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Above surface plants

Tunafish

Pike man
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Lymm, Cheshire
Can anyone suggest some good plants to grow above the surface of the water. Preferably something with nice leaves. It's for an ada60f, all suggestions would be welcome. Also any links to some good photos would be sweet.

Cheers in advance folks
 
Hi all,
Hygrophila corymbosa is good as well, and will often flower on emersed stems.
hygrophila-sp_slw.jpg


My all time favourite is Heteranthera zosterifolia, you need it to form a tangled mass at the water surface before it produces floating leaves and aerial flowers, but it is worth it. <http://idtools.org/id/aquariumplant...dia/Html/Image_pages/heteranthera_images.html>.

You can get an idea of what a lot of aquarium plants look like emersed from <http://idtools.org/id/aquariumplant...Plants/Media/Html/Other/browse_taxa_list.html>.

cheers Darrel
 
dw1305 said:
Hi all,
Hygrophila corymbosa is good as well, and will often flower on emersed stems.
hygrophila-sp_slw.jpg


My all time favourite is Heteranthera zosterifolia, you need it to form a tangled mass at the water surface before it produces floating leaves and aerial flowers, but it is worth it. <http://idtools.org/id/aquariumplant...dia/Html/Image_pages/heteranthera_images.html>.

You can get an idea of what a lot of aquarium plants look like emersed from <http://idtools.org/id/aquariumplant...Plants/Media/Html/Other/browse_taxa_list.html>.

cheers Darrel

That's weird, I've just been looking at that, it looks great!
 
I've seen some Bolbitis heudelotii in takashi amano videos which look great but I hear they're insanely hard to keep?, if I'm regularly misting it how good are my chances?
 
Hi all,
I can't remember if I kept the plant above the water
You can see the floating leaf pointing towards the front of the picture. I they are producing floating leaves they will flower. If you have a lid it makes keeping humidity high easier. The just submerged Hygrophila corymbosa at the front right of the photo is now about 6" above the water surface.

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cheers Darrel
 
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