When is too many plants?

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Hi,

I am failry new at this hobby and I am getting a bigger interest for
plants... for some reason they last longer than the fish I put in. :)

Anyway, I have a 33gal tank, I believe it is cycled now, the tests show
the tanks is stabilized.

I've been putting live plants in the tank.
I have Cabombas, Anubia, ludwigia, Echinodorus red special, Hygrophila
and some others I can't remember the name.

So far I have seven live plants... I do want to fill the tank with
plants, I am just wondering at what point they're too many?

I don't have alot of fish, couple neons, two dwarf gouramis a pleco and
a guppy.

I also have a lamp, I believe it's a aquaglo lamp, not sure right now.

The lfs around here have different plants I just wish there would be
more color to them, they're pretty much all green with some being
reddish.

[Aaron]

from my experiense, they will just grow and grow and fight it
out, and the weak ones will get small or disappear until you
are left with the king of the hill plant.

In article <1113509189.124697.72710
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, says...
> Hi,
>
> I am failry new at this hobby and I am getting a bigger interest for
> plants... for some reason they last longer than the fish I put in. :)
>
> Anyway, I have a 33gal tank, I believe it is cycled now, the tests show
> the tanks is stabilized.
>
> I've been putting live plants in the tank.
> I have Cabombas, Anubia, ludwigia, Echinodorus red special, Hygrophila
> and some others I can't remember the name.
>
> So far I have seven live plants... I do want to fill the tank with
> plants, I am just wondering at what point they're too many?
>
> I don't have alot of fish, couple neons, two dwarf gouramis a pleco and
> a guppy.
>
> I also have a lamp, I believe it's a aquaglo lamp, not sure right now.
>
> The lfs around here have different plants I just wish there would be
> more color to them, they're pretty much all green with some being
> reddish.
>
>

[Elaine T]

wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am failry new at this hobby and I am getting a bigger interest for
> plants... for some reason they last longer than the fish I put in. :)
>
> Anyway, I have a 33gal tank, I believe it is cycled now, the tests show
> the tanks is stabilized.
>
> I've been putting live plants in the tank.
> I have Cabombas, Anubia, ludwigia, Echinodorus red special, Hygrophila
> and some others I can't remember the name.
>
> So far I have seven live plants... I do want to fill the tank with
> plants, I am just wondering at what point they're too many?
>
> I don't have alot of fish, couple neons, two dwarf gouramis a pleco and
> a guppy.
>
> I also have a lamp, I believe it's a aquaglo lamp, not sure right now.
>
> The lfs around here have different plants I just wish there would be
> more color to them, they're pretty much all green with some being
> reddish.
>
There are too many plants when you can't find a spot on the substrate or
driftwood to put another. ;-)

Yeah - plants are pretty much green. If you have very bright light,
Rotala macranda and Alternantheria Reinckii are very red, and some
cryptocorynes go purple. I add other colors with the fish myself.

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