Mixing real and fake plants

[spongebob69]

Does anyone here ever mix real and fake plants? I want to start a low-light planted tank but would also like some of the colour of high-light red plants so I was thinking of using fake red plants. Any thoughts?

 

[lmw80]

I personally see no problem with that. I mixed real and fake plants when I first started using real plants in my 10 gallon. Now I have all real, but when I had fake and real, there was never a problem. Just make sure if you upgrade your lighting, you have enough real plants to use that light, or else, the algae will use it...

 

[malkore]

sometimes when you mix them, the fake plants look really fake...but other than visual appearance, there's no problem doing this.

 

[madasafish]

Yeah, depends on the brand of fake plants, I suppose. Some are more realistic (and $$$) than others.

Personally, I've always preferred real plants, and think you can get some really great low light plants. Your prerogative, though!

 

[duaumun]

My aunt has some mixed ones, but i have a fully planted tank. Mine is a 7 gal, hers is a 20 gal. Trust me, mine is a ton nicer. Go all real.