Opinions?

PBrods · 01-17-2012, 07:08 PM

This is my 46G Bowfront tank I'm going to house 3 yellow labs and a bottom feeder yet to be figured out.

drunkenbeast · 01-17-2012, 07:14 PM

looking good, real plants?

PBrods · 01-17-2012, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by drunkenbeast

looking good, real plants?

Can't...I added salt

drunkenbeast · 01-17-2012, 08:27 PM

You sure can..i have a salt in my tank and i have a few real plants...if you were interested in getting a plant that you can keep with your cichlids i would recommend anubias, i just bought some the other day and my fish leave it alone so far and its suppose to be a hard to kill plant that will grow just about anywhere....but just a thought

PBrods · 01-17-2012, 08:32 PM

Really? I asked 2 different LFS's and they both said NOTHING will live in the salt water.

drunkenbeast · 01-17-2012, 08:34 PM

depends how much ya put in, the plants dont like it but ive seem to find some that tolerate it just fine and are growing in my tank

Summer · 01-17-2012, 09:19 PM

There are a lot of plants that will tolerate brackish conditions. But you have a cichlid tank...so are you using marine salt or aquarium salt...?

holly12 · 01-17-2012, 09:22 PM

BracPlants

Scroll down... big list... just acclimate slowly, raising salinity over 10 days or so.

PBrods · 01-17-2012, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Summer

There are a lot of plants that will tolerate brackish conditions. But you have a cichlid tank...so are you using marine salt or aquarium salt...?

using cichlid salt. I think it's 3/4 teaspoon per 10 gallons

Now that I think of it, is that going to hurt my fishless cycling? I started it 2 days ago.

Summer · 01-17-2012, 10:31 PM

don't think it'll hurt the cycling or the plants to be honest.

jrman83 · 01-18-2012, 04:11 AM

Adding aquarium salt and a brackish tank are different. I put salt in my tanks, but they are not brackish. Every plant I own will tolerate the recommended amount on the aquarium salt container. I own approx 40 different species of plants. I don't always add that much but they all seem to hold up when I do.

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