Small Foreground Plants Bristlenoses Won't Damage

[adrianborg]

As my BNs get bigger they're starting to destroy my crypts and the staurgyne repens. Does anyone know of small BN-proof foreground plants (apart from Anubias barteri) which I can replace them with?

 

[alihar]

I have an adult BN and a golden nugget in more or less a tank full of crypts with no issues.
I have dwarf sag, pogostemon helferi and amazon micro sword in the foreground that don't get damaged either, maybe look in to them as an alternative.
I'm thinking i may be just lucky!

 

[adrianborg]

I have an adult BN and a golden nugget in more or less a tank full of crypts with no issues.
I have dwarf sag, pogostemon helferi and amazon micro sword in the foreground that don't get damaged either, maybe look in to them as an alternative.
I'm thinking i may be just lucky!

Thanks for the response, but I think you are lucky! (or I'm unlucky..) I gave up on amazon swords some time ago as they were the first victims of the BNs (and other people on the forum have posted the same problem).

 

[alihar]

Are they eating them, damaging them with their weight or just uprooting them?
I've read many articles on pleco destroying anubias also but I have golden, barteri and petite nana all thriving and undamaged.
I do feed fresh veg every night wich may contribute to the plants being untouched.

 

[adrianborg]

Are they eating them, damaging them with their weight or just uprooting them?
I've read many articles on pleco destroying anubias also but I have golden, barteri and petite nana all thriving and undamaged.
I do feed fresh veg every night wich may contribute to the plants being untouched.

They are shredding the leaves. I don't think they're eating them, it's collateral damage from where they try to eat algae on the leaves. My Anubias barteri nana are of course not affected (neither are the vallis, onion plant, or giant bacopa), but I'd like to try something else, low growing, which I can plant in gravel (which you can't with anubias).
I only feed the BNs in the evening - I alternate between vegetables 50% of the time (peas, brocolli stems, courgette or cucumber) and 2 different types of pleco flake the other 50%.

 

[alihar]

Have you considered anubias on stone?
I have anubias golden tied to a flat aquariun stone in the foreground with the stone buried in the substrate and gravel hiding the roots. Looks very natural and you can't tell it's been tied to a stone.
Dwarf sag is similar leaf shape to vallis, very hardy and low growing that may work if your vals are surviving untouched.