Re: Floating plants for a breeding tank?

["Colin Gorton" <mr_apisto@graffiti.net>]

This sounds like Water Lettuce (Pistia Stratiotes)
C:-)lin

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From: TD7894@aol.com
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:50:58 EDT
To: apisto@listbox.com
Subject: Re: Floating plants for a  breeding tank?


> Hello Tomoko, I don't know what strain I have but I have used it in all 
> twelve of my tanks for a couple years.  I got it for free at my LFS one fall 
> when pond season was over, they were throwing it out.  I was big and had very 
> long roots as a pond plant but grows smaller as an aquarium plant.  It does 
> die when it gets too much water on its leaves but reproduces so fast that I 
> always have big rosettes.  I have mine so close to the glass that it squashes 
> them flat and they still do.  In some of my low light tanks it grows small 
> and dark green almost like salvina but if you take those small ones outside, 
> in a couple of weeks they are big again like the original pond plants. I use 
> it especially in my little bare bottom fry tanks as a kind of edge for water 
> quality.  It eats ammonia and lots of other stuff.  I read in a magazine that 
> they use it clean up chemical spills because it is so good at taking up 
> pollutants.  From my experience the stuff is as hardy as a rock and difficult 
> to kill.  Any kind of fry like to hide in the roots.  On a strange note 
> possibly of no interest to anyone but me, Glasshouseworks.com lists a velvet 
> burgundy splashed variety for eight dollars a rosette.  I have been sorely 
> tempted for two years but couldn't bring myself to pay that for a weed.  
> Maybe this will be the year I break down.  Thanks, Teresa. 
> 
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