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PlanteasyFreshwater
Amazon Frogbit
Limnobium laevigatum
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Amazon frogbit is a floating plant with round, slightly spongy leaves that provide excellent surface cover and diffuse lighting. Its dangling white roots absorb excess nutrients and provide refuge for fry and small shrimp. It grows rapidly in good light.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- diet
- Nutrient absorption from water column
- light
- Medium to high
- tank size
- No minimum – floating
- growth rate
- Fast
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <40 ppm
- hardness
- 1–15 dGH
- temperature
- 64–82°F (18–28°C)
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