Severums with aquarium plants

[Aalok bairwa]

Can anyone suggest me some plants that can thrive in severums and uaru tank , in starting of my tank putted two Amazon sword and after 1-2 days I saw there stems floating on surface.
Is there any variety like ferns or anubias that can survive these vegetarian fishes

Also I usually fed my severum and uaru spinach and other vegetables.

 

[Deadeye]

Plastic ones tend to work out…
Mine eats pretty much anything eventually. You’d have the best luck with tough plants like Anubias or fast growers like hornwort or Val, but no guarantees.

 

[neutrino]

An occasional (not typical) severum may not eat (or damage those they don't actually eat) some types of live plants, but it's a contradiction in terms with those two species. You may as well attempt to grow lettuce in a rabbit pen.

 

[tlindsey]

You may as well attempt to grow lettuce in a rabbit pen.

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Sometimes fairly hard plants like maybe Java Fern and I've had good luck with some small low little sword looking thing I don't know the name of. But generally the only plants you'll be able to have are "Lol, no."

 

[duanes]

I agree with the others, since both severums, and Uaru are minimally considered at least 50% vegetarian cichlids, the reality of keeping plants in their tanks, is a bit delusional.
I find the best way to keep plants with many of these vegetarian, or even semi vegetarian cichlids, is to do heavily planted sumps, separate from the main cichlid tanks.
Below is my planted sump

In this way, I get the nitrate absorbing benefits, and aethsetic beauty of aquatic plants like water lilies, and vallisneria, and semi-aquatic plants like mangrove trees, and terrestrials such as dieffenbachia, without the destruction the cichlids often impose.
I do find that mangrove trees (the middle pic) are tough enough to escape even the hungriest of herbivores.
I have also tried papyrus with some success, but they were even eaten down to nubs by grazers like Cincelichthys such as bocourti and pearsei.
Below, papyrus, in a Madagascan biotope tank I had.

Below my current main 180 gal tank, (left) in tandem with he planted 125 gal sump on the right.