BarryH
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Can anyone recommend floating plants that have a larger floating head than Salvinia Auriculata please?
Have you grown it successfully? We have a <"few threads"> about it, but not many/any people have had success for long. Every time I see it I want it, although I know I don't have a suitable tank for it.Ludwigia sedioides but its roots need to be partially buried in the substrate.
There is a Salvinia with bigger leaves, S. cucullata. @jameson_uk <"had some">, but I don't know how he got on with it.Can anyone recommend floating plants that have a larger floating head than Salvinia Auriculata please?
There is a Salvinia with bigger leaves, S. cucullata. @jameson_uk <"had some">, but I don't know how he got on with it.
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Thanks for all the help, the links and the advice about the sizes some of them can achieve Darrel. Some whoppers there.Hi all,
Welcome @Witcher. Have you grown it successfully? We have a <"few threads"> about it, but not many/any people have had success for long. Every time I see it I want it, although I know I don't have a suitable tank for it. There is a Salvinia with bigger leaves, S. cucullata. @jameson_uk <"had some">, but I don't know how he got on with it.
Pistia stratiotes (Water Lettuce) is probably your best bet, even though that tends to form a <"smaller flatter rosette in the winter">.
@Edvet has/had <"Ceratopteris pteroides"> (below), which looks like something out of "Little Shop of Horrors", but I've never seen it for sale in the UK.
You can also see (in Ed's photo) that Amazon Frogbit (Limnobium laevigatum) can get quite big <"if you pamper it">.
Under high light, high nutrients there are a <"few other species that are quite big">, I think the trouble is that they all tend to be <"turned up to 11 plants"> and it is all or nothing. Have a look at <"Ludwigia helminthorrhiza"> as well.
cheers Darrel
Hi all,
Welcome @Witcher. Have you grown it successfully? We have a <"few threads"> about it, but not many/any people have had success for long. Every time I see it I want it, although I know I don't have a suitable tank for it.
larger floating
Now that is OLD!(my job was to chip the kettle out).
A large floating plant that does well even under cover glass is Ceratopteris cornuta, a very nice fern.
You can do either. Have a look at @Parablennius and @Geoffrey Rea's comments in <"Water Sprite">.I found it on YouTube and some seem to plant it while others just let it float on the surface.