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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering
about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized stream pebble rock for a substrate (this can be altered with potting, which I have no problem doing) and temp will be from 70-75 f, and no CO2. As for light, I am extremely flexible on this. That is another question I was thinking about. I know about watts/gallon, and that some plants need low, medium, and high light but I haven't read anywhere about the actual ratios for these three light groups. Also, what would be an excellent plant bulb (halogen?)? Also there is quite a bit of natural light coming in from both sides of the room that the tank is in, I was also concerned how this would factor in. Thanks for your time and I hope to hear from you soon. Samuel -- to reply please take out nospam. from to: line |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
"s g" wrote in message ... I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized Goldfish, IME, will eat most plants. My MIL has a 40 gallon gf tank and just *continually* replaces anacharis. I keep trying to get her to give up buying it, all that did was make her restock it from *my* overly successful anacharis. They don't seem to bother the anubius nana or java fern, though. |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
In article NnQca.120619$qi4.60751@rwcrnsc54, "WD"
writes: "s g" wrote in message ... I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized Goldfish, IME, will eat most plants. My MIL has a 40 gallon gf tank and just *continually* replaces anacharis. I helped a friend stock his goldfish aquarium with clippings from my own tank, including foxtails, wisteria, ludwigia mullerti (or possibly repens; not 100% sure on the species), and rotala indica. He had problems with the GF uprooting his plants before and switched to fake plants for several months. When he planted the clippings I gave him, he said his fish seemed to like swimming in and around the foliage but did not uproot anything. Erica http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/mitoem/mitoem/index.htm |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
WD wrote:
"s g" wrote in message ... I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized Goldfish, IME, will eat most plants. My MIL has a 40 gallon gf tank and just *continually* replaces anacharis. I keep trying to get her to give up buying it, all that did was make her restock it from *my* overly successful anacharis. They don't seem to bother the anubius nana or java fern, though. I've had a planted GF tank with "jungle val", Amazon swords, elodea, and java ferns. The fish didn't bother the val or the java ferns at all. They nibbled on the swords a little but didn't cause a lot of damage. When the swords were small, the fish would uproot them. They really ate the elodea, but it grows so fast it was able to almost keep up with them. Hope this helps, Bob -- Have a Windows® computer that is powered on for hours at a time? Join the search for a cure for cancer: http://grid.org/projects/cancer/ |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
Sagittaria subulata is a good pick for a goldfish tank. It's "durable,"
prefers cooler temperatures, and is excellent for promoting water quality. Use a well established clump initially to minimize uprooting problems (the potted dwarf sags from AZ Aquatic Gardens are a great bargain). kush WD wrote in message news:NnQca.120619$qi4.60751@rwcrnsc54... "s g" wrote in message ... I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized Goldfish, IME, will eat most plants. My MIL has a 40 gallon gf tank and just *continually* replaces anacharis. I keep trying to get her to give up buying it, all that did was make her restock it from *my* overly successful anacharis. They don't seem to bother the anubius nana or java fern, though. |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
"s g" wrote in message ...
I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized stream pebble rock for a substrate (this can be altered with potting, which I have no problem doing) and temp will be from 70-75 f, and no CO2. As for light, I am extremely flexible on this. That is another question I was thinking about. I know about watts/gallon, and that some plants need low, medium, and high light but I haven't read anywhere about the actual ratios for these three light groups. Also, what would be an excellent plant bulb (halogen?)? Also there is quite a bit of natural light coming in from both sides of the room that the tank is in, I was also concerned how this would factor in. Thanks for your time and I hope to hear from you soon. Samuel Plants that like cold water: Bacopa, Ludwigia, Cabomba, Aponogetons, Crinums Madagascar Lace plants..in the Aponogeton family, I have some huge plants that are over 22" tall http://www.aquabotanic.com/shop/en-us/dept_11.html They love low to mid 70s. Take a look at the picture For light on a tank that large, you need around 3 watts per gallon of water. Power compacts are the easiest. Go to http://www.ahsupply.com Robert |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
I'm groing Ceratopteris, Java Ferns, Anubias, spiral and corkscrew Vals,
some sort of Bacopa and some Elodea growing well; the Bacopa dn Elodea do get worked on, but seems to be doing quite well. The Ceratopteris, Java Fern, Anubias and Vals seems undistured or very minor nibbles. This is with Lion Heads, Black Moors and Pearlscales. -- Cheers, Poe to send email, add "email" to the end of oz "s g" wrote in message ... I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized stream pebble rock for a substrate (this can be altered with potting, which |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
Hmm, I keep 2 rather large goldfish in my 10 gallon (along with 3 SAE and
2 Ottos who just gave way to a new baby otto, its pretty cute, i never realized it was even born until last week), in my planted tank. Goldfish prefer tasty store food over the plants in the aquarium in my experience. I have never seen them eat elodea/anachris only nibble at it. The texture of elodea/anachris seems to sturdy for goldfish mouths to actually eat it up. The only problem is that goldfish will unroot *new* plants, and only occasionaly at taht (maybe once or twice a week), but plants that have an established root system will not get uprooted. In article , kush wrote: Sagittaria subulata is a good pick for a goldfish tank. It's "durable," prefers cooler temperatures, and is excellent for promoting water quality. Use a well established clump initially to minimize uprooting problems (the potted dwarf sags from AZ Aquatic Gardens are a great bargain). kush WD wrote in message news:NnQca.120619$qi4.60751@rwcrnsc54... "s g" wrote in message ... I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have medium sized Goldfish, IME, will eat most plants. My MIL has a 40 gallon gf tank and just *continually* replaces anacharis. I keep trying to get her to give up buying it, all that did was make her restock it from *my* overly successful anacharis. They don't seem to bother the anubius nana or java fern, though. -- |
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recommended aquarium plants for goldfish tank
"s g" wrote in message ...
I have a 125g goldfish tank that I will be setting up soon and was wondering about recommended plants to put into it and dealers. I have had good luck with Egeria densa, AKA Anacharis/Elodea. I've had it in tanks for quite a while and I just recently put it in my 6 month old 46gal. It seems to be helping remove nitrates. I'm not sure if you monitor your nitrates, but mine were well over 40ppm with weekly water changes. That is a bit high and at that level I'm blaming some of my algae growth on it. Since I put in the Egeria densa in my tank about 3 weeks ago I haven't seen any brown algae spots on the new growth of Echinodorus. These plants are right next to each other. I can't say that is true for all of the plants, but things have improved. My nitrates have also dropped to 10-20ppm. I have had problems with them pulling them out from time to time. If they get really hungry they will eat anything. I have also found that you might not want to plant stuff where they like to hang out. I have one corner in the back that they will pull out everything that I plant there. In addition as the goldfish grow, they need more space. They will create the space that they need by removing plants. One key to being successful with goldfish and plants is don't start with just a couple of small samples from one of the large pet store chains. You need to overwhelm them. Get a load of plants from either a good fish store or from online. This will help signficantly. The idea is to have more plant growth than what the fish like to eat. I have enough plants that I don't even really notice if they have eaten anything. This also helps distribute the abuse onto different plants allowing them to get a hold in the tank. Most plants die back when introducted into a new tank. If you add that on top of the abuse of goldfish it doesn't give the plants much chance. The other thing I recommend is experimenting. I have been told that goldfish will eat this or that. I have tried plants that people told me won't work and they are growing well in my tank. This can also lead to some failures, which could be considered wasted money. I currently have the following in my 46 gallon tank: Echinodorus cordifolius Egeria densa Ceratopteris thalictroides or Hygrophilia difformis Anubias barteri Microsorum pteropus Alternanthera reineckii Crinum calamistratum Cryptocoryne wendtii Cryptocoryne ?undulata? I'd recommend the first 5 most highly, I have also had some luck with Vallisneria and Vesicularia. They just are not in my tank right now. Tony |
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