Missing plant top

[Manbot]

Hi I woke up this morning to find that one of my plants had been eaten from the middle section upwards- I found the rest of the plant floating at the top- what fish could have done this?

 

[Fishkeeper26]

What's your stock?

 

[rich311k]

What kind of plant?

 

[Manbot]

I've got rainbow sharks, khuli loachs, barbs, paradise fish and silver sharks and I'm not sure on the plant to be honest but that's the photo of one of them

 

[Manbot]

Any ideas?

 

[Fishkeeper26]

Sorry nothing from me

 

[Fdsh5]

What kind of barbs? My rosy barbs will tear up plants like crazy. My tiger barbs like to eat them too but not as bad as the rosies

 

[Manbot]

Yea I just bought 2 Rosie barbs it might b them tho I have 8 younger ones who have not done any damage till now-? Can it be then? And can they b stopes at all?

 

[ChizerBunoi]

Don't worry too much about as this is a stem plant and that area where it was chopped off will grow into two stems (from that cut off node). Your fish will continue to chew/tear up the plants until they get used to it. I had an african cichlid tank and the plants were alwasy chewed up. Eventually they stopped entirely.

 

[Manbot]

Sorry if it's a stupid question but how so they get Ustu it? Do they just get over it?

 

[rich311k]

That type of stem, I have some, sorry I do not remember the name, breaks quite easily. It will root and grow once it settles in.

 

[Manbot]

Also can too many plants be bad for fish? I mean CO2 wise?

 

[mfdrookie516]

No, unless your fish have no room to swim, you can't have too many plants IMO.

FWIW, I have black ruby, gold, cherry, and spanner t barbs in my 125 and they have absolutely destroyed some of my plants. Some they have left alone, but probably 80% have been eaten.