plant vs fish

[Rhys]

I am planning on getting silver dollars and i would like to have plants in my tank....but i don't want to have mutalated plants by the silver dollars. Should i go for the fake plants with don't look nearly as good or should i can the idea of getting silver dollars??

 

[Captain Hook]

If you are getting silver dollars for sure you are limited to fake plants.

 

[Grandmastr]

keeping silver dollars wit real plants is like

leaving a fat kid in a room wit cake

 

[Rhys]

lmfao. k i want plants so the silver dollars might have to miss out.

 

[Rhys]

do fake plants look any good compared to real ones??

 

[cblin]

Silver dollars are lawn mowers. I used to have one and mistakenly kept it with live plants. He cleaned up the plants in a week.

 

[Cearbhaill]

do fake plants look any good compared to real ones??

Depends on your sense of taste.
There are some very nice looking artificial plants out there- I've got a bag of 'em in my closet.
I can't bear looking at them in a tank.

 

[Captain Hook]

I like the look of fake plants and have been using them for years. I really like the looks of sillk ones but even some plastic ones aren't bad.

Having said that, I'm about to set up my first planted tank, a 20 gallon, and will be using the extra plants in my 35 gallon. So both my tanks will probably end up being planted

 

[beviking]

Originally posted by Cearbhaill

Depends on your sense of taste.

...and how far you are from the aquarium! Personally, I think fake plants can look very good especially after a month or so and they get a little "growth" on them. I don't care for silver dollars though either.

 

[LMOUTHBASS]

ok

i was just gonna post something about this - i had some rotalia i think that was hidden behind some fake plants i guess the sd's didnt see the rotalia i then moved the fake plants figuring that the sd's didnt like this type of plants and the next day the rotalia was mowed to the ground! i want to put the sd's in my main 55 but i have some real plants in there - so i bought a test plant to see if my sd's are gonna be plants eaters i got some moneywort i think so far they havent touched it but i'm sure when i go home in a while they might have torn it apart!
fake plants - i like them as background plants i don't have a pure planted tank even in my big tank i have a mix it looks quite nice!!!
plus if you have ottos they grow some nice brown alage they will like to eat