Plants With cichlids

[BettaFishMommy]

i have always been interested in getting some type of moss my only query is don't you have to rubber band it to everything because it doesn't have roots?

instead of using rubber bands i would use fishing line and not tie it uber tightly around the rock or wood you are trying to secure the moss to. eventually it will grow around/in/on whatever you've tied it to.

 

[thesoul2008]

sounds good might get some and give it a go see what happens

 

[schaadrak]

when i put the tank together i got sand from the creek then got the same amount of substrate pellets and mixed them together should be just LOVELY well i hope at $90 a bag better be good lol

What brand of substrate pellets are they? You also might want to cap that creek sand off with some small gravel or plain sand of some sort so that it doesn't leach a bunch of nutrients into the water column.

i have always been interested in getting some type of moss my only query is don't you have to rubber band it to everything because it doesn't have roots?

Only at first. Java moss will adhere to almost anything after about a week. I've even seen a picture of it attached to the output tube of a canister filter.

 

[thesoul2008]

What brand of substrate pellets are they? You also might want to cap that creek sand off with some small gravel or plain sand of some sort so that it doesn't leach a bunch of nutrients into the water column.

cant remember the brand of what the substrate was now but i will go into the pet shop as soon as i can and ill find out.
I also have some blue gravel with substrate mixed into it in another small tank doing nothing might just poor that into the bigger tanks.

Only at first. Java moss will adhere to almost anything after about a week. I've even seen a picture of it attached to the output tube of a canister filter.

That's good to know i will get some for sure then. Just have to keep it trimmed i guess