Fish for the Planted AquariumPlanted Aquarium Fish - Discuss which type of aquarium fish are best suited for the aquatic plant environment you have created. Create a natural home for aquarium fish using aquatic plants.
Hey guys, I'm new here but not so new to fish keeping or general plant keeping
I wanted to start of my stay here by asking what less than traditional fish you've put into your planted tanks
myself, I have a 75 gallon tank that houses various cichlids, but I'd say the strangest of what I keep in there would be my endli bichir and my albino sen bichir, 15" and 7" respectively
tell me guys, what unusual fish have you had swimming around in your underwater jungles?
The shell-dwelling cichlid Lamprologus ocellatus. Tanganyikan cichlids are usually considered incompatible with plants, and are kept in unattractive "moonscape" tanks. (Purely my own opinion, of course!) But my shellies love their plants, and I've never had any problems with digging. The plants were well rooted before I put the fish in the tank.
The shell-dwelling cichlid Lamprologus ocellatus. Tanganyikan cichlids are usually considered incompatible with plants, and are kept in unattractive "moonscape" tanks. (Purely my own opinion, of course!) But my shellies love their plants, and I've never had any problems with digging. The plants were well rooted before I put the fish in the tank.
+ 1 on the Tanganyikans-with-plants idea. My Neolamprologus brichardi tank is full of hardwater-tolerant species and the little guys thrive in there.
As for the weirdest fish I've put in a planted tank... hmm. Tough question. Maybe my pumpkinseed sunfish? They don't eat plants but they're big fans of digging... nonetheless, they get along just fine with floating and rhizome species.
I wouldn't call these strange but the most unique fish I'm currently keeping in one of my little 5g plant tank are some Pygmy Sunfish. These little guys hide all the time and are quite hardy. I started with 10 of them they got ick about 6 months ago I thought I lost them all cause I never seen them. But I still have 6 of them I think?
My strangest is not common in planted tanks and very rare! My lfs received it in a shipment of other fish and doesn't know which fish it is. Even de biggest fish distributor in Europe does not know what fish it is. They said it is an Omobranchus zebra. They are probably right about the Omobranchus part but this one is far more colorful. It is a shy fish and when in front of the tank it never stops moving, so the only picture I have is not very sharp.
Maybe someone here knows which fish it is...
Strangest fish you've kept in a planted tank 
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