[CrypticLifeStyle]

Redheads, and Geo Leucosticta's are the fish i started planted tanks with last December. Mine are adults though, so the sifting, and digging was a bit more extreme. Took a few months of constant replanting, but eventually i won that battle, and have determined a heavy planting of the tank has pretty much been trouble free for me for at least 3 months now.

Whether thats the answer i dont know, but for me it has worked. Dwarf sag though i cant get to grow in the same tank as them, but plants with good roots should work for you. Part of what to look for is where is their favorite sifting area's if any, and what plants are they ones being dug up, and take them out of the tank, and just custom tailor your own situation til it works for you.

Plants with cichlids is tough as is, but with earth eaters it definitely takes more patience, and out smarting them.

 

[CrypticLifeStyle]

Personally i try to avoid rocks in Geo tanks as it just takes up real estate within the tank, and they prefer a sandy environment, and dont care much for rocks except to spawn on. As far as plants go basically they are all species of swords, crypts, vals, i have anubias on suction cups attached to the tank glass, stem plants in bunches like ludwigia's, several Bacopa species, ferns hot glues to driftwood. So many more i'm just too noobie to name. There's pics in my profile of what i've gotten away with.