Placement Of My Plants?

[Richie Hell]

Hey, just got our first tank and currently setting it up.

We have some of those silk artificial plants, and was wondering about how close I can put them to the heater and filter? If I put them too close, will the filter get blocked or the heater burn the plants or get blocked or something?

Cheers!

 

[LiveLifeGoJump]

My personal opinion is to place the artificial plants in the bin (or fry tank if/when you set one up) and buy real ones. They look so much better, help lower the nitrate & fish sometimes eat some of them. A light will help them grow.

 

[KimA]

Hiya,

I had silk plants before and never had any problems with either the heater or the filter with them up close (in fact now having problems with the real plants and the filter when little bits of the plants come off, and stick to the intake pipe, lol - an advantage of staying with silk...no stray bits floating around)...although would have to agree with LLGJ above, now I've gone down the live route, I'm hooked, looks great, are pretty easy to look after, and beneficial to any tank. I'd go for starting with silk plants as it's your first tank, and then maybe add the odd real plant in there once you're up and running.

All the best - let us know how you get on (& don't forget to post some pics of your tank in the members tanks section - always great to see other peoples' tanks).

 

[Richie Hell]

Hiya,

I had silk plants before and never had any problems with either the heater or the filter with them up close (in fact now having problems with the real plants and the filter when little bits of the plants come off, and stick to the intake pipe, lol - an advantage of staying with silk...no stray bits floating around)...although would have to agree with LLGJ above, now I've gone down the live route, I'm hooked, looks great, are pretty easy to look after, and beneficial to any tank. I'd go for starting with silk plants as it's your first tank, and then maybe add the odd real plant in there once you're up and running.

All the best - let us know how you get on (& don't forget to post some pics of your tank in the members tanks section - always great to see other peoples' tanks).

Thanks, I'll go ahead and try them.

Would like to be using live plants one day, but for now we're keeping things simple. Would rather make sure we can manage the fish alright before adding more things to worry about!

 

[KimA]

Thanks, I'll go ahead and try them.

Would like to be using live plants one day, but for now we're keeping things simple. Would rather make sure we can manage the fish alright before adding more things to worry about!

Totally agree with you, the fish should come first