[Wet Thumb Forum]-Best Floating Plants

[imported_chrisP]

Apparently some of the suggested plants in Diana's book are no longer available as they are considered "invasive intruders." What are good alternatives and where can we get them online?

[imported_chrisP]

Apparently some of the suggested plants in Diana's book are no longer available as they are considered "invasive intruders." What are good alternatives and where can we get them online?

[dwalstad]

I like Water Sprite (Certaptoris thalictroides). It's a pretty plant that you can root in the substrate or grow floating. When it does well, it does very well!

[imported_chrisP]

Which plants will work best in an enclosed tank? The hood is the only source of light.

[DataGuru]

Duckweed, frogbit and azolla would work.
Have you checked aquabid.com ?

[noco37]

for floating plants I would recomed red root floater (phyllanthus fluitans), frog bit (Limnobium spongia) and water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes). Both of these , especially the latter should be redially available from a local pond shop.

the red root floater will grow little white flowers if it is happy, and having the hood to keep humidity in will help it alot. look in the referance section, under plant database for a food pic of the red foot structure, too bad you cant see the flowers.

I think water lettuce is cool looking. I like the large root structure it drops, great for putting O2 in a tank.

and frog bit... you cant go wrong with it =)

noco37