How To Have Aquarium Plants with Fish That are Destructive
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Having plants with certain types of fish like African or South American cichlids can be a challenge. In this video, I share a few ways in which your tanks can still benefit from plants, even if your fish like to dig or are destructive.
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What are some of your tricks that you have used to keep plants with destructive fish?
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I grow substrate plants in various sizes of pond baskets. They grow great, get nutrients from all angles and you can place small stones on the top of the baskets to discourage gingers. I use Java fern and anubias attached to small rocks to completely hide the baskets from viewing. Recently I had to remove all the plants from a 50 gallon to catch and remove the fish. Took 5 minutes to remove and 5 minutes to place back and the plant roots were essentially undisturbed. Easier to fertilize, trim and rearrange plants
I like your method!
@@TazawaTanks check out my video on my channel. I have 8 inch Geophagus that love digging and they just dig around the plant baskets, stones and driftwood with the anubias and Java ferns
LOVE the easier planter info!! I use Hornwort and Frogbit in my Central American cichlid tanks. Love it
awesome video. will def get some pothos for my tank
This is a nice info! If you are more interested to the "functionality" of the plants than their looks, what I like to do is using an elevated, separate container/built-in back slot system/another tank to do the planting along with the fitrations, it's like the aquaponic filtration method which already separates your fish and your plants, so, they can't reach them, I use similar thing like Tazawa such as Pothos, Frogbits, and Hornwort, which are very effective on taking all those ammonia and nitrites and keep my goldfish in the pond healthy. This might help to some people who got a pond with goldfish too like me, because they just eat every vegetations they could get their hands on.
Have to agree easy planters and floating plants have helped me especially with African or South American chic-lids .
Half my plants are from my local lake/pond
And its qorked very well 🤷 and its free 🙌
Great advice, I use Easy Planters in some of my tanks, Val is in almost all of my tanks! And I have towering "lucky bamboo" growing out of a tank that almost never needs a W/C because those plants are keeping the nitrates at about 10, lol! Just started using Pothos a couple of months ago, they send roots out really quickly!
My man out here uploading videos at like 5 am lol. Keep it up :)
Great tips. Can you share where you purchase some of your fish…if you use online sellers?
I've had a lot of luck with building a above tank planter box for my plants. I fill the planter with fluval stratum and aquarium gravel then pump tank water through. It's growing wonderfully and burning through all my nitrates.
Things I’ve learnt about plants:
1) You can attempt to have them with Mbuna - they’ll survive - but never grow or thrive as Mbuna eat all the new growth. You can have plants with peacocks and haps.
2. Osmocote can be used as a plant fertilizer in an aquarium - place in roots like root tabs and put in a pot
3. Fluval 3.0 Plant light helps plant growth - a lot
4. Don’t bury your Java Fern rhizome - it must be above the substrate
5. Java Fern, Anubius and cryptos all look good and are easy to grow for difficult tank mates, beginners etc
6. Plants are worth the effort
7. I recommend fertilizer and other plant additives as required. Be careful adding iron - only dose occasionally
My dwarf gourami demolished four marimo moss balls that I've had for quite some time. He didn't eat them, but nipped off pieces to use in his bubble nests. What a mess! I still love him, though.
I have a couple of amazon sword plants in a tank with golden Malawis. It is perfect! They love the cover and swim around between the leaves all the time. But the tank looks a bit bare. I have tried a lot of other plants, but everyone is getting torn apart. Okay, fine... The amazon sword seems to work. I just go with one type of plant in the whole tank. Nope... When I try to plant anything new the fish is just making a salad of it. I have glued plants to rocks, weighed them down with rocks, and even put the whole pot in. I have come to the conclusion that I am not in charge of the planting in the tank. The fishes have accepted a couple of plants, and that is all they want. So I just have to live with that I guess.
Zenzo great video, could you recommend a book on Africa cichlids. Thank you from NYC
Any tips for a fire eel who likes to dig
Hi can I put a mint plant in my fish tank?
(Betta)
I have a question I have a 20 gallon aquarium and want to put a small colony of shell dwellers do you think I could also put a couple of brichardi
i have goldfish and they eat anything i out in so far bamboo are the only thing that will make it any other suggestions
Why I quit the hobby lol… loved big different type of cichlids but they always destroyed my tank when I made it “beautiful” w plants. I kinda had enough of looking at a tank w driftwood n a couple of rocks.
Have you tried angelfish? I had them in with swords and many other plants and they didn't bother any of them.
@@cosmoplakat9549 No, I like the Severum, Blood Parrots, Blue Acara n etc type of cichlids. Although it’s always the Severums that is destroying everything, but that’s like my fav cichlid.
plants need "dirty" water, and fish need "clean" water. How does one balance the two in one tank?
What would you specifically recommend for an oscar fish? We have one oscar and he is constantly digging up the gravel, moving ornaments and whatnot. The only plants so far that we've managed to keep with him are some val and elodea, both are in plastic pots that he cannot dig in. Is that all we can do or is there something else, we want to upgrade his tank from a 4-foot to a 5 or 6 and I want it to look really nice with live plants.
Did you watch the video? He specifically addresses Oscars.
What about setting up or buying a planter that they can't dig up?
@@sarahwoodring5587 that is what we were looking at for him but I wanted to see if there were any other options, I guess if he doesn't care about the pots then we may just have to go with that. Thank you.
I've only been lucky to keep the bamboo and floating plants with crayfish, everything else will get eaten.
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