Aquarium Plants – Ferns and Mosses

Ferns and Mosses
"Some of these hardy aquarium plants can even be kept with Cichlids! Ferns and moss plants may not be flowering plants, but give them some driftwood to grow on and they are durable!"

Ferns and mosses are fun plants to decorate your aquarium with!

   Ferns, Moss, and Liverworts are non-flowering plants. They are not capable of forming seeds but propagate by microscopic spores. The water loving Mosses and Liverworts (Bryophyta) are lowly spore bearing plants found all around the world. But only the common Liverwort, Riccia, and a few of the mosses are widely used in aquariums.

   Ferns (Pteridophyta) are also water loving, spore bearing plants, but these differ from Liverworts and Mosses in that they are propagated partly vegetatively and partly by spores. Ferns often produce roots from rhizomes, which attach to
rocks or wood ornaments in the aquarium. For the aquarist, the easiest methods of propagation are vegetatively, either by dividing the rhizomes and stems or by separating new plantlets developed directly on the leaves of the parent plants.