Floating Plants

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latchdan

Discussion Starter · Oct 19, 2016

I'm trying to find a floating plant that will do okay in my shrimp tank, it has a sponge filter so it has surface agitation and my DWL gets water on the leaves and doesn't like it.
I have Frogbit, and RRF and neither of them do well in the shrimp tank either.

I was curious if Salvinia Minima would fair any better? can the leaves get wet?

I might end up making a airline tubing circle around the sponge filter riser tube if that is my only option.

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Goldguru

· #2 · Oct 19, 2016

make the log boom effect around filter or plants,
get some polypropolene cord (permantly floats used for life preserver line)and $ store suction cups,tie cord to cups & make barrier as you like.
I would boom the plants over booming the filter.
If plants get over twist cord together to make it float higher.

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jkrohn

· #3 · Oct 19, 2016

latchdan said:
I'm trying to find a floating plant that will do okay in my shrimp tank, it has a sponge filter so it has surface agitation and my DWL gets water on the leaves and doesn't like it.
I have Frogbit, and RRF and neither of them do well in the shrimp tank either.

I was curious if Salvinia Minima would fair any better? can the leaves get wet?

I might end up making a airline tubing circle around the sponge filter riser tube if that is my only option.

I run Salvinia Minima in my shrimp tank with a sponge filter. It pretty much doesn't care what I do to it.

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HSakhi

· #4 · Oct 19, 2016

I would maybe consider cetarophyllum (hornwort) or water lettuce.

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