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So I have a few java ferns I attached to some of the rocks in my tank and those are great, but I have a few crypts and my fish are rooting around at the bases looking for scraps of food and seem to be uprooting them every couple days. And I come home to floating plants. Any good suggestions to keep them planted? Oi r should I just ditch them for something I can attach to drift wood and rock?
I'm using small (4-5mm) gravel for substrate.
 
  • Have you tried weighting them down with plant weights? Lead strips used to be used, but now more eco-friendly ones are available. These wouldn't stop them getting uprooted, but it will stop them floating to the surface.
  • Another solution would be to hold them down with pebbles/rocks.
  • Another would be to have them in little pots, like those you get when you buy some plants from a shop.
  • Another solution would be to use a wider plastic bottle top, with an 'X' cut in it, to feed the roots through. (I've used this method to anchor some plants in my sand substrate, which isn't as good as gravel for anchoring plants).

What are the fish?
 
i use peices of decor like driftwood(has natural holding points) and Rocks(my tank has a Rockery) and trap the edges of the pots under it i bury very little of the pot in to the substratef
 

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Here are a few photos, I'm going to try the bottle cap tonight on the one currently floating. The one still planted I might do as well.


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Bruce Leyland-Jones said:
I do believe @fishyfun&fans was made aware of his error a while back. ;)
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oh yes!

I've been told and as much as i want to refuse to believe one of them is none aquatic

sadly it is none aquatic(my favourite out of them all too :-()

but the other two are definitely aquatic as i had @Bruce Leyland-Jones check them for me

there are alot more to come also but im being extra careful in my choices(despite my Needle Java Fern being an impulse buy)
 
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