Generally speaking I just don’t keep fish that eat certain plants with those plants... ie anything soft and rooted with A cichlids. I have found that other other than floating plants, even fish that eat plants can be kept with some sort of plant under the right conditions. Sometimes I put dirt under an under gravel filter grate, top with gravel and don’t connect a pump to it). Pretty much anything will root in that enough for fish who love to dig if it has enough time to establish itself first. I also put terracotta plants in tanks with fish who like to uproot. I weigh them down with rocks so even the Oscars don’t flip them over. I have some lotus plants from my summer tubs in these with Oscars. No problem. However - when I have duckweed - I just put a few African cichlids on the job foe a few days and it’s gone.
My Buenos Aires tetras like to chew on a select few of my plants, such as dwarf sag and jungle val. And before I had those they liked to eat on the amazon swords. But they stay away from most of the other plants which is good, they kind of choose their favorite to snack on. I thought the ferns were safe until they grew babies which the tetras liked!
I have java fern and anacharis watched videos saying those plants r suppose to last with these fish because supposedly java fern tastes bad and nacharis grows so fast it doesn't bother it wich mine is doing good so far just got some cutting that are thriving but have nibbles and the tetra r eating the java fern like candy I've actually tried giving them zukinni and they nibbled but made the water look gross n they love algae wafers and can carry them whole, also have ladybug because I live in the country in the mountains and they eat n will fight over them and leave nothing left but the shell of the wings shredded latterly paranas and tried anubius they tried to eat the leaves and the roots and left shark looking bites in a mystery snails squishy bottom and was golf ball size and picked him up and I had to remove after 3 seconds
But hey if you have lady bugs in your tank they'll take care of them and are always hungry no matter how much u feed them they still eat my plants lol and looks like there playing basked ball they'll chase each other trying to take the lady bug it's entertaining
I also have TONS of jungle Val in my 165 gallon with my two Oscars (and, incidentally a metric butt ton of endlers). I put a few endlers in there a few months ago by way of culling and I thought the Oscars would enjoy them as a snack. They are too small to be bothered with apparently. Now there is a thriving endler colony living right alongside the two fully grown Oscars. I wish I could attach a pic. It’s amazing
As usual, very helpful! I have heard that goldfish can be kept with tough-leaved plants, but that they must be kept in some sort of "rock Planter" thing, or the goldfish will just dig them up. I do know of a person who had two artfully attached ponds (a waterfall between them) one with cleaning plants in it, and the other with goldfish---had the benefits of the plants, without the goldfish eating them. :0 I always thought that was a pretty cool idea.
I have hornwort in a tank with red empress and mbunas and they don't bother it at all. The hornwort grows extremely fast too. Using a crushed coral substrate.
I have a Comet and Shubunkin in a tank with Crypts, Crinum, Anubias, and some sort of a Sword! Going on around ten years of successfully keeping these types of plants with both fancies and slim-types.
I have African chiclids and I keep Java ferns and anubias in my tank from aquarium coop. I use the planters also from aquarium coop. They were curious at first but then they left them alone. They are doing well..I love 💘 them ❤
@@Dustinsfishtanks my festivums aren't to bad about plants but definitely the severums, if my pothos that's in my filter grows under the top my sev will jump out and grab it... little shit head 🤣🤣
Im keeping mbuna cichlids in a densely planted tank (all from you!) of jungle val, hygro carymbosa, anubias, crypts, and some Java fern windelov. I made sure they were rooted and established before adding fish and placed a triangle of flat river stones at the base of each plant to discourage digging them up. Now they send runners up and over every which direction
A couple of years ago I was at my LFS and saw they had anubias that was flowering. I was super excited because I’d never seen that before. I bought them, went home and put them in the tank, and within seconds my rainbows had completely ate the flowers. I forgave them though when I realized they they eat duckweed with the same gusto
@@NateK-MN Voraciously. Not all species, but my Australians, wanamensis, and Lake Kutubu, and Goyder River devour it. The Bosemani and Parkinsons don’t seem interested at all.
I keep a female bristle nose pleco in a planted community tank. She never eats plants. I’ve also kept a male in another tank and he never ate plants either. Sometimes you get lucky lol
I have brichardis with a variety of anubias and java fern. I have my fancy goldfish (fantail and a black moore) with abubias, java fern, crinium, and aponogeton bovinianus (that I got from you). Both tanks are great with the plants. I do throw duck weed in regularly in with my goldfish.
My festivum eat everything except anubias so far , I think my val might make it and some crypts, even lil clown plecos eat plants and snails eat wisteria and that other one like it and the helferi , is there something you would recommend for the festivum?
I had a beautiful school of silver-tip tetras several years back. 12 of them looked great in my 30 gallon tank, but they destroyed every plant except the anubias. Bacopa, rotala, cardinalis, and several other plants all got eaten down to the nubs in a few months. They seriously seemed hell-bent on eating/destroying every plant I owned. 🤷🏻♂️
Lol my chinese gold-stripe turtle has eaten every single plant I could get ahold of, even when I let it get set in first... It wouldn't even let my Lily grow lol
@@Dustinsfishtanks lol that's crazy! I always love it when they do those little personable things like that bc I'm like well I can't hate you but gosh dang it work with me here 🤣
I'm having great luck with Demasoni (Mbuna - African Cichlids) in my Amazon Sword tank. They don't bite, nibble on or even dig up the plants (which is amazing for Mbuna).
I've got turquoise Sevs in my 210 planted tank. They eat hair algae, and that's a big plus for a planted tank. They rip up any moss you actually took the effort to glue down just where you wanted it. But only nibble at my swords, and giant val occasionally. They won't touch my rotala, anubias, pothos or java fern. I'm still experimenting with what they won't eat.
My sevs don’t eat anubius, they just rip it apart leaf by leaf. Same with java fern. LOL I also have a banded leporinus with them who loves lettuce. I feed them veggies and toss in a handful of duckweed every few days. May as well use their herbivore appetite to control the duckweed in other tanks. 😆
I do supplement their diet with lots of greenery. Probably should have mentioned that. I give them different types of lettuce I couldn't justify spending the money on just for me ;) and the normally wasted greens from most root crops, save potatoes because they are full of solanine and extremely toxic. I only add that so someone doesn't try to feed it.
Yo Dustin, I breed bristle nose plecos in a planted tank. And have them in every one of my planted tanks. They do just fine I've seen them on the plants but just cleaning algae off them. I also keep clown plecos in one of my planted tanks, the prefer driftwood.
Anubis and some floating are the only one that I can keep with African cichlids. Don’t have too many problems with South Americans, except for digging them up
Sir can i add live plants in my single tinfoil barb tank? Will they eat the plants? Please note that my tinfoil is very small and only 2 inches in size Plz reply fast
Do kribensis and ancaras devoure plants too. I was thinking of the dwarf species but love my plants too. Any advice from anyone keeping these fish would be much appreciated please.
I watched as my clown loaches happily ate my aponogeton bulbs. I've also had problems with gold barbs eating plants. Now I'm worried my clown pleco may be doing the same. Someone is eating the new leaves on my Cryptocoryne bolansae.
I have some driftwood in the tank. I bought the Clown pleco to clean up some brown algae and he did a good job of that. I've never seen him actually eat plants, just eat the algae off of them. I figure I'm just going to have to live with fish nibbling on my plants and growing plants they don't seem to like eating.
TALK to me folks- WHAT Fish EAT YOUR PLANTS?
All my fish are committing suicide.
I left my TV on too long........
Covid, covid, covid, Covid, covid, covid,
Generally speaking I just don’t keep fish that eat certain plants with those plants... ie anything soft and rooted with A cichlids. I have found that other other than floating plants, even fish that eat plants can be kept with some sort of plant under the right conditions. Sometimes I put dirt under an under gravel filter grate, top with gravel and don’t connect a pump to it). Pretty much anything will root in that enough for fish who love to dig if it has enough time to establish itself first. I also put terracotta plants in tanks with fish who like to uproot. I weigh them down with rocks so even the Oscars don’t flip them over. I have some lotus plants from my summer tubs in these with Oscars. No problem. However - when I have duckweed - I just put a few African cichlids on the job foe a few days and it’s gone.
My Buenos Aires tetras like to chew on a select few of my plants, such as dwarf sag and jungle val. And before I had those they liked to eat on the amazon swords. But they stay away from most of the other plants which is good, they kind of choose their favorite to snack on. I thought the ferns were safe until they grew babies which the tetras liked!
Live bearer fish like moly. Eating my rotala walichii, cabomba and myriophylum
My beunos Aires tetras eat every single plant they can fit in their mouth (micro swords, new leaves on anubias, and baby Amazon swords)
They are beautiful but man do they eat plants. I had to get rid of mine years ago because it was too painful watching the carnage.
I got them to my planted tank without knowing they were massive plant eaters.. They really massacred my plants.
I have java fern and anacharis watched videos saying those plants r suppose to last with these fish because supposedly java fern tastes bad and nacharis grows so fast it doesn't bother it wich mine is doing good so far just got some cutting that are thriving but have nibbles and the tetra r eating the java fern like candy I've actually tried giving them zukinni and they nibbled but made the water look gross n they love algae wafers and can carry them whole, also have ladybug because I live in the country in the mountains and they eat n will fight over them and leave nothing left but the shell of the wings shredded latterly paranas and tried anubius they tried to eat the leaves and the roots and left shark looking bites in a mystery snails squishy bottom and was golf ball size and picked him up and I had to remove after 3 seconds
But hey if you have lady bugs in your tank they'll take care of them and are always hungry no matter how much u feed them they still eat my plants lol and looks like there playing basked ball they'll chase each other trying to take the lady bug it's entertaining
I also have TONS of jungle Val in my 165 gallon with my two Oscars (and, incidentally a metric butt ton of endlers). I put a few endlers in there a few months ago by way of culling and I thought the Oscars would enjoy them as a snack. They are too small to be bothered with apparently. Now there is a thriving endler colony living right alongside the two fully grown Oscars. I wish I could attach a pic. It’s amazing
This is a great new series. Especially since this covers some of the most common questions in relation to planted tanks.
Thanks I would like to thank whoever had the comment to do it!
My clown loaches love eating the new shoots of any plant. They also love the flowers that Anubias Nana produce.
Plasticus artificialis !!!! Hahaha
Love it. Those little crabs dig up all plants and/or cut them off at the base, cute little jerks.
My tanganyikan community has Val, anubias, crypts, buce, and Taiwan lily growing in aragonite. Lol. The fry love it
Love it- I am shocked with the crypts and Val.....the others I can believe- I could use your help on video #3
As usual, very helpful! I have heard that goldfish can be kept with tough-leaved plants, but that they must be kept in some sort of "rock Planter" thing, or the goldfish will just dig them up. I do know of a person who had two artfully attached ponds (a waterfall between them) one with cleaning plants in it, and the other with goldfish---had the benefits of the plants, without the goldfish eating them. :0 I always thought that was a pretty cool idea.
I have hornwort in a tank with red empress and mbunas and they don't bother it at all. The hornwort grows extremely fast too. Using a crushed coral substrate.
Nice- probably an awesome waste removing plant for them as well as reducing aggression
Enjoyed the funny singing
I keep some Tang cichlids with a dozen anubias I got from you. They don't eat them and my Julie transcriptus loves to dart through the plants.
Hey man, I like to use pothos on my tanks. If I have a tank that's not planted but has pothos roots dipped in, will thos fish chew on the roots?
Most fish won't eat much of it because it's mildly toxic. But silver dollars will make short work of it. They even chewed on my plastic plants
I have a Comet and Shubunkin in a tank with Crypts, Crinum, Anubias, and some sort of a Sword!
Going on around ten years of successfully keeping these types of plants with both fancies and slim-types.
What’s your secret ?
I have African chiclids and I keep Java ferns and anubias in my tank from aquarium coop. I use the planters also from aquarium coop. They were curious at first but then they left them alone. They are doing well..I love 💘 them ❤
Lol when you were showing the festivums talking about the severums I was confused and then I realized the sevs were behind them 😅
Yeah- I should have put a note there...I think festivums eat them too! Could be wrong
@@Dustinsfishtanks my festivums aren't to bad about plants but definitely the severums, if my pothos that's in my filter grows under the top my sev will jump out and grab it... little shit head 🤣🤣
Thank you for all this info!
Im keeping mbuna cichlids in a densely planted tank (all from you!) of jungle val, hygro carymbosa, anubias, crypts, and some Java fern windelov. I made sure they were rooted and established before adding fish and placed a triangle of flat river stones at the base of each plant to discourage digging them up. Now they send runners up and over every which direction
A couple of years ago I was at my LFS and saw they had anubias that was flowering. I was super excited because I’d never seen that before. I bought them, went home and put them in the tank, and within seconds my rainbows had completely ate the flowers. I forgave them though when I realized they they eat duckweed with the same gusto
Your rainbows eat duckweed??
@@NateK-MN Voraciously. Not all species, but my Australians, wanamensis, and Lake Kutubu, and Goyder River devour it. The Bosemani and Parkinsons don’t seem interested at all.
Loved this video! You deliver such great info in such an amusing way! Can't wait for your next video!!!
Great video
Thanks Mate.
I keep a female bristle nose pleco in a planted community tank. She never eats plants. I’ve also kept a male in another tank and he never ate plants either. Sometimes you get lucky lol
I have brichardis with a variety of anubias and java fern. I have my fancy goldfish (fantail and a black moore) with abubias, java fern, crinium, and aponogeton bovinianus (that I got from you). Both tanks are great with the plants. I do throw duck weed in regularly in with my goldfish.
I live near you and want d to know if I can visit your facility in person as a customer or if you only sell online
I have Crinium and Anubis (from you, Dustin) in my African Cichlid tank.
My festivum eat everything except anubias so far , I think my val might make it and some crypts, even lil clown plecos eat plants and snails eat wisteria and that other one like it and the helferi , is there something you would recommend for the festivum?
Big hunk of a man Joey thanks for this description ha ha ha
I have kept java moss and java ferns successfully in my goldfish tank for many years.
My hornwort is ok in my goldfish pond, lol
I had a beautiful school of silver-tip tetras several years back. 12 of them looked great in my 30 gallon tank, but they destroyed every plant except the anubias. Bacopa, rotala, cardinalis, and several other plants all got eaten down to the nubs in a few months. They seriously seemed hell-bent on eating/destroying every plant I owned. 🤷🏻♂️
Lol my chinese gold-stripe turtle has eaten every single plant I could get ahold of, even when I let it get set in first... It wouldn't even let my Lily grow lol
My turtle seriously looked over at me like “word- thanks man” when I added Anubias!
@@Dustinsfishtanks lol that's crazy! I always love it when they do those little personable things like that bc I'm like well I can't hate you but gosh dang it work with me here 🤣
I'm having great luck with Demasoni (Mbuna - African Cichlids) in my Amazon Sword tank. They don't bite, nibble on or even dig up the plants (which is amazing for Mbuna).
My Congo tetras nibble on my plants. Didn’t know that until I kept them myself.
I've got turquoise Sevs in my 210 planted tank. They eat hair algae, and that's a big plus for a planted tank. They rip up any moss you actually took the effort to glue down just where you wanted it. But only nibble at my swords, and giant val occasionally. They won't touch my rotala, anubias, pothos or java fern. I'm still experimenting with what they won't eat.
My sevs don’t eat anubius, they just rip it apart leaf by leaf. Same with java fern. LOL I also have a banded leporinus with them who loves lettuce. I feed them veggies and toss in a handful of duckweed every few days. May as well use their herbivore appetite to control the duckweed in other tanks. 😆
I do supplement their diet with lots of greenery. Probably should have mentioned that. I give them different types of lettuce I couldn't justify spending the money on just for me ;) and the normally wasted greens from most root crops, save potatoes because they are full of solanine and extremely toxic. I only add that so someone doesn't try to feed it.
Goldfish I've got java fern and moss, val, swords and anubius
Convicts left the Anubis and Java alone but are mowing down my jungle val. 🤨
Yo Dustin, I breed bristle nose plecos in a planted tank. And have them in every one of my planted tanks. They do just fine I've seen them on the plants but just cleaning algae off them. I also keep clown plecos in one of my planted tanks, the prefer driftwood.
Anubis and some floating are the only one that I can keep with African cichlids. Don’t have too many problems with South Americans, except for digging them up
Sir can i add live plants in my single tinfoil barb tank?
Will they eat the plants?
Please note that my tinfoil is very small and only 2 inches in size
Plz reply fast
Do kribensis and ancaras devoure plants too. I was thinking of the dwarf species but love my plants too. Any advice from anyone keeping these fish would be much appreciated please.
I have bristlenose plecos in my planted tank and they haven't touched any of the plants 🤷♂️
Ive heard bristle nose can be trusted.....glad to hear it confirmed!
@@Dustinsfishtanks yeah it did make me a little nervous after it got full grown but I have the video of the tank and it's pretty balanced
Man if you have plecos feed plenty of spinach and courgette and cucumber my snails angels gouramis loaches love the spinach and courgette.
I have Anubius in my tank. They don't seem to bother it, but the other plants, they rip them apart.
Do it up Dr. Plantkenstein!
What pleco eat plant i never see them eat
My redeye tetras ate any plant I put in but Java fern & anubias.
I was waiting to see tinfoil barbs on your list.
They were actually on the original draft of the script !
Plasticus artificialatis.... I spat out my coffee
Haha- good ;)
Marbled Headstanders and Flag Cichlids.
i have plants with my cichlids ocars i had to faise them from day one they dont bother them
Can you link up a video of them?
whats amazing is ive kept an Oscar in a planted tank ....never had an issue
Does the Green house have a wu tang logo yet?
Can you help me with why my plants tuner yollew
Bodgie from straya keeps a bunch of african cichlids with plants.
Nice--I need to check out this person
@@Dustinsfishtanks That is his youtube channel name. He has a few videos on it.
I watched as my clown loaches happily ate my aponogeton bulbs. I've also had problems with gold barbs eating plants. Now I'm worried my clown pleco may be doing the same. Someone is eating the new leaves on my Cryptocoryne bolansae.
Clown pleco are wood eaters throw some drift wood in that tank.
I have some driftwood in the tank. I bought the Clown pleco to clean up some brown algae and he did a good job of that. I've never seen him actually eat plants, just eat the algae off of them. I figure I'm just going to have to live with fish nibbling on my plants and growing plants they don't seem to like eating.
I used to keep green spotted scats. There is not a single plant those fish won’t eat
I have had African cichlids for over 5 years and they don't dig or eat my plants :D
I've kept my oscar in a tank filled with guppy grass, he just WOULD NOT eat it it exploded in growth. other plants, he would devour em
Lol Dusty imma be that guy and say but African cichlids ?? I have a angel fish and he doesn’t eat my plants ? 😂😂 sorry had to do it
I’ve had a common pleco for 5 years and it hasn’t eaten any plants knock on wood
I wish I knew that before buying the silver dollars, I put them in my planted tank that I worked on for months these bastards mowed it in days
Bristlenose plecos wont touch plants. They never touched mine.
I have a 125 oscar tank with Amazon swords
U r 2 funny 🙂🌿👌😎🌱🦐
Comets will even eat plastic plants.
How about German Rams???
@@ericp_ski thanks. I've never had them too. I'm planning on getting 4 for my 75g angel tank.
Hilarious 🤣💦
I think this video was made for people in the hood and I highly doubt they keep fish.
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Plasticus artificialias lol
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Do convict cichlid eat plants