It sounds like it should work. The only thing that might happen is the fish might be used to the live plants and with the fake ones they might injure themselves trying to hid ein them.
a couple of years ago I started out my tank with 1 male and 4 female swordtails and after about 3 months they started breeding like crazy and it seemed like every month I had 10 new fish in my tank....there were enough plants for the fry to hide in so several made it each time. They were in a community tank with tetras and several other little fish and did fine. Hopefully yours will breed like mine did.
You can also try pearlweed which grows in very thick once it gets going. If I had spawning fish in my tank I bet it would hide 20 of them.
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