What are the best kind of plants to put in an aquarium that has no gravel or rocks?
by Aquaboy on Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | 3 Comments
I have a cool common goldfish. Love him. I have a big stick of bamboo and a large bubble dish and that’s it. I will never have gravel or tiny stones, it’s too messy. I need some more plants for him, plants only for him to play and hide in. Which are the best for this kind of setup?
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There’s only a couple of things you could place in there that can live without a substrate–Anubias and Moss balls. Anubias is a low light plant that will root on rocks or driftwood, but you’ll need to attach it to something like this with a piece of thread or fishing line. Moss balls are a large ball shaped algae that you can just throw in there, but they will require brighter lighting to survive.
I recommend you do get some kind of thin layer of substrate. While it’s not absolutely necessary, gravel does house beneficial bacteria that break down your goldfish’s ammonia, so it’s more beneficial to have gravel.
first make sure the bamboo has its leaves above the water or else it will eventually rot and die. gold fish will actually eat some types of plants like elodea so those wouldn’t work. you could try some sort of moss because they don’t need to be planted. if you have a bigger tank you can try attaching plants to pieces of driftwood. the plants would need to be either java fern or anubias. fish generally feel safer with natural color gravel so you should just get some its not that hard to take care of.
The sell rock with cool plants on them at pet smart for like 10-20 dollars