I have a needlefish, a red pacu, a tiger oscar, a leporinus, a plecostamus (sp?), and a number of feeder rosies. What are safe live plants that I can add to my tank without hurting my fish, and that won't get destroyed by them?
2006-12-28 05:37:23 · 9 answers · asked by ropintozinmt 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
i use this store to help me with 'safe' plants to buy: http://www.aquariumplants.com/Herbivorous_Fish_Plants_s/24.htm
'hornwort' is not on that list, but i do know that my goldfish and plecos do not eat it. and i grows like hell.
* if you do end up buying a plant that your fish like to nibble on, you can deter them from eating that plant by adding cabbage, lettuce leaves every now and them. give your plecos cucumber...
**also, if the plant is aquatic, and bought from an aquarium plant dealer, it probably wont hurt your fish.
2006-12-28 06:04:26 · answer #1 · answered by louie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These fish not only have a tendency to eat plants but they often also uproot plants as they dig into the gravel. Most planted cichlid tanks use Anubias, Java ferns or bolbitus attached to rocks or driftwood. These plants are usually left alone and the fact that they are anchored to heavier objects make them harder to dislodge.
There are no aquatic plants that will harm your fish, as long as they don't sell you a bog plant as an aquatic plant there is no danger.
Hope that helps
2006-12-28 06:02:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NONE! The tiger oscar will tear things up and the Pacu eats plants. You might want to research fish that won't eat plants and plan accordingly.
2006-12-28 10:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by jazzyjklo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gosh those solutions are so doom and gloom .... i've got had some beta fish with the aid of the years. no longer a professional or something, comprehend little or no. What i comprehend is ..... I as quickly as placed a Beta right into a much bigger tank. I had it in a small bowl and have been given bored with changing the water a week. So I placed it in a 5-gallon tank with a filter out. Beta fish do in comparison to currents and the filter out that saved the water clean, created a modern-day my Beta did no longer like and it hid under a plant for all time. i does no longer propose a filtered tank. I even have my modern-day Beta in a a million/2 gallon tank. instead of gravel, it is confusing to scrub, i exploit large aquarium pebbles. My Beta is the only fish interior the tank. He swims fortunately around. i'm no longer a fish psychologist or animal behaviorist, or an animal rights person. i'm no longer able to tell if my Beta is chuffed or unhappy. i do no longer comprehend if he feels "at homestead" or likes his plant or what. I merely comprehend that if I clean my Beta's water as quickly as a week, do no longer crowd his tank with loads of stuff so he has room to swim and stay with silk plant life instead of plastic (their fins are comfortable) then it style of feels to be chuffed. I even have the tank on my kitchen bar, above my sink, the place there is loads of interest/human beings. He looks virtually "social". i think of i've got given him a happier existence than interior the little cup interior the puppy save. some human beings (like one in each and every of your solutions) can argue that if the call for wasn't there, the Beta fish does no longer be harvested in Asia and acquired. they could be loose. i think. i'm no longer professional animal cruelty. you could no longer reflect a Beta's "organic" ecosystem in the event that they bear in mind the place they have been from. How do all of us comprehend they have been all yanked from the sea and not bred in a tank and it is what they comprehend? At any fee, good success with your tank.
2016-11-24 20:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really like frill but this isn't to say that they won't destroy it. I use it when I am breeding my fish for some place to hide. The only thing is that you have to buy a lot of it. Its really cheep though!
2006-12-28 06:29:01 · answer #5 · answered by !~!GoTHPuNkChICk!~! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can buy live plant for fish aquarium at fish shop they sell fish plant, ask the clerk for help.
2006-12-28 05:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by johnlee1049 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
go to your local pet store and ask someone who knows all about fish or just look it up on the net
2006-12-28 10:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by omarionsgirl1983 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All plantsd that live underwater, and you can get in a pet store.
2006-12-28 12:01:45 · answer #8 · answered by DiRtAlLtHeWaY 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
seeweed.......
hety dheydont take me seriously...i dunno nothing bout fish
2006-12-28 09:57:50 · answer #9 · answered by christie d 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋