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TOP 5 FLOATING AQUARIUM PLANTS
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23 responses to “TOP 5 FLOATING AQUARIUM PLANTS”
My LFS stopped buying all my floaters because I kept bringing them so much they couldn't sell it fast enough LOL
Do you need to add fertilizer to these plants?
Debit grows as fast as the rest. I clean out my floating plants twice a week. I have red root floaters, dwarf water lettuce and frogbit. Light also impacts how the water lettuce grows. If you leave a baby in your tank with bright light and nutrients the plant will get bigger. I had one get as big as a dinner plate. Flow doesn’t bother these plants as much as water splash. Water splash will rot most of these. Red root floaters need the right light to grow. Mine love the Hygger lights. Also to get the red to pop you need more light. My floating plants tend to double on the surface everyday, so as I said, I take plants out twice a week cutting back by half. Water lettuce is just as good as duckweed for filtering water. You have to let the roots grow though.
I love my floating plants and so do fish and shrimp. If you have floaters on a shrimp take, be sure and shake the plants before removing as you will get shrimp in the roots and shrimp lets love the roots too. Just be careful when you thin out your floating plants.
All my red root floaters been great for half a year. They just made red islands topping on one another, untill they used all the excess nutrients and died.
I've found salvinia minima will out compete the duckweed in my tanks. I've only recently heard of salvinia cucullata. It's so hard to find! Glad to see some of my favorites on your list!
The only way I’d ever even consider gettin’ duck weed is if I had goldfish and I don’t right now
Thank you for the video. I have a 60 gallon tank with South American cichlids in it. I tried changing the tank to a dirt substrate and adding plants but I could not keep up with the algae growth, so I switched to a sand substrate and again the algae was everywhere. Even the sand turned green. I do water changes and keep the parameters at good levels except for my Nitrates which are always high. My tap water comes out with high Nitrates. I have now gotten rid of live plants and switched to Caribe Sea cichlid gravel. I even tried to put in Pothis house plants on the top of the tank with just the roots in the water but they did not fair well either. Now I'm thinking of just going with floating plants like the Red Root Floaters you talked about? Can I mix these Red Root Floaters with some of the Salvinia cucullata or something else? Will these help with my Nitrate levels and Algae? Any suggestions appreciated.
i have low light , which will be the best ?
Silver dollars can eradicate duckweed as well.
I LOOOVE Duckweed, for my projects! I'm super happy that it was your #1 <3
Frogbit roots can go up to 1.2ft. When he said duckweed, I ran away. 🤣🤣
What is a good floater for a tank with common goldfish?
I actually like duckweed. 🙁
What type of silvinia is that?
jews
I absolutely love duck weed it is my favorite plant I feed it to my chickens they love it better than the fish too
Just make sure Silvania doesn't end up in natural waterways, very invasive species and banned in a lot of countries
My chickens love it.
8:02, I think every other floating can do the same thing, with the added bonus that they aren’t so invasive in the aquarium.
No my favourite floating plants is duck weed
I have giant duckweeds. It would be suitable to nano tank like batta fish tank although I don't have batta. The roots do not extend so long but absorbs excessive nutrition very well. So allege issue can be solved.
Do you have to be licensed to sell aquarium plants typically?
Top tip to buying aquarium plants. Take all the rules people give you (other than water parameters etc.) and throw them out. Grow that duckweed. Grow that hornwort. Do what you want.