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04-16-2004, 01:29 AM
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Mixing real and fake plants
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?
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04-16-2004, 09:22 AM
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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...
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04-16-2004, 06:01 PM
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sometimes when you mix them, the fake plants look really fake...but other than visual appearance, there's no problem doing this.
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04-16-2004, 06:36 PM
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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!
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04-17-2004, 10:57 PM
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My aunt has some mixed ones, but i have a fully planted tank. Mine is a 7 [acronym:d940b20540="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:d940b20540], hers is a 20 [acronym:d940b20540="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:d940b20540]. Trust me, mine is a ton nicer. Go all real.
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