plants

What cichlids have you got?
Mine ate both my moss balls and left no trace, so you could put them in as food :D
 
Your Green Terrors should be fine, but your JD's may chomp on them as they are omnivores and eat pretty much everything. My worst culprit was my Sev, with most pants that he has distroyed he has just ripped of chunks of leaf and spat them out or dig them up for me to find bits or whole plants floating on the surface, but the moss balls he just chewed up and ate and he had bright green poo!
You could give them a go, if nothing else it would give them some food!
Have a look on ebay, I regularly see them for sale on there, they arb't particulary cheap plants though!
 
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