Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] How to weight plants down?

Are these live plants or fake?

Dawn

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--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Brandi C <brandiable@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Brandi C <brandiable@gmail.com>
Subject: [tropical fish club] How to weight plants down?
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 10:05 AM

Hi--

We have several African cichlid tanks that for substrate have ColorQuartz in

them which is slightly bigger than grains of sand. As with most cichlids,

ours are professionals at rearranging their substrate to suit their needs

and build new caves and hiding spots. I enjoy watching what they can do

(other than when all the sand gets moved to the front of the tank)... But,

what is making me crazy is the swirl of plants that I end up with floating

nearly daily. Because our bigger tanks are 125 gallons, it means that I

have to climb up on a step stool and do everything but get in to swim to

reposition their plants again.

I was wondering what I could do to weight the plants down? I know it won't

be possible to keep them in place, but, I think if I can find something to

keep them at least with their base at the bottom it would save me a lot of

time with the work I do on the tanks... One thought I had was using

aquarium safe silicone and placing them onto small 2 x 2 ceramic tiles in

color that would match the substrate, would there be any issues with this?

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks!!!!

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-Brandi

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