HeyPK - 2010-05-31 Your picture for Ceratopteris thalictroides is definitely not correct. It looks like a picture of one of the members of the genus Hydrophila, which is stem plant and an angiosperm, not a fern at all.
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Editor's Note - 2010-06-07 Thanks HeyPK, you are right this is definately not Ceratopteris thalictroides. We are taking the picture off until we get a good one. Send one if you've got one! Thanks again.
Shick Settima - 2012-02-22 This plant is the perfect plant if you are looking for easy, fast growth. I have it planted in all types of conditions and it thrives. Even in a goldfish bowl with little light it stays green and healthy.
Every couple months I will shake the main plants in my 20g tank and the little plantlets will release themselves to the top of the water where I can harvest them and plant them around to create a bush effect.
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Ron - 2012-03-24 If you have a start of water sprite you could spare, please let me know what it would cost. Thanks, I am just getting back into killies and guppies, I was sick for a few years.
Michael Adams - 2012-02-14 1. Water sprite (if you get the real deal) IS an aquatic plant, and given adequate light and nutrition, and a lack of fish that will eat it, will do fantastic - to the point you will be giving it away or throwing it out... (years ago when my family owned a tropical fish store we would give starts to anyone who wanted them, and it would be no time before they were hauling back buckets full...)
2. Yea, the pic looks almost more like "water wisteria" which i never had very good luck with, but who knows...
3. there are two varieties of water sprite there is a very 'thin' leafed version(makes me think of what they call asparagus fern), and one with thicker leaves (makes me think of elkhorn fern, which is what we used to have, and I wish i could find nowadays)...
Abelard Añana - 2011-09-03 I've been a regular visitor in your website, and I love it. It provides useful information to a hobbyist like me. Upon my research in the internet my particular concern is this plant the water sprite, that it is not a true freshwater aquarium plant, it is a marsh plant not to be planted in the aquarium coz it will eventually die. Which bothers me coz I have newly planted this kind of plant in my aquarium. Is this true? Please help me on this matter. Thanks
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Anonymous - 2011-09-03 The water sprite (also called the Indian Fern plant) is said to be an excellent choice (one of the best) for a fresh water aquarium. Some folks plant it and some just let it float on the top. It grows quickly and absorbs a lot of the nutrients from the water in the tank. It will require pruning if the water tank has good conditions as will grow right out of the tank. Does real well with the guppies, goldfish, neons etc. It is one of the few plants that even work with goldfish as so hardy they can't eat all of it. It is an attractive plant, that grows well and quickly and is highly recommended fro freshwater tanks.
The Water Sprite is a beautiful fern that will grow great in well-fertilized aquariums and produce beautiful green leaves!
Your picture for Ceratopteris thalictroides is definitely not correct. It looks like a picture of one of the members of the genus Hydrophila, which is stem plant and an angiosperm, not a fern at all.
Thanks HeyPK, you are right this is definately not Ceratopteris thalictroides. We are taking the picture off until we get a good one. Send one if you've got one! Thanks again.
This plant is the perfect plant if you are looking for easy, fast growth. I have it planted in all types of conditions and it thrives. Even in a goldfish bowl with little light it stays green and healthy.
Every couple months I will shake the main plants in my 20g tank and the little plantlets will release themselves to the top of the water where I can harvest them and plant them around to create a bush effect.
If you have a start of water sprite you could spare, please let me know what it would cost. Thanks, I am just getting back into killies and guppies, I was sick for a few years.
By the way, just looked the broad leafed variety is ceratopteris cornuta... now to find some for sale..
1. Water sprite (if you get the real deal) IS an aquatic plant, and given adequate light and nutrition, and a lack of fish that will eat it, will do fantastic - to the point you will be giving it away or throwing it out... (years ago when my family owned a tropical fish store we would give starts to anyone who wanted them, and it would be no time before they were hauling back buckets full...)
2. Yea, the pic looks almost more like "water wisteria" which i never had very good luck with, but who knows...
3. there are two varieties of water sprite there is a very 'thin' leafed version(makes me think of what they call asparagus fern), and one with thicker leaves (makes me think of elkhorn fern, which is what we used to have, and I wish i could find nowadays)...
I've been a regular visitor in your website, and I love it. It provides useful information to a hobbyist like me. Upon my research in the internet my particular concern is this plant the water sprite, that it is not a true freshwater aquarium plant, it is a marsh plant not to be planted in the aquarium coz it will eventually die. Which bothers me coz I have newly planted this kind of plant in my aquarium. Is this true? Please help me on this matter. Thanks
The water sprite (also called the Indian Fern plant) is said to be an excellent choice (one of the best) for a fresh water aquarium. Some folks plant it and some just let it float on the top. It grows quickly and absorbs a lot of the nutrients from the water in the tank. It will require pruning if the water tank has good conditions as will grow right out of the tank. Does real well with the guppies, goldfish, neons etc. It is one of the few plants that even work with goldfish as so hardy they can't eat all of it. It is an attractive plant, that grows well and quickly and is highly recommended fro freshwater tanks.