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Re: Flourite/Fish eating the plants



on 8/14/00 5:25 AM, Thomas Barr <tcbiii at yahoo_com> at
Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com wrote:

> Regarding the fish that eat your plants:
> Congo tetras eating Anubias? And some of the other
> fish also? Some instances may be true, but most of
> those are not. Sounds like the environment not the
> fish.

Well, one thing to remember is there are always individuals that do not
follow the "rules".

I know of one lady in a sister NEC club that regularly buys Vals for her
beloved Angels _and_ Discus to nibble on.

Additionally, I once witnessed what should have been a _strictly_
herbivorous SW species making short work of an Elegans Coral. It wasn't just
pecking at it for something to do, it was ripping off pieces and ingesting
it. 

To loosely quote Paul Loiselle, "the fish haven't read the book" and to that
end not all of them are aware of how they are supposed to behave ;D

Susan