Floating plants
Floating plants shade the tank, strip nitrate quickly and give surface-dwelling fish somewhere to feel safe. They also spread fast and dim everything underneath, so expect to scoop out a handful most weeks — that removal is the nitrate export.
Why these
Grows at the surface.
7 species
Amazon Frogbit
Limnobium laevigatum
↕ 5 cm · 18–28 °C
Duckweed
Lemna minor
↕ 1 cm · 10–30 °C
Floating Fern
Salvinia natans
↕ 4 cm · 15–30 °C
Guppy Grass
Najas guadalupensis
↕ 100 cm · 15–30 °C
Hornwort
Ceratophyllum demersum
↕ 100 cm · 15–30 °C
Red Root Floater
Phyllanthus fluitans
↕ 3 cm · 22–28 °C
Crystalwort
Riccia fluitans
↕ 5 cm · 15–30 °C
Which of these go together?
A list tells you what is possible on its own. Whether three of them share a tank without one eating another — and whether your volume, temperature and hardness actually allow it — is what the planner works out.
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