Putting A Penny In Tank..

[ThatDarnDragon]

I've had an established aquascape tank going for over a year, and I noticed recently some plants arent taking too well anymore. Someone once mentioned putting a clean penny in the tankt's substrate to help the plants grow.

Im unsure about this as I have a shrimp in the tank as well as several fish.. would it be a good idea or no?

 

[lljdma06]

I've had an established aquascape tank going for over a year, and I noticed recently some plants arent taking too well anymore. Someone once mentioned putting a clean penny in the tankt's substrate to help the plants grow.

Im unsure about this as I have a shrimp in the tank as well as several fish.. would it be a good idea or no?

Probably wouldn't be a great idea as copper, a component of pennies, is toxic to invertebrates. I've heard of shrimp deaths with just the percentage of copper in some fish foods, so I'm sure a penny has more, though they don't have as much as they used to. They sell rootabs that are specifically designed for this sort of thing.

 

[ThatDarnDragon]

I've had an established aquascape tank going for over a year, and I noticed recently some plants arent taking too well anymore. Someone once mentioned putting a clean penny in the tankt's substrate to help the plants grow.

Im unsure about this as I have a shrimp in the tank as well as several fish.. would it be a good idea or no?

Probably wouldn't be a great idea as copper, a component of pennies, is toxic to invertebrates. I've heard of shrimp deaths with just the percentage of copper in some fish foods, so I'm sure a penny has more, though they don't have as much as they used to. They sell rootabs that are specifically designed for this sort of thing.

thats what I thought, copper's bad for shrimps, so I wanted to ask first.

thank you

 

[Chubbywubs]

i would think putting a penny in would be bad for everything in the tank, especially as it will quickly rust and accuimlate foreign bacteria within the tank that could be harmful to its inhabbitants.

 

[ThatDarnDragon]

i would think putting a penny in would be bad for everything in the tank, especially as it will quickly rust and accuimlate foreign bacteria within the tank that could be harmful to its inhabbitants.

no penny, got it

 

[Musho3210]

waste of money, your only another 98 pennies away from getting a small danio or something