What's eating my narrow leaf anacharis?

[Irecruitfish]

125 gallon stocked with a senegal bichir, African knife fish, 3 syno catfish, 6 tiger barbs, 5 black skirt tetras,1 electric blue acara, 1 dolphin cichlid, 1 African leaf fish, and Opaline Gourami.


Whenever I try to put duckweed in the tank it's gone in a day. I suspect the gourami but not sure.


I really need some floating plants to help shade my monster anubias.

 

[tlindsey]

125 gallon stocked with a senegal bichir, African knife fish, 3 syno catfish, 6 tiger barbs, 5 black skirt tetras,1 electric blue acara, 1 dolphin cichlid, 1 African leaf fish, and Opaline Gourami.


Whenever I try to put duckweed in the tank it's gone in a day. I suspect the gourami but not sure.


I really need some floating plants to help shade my monster anubias.

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My guess would be the Tiger Barbs and have personally have Senegal Bichir that destroyed plants.

 

[Irecruitfish]

My guess would be the Tiger Barbs and have personally have Senegal Bichir that destroyed plants.

Ah interesting never seen them do it but crap that sucks if they are the culprit. Definitely love having them in the tank.

 

[magpie]

I was also going to guess tiger barbs.

Have you tried a larger floating plant like watter lettuce?

 

[Irecruitfish]

I was also going to guess tiger barbs.

Have you tried a larger floating plant like watter lettuce?

No but I just bought some frogbit which unfortunately was dead on arrival from ebay today. Do you think water lettuce can survive a pH of 7.6 and above plus the fx6 flow?

 

[magpie]

Not sure about the pH. It will probably get pushed around with the flow, but I don't know why that would be a problem? I have to remove huge chunks of it everytime I do a water change because it will take over the top of the tank. It's way easier to deal with than the duckweed though because it's so much bigger. And I love how the roots look.

You also might look into brazilian pennywort.

 

[Irecruitfish]

Not sure about the pH. It will probably get pushed around with the flow, but I don't know why that would be a problem? I have to remove huge chunks of it everytime I do a water change because it will take over the top of the tank. It's way easier to deal with than the duckweed though because it's so much bigger. And I love how the roots look.

You also might look into brazilian pennywort.

Thanks I'll look into watter lettuce but have had pennywort before and it died in my tank. I hope frogbit and water lettuce can thrive.