probably one plant thats impossible to kill...

 

[Dullamite]

I have a very simple set up, no fancy lighting just gravel, driftwood, and lots of filtration. I definitely don't think I'm ready for the all out planted tank. I just want to change the the tanks look a bit.

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[Fat Homer]

In that ase, personally i would say anubias, java fern, amazon swords and certain mosses could be a good starting point...


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[Linus_Cello]

Amazon swords need a lot of light. I had anubias growing in the gravel, and my L91 would uproot it until I put a "cage" around it. You could try putting yours in a pot to protect it. But if your L190s don't move the gravel, you could try some deep rooting plants like crypts (I have a 75g with L114 and L7, and it's full of crypts, java fern, bolbitis, and floating plants).

I think the better thing to would be to have driftwood, and attach the java fern or anubias to the driftwodd in the upper parts of the tank; as plecos tend to stay near the bottom, hopefully they won't destroy the plants. Another plant you could try is bolbitis on driftood.

 

[Dullamite]

I'm going to check those all out for sure, it'll be nice having another dimension to the tank.

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