Severums will chew through Anubias if they're hungry enough. I've got a naturally set up tank with my mild South Americans. I've found there's two keys to keeping plants rooted.
If it gets ripped out, don't put it back in the same place. My fish occasionally slightly chew plants, although I supplement their staple diet of Hikari products with skinned peas every second day which I feel helps. Whenever a plant gets ripped out, which I've watched them do particularly in my old tank, it's because they didn't like where it was.
Use coarse sand that's 2" or so deep, I've got 52Kg of sand in my tank, 20kg of it is standard filter sand which a lot of people use, and the rest is a mix of coarsish riversand that has a few rocks here and there etc. in it. If you're doing a CA/SA theme I suggest and recommend Amazon Swords & Chain Swords (broad and narrow for both).
Sandstone boulders are going to buffer your pH so be careful with that. I use boiled and scrubbed river rocks from a local freshwater river, they're just normal rocks.
Now, here's my tank. My Amazon swords are still small, and most of my chain swords are new, and because they're hydroponically grown or grown above water or something, they have different leaves which are dying and being replaced by the normal chain leaves so it looks a little weird. I had 1 single plant ripped out since adding all of these over the coarse of a few weeks. My Cichlids are still sub-adults but they don't even play around with the plants like they would in my old 3 foot.
Mind the terrible warm photo and the dirty tank.
Closeup of gravel
Edit: Don't put a Festae in with that mix, it'll wipe the floor with the lot.
If it gets ripped out, don't put it back in the same place. My fish occasionally slightly chew plants, although I supplement their staple diet of Hikari products with skinned peas every second day which I feel helps. Whenever a plant gets ripped out, which I've watched them do particularly in my old tank, it's because they didn't like where it was.
Use coarse sand that's 2" or so deep, I've got 52Kg of sand in my tank, 20kg of it is standard filter sand which a lot of people use, and the rest is a mix of coarsish riversand that has a few rocks here and there etc. in it. If you're doing a CA/SA theme I suggest and recommend Amazon Swords & Chain Swords (broad and narrow for both).
Sandstone boulders are going to buffer your pH so be careful with that. I use boiled and scrubbed river rocks from a local freshwater river, they're just normal rocks.
Now, here's my tank. My Amazon swords are still small, and most of my chain swords are new, and because they're hydroponically grown or grown above water or something, they have different leaves which are dying and being replaced by the normal chain leaves so it looks a little weird. I had 1 single plant ripped out since adding all of these over the coarse of a few weeks. My Cichlids are still sub-adults but they don't even play around with the plants like they would in my old 3 foot.
Mind the terrible warm photo and the dirty tank.
Closeup of gravel
Edit: Don't put a Festae in with that mix, it'll wipe the floor with the lot.
