Experimenting With Plants - Goldfish Style
As many of you know there are many ways to keep fancy goldfish. My personal preferences and th temperaments of my fish have come into play here. Some people keep bare bottom tanks as its easier to keep clean. My personal choice is to have gravel and plants for my fish to rummage through. Admittedly it is more time consuming. It is messy when it comes time to clean the tank - and at times requires regular tidying between tank cleans. My tank substrate in the big planted goldfish tank is a mix of Seachem Fluorite Black and a natural gold gravel. I don't recall the exact ratio but its mostly gold gravel. To begin with the fluorite was in one section however the tank has been up and running for a while. Between the gravel vac when cleaning and goldies rummaging, the fluorite has spread out and mixed through the whole tank. In terms of plant choices, I'm just sharing what I found worked for my fish. Hopefully my experience may save you some money on plants. I've slowly wor...