H. cristatus are such avid eaters you can HEAR them eat. It was a subject of great joking in my house. As such, they generate a lot of waste that plants are avid to consume. They don't bother plants themselves. Use fast growing plants like water sprite and duckweed or frogbit. Enjoy! At 12:05 AM 8/31/00 +0000, you wrote: >Hi All, > >Good to meet some of you at ACA 2000. Whilst there, I aquired some >Hemichromis cristatus. On researching them, I found conflicting >information re: the suitability of plants in their aquarium. I'm just >asking for everyone's opinion of such please. For those I didn't meet at >Cleveland, at the very least I'll see you in New Jersey. *big grin* > >Thanks in advance, > >Ken >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at >http://profiles.msn.com. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. >For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, >email apisto-request@listbox.com. >Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"! -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco mailto:gomberg@wcf.com NEW Planted Aquaria Magazine: http://www.wcf.com/pam ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@listbox.com. Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"!