Flowing plants

[The Don]

Purchased some floating plants last week and it's seems to have taken home on one side of the tank and the sparkling goramis are loving it. The question I have is will the plants beneath suffer badly from the shadowing and do you recommend moving once and a while or have any of you got any experience of how to keep the both in harmony?

 

[Paulo Soares]

will the plants beneath suffer badly from the shadowing

Depending on your set up but... most definitely yes! Even those wich we consider as easy ones need light.
Light and Co2 are the engine.
In a planted aquarium i don´t consider this kind of plant as good option.. mostly yes in a Bio.

Hugs

 

[The Don]

Ok so ideally it needs to be above no plants which Is the centre of the tank. Think that maybe a problem as the water flow seems to push it to the right hand corner

 

[The Don]

Here's a Pic to give you an idea of the layout.

 

[Jose]

You can try and design a separator to keep them where there are no plants underneath. Do a search around the forum and the web. There are a few tricks. Also if you only have anubias underneath they should be fine and it will protect them from algae.

 

[The Don]

You can try and design a separator to keep them where there are no plants underneath. Do a search around the forum and the web. There are a few tricks. Also if you only have anubias underneath they should be fine and it will protect them from algae.

I was gonna say the bba on the anubias leafs has got allot better since. Will the vallis be ok? I think I'll keep an eye and may re plant the foreground plants On the other side if they show signs they are lacking light

 

[Jose]

The vallis will find their way through to the light.

 

[Edvet]

Look at the last posts of my large tank😉