It is a mid to background plant that is highly tolerable of a wide range of water conditions. It grows fast and is easy to propagate. This aquarium plant requires a minimum tank size of 15 gallons; it grows quickly and will take over anything smaller than this. It can survive in temperatures of 59 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit, and needs a pH in between 6. Hornwort requires moderate to high lighting and clear water to allow the light to penetrate all the way through the tank.
This plant can either be anchored in the substrate or left to float. For example, surface-dwelling fish such as Hatchetfish would benefit from floating Hornwort, whereas tetras and other mid to lower level fish would enjoy Hornwort more if it were planted.
Hornwort makes an ideal plant for most fish. Livebearers will benefit the most from this plant as it provides somewhere to protect their young. Some fish such as Gouramis and Angelfish enjoy eating this plant; others enjoy eating the debris that has shed from the Hornwort such as snails and shrimps.
Take into consideration the fish you are hoping to keep. If you want to keep larger, more aggressive fish stick with the hardy java moss and java fern. Written by: PetMD Editorial. Published: November 16, Image via iStock. Java moss is one of the rare plants that is compatible with pretty much all species of fish.
Java Fern This is another popular live aquarium plant that is suited to beginners because of its unique shape and ease of care and reproduction. The surfaces that you attach the plant to can be placed in the mid to background of the tank. Amazon Sword The Amazon Sword plant is a great background plant.
Anacharis This is another low-maintenance, easy-to-care-for aquarium plant. Hornwort Hornwort is one of the easiest live aquarium plants to grow. Help us make PetMD better Was this article helpful? Yes No. Share this article. What did you find helpful? As mollies are small fish, two times feeding is more than enough for them. Ensure that you provide your fish with plenty of food to consume within 5 minutes and remove any excess food after five minutes.
Mollies eat live plants as well as decaying plants. This is because they get hungry all the time and search for food every time. As they are omnivore species, mollies eat live plants. Every molly species eat plants, and there is no exception for balloon mollies.
So, if you have any live plants in your aquarium, their instincts will work as with any wild animal and will eat plants although you feed them well. Just like balloon mollies, black mollies are also a species of Mollies. All molly species eat plants. Plant and algae are their primary food source in the wild because they are readily available at any time. And mollies like to eat plant matter than meat matter.
So, they will eat plants if you keep the plants in your aquarium. Mollies eat any plant they find edible. Mollies like to explore everything around them and nip at everything. When they find an edible plant, mollies will start to eat that plant. Mollies prefer densely planted aquariums to rest, eat and hide.
Vigorous aquarium plants that do not die easily are recommended to keep with mollies. Some suggested vigorous aquarium plants are Java fern, Sagittaria, Vallisneria, and Anubias. We recommend maintaining mosses like java moss and Christmas moss in your aquarium if you have both male and female mollies. Mollies are livebearers, and they reproduce often. So, your aquarium needs to have suitable places for molly fry to hide.
Mosses are the best aquarium plants for that job. Some plants have toxic chemicals for fish. However, most of these plants are garden plants. The fruits, leaves, barks, or any other part of these plants may fall to your aquarium or pond and mollies may eat them.
As I said before, mollies will eat whatever they find in an aquarium. So, keeping these toxic plants near your aquarium poses a severe risk to your mollies.
Though aquatic plants can provide necessary shelter, food, and oxygen to the fish, they also consume oxygen and produce CO2 at night. But, if you have high plant loads in your fish tank, your fish will suffer at night due to low oxygen and high CO2 levels. Experts recommend approximately percent of aquatic plants in an aquarium to avoid oxygen depletion. So, yes. Too many plants can kill fish. I use daylight and as well as the. Led light.
If you are a perfectionist, you can get plants from Mexico and go for a real molly habitat. But generally, mollies like any plant. I would look at Vallisneria or Sagittaria - aquatic grasses. They aren't light hogs, mollies live in them and they are inexpensive in good stores. You could put in Najas guppy grass as well, as a floater that is easy and provides fry cover. I would put the leds on a timer, to ensure a steady hours. Oh ok. Thank you! I grew up watching toooo much tv.
But thank goodness i dont have one.
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