Blood red parrot cichlid and silver dollars..plant-safe?

NeonFlux

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Looks like my dad gave in to plants, no more being old school bare tanking lol. What plants go well with the both of these fish? I know some plants they might not devour. Java fern, anacharis, and moss. What else is there? What about melon swords?
 
Silver dollars will make a salad out of all plants. I have put some pennywort & hornwort floating in the tank. They eat it, but it grows faster than they can eat. That is the only hope of having plants in with them - to put plants that grow fast enough compared to what they eat that there is still some left over. I have had java fern, anubias, java moss, vals, swords, guppy grass...that is all I can think of at the moment, and what they don't eat they shred into itty bitty pieces.
 
What the SDs don't eat the Parrots will likely dig up..
 
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