Will mollies eat up or tear anubias congensis?

[16gallontanker]

I recently ordered 2 anubias congensis potted plants on eBay that should arrive Tuesday and my question is will they tear them up and if so will upping their feeding from 1 a day to twice a day help by making them less hungry I also have corys and otos in the tank and a betta as well

 

[CassCats]

Their teeth should not be powerful enough to damage a tough plant like anubias

 

[BigDog]

A Anubis is a good strong plant

This plant should be able to hold it self against most small fish

 

[GaryE]

I used to keep a number of mollie species. All of them grazed on the surface of the Anubias leaves, removing algae. No damage was ever done - it was actually a good combination.

 

[BigDog]

I know we all have successful stories of fish being kept with certain species of plants.

That are not been eaten by fish

There is always that one chance that a fish or fishes set out to eat a certain plant or plants

 

[GaryE]

If they can et Anubias, they can also eat silicone and suction cups. That family, including Congoensis, has some very rubbery tough leaves.

 

[emeraldking]

Will mollies eat up or tear anubias congensis?​

I've never seen mollies do that... But they will eat algae on leaves...

 

[BigDog]

Any fish out there that wants to eat plants ?

I have kept fish for over 45 years now

I have seen fish eat plant’s when other people said they would not the plants

I have been told certain fish will go together

That’s

 

[CassCats]

For perspective, I keep anubias with my goldfish. Even they can't eat it.
Uprooting it and beating the crud out of it is a different story

Most plants should be good with mollies, though they may nibble on soft stuff like melting cryptocoryne leaves, duckweed (personality dependent), perhaps stargrass... typically if you provide them greens in their diet, most of the time they'll not damage plants. They do really love soft algaes though! Good stuff.