floating plants

[mellowyellow]

Can anyone give me a hint on what type of floating plant is best for my 20g freshwater tank? I've read that gouramis like a place to hide.

All of my plants are plastic, but I'd like to float a live plant. I need suggestions and where I can find such a plant. Help.

 

[DragonFish71]

Water sprite is a great floating plant.

You should have posted this a few days ago. I just got rid of a tank full and won't have more for a few months

 

[JohnPaul]

I've floated Brazilian Penneywort in my tanks before; it looks like a vine and has large enough leaves that your gourami (if kinda small) could swim between them.

Then there are the "standard" floating plants like duckweed (which I hate, because it gets into everything and takes forever to remove from a tank!) and its much larger (more manageable) cousin frogbit. Guppy grass (Najas) is something a lot of people float in their tanks as well.

 

[taylorodw]

I have brazilian pennywort and water wisteria floating in my tank. The floating wisteria is my biggest grower

 

[mgamer20o0]

pennywort is my fav but there are a ton of them from water lettuce frog bit riccia hornwort and so on.


i have some riccia or hornwort i can send to you for shipping.

 

[mellowyellow]

Thanks. If I can't find the pennywort at my lfs, I'll get back to you. Thanks for offering. You know how we love to visit our lfs. LOL

 

[BillD]

hornwort is a good option also.

 

[FishEggs]

Have you found something to float yet?

 

[Tabbykat9698]

Hornwort. its super easy to grow and plus its clippings will grow too.

 

[mellowyellow]

fisheggs: I haven't because I'm still stocking the tank. Today I'm adding a dwarf gourami. She is acclimating as we speak. I can see the bag from where I'm sitting here at the computer. I'm going to give her more than an hour this time. I don't want to lose her.

By the way I tried a real wood sculpture. After soaking and soaking and scrubbing, when I put it in the tank it still leached. So, out it came. I'm a clear water freak. Can't stand the darker image. It went back to my LFS and I replaced it with a nice artificial one. Oh well.

Also, I saw the cutest dwarf black spotted puffers today but learned they are not nice. So I passed on the idea.

 

[JohnPaul]

Also, I saw the cutest dwarf black spotted puffers today but learned they are not nice. So I passed on the idea.

Dwarf puffers are indeed cute as heck, but they don't do well with other fish so that was a good call to pass on them.