Pawz Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Heya Everybody. Im wanting to know if anyone uses the breeding grass type artifical plants. eg. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=69278929 Do fish uses these? If so which fish? If i got one would it be a good idea to ct it up and make strips of plants? Put it in hole? As i have sand as my substrate its hard getting plants to stay in there. I have some fish (who i dont know) who like to nip the plants of just at the base above weight, so now i have many floating plants. I also have some others who eat all the leaves of the plants and now i have stems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: Any ideas would be great. Cheers Pawz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 People spawning egglayers do so in bare tanks with grids for the eggs to fall through or these plastic plant mats on the bottom of the tank. I think I remember someone saying they were sometimes available in the $2 Shop or similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU1 Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 I personally don't use them as yet, but they are great for livebearers to hide when young The place Caryl is talking about is the 1,2,3 dollar shop I think. I saw them for sale there aswel for two or three $. Hope this helps :bounce: :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU1 Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Forgot to allow the smilies to show :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMAZONIAN Posted September 9, 2006 Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 Personally I think they area liability as you cant clean the well enough. I use a stainless steel mesh in a tank and you can sterilize that very easily, by soaking in boiling water or as I do using Sodium or Potassium Metabisulphate. Rinse thoroughly and place it in the tank and you are ready for the breeders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanksman Posted September 9, 2006 Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 I have some fish (who i dont know) who like to nip the plants of just at the base above weight, so now i have many floating plants. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: That sounds like the behaviour of Pomacea canaliculata, a.k.a golden apple snail the aquarium chainsaw. Do you have them in your tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted September 9, 2006 Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 I remember the day a LFS sold me 2 of them along with a bunch of nice fresh green plants... :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted September 9, 2006 Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 I am like Amazonian, I have a problem with sterilizing the plastic. I would use stainless steel mesh as used by screen printers or marbles as they both can be sterilized by heat. As an aside, if you are ever treating fish with malachite green and get your hands dyed green (as I did once) you can get rid of it sraight away by rinsing in metabisulphite solution (from the next door neighbor who makes home brew and uses it to sterilize bottles) Malachite green is used by the Health department to test the meat at the butchers shop to see if he has been naughty and added metabisulphite (SO2) to the meat to make it look a nice colour or to make the minced meat look pink instead of the grey it goes when they add mutton. If you feed SO2 in minced meat to a magpie it will throw up straight away so it can be a useful test. After my magpie threw up I got the second lot free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz Posted September 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2006 Hey there, All my apples are in there own tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted September 10, 2006 Report Share Posted September 10, 2006 Check this out when it comes to apple snails and plants http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/snails ... 15458.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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