An article about what aquarium plants are and why they are needed.
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You have an aquarium, and fish live in it. It's time to think about aquarium plants.
What are the plants in the aquarium?
- Aquarium with plants more beautiful
- For food for fish
- To hide one fish from others
- For throwing caviar, and then fry growth
- For oxygen
- Do not allow lower algae to develop that are harmful to fish
- Reduce the content of harmful products, in particular ammonia
Live aquarium plants: names, description, photo
- Plants floating on the surface of the water
- Plants floating on the surface of the water, and suitable for planting in the substrate under water
- Plants suitable for planting in the substrate
Plants planted in the substrate (4-6 cm) at the bottom of the aquarium include:
Cryptocorin - A popular plant for the aquarium. Its leaves are decorated into red, bronze, green colors. Plants can be of the same color or at once the whole mixture. Cryptocorin is not required a lot of light, but it is difficult to endure a transplant from one place to another.
Wallisneria - The plant is very hardy, with long green leaves twisted by a spiral. Propagated from shoots with roots.
Sagittaria is awl It grows in a chain, in appearance - low grass, so it is usually planted in the foreground of the aquarium.
These plants do not need special care, they grow in conditions where there is little light, they can not be fed, but if you still decide to feed them with special additives, they will be grateful to you.
The best plants for the aquarium
Ludwig -the plant is unpretentious, but beautiful for planting in the aquarium. In sufficient lighting, the top of this plant is red, and the lower leaves with a reddish tint.
Hygrofila is patterned Also, with sufficient lighting, the aquarium has reddish leaves with whitish veins, 30-50 cm high. The plant needs to be planted in the substrate. The water temperature should be at least 24 ° C. Propagated by cuttings.
Gumboldt swamp -flowered Originally from South America. Suitable for large aquariums, as it can reach 1m height. Green leaves are heart -shaped, smooth with clear veins. In favorable conditions, the plant blooms. A flower of 5 petals, white, middle in the middle. The petals are covered with hairs. He loves bright lighting, soft water, in summer 20-30 ° C, in winter 15-18 ° C, does not like sudden changes in temperature.
Aquarium plants, like everyone else, can hurt. The main signs of plant disease:
- The plants are thin, extended up, stunted and pale, young leaves are thrown away - a lack of lighting.
- Plants are twisted, sometimes with holes, pale - a lack of fertilizers.
- Slow plant growth, their edges yellow - they lack carbon dioxide.
Unpretentious plants for the aquarium
The most unpretentious plants for planting in the aquarium are plants that have roots, but do not require planting them in the ground. They themselves attach to something (dry branch or stone specially placed in the aquarium).
Such plants include:
Javanese moss -A lump of confusing roots, then thin leaves of dark green color grow from them. It grows quickly. Fishes are like to spawn in moss: Barbuses and Danio. After the appearance of fry moss - food for fish and shrimp.
Javanese fern It grows from the petioles that independently break away from the plant and swim on the surface of the water until they are attached to something.
Anubias It grows equally on top of water and in depth. The plant has wide leaves, unpretentiously, survives in a poorly lit aquarium.
Rogoliznik It looks like young pine branches. It grows in the aquarium on the surface of the water or attach to dry branches installed specifically in the aquarium, pebbles. The plant is unpretentious, the temperature of the water in which it grows is from cold to warm. It grows quickly from the twigs.
Elodea Dance -a plant with hanging long roots and dark green leaves stretching up. It can swim or attach to something. It grows well. Elodea - food for goldfish, mollinia.
Plants for the aquarium, for beginners
Plants intended for aquariums are characterized by beginners:
- Rapid growth
- Resistance to conditions with the weak illumination of the aquarium
- For them, you do not need to specially serve carbon dioxide
Plants produce oxygen, and ammonia, nitrates are taken from the water.
Beginning aquarists can be recommended to breed floating plants with roots hanging into water. So the plant eats. Sometimes such a plant even blooms, the flowers are also on the surface of the water.
Duckweed - Small leaves like clover, swim in water, on its surface. The plant grows very quickly from the leaf or stem. If it multiplies strongly, then it is difficult to get it out. Fry hide in Ralesk, and at first they eat her life.
Frog - Leaflets look like a duckweed, only more in size, sometimes can bloom with white flowers. Propagated not as intensively as a duckweed.
Riccia It looks like a duckweed, grows quickly in heaps, like openwork moss. From strong light near the surface of the water, it may dry out and die. If Richkiya has grown strongly, it can sink to the bottom. Fry eats it well. For Rich, you need to change water often. The temperature of the water required to grow more than 22 ° C is soft or neutral.
Artificial plants for the aquarium: photo
Artificial plants They only buy for a beautiful view in the aquarium. They do not bring any benefit, on the contrary, lower algae settled on them that harm the fish.
After some time, plastic flowers become unsuitable, and they need to be thrown away.
Your aquarium is full of plants. Now you can calmly go on 2-3 weeks and leave the fish-they will not die, they have something to eat.
Video: aquarium plants for beginners
