Why you should have aquatic plants in your fish tank

creative1

wealth of info again J thank you!
yes it goes a little red, looks like it is burnt or something.
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Caribean-grower

earthbound wrote:

I do love aquatic plants in with the fish, but everytime I have put them in there, they get demolished... I've had water lillies, Taro, chinese water chestnuts, strapy underwater reed type plants, all sorts.. But everything has been eaten, up turned, demolished, taken bit by bit.... If your having a lot of large fish in a system, I think you need to try and find a way to keep them away from the plants to an extent.

earthbound do you think its only the big fish that i should worry about ?

earthbound

I'm not to sure if it was big ones of little ones, I had a variety of fish sizes in the tank at the same time... There's only one way to find out CG stick some in and see how you go, I guess all species will be a bit different too.....

Caribean-grower

Yeah i thinking of that type of plant that grows like a rope

and some sort of protection maby a 3in pvc pipe with the right size holes cut out off it. at least the main part of the plant would be protected so it could quickly regrow the side shouts.

steve

not a bad protection plan.

Caribean-grower

here is a neat idea

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Why you should have aquatic plants in your fish tank

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