Plant Help Please

*Kristy*

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My fish continue to eat any new plant I add to the tanks. So I've seemed to give up on live plants. But Id love to have them. I had bought some beautiful red plants that were really nice and tall and filled out, Well both are now gone. I have guppies, neons, and a million snails. lol
My question is, what kind of plants can I buy that they will not eat and that are easy and fast to grow?
 
Welcome to the forums Kristy

Ideal plants that can withstand herbivorious fish and snails are Anubias species, Java fern and Crinum species. Unfortunately these don't grow very fast though.

I doubt your Guppies or Neons are to blame, it will most likely be your snails. Get your snail population under control and you should be able to grow most plants (if you've had success with red plants I assume you're doing ok).

Snails thrive on left over food so I would stop feeding for a week to see if that helps. Manually remove any snails on sight, a length of airline is ideal for siphoning. Botia speceis also eat snails, Clown loaches can grow quite large depending on your tank size, Botia striata (Zebra/Candy-striped Loach) are smaller and grow to only 3" or so.
 
will my fish be okay with out eating for a week? i have lots of baby guppies too, i think thats why i tend to over feed, to make sure they eat. yes at first i thought the baby snails were cute, but now i millions and you can even find them stacked 3 snails high on each others back there are so many. i'll start removing snails right away, i guess im suppose to just flush them, trash can? lol sounds so mean haha
i'll also see if the nearest german fish store has any of those botia speceis you mentioned. thanks for the plant ideas too, i'll also see if they have any of those. :)
 
I'm not sure about starving the fry for a week, it may be worth asking on the Livebearers forum.

Adult fish can go without feeding for weeks with no problem. When I go away for less than three weeks my fish are never fed.
 

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