Someones eating my plant!

[cocoa_pleco]

CHRONA, HELP! In the 20g planted theres-

3 albino corys
2 baby angels
black shark
flying fox
skunk botia
5 ghost shrimp
1 platy
8 white clouds
1 mini tetra
betta
1 banded loach

One of my plants got ENTIRELY eaten, and it was the plant that was growing best. The plant was about 8 stems with tiny round leaves going up the stem.

Who's the culprit?

[Drumachine09]

Well, from my experiance in plants (next to nothing) I think you are describing a brazillian pennywort. i have corys that dont eat them, so thats out.

[Chrona]

CHRONA, HELP! In the 20g planted theres-

3 albino corys
2 baby angels
black shark
flying fox
skunk botia
5 ghost shrimp
1 platy
8 white clouds
1 mini tetra
betta
1 banded loach

One of my plants got ENTIRELY eaten, and it was the plant that was growing best. The plant was about 8 stems with tiny round leaves going up the stem.

Who's the culprit?

To be honest, I don't know anything about the majority of those fish and their plant eating habits. Since clown loaches mess around with plants, I'd say maybe one of the loaches? Random guess. Do you have any snails? What kind of plant was it?

[cocoa_pleco]

no idea what kind of plant it is. The skunk botia is a strict bottom dweller, and he hides under driftwood, the banded loach eats 100% flakes and is a bottom dweller, the black shark just lightly cleans the odd leaf, never eats any, and there are extremely few snails, just 3 really tiny ones that hitched a ride on the plants. im stumped. The little leaves are 100% gone, and the thin stems of the plant are floating

[Drumachine09]

Did the plant look like this?

http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_hleuco.php


Its brazilian pennywort.

[cocoa_pleco]

meh, about 20% like that. This ones taller, and the leaves are half the size of a penny, and theres tons of the little leaves

[Drumachine09]

meh, about 20% like that. This ones taller, and the leaves are half the size of a penny, and theres tons of the little leaves



Thats a picture of a mature plant

I have several small ones that have smaller leaves and they can get taller. I have heard them called the "stairstep plant" Because it grows like a set of stairs to the waters surface.

[Chrona]

And this happened overnight?

[Rue]

I deleted the fish I'm sure won't do in the plants...but I'm not sure about the remainder:


2 baby angels
black shark
flying fox
skunk botia
5 ghost shrimp
1 banded loach

[cocoa_pleco]

it was overnight.

out of rues list, i have seen none of them in the act. Its really odd..

[Drumachine09]

a PICTURE would help!


*nudge nudge wink wink*

[jeffs99dime]

i tend to lean towards the loach too

[cocoa_pleco]

Mr. loach is pretty evil then.

Since the damage is done, and hes leaving the other plants alone, no worries.

[rbotto]

I too have a heavily planted aquarium, and some plants disappear rather quickly. I have a pair of clown loaches that are suspicious, and I had a bunch of swordtails in there that I caught chomping on the plants. After removing the swordtails, the plants recovered for a while, but then started disappearing again. I have a large pleco who likes broadleaf plants, like Amazon sword plants, but doesn't seem to bother the small leaf plants. Those swordtails sure liked them though. I noticed you had a platty???

I haven't found the other culprit in my tank, but I am experimenting.

Since your leaves vanished overnight, are you sure they just didn't fall off?