"Charles" wrote in message
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:59:56 -0500, "Bill Stock"
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"Charles" wrote in message
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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:39:10 -0800, Firethorn
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Charles,

What are you using for substrate with the Sword? I don't have any gravel
in
my GF tank. I was thinking a pond planter with Flourite might do.

I've tried everything with my GF, but they've either destroyed it or eaten
it. Java Fern (pulled it off the driftwood), Annubias (ate it), Java Moss
(tore it up/ate it), Water Hyacinth (destroyed it), Hornwort (decimated
it).
But I've got a Sword that's getting too big for my other tank and I
thought
it might be big enough/tough enough to survive.


I'm using a coarse aquarium gravel, about 1/4 to 1/2 inches diameter.
about 3 to 4 inched deep. These two GF aren't hard on plants at all,
strange how different fish can be. The only plants mine really
bothered was the Vals, they dug them up before they got rooted, so
they float around the tank. I'd be concerned with flourite and GF, it
makes such a mess when stirred up. If it were coverec with a good
layer of gravel it might be okay. I use flourite in some other tanks,
but not with digging fish.

I've already been there. It must have taken me a month to get all the
Fluorite off the bottom. I'd have to cover it with some of the creek stones.
Although they like to move those around too. It's funny, they tell you not
to tap the glass (not that I do), but the noise they make pushing the rocks
around is huge.

If yours ate anubias, I'd worry about
anything I put in there. Plastic, maybe.

At the nursery we have goldfish and koi uin with plants, never have
any problem. Customers come in and tell us about their koi destroying
everything in the pond. I don't know why the difference, I might get
rich if I did.