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i have a few live plants in my tank, no details cause i'm not sure what, but my fish eat them...anyway to prevent this....am i not feeding enough?
i have several schools of tetras.

tell us what sort of fish they are and the tank size and what you feed them daily . im sure someone will help you

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phoenix5724,

I doubt that it has anything to do with your feeding routine. Tetras are omnivores and like plant food as well. Usually they would leave plants alone (in my limited experience) but if plant leaves begin to disintegrate then they become softer and make a nice treat.

I would assume your plants are not doing to well and that is why they get eaten. Can you at least try to describe the plants that you have (small leaves, stem, grassy, narrow long leaves)? Maybe you should peruse one of the online plant shopping sites and try to match up your plants with their pictures.

Hope this helps,

Ingo

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Interesting ....
I've never had my tetras eat my plants ...in fact they've never really been interested in the veggies that I feed the barbs :%). Are you sure it is the fish and not snails or that the plants are being damaged in other ways (lack of light or nutrients ect) ?

Try looking thru [link=tropica]http://www.tropica.com" style="COLOR: #EB4288[/link] for what plants you might have.

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I've got a low light tank, 29 gallon (36 inches long), i have an amazon sword in the center and it is going okay but looks fuxxy, i have a couple of those walmart bulbs which i didnt't think would grow but did, they look find, its the slender, short leafed plans (sorta like a pipecleaner) that i have not been able to keep even with the limited success of the other plants. I'm new to keeping live plants, i try to keep the light on through most of the day but on the weekends i'm not here often so it doesn't get turned on on some days.

First of all, get a timer, that is the absolutely most essential non aquatic aquaria equipment out there. The plants really do best with regular lightning intervals.
With low light the plant in question might not get enough, or it´s (a lot more likely than you think even if it is bought at an lfs) a terrestrial plant and simply drown under water. If it is one plant dooing poorly and the others do okay I´d just toss that one and get something else. A good starter for a lowlight plant would be Java fern (Vesiculara dubyana).

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