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PlanteasyFreshwater
Banana Plant
Nymphoides aquatica
Family: Menyanthaceae
The banana plant is named for its distinctive cluster of banana-shaped storage roots at the base. It sends up floating leaves and white flowers when mature. It is an unusual, undemanding midground plant that does not require substrate planting — it can float freely.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- diet
- Root feeder and water column
- light
- Low to high
- tank size
- 10 gallons minimum
- growth rate
- Medium
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <30 ppm
- hardness
- 2–15 dGH
- temperature
- 68–82°F (20–28°C)
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