FLOATING PLANTS: 6 Reasons You SHOULD ADD Them To Your Aquarium
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- čas přidán 28. 11. 2019
- FLOATING PLANTS: 6 Reasons You SHOULD ADD Them To Your Aquarium
Floating aquarium plants have always been a popular thing to add to aquariums, however they are gaining in popularity especially for those running betta, shrimp, "no filter" and/or nano tanks. Floating aquarium plants are perfect for these style aquaria because the work to provide shelter and cover for the fish/shrimp and a place for them to breed and feed. Also floating aquarium plants help to filter the aquaria by removing waste products such as nitrate and phosphate from the water column. Not only that but they can work as a natural filter in "no filter" aquaria by harboring many of the bacteria which break down ammonia - nitrite - nitrate on the underside of their leafs and roots.
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I find them very attractive, but am struggling with waterflow. In books I read that all plants in the substrate should slightly wave, but in order to get that movement, the flow becomes to great for the salvania for example. They never grow large in my nano tank and miss the hair on their leaves. I struggle with finding the right blance between flow, light, CO2 and nutrients for my plants. The cryptocorynes keep getting holes in the leaves for example. I have begun to add easy carbo and profito but nothing changes. The light is on for 8 hours at maximum intensity and for another 2 hours at the lowest intensity ( dimmer). I am in this hobby for only 8 weeks so I have a lot to learn I guess 😄. But can you tell me what kind of DIY screen you can make to keep the floating plants on one side of the aquarium so that I can plant plants underneath them which do not require a lot of ligt. I have a Fluval Flex 9 gallon with a lid. Is it possible to make such a screen when you have a lid? I find your video very interesting. Thanks for posting it!
Greetings from the Netherlands!
I love them. Duckweed and salvinia....but my new favourite is the red root floaters. Look amazing in a fully green tank.
We all know you love floating plants ;-)
@@EverydayAquarist haha. Glad you've been watching mate :)...although my Ranchu's have decimated my duckweed. It's now becoming rare in the studio!
I grow duckweed in all my shrimp tanks and feed my koi it once a week. Best free food around.
I've been trying out plants for the 2-1/2 years I've been in the hobby (this time around). Frogbit is a bit large if you're trying to grow things underneath. Duckweed is great for my 40g community, but not so good in my 20g breeders. I've seen the red root floater lately and they look great. I'm interested in trying them and Sylvinia out.
MD Fish Tanks Feel like my man is a bit of a duckweed connoisseur aha
Totally agree with the advantages of floating plants. My shrimp tanks have duckweed, carpets the surface about every two weeks, once it does I remove 80%. Never do water changes...going on two years...just add for evaporation. It also slows the grow of my other plants as well, so less maintenance with them.
Share your plant details please.
Goals
Any water filter in your aquarium?
I am getting all my things together to set up my new tank and I will have red root floaters in it. I have wanted them and the mosica plants so wonderful!
Thank you for this extremely helpful, educational video!!
Nice tips our betta pothos is crushing and so is the bamboo....may try to add some top cover as well....
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This video is good, come with the text of the plant. Thanks, for the video. Keep it on please 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Love the video very informative . Thanks
I have had some problems with floaters not serving in the past; not sure why, perhaps due to hard water. Recently I got ahold of a larde amount of three different types of sylvania, and water lettuce from a hobbiest that has been able to servive. I love it! So beautiful and fun. My guppies, shrimp, and bettas all love it, and my mystery snails keeps it from over populating.
Slow speaking and very clear! I can understand every word you say. I am about to buy some fish for my new tank, it's all set up and ready to go! Also going to get some floating plants and see how they work out...Thank you for a lovely video. :>)
You're welcome
I just put together a little fluval flex “15” heavily stocked with red, green, flamingo and pink panther crypts (running co2 so their super dense bunches). Just added red roots to really add some more colors and I find myself stopping and staring at it threw out the day, it’s nice not seeing just green all the time. The flowers on the red roots is a nice bonus too.
Thanks for the post awesome ideas about pond plants!
I have (dwarf?)water lettuce and salvinia, the spread very fast taking over both my tanks(installed dividers in both), but that worked out for me as they provided cover for the new shrimplets and fish fry I had unexpectedly received from newcomers to my tanks.
I loved this video, thank you so much. 👏👏
this is the best floating plant video on youtube. well done!
Oh wow that's a big compliment
Thanks for this very informative video.
I find covering the tank with a lid makes dwarf water lettuce grow better. They like the humidity.
I recently found some frogbit at my lfs they look amazing pondlike addition to my 10g plantedtank. 🍃🐟
Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) is considered an invasive plant in the US. When I had a pond plant business (growing and selling ) I always got checked by the state AG inspector for that plant as he had busted a pond plant business close by for growing and selling it. Just about any of these floating plants will need very strong light. I always found them to do better in dirty tanks as they can suck up nutrients,
Great looking tank. I’ve just subscribed.
Great video, thanks
Thank you. Great video. As someone who is recently embarked on this hobby path your videos are a great resource. UK represent!
Thanks
I am building my first tank and didn't really want to plant to many plants on the bottom of the tank. Thought I'd look into floating plants and came across your video. I was looking to do a nano tank with a betta and some shrimp. In the first 30 seconds you basically list my first tank idea. Looks like I'll be getting some floaters. Cheers bro. Keep up the good work. New subscriber.
Thanks
about 4 weeks ago, I modified my sump system to now include 3 separate chambers from one. I did this by incorporating 30 gallon tuff tote tubs connected with PVC Tubing. First chamber that the water falls into from the overflow is the mechanical filtering. that tub is stuffed full of fine and course filter pads and poly fill. The the water flows into another 30 gallon tub that has a grow light on it and in it are 3 large bunches of Pothos plants taking up 2/3rds of the tub and the last 1/3 if filled with Water Hyacinth and Water lettus. Additionally, there are a couple NO3 bio blocks in the bottom directly under the flow of water. Last chamber which is my original 30 gallon sump is full of various bio blocks for Nitrates at least 8 large 8" x "8 bio blocks and finally the return pump. All this serves a 240 gallon African Cichlid tank that is a mix of Predatory Haps (3 as large as 12") and Peacocks and Mbuna about 50 plus 9 clown loaches and 6 placos and 4 cat fish. So far Amonia, Nitrites and Nitrates have tested below 10 PPM or less for the last 2 weeks with no water change. Before if I missed a water change and went 2 weeks I'd get Blood Shots on Nitrates. But I'm going to start doing 20% changes (used to do 50%) weekly. I've tested the water every day for the past 10 days and test results are practically static. Fish are vibrant and active
I'm a new betta keeper, in a 5gal aquarium with 1 snail.. I recently added frogbit and salvinia and my betta loves doing his bubble nest at them, also might be helpful for the bioload
This is great! Very interesting and has given me plenty to think about, thank you
You're welcome thanks for watching
WOW thanks This is Amazing Thanks for sharing🌿👩🏫💖☯️
It's a bloody good information about this , thanks a lot mate
You're welcome
Great video.
There is also watersprite, red root floaters and a few others.
Thanks great video now I just need to go out and get some for my new tank.
Ps I need some advice on lighting next.
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻
Great advice given 👍
Great informative video! You are very easy to listen to, nice narrating style, knowledge is very on point and good editing! Liked and subbed! Keep it coming!
Thank you so much!
Very cool video. Thanks for making and sharing! Sub'd.
This is great
Great video. Just subscribed and ordered some frogbit. Tried some hornwort but hated it and I have anacharis floating right now.
Thank you
love it
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i have out some duckweed in my nano tank that i got out of a lake in wisconsin last summer and it realy has thrived. the fish and bottom plants are doing ok and it adds some realism to the tank.
i also set up an outdoor fountain in my front entranceway and populated it with waterlettuce and mosquito fish that i got out of a local lake down here in Florida. they are thriving as well. Water lettuce is considered a invasive plant down here as they can clog up our canals.
Thank you for the video. Just the info I am looking for. I have a crayfish, he eats all my under water plants. Floating plant is the solution for my fish tank.
One floating plant of mine is dying and I separate it from the aquarium and put it outside let the sun and it grows fast. From brown leaves to green so prettty
Going to get some floating plants for a horticulture project I'm working on. Going to grow some waterwheel plants which are carnivorous and need companion plants to help survive.
Great video. Liked. 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿✨🌿🌿
With all the floaters you will be taken out a lot each month
All good advice
I have all of them and love em, less water changes also
Makes good food for a goldfish tank!
I used to raise fancy goldfish and really enjoyed doing it. I tried adding large leafed floating plants (several times) to the aquarium and the fish LUV'd them.
As it turned out they would lay about a million eggs that would stick to the underside of the leaves and the floating roots.
So, if you want to increase your goldfish population from a few, to a few HUNDRED, add plenty of floating plants to their tank.
The plants do look amazing however.
Thank you, this was the information that I am looking for.
If you want to remove duckweed just put a goldfish in temporarily and they will remove it for you :)
I am a beginer,,....its helpful to me
nice plants, see you around
What is that plant that looks like cabomba in the first tank featured? It looks super cool.
Thanks, man.
No problem!
Which of this floaters would do well in a tank with a bit flow?
I mean the plants get moving around the tank with the flow
very good :thumbsup: please at 5min 55 sec, what is this plant with purple and strange foliage on the left of the image ?
Well, that did it! Just gone down to the ever so frightening cut. Took a couple of buckets, rope and tank net. Hooked out some Duckweed! (Been dreaming of this for years)
Dropped some in my turtles tank. That's, basically, a small pond of ammonia, right now. (Filter issue. It's in hand. Calm down)
Put another bit in an outside tank with water straight from my tap. Next to that is a bucket with some weed, in the water I got it from.
Now, we wait and watch :)
Thanks for the informative and inspiring vid'!
Subscribed
I love floating plants! Is there a hardier floating plant that can stand up to nibblers? I have baby angelfish eating frogbit roots. So I’m thinking frogbit won’t have a chance.
How’s the maintenance with these floaters
Floating plant is fish and shrimp breeder best friend, less nitrate less stress for fish and shrimp.
I could never pull "floaties" off.
My fish find the roots too delicious.
Nice to listen your English. Good for learning. 😅😆😃👍
Thanks
Can anything live on top of floati g plants? If there is little to no ground plants and the floaters make a nice solid bed, can anything live up there?
Duckweed can't thrive in a tank with a fast water flow and goldfish eat it up to the last leaf.
I swear you watch almost every video topic I do...
Also they dont like getting their leaf wet. Spray bottle keeps them in check
You could try making a refugium/sump
It doesn't like being constantly dunked by an HOB filter outflow.
I add duckweed to my goldfish tank once a week as a treat. ♡
Should I use this for my axolotl tank,I want an air filter as well.is this a good idea
I have a hang on the back filter that is destroying the duckweed plants, how do I fix that?
I have a bunch of frogbits in my aquarium and my betta lovesbto hang out on its roots 😅
We got 1 little bit of duckweed in our 180g and dear god I was removing duckweed every day for weeks! I hate duckweed, but frogbit and the larger floaters are good.
Great video - love all the footage and information. New sub from Canada!
Thanks and welcome
Can water hyacinth live indoor betta tank no grow light
I notice lil small critters on top of the leaf how do I get rid of them their super tiny
Bro will using two 5watt lights in a planter tank give the same amount of result as using a 10watt light?
Is it a good option for flowerhorn?
cool
I have salvinia minima and duckweed in my shrimp tank. There are tangles of emersed plants growing out of the water, and it's hard to remove the duckweed. I want to keep it, but do you know an easy way to remove just duckweed growth without touching other floaters?
Unfortunately only manual splitting up of the plants. Duckweed is a pain
Is Duckweed ,or floating plants good ,for yellow belly sliders???
There a must have for betta fish
I had duckweed in my 65 gallon community tank and it has disappeared. I actually wanted to have it but it didn't last all that long currently have water lettuce and have to remove some every week during water changes.
Hello there, finding this very late but thought I'd ask just in case - what are the green fish in the tank at 5:50, please?
Emerald rasbora
@@EverydayAquarist Thank you!
If you remove all floaters with a shrimpnet and wash the other floating plants of, you can get relatively easy rid of duckweed.
cheers i have many different types of floating plants as well, i like red root most cheers, how about u all?
do the plants need any extra liquid fertilizers ?
I had a nice floating flock of frogbit in the 240...too much. I had to remove some every now and then. Right about the time I added 3 Roseline Barbs? Within a month every single piece of frogbit was gone. I can't think of any other culprit. It was there with the Rainbows the last year and a half.
red root floater also a good plant
What is your opinion on Azolla (Mosquito fern/fairy moss)?
Banned in the uk so I wouldn't know
How to keep them with filter on?
If I have duckweed can I still add algae eaters or would they starve because there is not that much algae
Feed them algae wafers
Does hornwort give oxygen?
How do I keep my tank oxygenated with minimal surface agitation? Will the plants add enough oxygen for a 20 gallon with low water agitation?
How do you keep surface dust out of your tank if you can’t use a skimmer with surface plants?
maybe the flow by air stone or sponge filter dissolves the dust in the water
I have Frogbit in my Betta and Shrimp tanks. The animals love it. Duckweed can be a pest and I don't like it. You only need one tiny leaf and the next thing the tank is covered with the stuff.
Yup I prefer the larger plants over Duckweed
No kidding. Duckweed can be so annoying!!
Trying out a floating plant for the third time. Previous attempts resulted in major meltdowns. Do you do anything special with your water to keep them happy?
mine get stuck on the sponge part of my filter and get blown all around and really not controllable.
heaven I had this exact same problem with the addition of a surface skimmer and my fish eating floating plants that were pushed underwater by my waterfall outlet. I simply superglued together some dry drift wood to form a lot longer than the width of my tank and floated it, held in place by spare heater suction cups, this blocked the entire heavy flow region of my tank and with all of the salvinia plants on the other side, they were no longer being chewed up in my filter or mistaken for food
Yemen Steezy i would love to see this. Is there any way you can post s picture or video of this please? Sounds like something I can do to my tank.
Where can I buy frogbits? Online
water hyacinth is a damn common thing in our country Bangladesh and available literally in every water bodies, i bought some from the lakes and added them in my aquarium but i really dont know how to take care of them . it would be kind if u help me a bit :)
Can you float a philodendron in a betta tank?
I love floating plants but feeding pellets is difficult 😕 any tips on that? I have a betta tank with a few guppies in it..my betta find it difficult to find the floating pellets as is and the leafs makes it worse..
u can use a thin pipe as a ring in the middle or corner as the feeding station :)
If you've seen any of Foo the Flowerhorn's videos, you may notice that he's made a simple floating ring out of airline tubing, to provide some open space at the surface. You can either try to keep the open space inside the circle, or I've seen it done where the plants are inside the circle, which may make it easier to move it around while doing tank maintenance, etc.
Go on Etsy and find floating aquarium rings.
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Does Duckweed make your filter work harder after those roots sneak in?
Can clog it up
I tried to have duckweed at least 6 times in my 120l aquarium - no luck. it was exterminated by fish in 2-3 days no matter how much I've put it in... My Guppies tend to love it really much