Surface Plants Management

[Corey90]

Hi all,
 
Soon I will be putting some surface plants in my tank to get a darker side and for more comfortable living space for my Gourami as well.
 
I was wondering if there was a way to keep surface plants on one side of the tank easily.  I have a 75 G tank and would like the surface plants to stay on one side so I can have low light in one area for certain plants and for my cats that like the dark.
 
I think I will be putting Amazon Frogbit in the tank.  I want to put the plants over my rock and driftwood caves so more light will get blocked out.  I also have Anubias that I will be putting underneath them so they have a lower light area.  If anyone has tried this or has ideas please let me know.

 

[Stimo]

Hi all,
 
Soon I will be putting some surface plants in my tank to get a darker side and for more comfortable living space for my Gourami as well.
 
I was wondering if there was a way to keep surface plants on one side of the tank easily.  I have a 75 G tank and would like the surface plants to stay on one side so I can have low light in one area for certain plants and for my cats that like the dark.
 
I think I will be putting Amazon Frogbit in the tank.  I want to put the plants over my rock and driftwood caves so more light will get blocked out.  I also have Anubias that I will be putting underneath them so they have a lower light area.  If anyone has tried this or has ideas please let me know.

 
i have frogbit and try to angle the spray bar keeping them in a certain area if not the other way i could think of it to attach some clear fishing line to either end of the tank just on the water line keeping them pinned in between the line

 

[Corey90]

Thanks.  I was thinking about using fishing line with aquarium silicone on either side to hold it in place.  Just figured I would see if anyone has any better ideas because I really can't think of anything better.   

 

[Tartan-Guppy]

One option is to use a bit of airline.
use a straight connector, or superglue/silicone it so it is in a loop of whatever size you want.
That can then float in your tank and keeps the plants in one place, or vice versa

 

[l_l_l]

I have water lettuce and they all manage to hang around the HOB filter output!