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Old 05-25-2012, 03:32 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 05-25-2012, 07:57 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I currently have a baby whale, hoplo caatfish, and a brown ghost knife. I have had rope fish and freshwater eels as well
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Old 05-26-2012, 05:35 AM   #3 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 05-26-2012, 05:51 AM   #4 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 05-28-2012, 11:27 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Just my mollies, they keep the plants pruned a little.
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Old 06-14-2012, 11:11 PM   #6 (permalink)
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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?
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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...
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