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Re: glass marbles



>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:32:25 -0500
>From: "MARC RADLE" <marcr at cowles_com>

>Both my tanks are freshwater tropical community tanks. I would like to add
>some live plants to them (this will be my FIRST EVER try at live plants !)
>
>The other caveat to this is I use glass "marbles" in the bottom of both
tanks
>- -the kind you see sometimes in flower vases. Therefore, I need a hearty,
hard
>to kill plant or two that doesn't need any kind of substrate. I have heard
>that Java Fern, Java Moss and/or Anubias Nana would be good choices.
>
>Any and all thoughts and opinions would be very much appreciated !!!


My opinion is:
    1)    Either go for a natural look with plants and sand or gravel bottom

                    or

    2)    go for the artificial look with marbles and castles and bubbling
divers or whatever.

They don't seem to mix well.