• You are viewing the forum as a Guest, please login (you can use your Facebook, Twitter, Google or Microsoft account to login) or register using this link: Log in or Sign Up

spraybars and amazon frogbit?

neelhound

Member
Joined
20 Feb 2009
Messages
169
Im using spraybars at the surface so the water is moving about a lot, its not planted so when i tried using shepherds crook outflow etc i thin kthe oxygen went too low(its stil cycling btw)
woudl amazon frogbit be bashed about everywhere? or will it just stay in the same place and allow the waves to pass under it by any chance? thanks
 
often it will just get pushed into a corner and remained pinned there. i have had this problem with ricca, mine ended up getting mashed up and so spread out i was picking bits out of my tank for days.
 
i think it was with salvania that that happened, eventually it died i think, but i might try frogbit.
I know about riccia, i dont like riccia it goes everywhere ive tried it stuck down in a planted tank but it loosened and floated up haha
 
Hi all,
I've found Amazon Frogbit (Limnobium) doesn't tend to do very well with lots of flow for the reasons mentioned. I've never had any problems with Salvinia or Pistia (Nile Cabbage), as they are very buoyant, and a bit more robust. Eichornia (Water Hyacinth) is also all right, but the roots tend to get knocked off and go everywhere.
Have you tried Xmas moss (Vesicularia montagnei) rather than Riccia? It will anchor itself fairly securely to most surfaces.

cheers Darrel
 
thanks,
i have tried xmas moss in the planted tank and ive got a wall of it atm,
im buying some plants online soon so i mightget just a little bit of frogbit and try it in a corner, its quite cheap. If it doesnt work out ill just move it into the planted tank maybe.
 
i found it to not be a problem. bought some from thegreenmachine, soon filled my 4foot just had to make sure i removed any damaged leaves which was about 10 a week which is not a lot considering tank size massive roots at least 12 to 16 inches hope this helps
 
did it get constantly pushed about?
If i tied one of the long roots onto something in the tank, would it still grow?
Ive also noticed Hygroryza aristata but id prefer a south american floating plant
 
yes and no, all it takes is one to catch on something even the spraybar, then they build little rafts with bits braking of and others catcing, but as you get more and more the movement slows right down i also found that a lot of the broken leaves were failed attempts at new plant-lets. If your after another south/central American floating plant how about Ludwigia helminthorrhiza.
 
thanks-
hmm, i cant seem to find that for sale but will look harder.
as for the frogbit, im not quite sure what you mean- if i tied them to a pieces of wood that stick fairly high up in the tank, would it die?
 
if you tie them what i found was that they would tare there roots, because of the water movement and the loose frogbit barrelling into them, if you want some Ludwigia helminthorrhiza pm your address and in the new year i will send you sum as i only had mine for 4 days myself. :thumbup:
 
thanks, but do you think i shoudl try Hydrocotyle leucocephala?
 
Back
Top