Water Gardening: What is this in my waterlilies?, 1 by dahos77

dahos77 wrote:
I should have read the thread better...

For fish, I use mollies, platties, and guppies. All are live bearers and are excellent at eating mosquitoes. What is nice about using mollies or platties over gambusia is that they come in much nicer colors so you can see them swimming in the tubs. I also grow water lilies in tubs ranging from 15-50 gallons and all of them are standing water and all have loads of fish in them. The only concern for the fish is if the container is too small. It can then get too hot and cook the poor fishes.

As for your tubers, those definitely do look like tropicals. You can bury them about half an inch under the media (turface is what I use) and place them 3-4 inches under the surface of the water. The warmth really gets them going and in no time you'll have some nice small plants growing.

I've attached a photo of my setup. I have mostly tropicals and a few hardies.