Watch "Silver dollar fish eating carrots" on YouTube

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    Hi and welcome

    silver Dollars are herbivores.
    I doubt you will teach them to leave plants alone permanently.
    If you keep them well fed on other food, they may leave them alone for a short time. But eventually they will go for the plants.
     
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    I've kept mine in a planted tank, but be prepared to replace your plants frequently. As reedfish indicated, if you feed them spinach or kale and the like, it will keep them off your plants for a little while, but ultimately they will get stuck in. The only plant in my tank they left alone were crypts, everything else they ate, Java ferns, Anubias... the lot
     
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    Ok… I don’t have silver dollars so I cant vouch for them sothis is just my 2 cents as a matter of interest.
    I have been pretty successful in keeping severums, myflagtail, my loaches and a silver dollar which I had for about 4 months ( butdecided against keeping him because they like to be in groups and I wantedother fish instead) from eating my java fern and anubias
    However, you have to make it a daily routine and it must bepart of their daily meal
    I add fresh veg every day after they have had their pellets,worms etc and believe it or not they go and eat the veg after they have eatenother food
    Sometimes I add veg twice a day as 10min after I have addedcucumber my loaches have eaten it to the skin
    If I don’t add fresh veg every day then they start with theplants
    The Uaru on the other hand… will clean all your plants of leaveseven if you add the vegetable store in the tank…
     

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