Freshwater Aquarium & Pond Plants
Malayan Aqua Fern
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Having plants in your aquarium is
not only beautiful and pleasing, but is one of the most beneficial things you can do!
Quite simply, aquarium plants will make your tank healthier, more stable, and more beautiful. They serve as food for aquatic life. They provide
hiding places for fish. Best of all, they add to the decoration and design
of the aquarium. The aquarium plant categories below have to do with the general
characteristics of each type of plant and how they propogate.
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Aquarium Plants Manual
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Find each plant in one of the categories below:
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Ferns
& Mosses
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- Java Fern
- Malayan Aqua Fern
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- Water
Sprite
Oriental Water Fern
- Crystalwort or Riccia
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FERNS and MOSSES: Non-flowering plants.
They produce roots
which will attach to rocks and wood. |
| Rosette
Plants |
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- Swords
- Vallisnerias
- Cryptocorynes
- Anubias
- Banana Plant
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- Lily Varieties
- Water Hyacinth
- Duckweed
- Water Onion
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ROSSETTE PLANTS: Lattice type plants
that produce runners.
They are more sensitive to their environment and will
require more specialization to propogate. |
| Stem
Plants |
- Anacharis
- Cabomba
- Hornwort
- Hygrophila
- Ludwigia
- Milfoil
- Brazilian Pennywort |
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- Rotala
- Wisteria
- Primrose
- Creepy Jenny
- Japanese Rush
- Fountain Plant |
STEM PLANTS: Hardy plants that fit just about anywhere in the aquarium.
They can be propogated
with cuttings. |
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