Is it ok to use beach sand in a freshwater tank setup?
- Thread starter RTC probe 3
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Snails but they may become snack. I think ur bichirs will burrow a bit as well. Hard to to figure because of the safety margin.
Yea. U can add plants. Easy keeping plants is what I prefer. So anubias, ferns, water wisteria, water sprite, swords, dwarf lilies and Vallisneria. May need to use root tabs with the swords and valiseria. Also may need to dose the wate column. When picking out plants have to ask are they treated with fertilizers and emerged/submerged. If so and you don’t dose or provide enough light then the plants will have some browning and melt.
Added to RTC probe 3's comprehensive list; Java moss tends to be hardy and can be trained to adhere and grow on and along most any surface. Also a dwarf anubius that grows in low clusters and spreads. These plants will grow in most any light including fairly low light conditions. I like my Valisnaria, it will spread through runners or you can pinch off clusters of leave branches to transplant elsewhere.
Sometimes plants new to your aquarium environment will develop new leaves adapting to your lighting and water conditions and old leaves may die.
I leave some deitrus in the substrate for fertilization.
Added to your fish list are electric yellow Labidochromis cichlid. I have a 2½" yellow lab that likes to root deeply and thoroughly through the substrata--quite the maintenance fish. It also gets along fine with the other tankmates; 3" white clouds, 5" angels, 4" killifish, 3½" robust Cories. He doesn't bother the plants but I would anchor plants with wraps or rocks, as some cichlids will uproot plants.
These fish however, have lively, enjoyable personalities. Eventually when this one has grown it will be transferred to another tank to join another large yellow lab.
