One Small Question

[Tropicalfishfn2k]

Are plants in a community tank hard or easy to keep alive and keep..?

 

[riverman444]

That depends, really. It is hard and easy at the same time.

Read some of the pinned articles and you will see what I mean.

 

[ChrisP]

If you set the basics in place then it can be very easy, although I find sometimes it can be hard on the wallet, well once you set into the hi-tech tank anyway.

As riverman said check the articles.

 

[pseud]

Plants are easy to keep alive. If you're finding it hard then you're probably doing something wrong (wrong amount of lighting etc)

Getting them to thrive is the hard part - getting the right amount of CO2, fertilizier, alkalinity, water hardness, unselweite unselweite...

...Getting them to thrive in a tank without algae thriving is even harder.

 

[riverman444]

Plants are easy to keep alive. If you're finding it hard then you're probably doing something wrong (wrong amount of lighting etc)

Getting them to thrive is the hard part - getting the right amount of CO2, fertilizier, alkalinity, water hardness, unselweite unselweite...

...Getting them to thrive in a tank without algae thriving is even harder.

Algae......that's the truth. Crap can spring up overnight, literally.

 

[Tropicalfishfn2k]

ok thanks i think i am going to wait a long time before i go to real plants because my last plants i had didn't live long.. and made the tank for some reason even dirtier cause of the dead leaves and stuff. Fake plants will have to do for now.. i better wait till i get more expierence too.

 

[kjb66]

just scan the forums all the advice and help is on here its helped me so much and still is