Low maintainence floating plants??

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shawe1

Jack Dempsey
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Hi, I have never kept real plants in any of my tanks but I am toying with the idea of adding some kind of low maintenance floating plant. I have come across plant called Amazon Frogbit, what is the minimum requirements for these plants?

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Floating plants like frogbit or water lettuce are hard to screw up. Pretty much if your water can support fish, they'll thrive.

I have water lettuce, I don't do anything special for it, and every 2 weeks or so I scoop out a dozen handfuls of it.


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I'm not sure about frogbit but hornwort and water sprite do well in all my tanks and they also pull out a lot of nitrate

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Look up the pothos thread here. Keeps my levels very low

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shawe1 said:
Perfect thanks for the reply's.

So it wont need to use any fertiliser?

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Just make sure you have at least a trace of nitrate. Your fish should do that.

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What kind of fish are in your tank?

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burbon44s said:
Just make sure you have at least a trace of nitrate. Your fish should do that.

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Perfect, I haven't done a water test in a while but nitrate levels are normally 20 sometimes a little higher

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