Silver Dollars and Plants

vitoro · 11-10-2009, 03:57 PM

Is there any plant that can survive 2 silver dollars? They're about 2-3 years old and I'm suspicious they may not have great eyesight if that even matters.

Problem is that I was setting up my 29g tank to house just tetras, cories, platies, and a gourami and was prepping it for plants by mixing in Eco Complete Planted Aquarium Substrate. The silver dollars were living in another aquarium but I had to move them back to the 29g.

Right now the aquarium is hosting 3 red wag platies, 4 serpae tetras, 1 dwarf gourami and the 2 silver dollars.

I was told that it could potentially be very bad for the fish if there were no plants in there while using that particular substrate, and now I'm concerned, since I'm afraid that the silver dollars will eat any plant I add, and the silver dollars have no where else to go and the substrate is already in there and mixed with my original substrate. I'm kind of stuck in a "what now?" position.

Any advice welcome!

Newman · 11-10-2009, 08:53 PM

Java fern is pretty gross-tasting to fish from what ive read, and very few fish will attempt to eat it.

11-10-2009, 03:57 PM	#1
vitoro Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	Silver Dollars and Plants Is there any plant that can survive 2 silver dollars? They're about 2-3 years old and I'm suspicious they may not have great eyesight if that even matters. Problem is that I was setting up my 29g tank to house just tetras, cories, platies, and a gourami and was prepping it for plants by mixing in Eco Complete Planted Aquarium Substrate. The silver dollars were living in another aquarium but I had to move them back to the 29g. Right now the aquarium is hosting 3 red wag platies, 4 serpae tetras, 1 dwarf gourami and the 2 silver dollars. I was told that it could potentially be very bad for the fish if there were no plants in there while using that particular substrate, and now I'm concerned, since I'm afraid that the silver dollars will eat any plant I add, and the silver dollars have no where else to go and the substrate is already in there and mixed with my original substrate. I'm kind of stuck in a "what now?" position. Any advice welcome! Last edited by vitoro; 11-10-2009 at 04:00 PM.. Reason: forgot to mention what's in the 29g aquarium

11-10-2009, 08:53 PM	#2
Newman Super Fish Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Northern NJ Posts: 2,746	Java fern is pretty gross-tasting to fish from what ive read, and very few fish will attempt to eat it. __________________ Credit goes to Lludu