floating plants

[farmchick]

Hi all

I took some advice and bought some more clown loaches, so now I have a really cool group of 6. 8)

But since the gang formed I have noticed that alot of my previously well-established plants are now floating. :evil: I am replanting an average of one a day!!!

Is it the loaches digging them up?

[farmchick]

160 litre 3 and a bit foot tank

a plecostamus (but hes only little)

5 baby kribs

3 gold gouramis

2 opaline gouramis

2 royal red gouramis

4 black widows

some lemon tetras

and some neon tetras

and heaps of driftwood and hidey holes and caves and stuff

ooooh, I nearly forgot, one very subdued RTBS

AND LOTS OF UPROOTED PLANTS

[Caryl]

I hope you have a larger tank in mind as yours is way too small for 6 clown loaches, not to mention all the other fish in there as well.

[farmchick]

I do Caryl, but not for a while yet. The loaches are about 5cm at the moment and the gouramis are all going shortly.

[Doug]

The red tail will also dig up plants.

I wonder if you cant put a plastic cylinder around the base of the plants to block access to the base, just till they setup their roots.

they are always gonna eat your plants, but I think feeding them a bit of veggies might reduce the damage to your plants?

I just recently put potted plants in with my Red tail, he killed all my planted ones, and now that i feed him spirulina discs he rarely touches the plants.

Doug